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The AI Index, currently in its ninth year, tracks, collates, distills, and visualizes data relating to artificial intelligence.
The AI Index, currently in its ninth year, tracks, collates, distills, and visualizes data relating to artificial intelligence.
Music is intertwined with human emotion, memory, and identity, making it a powerful medium for affective experience and regulation.
Music is intertwined with human emotion, memory, and identity, making it a powerful medium for affective experience and regulation.
The possibility that AI will automate most cognitive labor is worth taking seriously. How should we adapt to this transformation? I start from the perspective, articulated in the essay “AI as normal technology”, that the true bottlenecks lie downstream of capabilities and that AI’s impacts will unfold gradually over decades. If this is true, there are major gaps in our current evidence infrastructure, because it over-emphasizes the capability layer.
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The possibility that AI will automate most cognitive labor is worth taking seriously. How should we adapt to this transformation? I start from the perspective, articulated in the essay “AI as normal technology”, that the true bottlenecks lie downstream of capabilities and that AI’s impacts will unfold gradually over decades. If this is true, there are major gaps in our current evidence infrastructure, because it over-emphasizes the capability layer.
Ge Wang is a Stanford CS professor, tech entrepreneur, musician, and HAI Faculty Affiliate. His book Artful Design is a manifesto of how we shape technology and a meditation on how technology shapes us. From engineering to art and form to function, Wang walks the reader through the design of tools, toys, games, apps, instruments, and social experiences. Event moderated by Jasmine Sun (Stanford Sociology) and Ben Wolfson (National Cancer Institute).
This event series is hosted and managed by Reboot, which is an event series and newsletter that convenes book-lovers, writers, and technologists to imagine the future of tech, humanity, and power.