Ways of Being
Book description
Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle’s Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching exploration of different kinds of intelligence―plant, animal, human, artificial―and how they transform our understanding of humans’ place in the cosmos.
What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something unique to humans or shared with other…
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Futurists often lament the current state of artificial intelligence and the harm it might do to us, our society, and our planet. So, I was thrilled to read Bridle’s thoughts on reengineering the future of AI.
The artificial intelligence of today is what it is because it was created by corporations with corporate goals in mind. But what if those goals were subverted?
What if we could reconstruct AI as an oracle tasked with listening to everything that speaks? What if we could use AI not to discover new oil fields or to spy on our enemies but to hear…
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