Clubbing on a Monday night — that’s the image that came into my mind as I was reading the great new book by Christine Rosen, The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World. Rosen is ...
Source: ChatGPT modified by NostaLab. We’ve stepped or perhaps even fallen into a world where machines speak with seductive confidence. And today, they offer answers that feel polished and curiously ...
The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World, by Christine Rosen, W.W. Norton & Company, 272 pages, $29.99 Human beings are not brains in vats. We are not computer code. We are ...
Philosophers are generally expected to display wisdom and calm in the face of existential questions. I am just not one of those philosophers. I spent 30 years racing away from these thoughts by ...
It may be humanity’s largest art project ever–teaching machines to understand the art of how to be human. "You can't actually teach a machine to understand humans unless you also teach them to ...