Human Intelligence™ News Update 10/17
Your weekly roundup about human intelligence - Oct 13 thru Oct 19, 2024.
BOOKS - Nobel Prize for Literature
South Korean author Han Kang, known for The Vegetarian, won the Nobel Prize
in Literature. Kang writes intense poetic prose that touches on deeply personal
topics such as historical trauma and the fragility of human life. Read more »
MUSIC - New Saga in EPIC: The Musical Concept Album
Jorge “Jay” Rivera-Herrans started on a mythological concept album in 2019. Now, the 25-year-old’s millions of followers eagerly await the next saga in his reimaging
of Homer’s The Odyssey, “EPIC: The Musical,” which premieres 10/31. Read more »
ART - Dor Guez’s Berlin Art Exhibition Maps Uncertainty
Titled "Not knowing is a good place to start," Artist Dor Guez's show at Berlin's
Carlier | Gebauer gallery invites viewers to embrace disorientation as a path to understanding, challenging fixed notions of identity and nationalism. Read more »
MOVING ART - Modern Art in Motion
The iconic artist Alexander Calder revolutionized sculpture with his renowned mobiles and stabiles. His stately titans grace public plazas in cities throughout the world. Calder’s show is now extended thru 10/20 at Seattle Art Museum. Read here »
Human VS Robot
SHORT-SIGHTED - Authors Sell Creative Souls for Pennies
The Authors Guild's recently announced partnership with AI licensing company Created by Humans is a move that gives AI companies access to their work; authors risk devaluing their craft and accelerating their own obsolescence. Read more »
JUST SAY NO - Can a Machine-Readable "No" Save Human Creativity?
As AI companies feast on the creative buffet, artists and writers are scrambling to protect their work from being used as AI training fodder. Efforts are being made, but we’re far away from an accepted standard to enable creators to opt-out. Read more »
OUTSOURCING CREATIVITY - AI Art Challenge Misses the Mark
Are we simply teaching the next generation to become button-pushers for AI tools? King's College London and LSE's new AI Art Challenge claims to champion “responsible use” of AI. Seems they’ve sidestepped the irony — replacing human artists with algorithms only champions homogeneity. See the challenge »
Artificial “Intelligence” & Other Myths
ARTIFICIAL HYPE - AI Pioneers Win Nobel Prize
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics went to John Hopfield and “godfather of AI” Geoffrey Hinton for their work on machine learning. Read past the headlines and you’ll realize this was a win for science, not the tech bros. Read more »
CREEPY - Google’s New NotebookLM’s AI Audio Feature
Google's new Audio Overview for NotebookLM turns your documents into AI-generated discussions. While it’s interesting tech, it also introduces misinformation risks and could be exploited to create convincing but false narratives. How it works »
SKEPTICISM - New ChatGPT Model Could Hide Hallucinations
OpenAI's new o1 model, touted as a solution to AI hallucinations, might actually make the problem worse. By using a "chain-of-thought" approach that's hidden from users, o1 could be concealing errors rather than eliminating them. Read more »