Human Intelligence™ News Update 10/10
Your weekly roundup about human intelligence - Oct 6 thru Oct 11, 2024.
Human Creativity
HALLOWEEN - A New Horror Comic
What do you get when you combine Twilight Zone-esque drama with richly developed characters? Ghost Machine’s new comic series, Hyde Street is created by writer Geoff Johns (Ghost Machine) and artist Ivan Reis. (Released Oct 2, 2024) Read more »
BOOK - Ta-Nehisi Coates’ The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates, bestselling author of Between the World and Me, explores how stories shape our understanding of reality in his new book, The Message. Coates set out to write a book about the craft of writing but found himself drawn into a deeper examination of the power of narrative. (Released Oct 2, 2024) Read more >>
VISUAL ART - Anastasia Inciardi's Mini Print Vending Machines
Inspired by a need for laundry money, linocut artist Anastasia Inciardi dreamed up a vending machine that would dispense a random piece of her art in exchange for just four quarters. The first machine hit the streets in 2022, but now Inciardi has gone national across the USA. Find one of Inciardi’s unique art vending machines »
Human VS Robot
INSIGHT - New Study Unveils AI's Signature Writing Tells
Did AI write that? Through a study of academic abstracts, researchers from Northwestern University and the University of Tübingen have identified certain distinguishing factors and writing patterns in AI-generated text. Read more »
MEDIOCRE - The Best AI Is a “Mediocre” Student When It Comes to Math
There’s been some hype about AI’s ever-increasing ability to tackle math. But UCLA mathematics professor Terence Tao, one of the world’s leading mathematicians, compares the best AI to just a "mediocre" graduate student. Read more »
SCRAPING - EU Court Decision Allows Scraping of Human-Made Content
The Hamburg Regional Court handed Germany’s Large-scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network (LAION) a win in late September. This ruling is a blow to human creators. It essentially allows tech companies to exploit creative works without compensation or consent under the guise of "research." Read more »
Artificial “Intelligence” & Other Myths
MORE SCRAPING - ByteDance’s New Monster
A new web crawling bot from TikTok parent company ByteDance is scraping data at a rate that far outstrips other AI giants like Google, Meta and OpenAI. Not only is the beast a threat to creators, but it is yet another step toward distilling online content into generic AI-generated outputs devoid of human creativity. Read more »
CAUTION - Expert Warns AI Won’t Just Fix Everything
A leading AI expert, Professor Neil Lawrence from Cambridge University, warned against overconfidence in AI's ability to solve complex problems, especially in public services. He criticizes the idea that AI can simply fix everything, calling it an oversimplification of human intelligence and society. Read more »
FAKE FILM - Is an AI Movie Star Coming to a Theater Near You?
If you frequent social media, you’ve no doubt trekked through the uncanny valley of AI-generated video in the past few months. As if that isn’t bad enough, a Zurich Summit panel of Hollywood execs sang praises of the “transformative” nature of AI in filmmaking, including forecasting a future “AI Harrison Ford.” Read more »