Human Intelligence® News Update (5/4)
Humans create. AI imitates. Welcome to your weekly roundup about human creativity in the age of AI.
Human Creativity
HUMAN STANDARD - Planet Money Feature
The NPR show Planet Money launched their now-bestselling book on stage at the 92Y in New York City in April. The opening story focused on how Human Intelligence® is creating a new standard to ratify human creative activity. (here’s the video, the segment will run this month nationwide on NPR) Watch now » [13 min]
CAPITAL OF CREATIVITY - Oslo, Norway
Oslo’s art and design scene often flies under the radar — but beneath the Norwegian city’s conventional surface, creativity has long bloomed. The National Geographic shows off the city that gave birth to street art. Read more » [3 min]
HUMAN POETRY - Complexity vs. Opportunism
Award winning poet Xuela Zhang challenges poets (and writers generally) to find a new spirit of activism through genuine human creativity, rather than easy answers or glib politics. In Lithub this week, Zhang writes that “Creativity should be used to challenge… simplicity, laziness, and opportunism…” Read more » [5 min]
Human VS Robot
COPYRIGHT MATTERS - Fighting Back against AI
The future of creative labor will turn on whether AI-generated work can be copyrighted. In a comprehensive analysis, The Atlantic frames up the way that recent legal cases about copyright are becoming a defining fight over the future of creative labor and the entertainment industry as a whole. Read more » [12 min]
HUMANITY ON THE PAGE - Commonweal Magazine
Essayist Rand Richards Cooper examines how we encounter AI, and suggests that “to resist the AI Siren and its seductive claim to speak to us in our own language—to know us and be with us, as one of us—we will need powerful resources.” Cooper writes that “pushing back in any significant way will require concerted resistance.” A powerful pushback in Commonweal Magazine. Read more » [10 min]
HUMAN JAZZ - Certification of Human Made Music
A new system helps humans to know what you’re listening to. This initiative, titled PlayedByHumans tests music for human vs. AI creation, certifies human-made tracks, and offers shareable verification—from the “movement group” Jazz Is Dead, is highlighting artistry with humans behind it. Learn more » [10 min]
Artificial “Intelligence” & Other Myths
AI AS COMMODITY - The Financing of AI
American capital financed AI on the assumption it would be the next great monopoly. Open-weight models are commoditizing the capability that monopoly was supposed to protect. The collision between the two now defines the direction of the U.S. AI industry — and the country. Read more » [8 min]
ILLEGAL AI - Chinese Courts Outlaw Human Replacements
Chinese courts just ruled AI adoption can’t justify firing workers, forcing technology companies to budget for expensive transitions that could increase global gadget prices. This termination ban essentially makes it illegal to replace workers with robots. Read more » [5 min]
JUNK DATA - Derailing AI’s Train
The AI industrial complex has operated on the idea that more data meant smarter models. This seemed to work (with some ethical issues) when companies felt they could simply vacuum up the internet to train LLMs. But a new crisis exists in low-quality junk data that could derail physical AI. Read more » [3 min]
FEAR OF THE FUTURE - Disruption Caused by AI?
The people building A.I. fear that we have only a short time before advanced A.I. disrupts the labor force. The New York Times’ Jasmine Sun illuminates the fears of the tech upperclass in Silicon Valley — and some possible solutions, which include surprisingly progressive economic ideas. Read more » [4 min]
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