Back on April 1st I posted my three laws of robotics. Here are my three laws of AI.

1. When an AI system performs a task, human observers immediately estimate its general competence in areas that seem related. Usually that estimate is wildly overinflated.

2. Most successful AI…

Honest Q: is there any recently-constructed, de novo city in the world that’s vibrant (by any reasonable definition)?

Thank you PAT@Giovanni's Room, Zoe Stoller, MSS, LSW 🌈 (they/she/he), and everyone who joined us in Philly last Friday to explore 'Who Are We Now?'

Looking forward to Chicago tomorrow night – 7pm PilsenCommunityBooks with Ed Marszewski. Details: pilsencommunitybooks.com/events/36474

12 years ago Andrew McAfee 🇺🇦 and I first rode in a Google self-driving car from Mountain View to San Francisco.

Looking forward to doing it again soon.

132 👏 million 👏 children 👏 did👏 not 👏 die 👏 thanks 👏 to 👏 human 👏 progress 😍🙏😃

It never gets old (for me, anyway):

Someone should write a book about this!

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This is a tour de force of the tweetstorm form, and a highly useful frog-based style guide for us guys.

My tirade against AI doomers in Davos.
youtu.be/YdaRd_vitLw?si…

'Workers see a substantial productivity potential in ChatGPT, understand it substitutes for human expertise, and expect little cross-task substitution. Adoption is hindered ... by employer restrictions and required training, rather than existential fears of job redundancy'

The Skill Code: How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent Machines is off to the printer!

Nearly four years ago, I began the messy, ill-advised journey of writing it, and early praise says it delivers.

Pre-order, learn more: theskillcodebook.com

#TheSkillCode 🧬

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Know an amazing software Engineer?

@Workhelix is hiring!

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It’s wild to me that business and economics aren’t broken out as separate genres here

They promised us flying cars. Instead we got knowledge about our past that we thought had been lost, buried, and burned.

(we'll also eventually get the cars)

In the entire 30 year program the Shuttle had 133 landings.

Andrew McAfee 🇺🇦 The Spirit Level : Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better doesn't exactly do that but is closest I know of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spiri…

Honest Q: what's the best research showing that high or rising income / wealth inequality CAUSES bad societal / economic things to happen?

Out now: Dialogues Dispatch–a new Google podcast series that pulls back the curtain on some of today's most critical science, tech, and economic discussions related to AI. All six episodes are available now, including my interview with Andrew McAfee 🇺🇦. g.co/dialogues/disp…

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At Harvard, the Lab for Culture, Cognition and Coevolution in the Dep of Human Evo Bio is seeking a new Lab Manager. Great gig for anyone thinking about grad school in cultural evolution and related fields, including psych, anthro and econ. Contact me tinyurl.com/3kzy5fpd