The Hidden Cost of Cyborg Working
Generative AI is set to automate many intellectual activities–but at what cost to our brain?
Generative AI is set to automate many intellectual activities–but at what cost to our brain?
Danny Cohen wrote his proposal “On Holy Wars and a Plea For Peace” in 1980, hoping to put an end to some petty online bickering and adopt an important internet standard. That’s how long technologists have been arguing zealously with one another about the superiority of their preferred approaches. Some such conflicts drag on to …
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My best friend in high school was a wonderful French horn player. He was such a good musician, in fact, that he was banned from playing his instrument. No, really. The top position in an American marching band is the Band Leader–part conductor, part drill sergeant, who keeps everyone in time and in step. It …
“The CEO has approved our project. We have 20% time for the next two weeks to refactor the reporting system, and Sales agrees no reporting demos during that time.” Rami smiled as though I had just given him a puppy. Not the wry, guarded smirk I’d seen before as he used his Masters in Engineering …
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The idea that analysing poetry with computers could teach us anything about the art is controversial. A recent survey I conducted of more than 300 tech-savvy poets confirmed that–while they generally agree that technology has been good for poetry in terms of fostering community, creating networking opportunities, and providing remote learning–they would rather computer scientists …
Turnabout is fair play. Having analysed several thousand poems from Poetry magazine, I have decided to turn the same methodology on myself. I analysed 5,751 words from the 79 poems from my current pamphlet The Silence Teacher and my forthcoming collection The Knowledge. Here are my top twenty-five most commonly-used words: