The Impact of AI on Creativity in 19 Articles

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18 Articles about How AI is Affecting Jobs

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Want to Know if AI Will Take Your Job? I Tried Using It to Replace Myself - WSJ

AI-powered robotics will fuel jobs disruptions in ways we don’t realize - Semafor

The human side of generative AI: Creating a path to productivity - McKinsey

An Analysis of 5 Million Job Postings Showed These Are the 3 Jobs Being Replaced by AI the Fastest – Inc.

Gen AI is here to stay — here are 5 skills to help you stay relevant in the changing job market – CNBC

Swedish fintech Klarna says its AI assistant does the work of 700 people—after it laid off 700 people – Fast Company

Oops! Replacing Workers With AI Is Actually More Expensive, MIT Finds – Futurism

AI Is Starting to Threaten White-Collar Jobs - Wall Street Journal

The AI machines are not coming for your job – MarketWatch

 AI Talent Is in Demand as Other Tech Job Listings Decline - Wall Street Journal 

AI's job threat extends to CEOs who move too slowly in adapting to it – Axios 

AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants - BBC

10% of US workers are in jobs most exposed to artificial intelligence, White House says - CNN

Will A.I. Take All Our Jobs? This Economist Suggests Maybe Not. – New York Times

AI could help ending the dominance of the credentialed classes – Washington Post

9 AI jobs you can get without being an expert coder – Business Insider

Amid Fears of AI Job Losses, This MIT Professor Thinks It Can Fix the Labor Market – Inc. 

AI Can't Do All Our Jobs for Us. But We Can Make It a 'Superhero Sidekick' - CNBC

Slicing Projects

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Rather than looking at tasks, projects or decisions as items that must be completed, slice them into the smallest possible units of progress, then knock them out one at a time. This strategy relieves the pressure of thinking we need a perfect plan before we begin something — after all, if your first step is “open a new Google Doc for this week’s newsletter” and not “pick a perfect topic, write a perfect lede and have a perfect organization,” you either have achieved that micro-goal or you haven’t. There’s no gray area.

Tim Herrera writing in the New York Times 

23 Amazing Things AI Can Do Now

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Artificial intelligence might revolutionise coaching based on football research – Cosmos

OpenAI reveals artificial intelligence tool to re-create human voices - Axios 

NASA is releasing its first open-source geospatial artificial intelligence foundation model for Earth observation data - EarthData 

Advances in AI and satellite imagery allowed researchers to create the clearest picture yet of human activity at sea – The Verge 

AI Is Telling Bedtime Stories to Your Kids Now - Wired

Why AI will help IT workers get more sleep - Semafor

New study finds ChatGPT gives better advice than professional columnists – PsyPost

LinkedIn Tests New AI-Based Learning Elements In-Stream – Social Media Today

AI platform demonstrates ability to autonomously plan and execute a chemistry experiment after taking input prompts from researchers – Engineering   

Can AI Predict What Shoppers Will Buy? – Business of Fashion

AI is speeding up scientific discoveries and helping to spot new ideas - Axios

Google Chrome will summarize entire articles for you with built-in generative AI - The Verge

AI is helping cut the carbon footprint of online shopping returns - Semafor

Elvis Evolution: Presley to be brought to life using AI for new immersive show - BBC

How an AI robot smashed human world record in Labyrinth, a classic marble maze game – Fox News  

George Carlin has a new AI-generated comedy special – USA Today 

This AI game controller can predict which button you'll press next - BGR

This AI learnt language by seeing the world through a baby’s eyes – Nature   

AI program “can train neural networks using just a handful of satellite and drone images - Phys.org 

How AI Can Find the Perfect Movies, TV Shows and Books for You – Wall Street Journal  

Ex Zillow exec launches AI-powered home search platform - Axios

A Celebrity Dies, and New Biographies Pop Up Overnight. The Author? A.I. – New York Times

The AI art generator Midjourney is the favored tool in architecture - Bloomberg

Labels can be People Shortcuts

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Labels are shortcuts. They allow us to easily dismiss the people we associate them with. They give us an excuse not to invest in others because we think we already know them. We avoid treating them as people.

If you ask a blind person what he would like more than anything else in the world (aside from regaining his sight) you’ll invariably get an answer like this: “I want people to accept me as a person in spite of my handicap. I don’t want to be defined as a blind person. I want to be known first as a person — a person who happens to blind. 

What the blind person is asking sounds like something from the Sermon on the Mount”: “Don’t label, and then you won’t be labeled.”  

Labels not only can be turned outward, but they can also be turned inward. Labeling ourselves can propel the user down a pessimistic spiral. “I can’t tell good jokes at parties” soon becomes “I’m no fun at parties” and eventually “People don’t want me around.”  

People who overeat soon find themselves saying, “I’m the kind of person who overeats.” Or it might be, “I’m the kind of person who has to keep smoking.” The shift toward letting a label become our identify is a subtle but damning shift. The label becomes a shortcut way to deny the possibility of change.

Stephen Goforth

37 Articles about Data Science & AI from March

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The current limitations of ML and AI systems suitable for use in adversarial environments 

11 Articles about the Ethics of AI

Space Force: needs to “improve how it harnesses AI & ML tools” 

The European Space Agency plans to build a ChatGPT-style digital assistant  

The role of transformers in how chain-of-thought reasoning helps neural networks compute

AI teaching AI 

A record number of objects went into space last year

The adoption of new AI capabilities is making the benefits of geospatial intell more accessible

AI definitions: Training Data   

TimeGPT a generative pre-trained model specifically designed for predicting time-series data

AI definitions: Extractive summarization

Meet the 8 Google employees credited with inventing modern AI

SpaceX is building a network of hundreds of spy satellites  

Google DeepMind has developed an AI model that outperforms techniques for quantum circuits

Here are five ways to use LLMs on your laptop

Shrinking the distance between acquisition of data to actionable insights from multiple geospatial modalities

Build an AI application with Python in 10 easy steps 

AI Terms: Transformers  

A mathematical formula can explain how neural networks detect relevant patterns

12 Recent Articles about AI’s future

NASA's first open-source geospatial artificial intelligence foundation model for Earth observation data

Generative AI Landscape: Trends of 2024 and Beyond

Understanding the similarities and differences between data science and applied statistics

AI Terms: Abstractive summarization

How to Succeed With Predictive AI: An MIT webinar

A breakthrough in storing quantum data without the need for cryogenic cooling

How Large X Models (LXMs) can help generative AI complete new tasks 

The role of Large Language Models in enhancing the process of extractive summarization

The Role of Satellite Technology in Protecting Critical Infrastructure

Google Cloud adds vector support to all its database offerings

Google just entered the race of foundation models for time-series forecasting

How To Use A Vector Database

“Some of the ways we’re applying AI to the world of design systems”

“Generative AI can improve -- not replace -- predictive analytics”

The Dept of Defense is reportedly working with startup Scale AI to test generative AI models for military use

NGA launches National GEOINT Operations Center

The White House wants developers to abandon C and C++ over memory management security concerns

Regret is overrated (a quote from Daniel Kahneman who passed away yesterday at the age of 90)

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Regret is an emotion, and it is also a punishment that we administer to ourselves. The fear of regret is a factor in many of the decisions that people make (‘Don’t do this, you will regret it’ is a common warning), and the actual experience of regret is familiar. The emotional state has been well described by two Dutch psychologists, who noted that regret is “accompanied by feelings that one should have known better, by a sinking feeling, by thoughts about the mistake one has made and the opportunities lost, by a tendency to kick oneself and to correct one’s mistake, and by wanting to undo the event and to get a second chance.” Intense regret is what you experience when you can most easily imagine yourself doing something other than what you did.

Decision makers know that they are prone to regret, and the anticipation of that painful emotion plays a part in many decisions.

We spend much of our day anticipating, and trying to avoid, the emotional pains we inflict on ourselves. Susceptibility regret, like susceptibility to fainting spells, is a fact of life to which one must adjust.

You can take precautions that will inoculate you against regret. Perhaps the most useful is to be explicit about the anticipation of regret. If you can remember when things go badly that you considered the possibility of regret carefully before deciding, you are likely to experience less of it. You should also know that regret and hindsight bias will come together, so anything you can do to preclude hindsight is likely to be helpful. You should not put too much weight on regret; even if you have some, it will hurt less than you now think.

Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

11 Articles about the Ethics of AI

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It's a never-ending cycle

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You start a project determined to execute it perfectly. You avoid it until you can “do it right,” but then you don’t do it at all. You feel frozen, stuck, incapable. You are paralyzed by the fear that you will be bad at the thing you want to accomplish. Which, of course, makes it impossible to accomplish anything.

It's a never ending cycle: perfectionism, procrastination, paralysis.

At my best, I am an efficient and organized person. I thrive off of hard work and high pressure, always ambitious, always reaching for the next thing to do or make or achieve. I am productive and full of ideas. I take charge and take action. I keep a clean house and read at least a book a week.

At my worst, I am flighty and frazzled. I spend far more time thinking about how I want to do something than I do actually doing it. I doubt every choice I make, every thought that flits across my mind. I let my apartment get increasingly messy, even though I know how much I need a clean space in order to be happy. I just can’t confront the glaring imperfection of a sink full of dishes, baskets of dirty laundry.

I recede further and further inside of myself.

Jenni Berrett writing in Ravishly

Using Peer Pressure to our advantage

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In a 1994 Harvard study that examined people who had radically changed their lives, for instance, researchers found that some people had remade their habits after a personal tragedy, such as a divorce or a life-threatening illness. Others changed after they saw a friend go through something awful... Just as frequently, however, there was no tragedy that preceded people's transformations. Rather, they changed because they were embedded in social groups that made change easier… When people join groups where change seems possible, the potential for that change to occur becomes more real.

Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

14 Articles about How AI Tools are being Used to Create Fakes

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13 Articles about the Impact of AI on Scholarly Research

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The Soul of Science

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Pseudoscience, which are beliefs or practices that look like science on the outside — they ape or mimic many of the qualities of science — but they miss the central components of science that make it so powerful.

Science isn’t about the jargon. It’s not about the mathematics. It’s not about the lab coats and the experiments and the orbiting observatories. 

Science is about curiosity. It’s about rigor. It’s about doubting yourself. It’s about doubting your peers. It’s about applying a strict methodology to problem solving, to arrive at results. That’s the soul of science. That’s what science is really all about. And that’s what many, or all, pseudoscientific beliefs lack.

Astrophysicist Paul M. Sutter quoted in Undark

Are you smarter than a pigeon?

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In the 1950s, Skinner began putting the birds in a box and training them to peck on a piece of plastic whenever they wanted food. Then the Harvard psychology researcher rigged the system so that not every peck would yield a tasty treat. It became random — a reward every three pecks, then five pecks, then two pecks. 

The pigeons went crazy and began pecking compulsively for hours on end.

Fast forward six decades. We have become the pigeons pecking at our iPhones, scrolling through news feeds, swiping left/right on Tinder for hours, the uncertainty of what we might find keeping us obsessed by design.

In the modern economy of tablets and apps, our attention has become the most valuable commodity. Tech companies have armies of behavioral researchers whose sole job is to apply principles like Skinner’s variable rewards to grab and hold our focus as often and long as possible.

Market research shows the average user touches their cellphone 2,617 times a day.

William Wan in the Washington Post 

Getting the Most out of Your Memories

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The principle for having something be memorable is to attend to what’s distinctive about it. The more you can attend to what is distinctive and be mindful of it, the more vivid the memory.

We’re constantly taking pictures and then throwing them on social media. But this is the ultimate form of electronic amnesia. You’re cheating your experiencing self because you don’t connect with what’s happening, and you’re cheating your remembering self because you’ve deprived yourself of a great memory. 

So instead of taking pictures of every moment of your vacation, pay attention to what makes a particular moment distinctive. Ask yourself: What is going to be most memorable in each picture I take? How can I compose the picture to focus on the vivid details that will bring me back to this time and place?  That’s when pictures become valuable — when they force you to pay attention to the things that are important to you in that moment.

Neuroscientist Charan Ranganath quoted in Big Think