A newsletter by @dancohen about technology that helps rather than hurts human understanding, and human understanding that helps us create better technology.
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New issue of my newsletter is out: "Humane Ingenuity 48: Reading and Writing" — With the new school year coming, my letter to students about using AI bots to write; an update on a lawsuit I wrote about earlier this year in The Atlantic; professorial blogs newsletter.dancohen.org/arch…
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New issue of my newsletter is out: “Can Engineered Writing Ever Be Great?” — Will tools like ChatGPT that are based on large language models (LLMs) ever be able to create truly great and unique prose, rather than plausible-sounding mimicry? dancohen.org/2023/02/27/huma…
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After a hiatus, I’m back with a new edition of my newsletter Humane Ingenuity: “Humane Ingenuity 45: What AI Tells Us About Art” — A discussion of text-to-image AI tools like DALL•E and Midjourney, with cameos by Herman Melville and Dolly Parton dancohen.org/2022/10/17/huma…
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New issue of my newsletter: “Humane Ingenuity 44: Bookwork and Cloud Labs” — @whitneytrettien’s new book Cut/Copy/Paste and parallels between 17th-century bookwork and today’s digital writing; science labs in the cloud; a tale of two William Blake ledgers dancohen.org/2022/03/16/huma…
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First issue of my newsletter for 2022: “Humane Ingenuity 43: Your Own Personal Paul McCartney” — What we can learn from a robot that paints badly; @noahkalina helpfully responds to my skepticism about NFTs; two readers aggressively annotate a library book dancohen.org/2022/01/24/huma…
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New issue of my newsletter: “Humane Ingenuity 42: Not So NFT”—NFTs as a way to support—or undermine—art and culture; using maps and diagrams in old books to predict the future of the Mississippi River; human/AI collaboration to find unusual galaxies; more! dancohen.org/2021/11/22/huma…
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New issue of my newsletter is out: “Humane Ingenuity 41: Zen and the Art of Winemaking” — The chemistry and alchemy of turning grapes into wine; plant humanities; sketches of a 3D printer by Leonardo da Vinci; language models and genres; and much more dancohen.org/2021/10/22/huma…
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New issue of my newsletter: “Humane Ingenuity 39: A Circle of Keytars” — Combining video explanations with maps in the style of Minority Report; the urgency of preserving digital news; the best song at Eurovision was the most humane and the most ingenious buttondown.email/dancohen/ar…
Humane Ingenuity 35: Bounded and Boundless buttondown.email/dancohen/ar…
Humane Ingenuity 34: Making Data Physical buttondown.email/dancohen/ar…
Humane Ingenuity 33: Bring Back the Color buttondown.email/dancohen/ar…
Humane Ingenuity 32: Faint and Loud Signals buttondown.email/dancohen/ar…
Humane Ingenuity 31: An Adaptive Painting buttondown.email/dancohen/ar…
Humane Ingenuity 30: Escape Disappointment With Your Machines buttondown.email/dancohen/ar…
Humane Ingenuity 29: Noticing the Neighborhood buttondown.email/dancohen/ar…