Where Generative AI Meets Everyday Life
Where Generative AI Meets Everyday Life
The Pattern Seekers Facts are temporary. Patterns endure. In the rush to master artificial intelligence, we’ve become obsessed with feeding our machines more and more facts. More data points. More examples. More cases. But facts alone don’t create understanding. A…
The Map Is Not The Territory We’re obsessed with building AI models that mirror reality. But models, by definition, are simplifications. They’re maps, not the actual territory. This fundamental truth about mental models applies equally to artificial ones. When we…
Memory Is Overrated We’ve been taught that a good memory is essential for intelligence. It’s not. In the age of AI, memory is becoming increasingly irrelevant. The ability to store and recall information was once the hallmark of human cognitive…
Learning How to Learn Again We’ve forgotten how to learn. Not the mechanical process of absorbing information, but the art of true learning – the kind that transforms. In our rush to master artificial intelligence, we’ve neglected our own intelligence.…
The Age of the AI Generalist Specialists are becoming obsolete. Not because expertise doesn’t matter, but because AI is rewriting the rules of expertise. For centuries, we’ve celebrated the deep domain expert – the person who knows everything about one…
The Myth of Human Creativity We’ve told ourselves a comforting lie: creativity is uniquely human. It’s not. Creativity is pattern recognition, remixing, and transformation. It’s taking existing elements and arranging them in novel ways. Just like AI does. We resist…
The Machine’s Mind AI doesn’t think like you and me. It never will. We keep trying to anthropomorphize artificial intelligence, to make it fit our mental models. To make it human. But that’s exactly the wrong approach. AI thinks in…
The Quiet Revolution AI isn’t just watching anymore. It’s listening. To our conversations. Our meetings. Our arguments. Our laughter. Every word we speak feeds the algorithms, teaching them the subtle rhythms of human communication. This isn’t about surveillance. It’s about…
The Mirror That Learns AI doesn’t just reflect us – it amplifies who we are. Every bias, every preference, every subtle inclination we feed it comes bouncing back, bigger and clearer than before. Like a funhouse mirror that stretches truth…
The AI Mirror AI doesn’t make you better. It makes you more of what you already are. Like a mirror reflecting back your true self, AI amplifies your existing capabilities, habits, and tendencies. If you’re organized, AI helps you organize…