Hey, I’m Thierry 馃憢!
Developer by passion, Director by drift, Curious mind by nature. I write about what my experiments and day to day teaches me.
The risk of losing yourself does not come from increased AI usage, it comes from checking out while doing it.
A few days ago I came across a short video from Helen Edwards at the Artificiality Institute. She was summarizing research on cognitive sovereignty, defined as the degree to which you remain the author of your own thinking, and the finding stopped me. According to their study, the people with the highest cognitive sovereignty scores were not the ones using AI the least. They were the ones using it the most: fully integrated, identity reorganized around AI and maximum engagement on every dimension measured. The researchers call them co-authors and I think it fits. ...
On picking up the virtual quill again
I鈥檝e been playing with AI tools since January 2023 so about two months after ChatGPT landed and broke everyone鈥檚 brain. While I can鈥檛 claim I was there at the very start, I was definitely early enough to have felt the ground shift repeatedly under my feet since then. I鈥檝e felt the exhilaration of seeing a language model answer questions and flirt with reasoning, just as I felt the disappointment of realizing it was only predicting the next word with uncanny accuracy. The ups and downs of generating images when models were still finding their footing. Reading on about the ethics of it all, unsure whether to feel excited or unsettled, usually both at once. ...