ANDY CLARK rather than (or together with) JONY IVE

A lot of reactions yesterday about the acqui-partnership between OpenAI and Jony Ive. But after I came across (thank you Carmen!) this short comment in Nature Communications (lnkd.in/gbmtfpGg) by Andy Clark, one of the best and most insightful thinkers about mind extension and how we are, after all, Natural Born Cyborgs, I think Andy has more to offer us (meaning, mankind) in terms of helping design the best interweaving of human minds and AI. Or perhaps a super-team Clark+Ive.

Read it, it is obviously an optimistic take on AI: tool use, in Andy's view, is just an extension of our minds and bodies. But the key idea here is "fluidly incorporate non-biological resources ", i.e., interweaving. With very few exceptions, human-AI interfaces have been very rigid and binary, separating the human from the AI, the prompt from its execution, the director from its actors.