“Pay Attention” # 1: Digest of articles on artificial intelligence, grocery thinking, behavioral psychology

This is the first in a series of weekly digests about technology, people, and how they affect each other.

• An incredible article from Harvard doctor and sociologist Nikolos Kristakis about how automation changes our relationship. Attached are some amazing examples from his sociological laboratory at Yale University. From the article it becomes clear how robots can improve or destroy cooperation, trust and mutual assistance, depending on how they are integrated into social groups. Must read.
• Why did everyone suddenly get to do wireless headphones, asks Techpinions . The answer is obvious: job to be done - headphones allow you to conveniently create a focus of attention on audio. Where there is attention - there are technology businesses. The computer in the ear just will not miss neither Apple, nor Microsoft, nor Amazon, nor anyone else. In addition, the next battle for attention will be around the voice - which reproduces the meaning (podcasts, audio shows, articles, music) and which creates meaning (conversations).
• Jack Dorsey's frank conversation (CEO of Twitter and Square) with the creator of TED about how Twitter fights and plans to overcome various unpleasant things that clog the channel: disinformation, oppression, Nazism, racism, and so on. In addition, an excellent look at how grocery thinking helps to solve complex issues of human relationships. Dorsey was the only leader among technology companies who responded to an invitation to answer questions on the TED 2019 stage.
• If you notice how calm and grounded Dorsey feels on stage, then you are absolutely right. Dorsey has been meditating for 20 years now, and on his last birthday he presented himself with not a new tesla, but a train to Myanmar for a silent retreat . Another 10 healthy habits of Dorsey, including immersion in ice water, an hour-long walk to the office in the morning and fasting, are in CNBC .
• A powerful article by Andressen Horowitz partner Ben Evans on the distortion (biases) of artificial intelligence. By analogy with the cognitive distortions common in humans, Ben argues that artificial intelligence is inherent in a number of distortions, primarily related to what kind of computer data people are fed to train neurons. Recommended for reading to all who are directly or indirectly engaged in AI.