Historically, tools extended human capability.
The expectation was always that humans remained responsible for the outcome.
What's new is not that AI helps us think. It's that many people seem increasingly comfortable letting it think on their behalf.
I feel like my phone number and email have already been leaked a long time ago. These days I get spam emails almost every day, and random calls from different cities keep coming in. What I keep wondering is how all this data gets out there. Is there an entire underground business built around selling our information?
I don’t think being smart necessarily makes people unhappy. What’s tiring is seeing everything too clearly. When you understand too much, it becomes harder to care, to connect, or to feel joy and sometimes that clarity just feels lonely. Maybe happiness really needs a little bit of ignorance.
Morris’s program wasn’t meant to be malicious, but it accidentally became a turning point in cybersecurity history. Much of what we now know as security research, red teaming, and even the “gray hat” culture can be traced back to that moment.
What makes this analogy great is that nobody in the dial up days could imagine Google or YouTube. We’re in the same place now nobody knows who becomes “the Google of AI,” and that uncertainty usually means a new platform is being born.
Quanta’s greatest strength is that it doesn’t pretend to be clever. Many tech publications write as if they’re showing off, and you just end up feeling tired after reading them.
AI can definitely save time, but sometimes it hides the real problems. Most spreadsheet issues aren’t math errors they’re logic messes. Claude can fix your sheet, but it can’t fix your company culture.
If a company’s first reaction to a flaw is to sue instead of fix it, the problem probably goes beyond the lock itself. A real security company would appreciate someone pointing out a weakness rather than trying to take the video down. That kind of openness would actually make people trust them more.
Although this advice is quite comprehensive, I think it assumes that you've already kept up with the pace of the course. In some schools, the curriculum moves so fast that students are thrown into problem sets before they’ve even grasped the basics. I’d love to see how he would advise someone who's already fallen behind and trying to catch up. For many people, that’s the more realistic situation.
In addition to the Yang Mills theory, parity nonconservation, phase transition theory, and the Yang Baxter equation, these are also among Yang Zhenning’s important theoretical achievements. Moreover, he has made numerous academic contributions in areas such as the integral formulation of gauge fields and cold atom research.