Miners, Shovel Shops, and the Generative AI Gold Rush of ‘23’

One of my favorite all-time thinkers is Douglas Hofstadter, Professor of Cognitive Science and Comparative Literature at Indiana University and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gödel, Escher, and Bach, a classic in the study of consciousness with critical implications for artificial intelligence. In 2013, Hofstadter published a book entitled Surfaces and Essences with Emmanuel Sander where […]