# Revenge of the Humanities by Steven Johnson ## Metadata - Author: [[Steven Johnson]] - Full Title: Revenge of the Humanities - Category: #articles - URL: https://adjacentpossible.substack.com/p/revenge-of-the-humanities ## Highlights added August 26, 2024 at 6:20 AM The simple fact of the matter is that interacting with the most significant technology of our time—language models like GPT-4 and Gemini—is far closer to interacting with a human, compared to how we have historically interacted with machines. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j65ykzhzfv99fwyc1e1p0v8y)) This idea of the model not as a *replacement* for human intelligence, but instead tool for synthesizing or connecting human intelligence seems to be gathering steam right now, which is good to see. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j65ywdqhndegcf8nyf8e4srm))