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That's Science Friday, wherever you get your podcasts. Artificial intelligence is changing the way we engage with the world.

What we call searching is increasingly about technology serving up custom-designed paths

to information we have demonstrated an interest in consuming.

Or maybe the algorithms seem to magically predict what we want

because they are shaping what we like in the first place.

From KERA in Dallas, this is Think.

I'm Chris Boyd.

Just as it is increasingly difficult to draw a hard line

between desires that come from within

and those imposed upon us

by our technology. It is also starting to be tough to tell the difference between what is generated

by human minds versus machines. With the right prompt, we can order up a picture, a pop song,

even a podcast that has never existed before that may never be witnessed by another living soul.

Those digital items may offer the kind of gratification that comes from culture, but culture,

by definition, is made to be shared.

What do we have when the sharing part stops happening?

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