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A really great summation of some of the leading ideas from the past week or so. I suggest subbing to Arnolds newsletter. The Zvi on problems with LLMs; Ethan Mollick on impact of LLMs; Noah Smith on techno-optimism; Bill Gates on same; Sergey Levine and Karol Hausman on robots; Venkatesh Rao draws a map https://arnoldkling.substack.com/p/llm-links-383
Getting to town planning and Ballardian milieus this quickly is unusual. Crypto for example, despite being 4 years older (the Satoshi Moment was 2008) seems to have been stuck in a late Settler/Lovecraftian phase for the last few years. It is struggling to switch gears to town planning and Ballardian banality. https://studio.ribbonfarm.com/p/a-map-for-ai-town-planners-2024-29
I use Chat GPT daily as a software engineer and love it… but this gets a HARD FUCK NO. Up until January 10, OpenAI’s “usage policies” page included a ban on “activity that has high risk of physical harm, including,” specifically, “weapons development” and “military and warfare.” That plainly worded prohibition against military applications would seemingly rule…
“The A.I.-generated image doesn’t appear to be faithful to Haring’s style, which often included images of human figures,” writes Julia Binswanger at Smithsonian.com. “These kinds of figures are visible in Haring’s original piece, but the image generator wasn’t able to replicate them.” The algorithmically filled-in Unfinished Painting may be without aesthetic or intellectual interest in itself, but consider…
Here’s a supreme irony: nearly all of the beneficial applications for AI require that AI be used to help workers, not replace them, which is absolutely not how AI is used in the workplace. An AI that helps radiologists by giving them a second opinion might help them find tumors on x-rays, but that’s a tool that reduces the…
“Tab is not an assistant, period. I’m not building something that’s going to connect to Notion or your emails any time soon. I’m solely building . . . a friend that morphs into your creative partner, life coach, [or] therapist as needed,” he says. “What I’m trying to do is create a new relationship in your life;…
Holy shit, this is awesome! A stark contrast with the other AI companion company. A shake up of the current model is desperately needed. We’re beyond diminishing returns and into incumbents holding on for as long as they can make money. This is a bright spark. The R1, the pocket-size gadget from Rabbit that’s supposed…
As professor and author Gary Marcus and film industry concept artist Reid Southen, who has worked on several major films for the likes of Marvel and Warner Brothers, argue in a recent piece for IEEE Spectrum, tools like DALL-E 3 and Midjourney could land both companies in a “copyright minefield.” https://futurism.com/ai-image-generators-copyrighted-characters
If you could sum up what we learned in 2023, and I think what tech has learned, too, is that people matter. Even in the wildest of innovations, people still matter, and human relationships still matter, and you can’t shortcut it. – Rich Ziade, Aboard Podcast https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/humans-all-the-way-down/
If you’re an adenoidal keyboard warrior from IT who still buys Musk BS on this topic, you’re fucking dumb or actively misanthropic. No amount of wishful thinking is going to magic this fairy tale into existence with the current approach. IN 2016, JUST WEEKS before the Autopilot in his Tesla drove Joshua Brown to his death, I pleaded with…
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