Tag: NOT AI point-missing
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DuchampGPT
Altman flipped the purpose of computing. Computers started out as mass-produced bookkeeping. Hollerith’s counter mechanized and regularized the process of organizing and sorting census entries, which had grown beyond the ability of human clerks to handle. The switch to mass production was easily understood. Other manufacturing processes were being automated at that time with great…
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Misread
Someone on substack showed a public service ad for an EU “counterterrorism” task force. The big headline is PREVENT TERRORIST ATTACKS! My old eyes saw it as PREVENT THEORIST ATTACKS! which makes more sense. The “terrorists” we’re supposed to prevent are developed and created by the real terrorists, the THEORISTS of Deepstate. The real terrorists…
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Not so bad
Maybe AI is a good thing after all. Lever News, a ‘progressive’ site, pulls together some facts about a side of AI we normally don’t consider. The data centers for AI servers are adding a huge load to electric grids, and the electric utilities are keeping coal power running to satisfy the need. = =…
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Here’s an AI function I’d pay for.
Journalist types are trained to lead with blood and guts. Even after they go independent, the training is unbreakable. They will always lead an article with something icky and awful, even when it’s completely unnecessary for the story or theme. It ruins my day. I’d gladly pay for a browser filter or algorithm helper that…
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Better name
Responsible people are quite properly worrying about AI’s habit of hallucinating. We’d have a clearer conversation if we called it dreaming. Everyone dreams. The process is the same whether it happens in sleep or drug-induced haze or ChatGPT. A system assembles facts and images and sensations in ways that don’t occur in real life. We’re…
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Normal stage
MindMatters notes a splitup in Satan Altman’s company. Several top execs are leaving all at once. There’s no point in speculating about the detailed reasons for the split, which is a typical stage in a fast-growing company with a fanatical founder. At some point the fanatical founder needs to PURIFY his execs, and the less…
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Essential difference
When GetReligion closed in Feb, I missed a favorite reading place on the web. I didn’t recognize, or maybe I didn’t remember, that Religion Unplugged is basically the successor. Warm weather opens my mental pores. Found it again today, and it’s still a good read, with most of the same writers and features. This article…
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Deeper dodge
Via Yahoo, Reddit has made its first revenue report after entering the stock criminal market. Before the IPO it was owned by Conde Nast publications. The report shows revenue of about 3 dollars per user, but that’s not profit. The site lost 7 dollars per user. As always VCs are seeking a tax loss gimmick,…
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I hate to defend…
Denyse has fun with an AI-generated police sketch. The twitterites who trolled the original had even more fun, comparing it to various ancient PC game graphics. I hate to defend AI, but this one isn’t bad. The suspect was in the north of England where quite a few people do look like that. Flat face,…
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Missed his best argument
Eric Barmack writes a smart and practical overview of the current status of AI as a movie production tool. I especially appreciate the fact that he didn’t just discuss how it could be done, he tried to do it. The result is not better or worse than most short Youtube documentaries, but the cost in…
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Credit where due
Now that the courseware world is mostly turning to Canvas, my publisher set up a paid testbed account, which was a long and tangled process. Canvas is the fussiest of the various learning systems, so a fully usable testbed there will be sufficient for the other more resilient systems. I no longer need the generic…
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Clearly evil
Lawyer Richard Stevens lays out a strong case that AI makes extortion too easy. This style of extortion is VERY old, a variant on the Spanish Prisoner swindle. Your beloved grandson or your elderly aunt is being held captive! You need to pay the ransom now! But the payment is semi-legal and involves bribing some…
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Innovative?
I was looking in this 1962 journal from the Naval Research Lab, trying to find gadgets and gimmicks for my next graphics project. One issue in the volume started with this elegant bit of parody and wordplay. Transcribing: = = = = = START QUOTE: Computers and Data Processors, North America A Fourth-Generation, Hybrid, Self-Organizing,…
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Hoel’s insight
Now that the OpenAI soap opera has turned out to be solely a Microsoft soap opera, Erik Hoel writes a rigorous economic discussion of the true potential of AI. He reaches two parallel conclusions: (1) The jobs that AI can replace are low-wage jobs or ‘open-source’ jobs like editing Wikipedia or writing drab repetitive music.…
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Rings a bell
Biles at MindMatters connects the transhumanist and Effective Altruist movements to the writings of Teilhard. = = = = = START QUOTE: Teilhard was a French Jesuit who believed that human evolution, nudged along with tech, was actually the vehicle for bringing about the kingdom of God, and that the melding of humans and machines…
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