Tag: NOT AI point-missing
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What we lost
In previous item I focused on our loss of innovation and flexibility after we switched to all finance and all monopoly. China and Russia didn’t make the switch, so they continued working with LIMITED RESOURCES. Now they’ve beaten our stupid MAX-FINANCE and MAX-THEFT approach to AI, with a technique that can run on normal computers…
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Gold rush
At the moment it looks like the AI bubble may be an indirectly productive bubble, like the Gold Rush of the 1840s that didn’t make anyone rich from gold but started lots of cities and several substantial business empires. Many of the companies that poured billions into AI in hopes of wiping out humanity are…
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Starker comparison
In previous item I contrasted Hudson’s personal approach to GM’s anonymous bureaucracy. Hudson was a stock company but behaved more like a family-run outfit. Hudson’s founder Chapin continued running the company from 1909 until he died in 1936. Then Abraham Barit, who had been with the company from the founding, took over and continued until…
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Pulls and pushes
Researchers looking at AI have determined that training the AI on a dataset that INCLUDES previous outputs of the AI will quickly descend into repetitive boredom. The same thing happens in human creativity. When I started writing courseware for money in 1996, I quickly found that I needed to avoid looking at similar work. I’m…
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Partial victory for art
Via HollywoodReporter, artists win a partial victory against the AI megathieves. = = = = = START QUOTE: U.S. District Judge William Orrick on Monday advanced all copyright infringement and trademark claims in a pivotal win for artists. He found that Stable Diffusion, Stability’s AI tool that can create hyperrealistic images in response to a…
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The real problem and purpose
A long time ago I got tired of reading the philosophical thinkers about AI. They argue about utterly meaningless shit like whether AI can be conscious or creative. Of course meaningless arguing is the JOB DEFINITION of philosophers. Artists and animators understand the ONLY purpose of AI, destroying the skills and lives of artists and…
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Jectoons is on the mark
I haven’t looked at the work of Jectoons in a while. He’s done several powerful pieces lately, matching his previous definitive statement on AI. Art IS Labour. Capitalists see Art as just another trading card for betting and securitizing.
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Spies in Jeopardy
OpenAI cleverly interrogates its prompters to determine their weak spots and blackmailable spots. By using the “assistant”, the prompter is helping Sam Altman to build a massive power structure. Old-fashioned spies asked questions and listened to answers in Socratic style. OpenAI gathers info by giving answers and listening to questions in Trebek style.
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Good work by Nieman
NiemanLab did some serious tech journalism instead of just parroting the party line as usual. They heard that Altman has contracts with many of the biggest news outfits including AP, Financial Times, and WSJ. The chatbot answers questions from readers and refers them to previous stories from the same source. In fact the references are…
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Refreshing realism
After the Assange hall of mirrors it’s refreshing to see a proposal from a hardass realist who recognizes that the devil doesn’t have morals. In this case the devil is Sam Altman. Gioia lays out a strategy for music publishers to handle Altman. Altman is an incurable and immovable and unlearnable devil, but the human…
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AskedAnswered
Haven’t seen one of these in a while. The business of building AI centers IS why it’s so hard to build ANYTHING ELSE in America. When construction serves the needs of Altman or Fink or Zuck, it gets built fast and easy, no permits, no litigation. Anything else needs 20 years of permitting and licensing…
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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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