Tag: NOT AI point-missing
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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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Monkeys down the drain
Pointed by Denyse, this article by Arlie Coles is an excellent clarifier of AI. = = = = = START QUOTE: To find a math map between inputs and targets, neural networks need a lot of examples of input-target pairs. If you give people a puzzle like, “you want to turn two into four, and…
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AI as seen by execs
The Ankler interviews an anonymous exec at Apple’s streaming service. He gives the industry’s view on AI and outsourcing, which we don’t hear much. We hear from AI boosters, and we hear from the writers and artists who are losing their property. The actual USERS have a hardass attitude, tempered by knowing what works. Hardass…
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When a baron begs for regs
Sam Altman and other tech robber barons have been begging for more regulation of their AI product. When a robber baron begs for regulation, he’s instructing the government to LEGITIMIZE AND PREFER his company over others. If he begs expensively enough, his desires will be fulfilled. This was already obvious with Bitcoin Sammy, now it’s…
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Endless modifiable horizons
From Apple’s announcement of its expensive Metaverse: With Vision Pro, you have an infinite canvas that transforms how you use the apps you love. Arrange apps anywhere and scale them to the perfect size, making the workspace of your dreams a reality — all while staying present in the world around you. Browse the web…
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