AI
Matt Ross and
AI
A problem in any discussion of “AI” is that the uses are so varied that it is never clear what anyone is talking about. Using AI to spellcheck is different than using it to generate the entire work, with a whole range in-between. At what point does it go from a tool that assists an artist to the thing producing the art? There will not be a clean li... See more
Lincoln Michel • Art Without Intention
We can’t address the decline in empathy without addressing the decline in attention . Empathy requires a degree of sustained focus:
When we are fragmented and distracted , we simply can’t com... See more
- Paying attention to an experience someone is sharing
- Recalling experiencing a similar emotional response
- Sitting with your own and the other person’s inner state
When we are fragmented and distracted , we simply can’t com... See more
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Enter Large Language Models (LLMs). The first tranche of products and startups leveraging LLMs has kept within the mental model of selling software to achieve step-function improvements in end-user productivity. The "Copilot for [x]" trend reflects this mental model. While there are fantastic startups innovating to improve employee productivity, LL... See more
Sarah Tavel • AI startups: Sell work, not software
IBM training manual, 1979.
Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social)
bsky.app
Main OpenAI dev day takeaways:
(1) Existential crisis for AI wrappers and middleware.
(2) Opportunity for people with good taste in UI and can figure out distribution creatively.
Launching something useful has never been easier.
The likelihood of be... See more
Alex Ker 🔭x.comSecond, TA teaches us to never overlook the simplest solutions. There are a lot of complicated methods to automatically find augmentation policies, but the simplest method was so-far overlooked , even though it performs comparably or better
Devansh • TrivialAugment: The next evolution in Data Augmentation [Breakdowns]
In ordinary language, we frequently speak of machinery or ideas ‘doing’ things in our lives. But they do nothing. People – human persons – produce, operate and apply their creations. The problem with assigning agency, even informally, to the nonhuman is that this disguises the strength of human control, limited though it is in other respects. It le... See more