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“We Have Built a Giant Treadmill That We Can’t Get Off”: Sci-Fi Prophet Ted Chiang on How to Best Think About About AI
vanityfair.com
Excellent explanation of how the transforms work
What are Vector Embeddings | Pinecone
pinecone.io
AI runs on Embeddings.
We’ve regulated many things online, right? The amount of fraud and criminal activity online is minimal. We’ve done a pretty good job with spam. You know, in general, [the problem of] revenge porn has got better, even though that was in a bad place three to five years ago. It’s pretty difficult to find radicalization content or terrorist material... See more
Will Douglas Heaven • DeepMind’s Cofounder: Generative AI Is Just a Phase. What’s Next Is Interactive AI.
I think he has a very rosy view of the future. Most of this cannot really be backed up, and radicalized content is even increasing. We can see Twitter's struggle to moderate content.
Many of the jobs we do today would have looked like trifling wastes of time to people a few hundred years ago, but nobody is looking back at the past, wishing they were a lamplighter
samaltman.com • The Intelligence Age
Just a moment...
perplexity.aiThe web is no longer primarily human-generated text created for human readers; it is increasingly AI-generated text created for algorithmic amplification, mixed with human-generated text optimized for the same algorithmic reward functions.
As AI systems train on this degraded corpus, they learn to reproduce its characteristics—shallow reasoning,... See more
As AI systems train on this degraded corpus, they learn to reproduce its characteristics—shallow reasoning,... See more
Substack • The Cognitive Collapse Thesis: How Polluted Information Loops Are Degrading Both Machine and Human Intelligence—And What It Means for Capital, Power, and Civilization
If an AI companion becomes someone’s most consistent emotional presence, the right question isn’t “how do we stop this?” It’s “what does that say about the world around them?” Technological relationships are not new. What’s new is how effective they’ve become; and how clearly they mirror the gaps we’ve refused to address.
We’ve tried prohibition... See more
We’ve tried prohibition... See more
Noah Weinberger • Imaginary Friends Grew Up: We Panicked
📓 Make an AI notebook
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