AI
Matt Ross and
AI
By mistaking language as merely a tool that’s a means to an end—little different from a spatula—too many people have lost sight of the fact that understanding language provides the basis of smart thinking.
The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition
I mean OF COURSE Laurie Anderson created a GPT of Lou Read. I love her discussion of it. I’m also aware that many (most?) would struggle with technology explicitly intended to “speak” to dead people. My guess is that, similar to pornography, people will dabble in private and speak very little, if anything, of it.
Optimizing future well-being with artificial intelligence: self-organizing maps (SOMs) for the identification of islands of emotional stability
Fedor Galkin • Optimizing future well-being with artificial intelligence: self-organizing maps (SOMs) for the identification of islands of emotional stability | Aging
the actual study
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
Turkle referenced the issue of behavioral metrics dominating AI research, and her concern that the interior life was being overlooked, and concluded by saying that the human cost of talking to machines isn’t immediate, it’s cumulative. 'What happens to you in the first three weeks may not be...the truest indicator of how that’s going to limit you,... See more
The Human Cost Of Talking To Machines: Can A Chatbot Really Care?
The flex isn’t what you’ve accomplished anymore. It’s what’s working while you’re sitting here not working.
Token Anxiety
When the bubble is big, every idea feels like a billion-dollar idea. I yearn for cheap ideas from strangers.
archive.is
Paul Ford is prescient, as always.
To guard against these issues while reaping the potential benefits of image generators, we provide recommendations such as regulation that forces organizations to disclose their training data, and tools that help artists prevent using their content as training data without their consent.