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Matt Ross and
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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
Entire categories of startups got killed today by OpenAI at DevDay. It was total carnage for AI startup founders as @sama threw one new feature after the other at them.
Here are some startup categories that won’t exist starting tomorrow:
1. Closed Source LLMs: OpenAI launched GPT-4 Turbo... See more
Abhishek Agarwalx.com
A weekend’s work to turn a podcast into a chatbot…the opportunities that are just beginning to emerge make my brain hurt. In the best possible way…
In other words, rather than trying to please humans, Scientist AI could be designed to prioritize honesty.
A Potential Path to Safer AI Development
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
As we train our sights on what we oppose, let’s recall the costs of surrender. When we use generative AI, we consent to the appropriation of our intellectual property by data scrapers. We stuff the pockets of oligarchs with even more money. We abet the acceleration of a social media gyre that everyone admits is making life worse. We accept the
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