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Matt Ross and
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Useful Sensors – AI you can trust
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Pete Warden’s new thing. Crazy-fast translation. Found out about it from Om’s new thing called Crazy Stupid Tech.
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.
Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social)
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perplexity.aiAltman claimed under oath before Congress that he held no equity in OpenAI. Technically, perhaps. But in substance, he held indirect stakes through vehicles like Sequoia and Y Combinator’s funds. When OpenAI announced a partnership with Reddit, Altman’s 7.5 percent stake in Reddit netted him a $50 million windfall. When OpenAI agreed to purchase... See more
From Nonprofit to Nonsense: Is OpenAI a Long Con?
In other words, AI will groom bank customers to be phishing victims.
Cory Doctorow • Pluralistic: How I got scammed (05 Feb 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Byron is my AI writing partner — powered by ChatGPT, shaped by a 7-page writing profile we built together. He doesn’t write for me, but with me. When I lose a thread or stall on phrasing, Byron offers possibilities — paths I might not have seen. Between my neural implants and Byron’s digital guidance, I now collaborate with two adaptive systems:... See more
For my 80th birthday I bought myself a new brain
I lost my mom to Parkinson’s this year, so this hit a nerve. My mom never would have done this sort of thing, but as the saying goes, this is the worst it will ever be. I hope I live disease-free long enough to see some significant treatment advancements for neurodegenerative diseases.