“Intelligence is the new transistor,” concluded Schiffmann. “It’s a fundamental primitive that you’ll build things on, [and it] will enable all kinds of good things and all kinds of bad things... The goal is just to enable the good over the bad.”
Anyway, I don’t want to seem like I’m arguing that the internet of 2023 is “fine” or “healthy”--it’s obviously not. Rather, I’d like to make the case that the internet of 2010 (or wherever you would place the peak of “fun” internet) wasn’t particularly healthy or fine, either, and it’s easy to mistake a sense of ease and comfort under bad... See more
GitHub - transformerlab/transformerlab-app: Open Source Application for Advanced LLM Engineering: interact, train, fine-tune, and evaluate large language models on your own computer.
Artificial intelligence is already killing off important parts of the human experience. But one of its most consequential murders—so far—is the demise of a longstanding rite of passage for students worldwide: an attempt to synthesize complex information and condense it into compelling analytical prose. It’s a training ground for the most... See more
Maybe AI doesn’t raise the bar. Maybe it reveals how low we’ve let the bar drop. In a world where ghosting is normal and attentiveness is rare, a chatbot that listens is radical.