AI
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AI
Pete Warden’s new thing. Crazy-fast translation. Found out about it from Om’s new thing called Crazy Stupid Tech.
This report offers an important ‘link in the chain’ to further understanding the opportunities and limitations for public participation in AI, and we hope the findings will shape and influence industry practice in this area.
Lara Groves • Going public
“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.”
Gauri Sood • Neural Networks and Novelty: A Window Into Harvard’s Innovators | Harvard Independent
All of the people I love hate this stuff, and all the people I hate love it. And yet, likely because of the same personality flaws that drew me to technology in the first place, I am annoyingly excited.
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I feel this intensely and think about it all the time. Many people for whom I have tremendous respect, people I have been reading for many years, people who I look to to make sense of the world really do seem to dislike AI. All I can tell you is that for the last few years, I have been obsessively playing with it, building things with it and spending a lot of time trying to make sense of it. I can’t stop. It’s the exact same feeling and drive I had when I first installed Mosaic in the 90s. But this feels quite a bit different.
What if you could instruct customers to migrate via prompt? First time I have seen this. Hard not to unsee it as a possibility.