artificial intelligence
Instead of using GPT 4o, you can get a cassette tape recorder for $20 on Amazon and talk to yourself.
People assume that generative AI will lead to a tsunami of garbage content. I think the opposite problem is more interesting: what if you were drowning in amazing content? What if you’re so inspired and overwhelmed by awe that it’s stressful and addicting and life disorienting?
Pretty wild how OpenAI baked their philosophy into their name and the betrayed it anyway.
My wife and some friends seem so appalled by the GPT-4o voice assistant that they don’t even want to hear it. I get it. It’s super uncanny to hear a robot trying to sound human and kind of pulling it off. Still, I think we need to dive into new technology and try it, even if it’s freaky. It’s part of being a techno-selectivist. Going forward is equ
... See moreComing up the great Grand Central escalator, I put GPT-4o (/ScarJo) in my glasses and started talking to her.
First, it recommended 3 authors aligned with my Essay Architecture project to check out. Then it gave me a range of facts: 1) there is a secret basement under Grand Central that used to be military guarded, 2) Pershing Square was featured i
... See moreDid Kate Middleton disappear? Why? Did she die? Was she assassinated? Is she just embarrassed of the sickly way she looks? People are going paranoid in speculation. The only knowable thing is we’re at a point where it’s feasible for AI video to impersonate real celerities. This is part of the “trust flip.” We will get duped more and more, until we’
... See moreWent to a Sublime community talk today, which centered around how AI should or shouldn’t be integrated into the platform. I shared the idea that “creating over consuming” could be a guiding value. It’s a check you can use against every feature: even if this AI-generated summary is radically good, radically convenient, and everyone loves it, does it
... See moreRobots, hucksters, dope, and slang-parrots translates:
technological automation;
marketing, sales, influencers, etc.;
incentives that promote addiction, and;
mindlessness around language.
Udio (the AI song generator) can seriously penetrate the subconscious. It’s an earworm generator at scale. I find myself quietly yelling, “it’s time to write!” from that meme song I made for the editor team. What if you actually distilled your values and virtues into ear worms?