artificial intelligence
In 45 minutes, I was able to use AI to help me write a script to convert my monthly log pages into a CSV. Each log is now a row, and it includes the date and time (while stripping the time from the log). As long as you have a raw stream of data that is semi-consistently formatted, you can use code to melt and reform it into whatever form you need.
A Bach Faucet is a situation where a generative system makes an endless supply of some content at or above the quality of some culturally-valued original, but the endless supply of it makes it no longer rare, and thus less valuable
Reminder: you can build full-stack AI-powered apps wih Bubble.
There are two halves to a thinker. One is about the intention behind the mind: it covers the life you cultivate, your mental composition, the discipline of your attention, and your capacity for wonder, excitement, and creation. This is honest work that is immune to shortcuts. The other half is the expressive outlet: learning the theories of civiliz
... 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 moreAI doesn’t just automate the bullshit work, it risks automating the manual joy of thinking, creating, and basically doing anything.
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?
On the “Dead Internet Theory” — there’s a Quora bot that is using GPT to answer popular questions. It pulled a face from the site “This Person Does Not Exist,” and it has 1 million views in the last month. The weird thing, there aren’t even any financial incentives to doing this, there’s just a certain fetish to automate because we can. Eventually,
... See moreFeels like Udio is better at making songs that ChatGPT is writing essays. I wonder if music as better training sets because it’s less “demotic.” The % of people who can make recordings are very low, and most public recordings of music have a certain sense of polish to them. On the other hand, basically everyone is literate and can write, and so the
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