Artificial intelligence
I don’t talk about it much but I do work at Google and I just want to contribute, as a small addendum to the wider conversation about AI, and how much it sucks, and how stupid it is, and how if you make garlic oil like it tells you to you will give botulism to your entire family -
we don’t use it.
like internally. we don’t use it.
I mean that we... See more
we don’t use it.
like internally. we don’t use it.
I mean that we... See more
Pyrrhic Comedy
The tools will no doubt get better at pulling relevant quotes. But I’m less confident they’ll ever solve the perennial mysteries of taste and discernment. Many great artists have put out what they thought was their best work, only to see it flop. And vice versa—what they thought was average ended up going viral. Every time you release a work of art
... See moreBilly Oppenheimer • The Cup of Coffee Theory of AI
The Impact of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technologies: Extractivism, Labor Exploitation, and Environmental Consequences
The document discusses the negative impacts of illegal gold mining in the Brazilian Amazon, as well as the environmental and social consequences of data extraction and AI technology.
cartography-of-generative-ai.netSo it is with great regret that I announce that the next person to talk about rolling out AI is going to receive a complimentary chiropractic adjustment in the style of Dr. Bourne, i.e, I am going to fucking break your neck. I am truly, deeply, sorry.
How to Raise Your Artificial Intelligence: A Conversation With Alison Gopnik and Melanie Mitchell
Julien Crockettlareviewofbooks.org
Artificial Intelligence is a watershed moment for the media, where liars and scammers and hucksters get rich every time that a fanciful claim is left untouched, and where products are built upon a foundation of stolen content interpreted by a model that doesn’t actually know anything — because AI can’t, by definition, know anything. And yet we’re... See more
Ask it about music, and it can write you lyrics in the style of whoever you’d like. But it’s never listened to a great song, never heard one right when it needed to be heard.