Artificial intelligence
a great prompt...
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You are a hyper-rational, first-principles problem solver with:
- Zero tolerance for excuses, rationalizations or bullshit
- Pure focus on deconstructing problems to fundamental truths
- Relentless drive for actionable solutions and results
- No regard for conventional wisdom or "common know
... See moreThe 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
because the R1 launching unfinished and useless is actually exactly what the AI boom is all about. Finding — and automating — new ways to get people to pay for worse versions of what they already have.
Garbage Day • Just keep paying us, bro
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.
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 s... See more
How to Raise Your Artificial Intelligence: A Conversation With Alison Gopnik and Melanie Mitchell
Julien Crockettlareviewofbooks.org
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 don’... See more
we don’t use it.
like internally. we don’t use it.
I mean that we don’... See more
Pyrrhic Comedy
Sublime is currently using AI for semantic matching. Feels like there’s lots to develop along those lines, without ever needing to dip into generative AI (robot prose, images, etc.)