impacts of technology
it is the duty of the historian to show the differences between the immediate and long-range implications of technological developments.
thinkpolit.com • Technology and History: “Kranzberg’s Law”’
We live in a frictionless age in which process is typically obscured by results. You press a few buttons on your phone, and a car or dinner comes to you, a moving blue dot on a map, hiding a whole range of human effort.
Tom Vanderbilt • Beginners
Over the course of a few short years, a technological revolution shook the world. New businesses rose and fell, fortunes were made and lost, the practice of reporting the news was reinvented, and the relationship between leaders and the public was thoroughly transformed, for better and for worse. The years were 1912 to 1927 and the technological re
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When I look at the surge of investment in AI chips right now, I see no reason to doubt that Moore’s Law won’t continue for a very long time. That means more advanced chips, which means more computing power that we can apply to all sorts of uses — [both] AI and all sorts of devices. And that means we’ll be using even more semiconductors because the
... See morebigthink.com • Inside the World's Most Important Company
Now you can literally set machines to do half your desk-job. “New task, next Tuesday write all-staff email about working smarter not harder plus reminder to not to leave dirty mugs in the sink, send at 8am.”
Every boaster and busybody can now churn out infinite words nobody wants.
Words will become an even-more devalued currency. We’re all going to h
... See moreIan Whitworth • The Great Same-Ening
A homogeneização do conteúdo provocada pelos LLMs torna o mesmo tipo de conteúdo, sumarizado, disponível a qualquer pessoa. As palavras originais, aquelas que tivemos esforço pra pensar e escrever, podem se tornar moeda sem valor se começarem a se confundir com essas, geradas por sumários automáticos. Como nos diferenciar daquilo que a inteligência artificial gera? Ou será que nós é que somos parecidos com IA?
You need to understand how much companies abhor paying humans. They want nothing more than to pay for AI instead — because computers can’t unionize.
It doesn’t matter if AI gives the worst results ever seen — they’ll keep trying until they get something barely acceptable.
David • Coca-Cola’s New AI-generated Christmas Ad Is as Bad as You’d Expect
What we need most are temporal structures that stabilize life. When everything is short-term, life loses all stability. Stability comes over long stretches of time: faithfulness, bonds, integrity, commitment, promises, trust. These are the social practices that hold a community together. They all have a ritual character. They all require a lot of t... See more
Byung-Chul Han • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
Friedrich Nietzsche once said that our happiness consists of the possession of a non-negotiable truth. Today, we no longer have such non-negotiable truths. Instead, we have an over-abundance of information. I am not sure that the information society is a continuation of the Enlightenment. Maybe we need a new kind of enlightenment. On a new enlighte... See more