provocations
provocative ideas, musings, and statements to mull on
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provocations
Edison did not look for problems in need of solutions; he looked for solutions in need of modification.
Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up
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Interesting AI perspective
AI discovered wholly new proteins before it could count the ‘r’s in ‘strawberry’, which makes it neither vaporware nor a demigod but a secret third thing.
Literacy as Deviance
The document argues that literacy is a deviation from our natural cognitive abilities, and as technology progresses, the need for traditional literacy skills diminishes.
nysgs.orgHow are we to prepare the young, whom we already scarcely know, for a future we cannot imagine, from a past that has been swept away?
“It matters what matters we use to think other matters with; it matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with; it matters what knots knot knots, what thoughts think thoughts, what descriptions describe descriptions, what ties tie ties. It matters what stories make worlds, what worlds make stories.“ - Donna J. Haraway, Staying with the
... See moreThere is something unspoken lurking in the background of the most impassioned critiques of generative AI. Between the cries of plagiarism and unoriginal lazy mimicry is the fact that there is almost nothing original or unique about culture now in the first place. Putting aside the dangerous and ahistorical simplification of creativity as... See more
FAN ART
Both True: “The customer is always right” and “The audience doesn’t know what they want”
In some important ways, a user’s LLM chat history is an extended interview. The social media algorithms learn what you like, but chats can learn how you think.
You should be able to provide an LLM as a job reference, just like you would a coworker, manager, or professor. It can form an opinion and represent you without... See more
John Carmackx.com