Sparks

Chiang’s view is that large language models (or LLMs), the technology underlying chatbots such as ChatGPT and Google’s Bard, are useful mostly for producing filler text that no one necessarily wants to read or write, tasks that anthropologist David Graeber called “bullshit jobs”. AI-generated text is not delightful, but it could perhaps be useful

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I am so, deeply, truly uninterested in reaction (which is why I don’t read the comments on my public Instagram account). But I am so curious about response: the mysterious sacred moments when we are compelled into action (often unwitnessed by others) or invited into new ways of thinking.

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Somebody once said that a good science-fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.

dreamers addicted to reality instead of realists addicted to dreams. -Neri Oxman on what she looks for when hiring

“In the past, jobs were about muscles. Now they’re about brains, but in the future, they’ll be about the heart.”