Daniel Santos
@danielsantos
Brazilian lifelong learner. Curiosity waves surfer. I will probably die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.
Daniel Santos
danielsantos.org
People do not go to a website to admire it, but to get something done.
— Jakob Nielsen
But there’s a deeper, unasked question that lingers in the background, one introduced by the unconventional thinker Jiddu Krishnamurti in the early 1980s: “If the machine can take over everything man can do, and do it still better than us, then what is a human being, what are you?”
Big Think • Mechanized Minds: AI’s Hidden Impact on Human Thought
“Driving with background music,” one researcher speculated, “might be the most prevalent music behaviour ever taken on by the human species.”
Tom Vanderbilt • Beginners
"When death finds you, may it find you alive."
-African proverb
-African proverb
twitter.com • Geneia@home @home
IAs generativas são ótimas para tirar dúvidas triviais, algo que se tornou inviável no Google, onde crescemos fazendo esse tipo de pesquisa, pelos incentivos do próprio Google para a infestação de sites de baixa qualidade — o proverbial tiro no próprio pé.
Rodrigo Ghedin • O Egoísmo Na Inteligência Artificial
AI chronicles and enshittification
As inteligências artificiais se mostram alternativas melhores aos sites de busca como o Google, porque este tem levado cada vez mais a conteúdo duvidoso e de baixa qualidade. Mas com os modelos de linguagem se alimentando destes mesmos sites de gosto e veracidade duvidosos, não será apenas questão de tempo até que os resultados de IA também sejam vítimas de enshitification?
Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
An LLM is trained by allowing it to adjust the connections in its neural network until it reliably gives good answers, a process that Hinton compared to “parenting for a supernaturally precocious child.” But because AI can “know” vastly more than we can, and “thinks” much faster, Hinton concludes that it might ultimately supplant us: “It’s quite... See more