Emily Campbell
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Emily Campbell
The large language models that programmers train to identify faces are black boxes. Even the engineers don’t know how or in what form your face appears to the system. All they know is that AI likes your face to be brightly lit. And that it prefers for you not to smile.
Your Face Tomorrow, by Michael W. Clune
“Certainly one of the most important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.”
Learning How to Eat
The human financial services activities that AI can’t do
For the longest time, monoculture ruled over us. It’s a fairly new phenomenon for trends to become smaller and more oriented to community or identity. The algorithmic pockets of community and identity (fandom as a personality trait, self-expression as a source of pride). AI an machine learning power both of these forces. It will be fascinating to see how they intersect in the coming years
You saw music as a platform to do things. Could Live Aid happen today?
I don’t think it’s possible now. Society has changed. The web is an isolating technology. It knows what you are, it drives you, it gives you what it thinks you want, and as you get jaded it gives you more extreme versions of that.
Now, music is free and you get the news that you ... See more
I don’t think it’s possible now. Society has changed. The web is an isolating technology. It knows what you are, it drives you, it gives you what it thinks you want, and as you get jaded it gives you more extreme versions of that.
Now, music is free and you get the news that you ... See more
40 Years After Live Aid, It’s Still Personal for Bob Geldof
just five months ago, the company’s best model ranked around one-millionth on a well-known benchmark for competitive coders—not great, but still in the top two or three percentile. Today, OpenAI’s top model, o3, ranks as the 175th best competitive coder in the world on that same test. The rapid leap in performance suggests an AI coding assistant co... See more
Coding emerges as generative AI’s breakout star
Naveen Rao, chief AI officer at Databricks, estimates that coding accounts for half of all large language model usage today. A 2024 GitHub survey found that over 97% of developers have used AI coding tools at work, with 30% to 40% of organizations actively encouraging their adoption. (GitHub, owned by Microsoft, created one of the first such tools,... See more
Coding emerges as generative AI’s breakout star
Time check: May 2025. How has this changed a year from now
