Laura Bryan

LLMs are word-prediction machines, and good writing is not one of the ways that human beings are predictable.

The emotional tension rises when we try to reconcile these free-to-use chatbots with the endless media hype around AI, the philosophical polarisation between doom and abundance, the thinly veiled shilling on X and tasteless slop almost everywhere else

My fear is not that robots are coming for our jobs but that if we don’t attend to it, the people creating the technology will be single-handedly in charge of how it changes our lives. We urgently need voices from outside the tech industry to help shape its future.

Jony Ive wasn’t hired to design another iPhone.

He was hired to design what comes after the iPhone.

Not a device. A dimension.

Not another product. A paradigm.

This isn’t a launch.

It’s a systems design challenge,and there are maybe 3 people alive who’ve done that at scale. And Jony is one of them.

So no, OpenAI didn’t buy a device.

They bought a design l... See more

Ditto, like the “Black Mirror” episode, claims to use AI to run 1,000 possible dates, each with a different match, to generate the most optimal pairing. After that, it finds a time when both parties are available and picks a location. It even comes up with a few starter conversation topics based on why it paired the two people together.

On UC Berkeley and UC San Diego campuses, a trendy dating website wants users to do as little of the predate planning as possible. No longer does getting a date require swiping, a clever text exchange, approaching a stranger in a bar, or meeting through mutual friends. With Ditto AI, all users have to do is make a profile. Artificial intelligence d... See more

Debía Tirar Más Fotos is an important album. It will mean a lot to millions. But when the only way to experience it live is from a screen or from the very back row of an arena, pride becomes a performance, not a lived experience.

It’s a strange thing watching your culture rise globally but feeling left out of the celebration. It feels like we’re goo... See more