“Is ChatGPT Really a “Code Red” for Google Search?”

Grant me the confidence of the “thought leader” who has absolute conviction in their predictions, extrapolating from the past few years without a single thought towards underlying causes

Taking this sort of nonsense seriously is how tech cos amble themselves into mass layoffs

“TBM 56/52: The NPS Effect - by John Cutler”

“What to Expect When You’re Expecting … GPT-4”

You should not take a stroll on Iceland’s beach of death. It’s a lethal hazard even in still weather, a near-certain death-sentence in bad.

“Þurftu björgun eftir að hafa farið fótgangandi í Reynisfjöru”

“Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media”

‘Moving Fast and Breaking Things’

‘They always believe that they alone are worthy. They never have a backup plan, because they have always prided themselves on “being good when the going gets tough.”’

“Why I’m Not Losing Sleep Over AI – Rhetorical Thinking”

“The Performance Inequality Gap, 2023 - Infrequently Noted”

“Gamification gone wrong: stop the streaks - by Ben Davies-Romano - Dec, 2022 - UX Collective”

“All-knowing machines are a fantasy - Emily M. Bender and Chriag Shah » IAI TV”

“ChatGPT hype in the Washington Post”

The hype train is barrelling forward at max speed.

“Stability AI plans to let artists opt out of Stable Diffusion 3 image training - Ars Technica”

This is bullshit. Make it opt-in. If that makes the training set too small, fill it in by paying people to be included

“Select The Right Tool For The Job - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”

“Pulling on the corkscrew of life: Why my cats are lyonized (and you may be too)”

“Space debris expert: Orbits will be lost—and people will die—later this decade - Ars Technica”

“Code brushes for GitHub Copilot - Christian Heilmann”

This is a much more interesting direction than autocomplete/autogeneration of code.

“The viral AI avatar app Lensa undressed me—without my consent - MIT Technology Review”

“An Update On My Thoughts on AI-Generated Art - Whatever”

Given how little money there is in most of publishing, I expect generated art to take over from stock art in covers in very short order.

“AI’s Jurassic Park moment”

“It is no exaggeration to say that systems like these pose a real and imminent threat to the fabric of society”

Eek.

“Horribly low pay is pushing out my fellow authors – and yes, that really does matter - Joanne Harris - The Guardian”

“Your platform is not an ecosystem — Crooked Timber”

Wild how regulatory actions are shaping up. On the one hand people are debating whether the very business models of Google and Facebook should be legal in the first place. On the other, the debate is whether Apple should be forced to improve their platform by opening it up

“Freaking Out About ChatGPT—Part I”

“I’m Never Assigning an Essay Again. And you shouldn’t either.”