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
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”
‘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.”’
“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
“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.
“It is no exaggeration to say that systems like these pose a real and imminent threat to the fabric of society”
Eek.
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
“I’m Never Assigning an Essay Again. And you shouldn’t either.”