“But calling this a hallucination is already ascribing mind-like qualities to something that is not a mind or even particularly mind-like in its function.”
“ChatGPT does not understand the logical correlations of these words or the actual things that the words (as symbols) signify (their ‘referents’)”
“Collections: On ChatGPT – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry”
“boosters of this technology frequently assume applications in fields they do not understand”
“Collections: On ChatGPT – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry”
Absolutely nails the description of ChatGPT’s capabilities, limitations, and likely consequences.
“SpiderMonkey Newsletter (Firefox 110-111)”
“This includes supporting modules in Workers, adding support for Import Maps”
The top two items on my Firefox support wishlist are coming! 🙌🏻
“Safari 16.4 Beta Release Notes - Apple Developer Documentation”
Guessing most people will talk about the web app stuff but there’s also import maps and scroll-to-text links. Also Compression Streams API.
“Amazon Begs Employees Not to Leak Corporate Secrets to ChatGPT”
Well, this is an interesting wrinkle.
“Announcing Squire 2.0—Fastmail releases next generation of open-source rich text editor”
Looks interesting. I wonder what it’s accessibility is like?
Last couple of times I had this strong a sense of “wow, people are really buying into the hype with cult-like fervor” was 2007 in the Icelandic financial bubble and 1999 in the dot-com bubble. I don’t think crypto came close, even at its peak
‘Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”’
“A search engine that summarizes results is a really useful thing. But a search engine that adds some imaginary numbers for a company’s financial results is not.”
I know I’ve said several times that the hype for AI is going to be deafening over the next couple of years, but, damn if that isn’t going to be an understatement. It’s going to be even more excessive than I imagined.
“It’s not aliens. It’ll probably never be aliens. So stop. Please just stop. - Ars Technica”
“Declarative Shadow DOM - WebKit”
I know knocking WebKit is always fashionable, but lately it’s been Firefox that’s the laggard. E.g. module workers and declarative shadow dom.
“Video Game Voice Actors Doxed and Harassed in Targeted AI Voice Attack”
The more this happens, the stronger the case for an outright ban becomes.
Some thoughts on how to make a book, three months after I made one
So, on Friday I wrote up a few notes on the approaches I took when I made my book. Contains advice on editing, covers, that sort of thing.
“Inside the Heart of ChatGPT’s Darkness”
“OpenAI’s current guardrails are only skin deep; some serious darkness still lies within.”
“Automated testing won’t solve web accessibility · Eric Eggert”
“The Limits of ‘Computational Photography’ - PetaPixel”
So, because tech is a pop culture, it will apply techniques and approaches because they are fashionable even when the outcomes are worse.
Whenever you see an AI/ML paper making extraordinary claims remember that the field has a reproducibility crisis due to poor modelling, evaluation, over-optimism, and data leakage
“Leakage and the Reproducibility Crisis in ML-based Science”
“Some thoughts on how to make a book, three months after I made one – Baldur Bjarnason”
Wrote this yesterday.