“Google doesn’t want its employees using Bard code • The Register”
Who’s willing to bet that there are departments within Microsoft who have given their staff the same warning re Copilot/ChatGPT?
“🤦🏽♂️ No, GPT4 can’t ace MIT”
Most “AI” research is bad science whose only “value” comes from inflating the AI bubble.
“If You Have an Enemy, Then Buy Them a Car: Gig Workers vs. Multinational Corporations in India”
Now with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, we can see several systematic violations for scientific methodologies
“I Am a Careless Person and AI Is Smarter. A Self Fulfilling Prophecy”
I was struck by the strong conviction about AI superiority.
Warner Bros included a deepfake of George Reeves as Superman in the new Flash movie? That can’t be right. That would be in extreme poor taste. The man thought that the role had ruined his life 😬
It’s kind of weird to see frequent “the camera didn’t destroy painting; AI art won’t destroy art” takes on social media.
Because if you know your art history, photography very much did destroy portrait painting as a business and turned it into a vocation
Happy independence, Iceland! youtu.be/7IwuFU4aw…
Just a reminder that we’re solidly in bubble territory now, which means that you need to be extremely sceptical of all surveys and other company-sponsored research. There are almost always shenanigans. Sample size, question phrasing, experiment design, etc
“The customers might be human, but the audience is Google”
Looks like most of Google’s messaging about what content the search engine prefers—that the algorithm favours human-oriented writing, etc.—is a lie
“How CRDTs make multiplayer text editing part of Zed’s DNA”
Even long edit histories barely compare to the memory savings Zed obtains from not being built with Electron.
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“The gotchas of CSS Nesting | Kilian Valkhof”
Sometimes it feels like I’m the only web dev on social media who thinks that nesting in CSS is and has always been a footgun that should be avoided.
“The Curse of Recursion: Training on Generated Data Makes Models Forget”
Indeed, the value of data collected about genuine human interactions with systems will be increasingly valuable
“Good work is not enough — aows”
We do not become what we are today overnight; it’s only after weeks, months, years, decades, of hard work (or the lack of) that we achieve results (or not).
“My thoughts on Apple Vision Pro”
Thus, I would implore developers to charge separately for their visionOS apps, and charge a higher, sustainable price.
“Minute Rice, Minute Text, Minute Websites - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
The difference is everything.
“Did GPT-4 Hire And Then Lie To a Task Rabbit Worker to Solve a CAPTCHA?”
Note that the human prompter gave GPT-4 the problem of solving a CAPTCHA.
“Plagiarism Engine: Google’s Content-Swiping AI Could Break the Internet | Tom’s Hardware”
Even worse, the answers in Google’s SGE boxes are frequently plagiarized, often word-for-word, from the related links
Where I ponder a bit about WTF I’m doing.
“GPT on the platform: Data, actions, and outcomes - Meta Stack Exchange”