“On AI agents: how are these digital butlers supposed to get paid?”
The promise of personalization in internet-futures-past went unfufilled, because the money wasn’t in personalizing to your interests.
This is not surprising and I wouldn’t be surprised if this ended up just being an ongoing threat to free and open source
From yesterday, a question for you all:
“What would you like to learn from me?”
“What Precious Things Does The Corporate World Steal From Us? — Ludicity”
Something I spend a lot of time reiterating is that one of the key things that you pay a large class of professionals for is their judgement
I honestly could keep quoting from this all day. Go read it.
“What Precious Things Does The Corporate World Steal From Us? — Ludicity”
The feeling of suddenly feeling smart was just reclaiming the intellectual life that the corporate world demanded I sacrifice.
“Faster Connectivity !== Faster Websites - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
“MDN’s AI Help and lucid lies - Seirdy”
Mozilla’s shift to “AI everything all the time” is nothing short of a tragedy
“Linux Elitism…Again | Kev Quirk”
This simultaneously does not surprise me and disappoints me, both at the same time. Social groups that are packed full of zealots are always going to be unpleasant experiences and, if their goal is meaningful social change, inherently counter-productive
This is the local cat shelter here in Hveragerði. Looks like it has a new occupant, but hopefully they won’t be there for long
So, blog followers and you all on social media are getting tomorrow’s newsletter entry a bit early:
“What would you like to learn from me?”
www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/what…
Let me know 🙂
The thing to do when you go out for a walk with only a funky antique lens on our camera like I did yesterday is to try and have a bit of fun with it. Like the redwings in the geothermal park here in Hveragerði in the first picture and the starlings in the second picture.
“Creative Good: Big Tech’s corruption was 25 years in the making”
Mistreating customers, exploiting workers, chasing the latest fads, hyping products with no lasting value: it’s all so unimaginative.
We all know how crap generative images are but machine translation seems to be outright declining. Google Translate now thinks “skógarþröstur” in Icelandic means “woodpecker”
“Joe Russo: Artificial Intelligence Will Create Movies in Two Years”
AI will be able to “actually create” a movie, Russo predicted: “Two years.”
This was published a year ago.
These I felt worked a bit better in black and white.
Took my camera with an “antique” lens (70s/80s is antique now, right?) out on my “clear my head of anxiety” walk. This might have been a mistake since a funky manual lens isn’t the best for birds and landscapes, but you make do 🙂
“Back up everything: corps don’t care about your data but you should”
This. Back up your stuff.
For today’s #caturday post, another batch of photos from my sister of her cat Kolka, a black-and-white rescue who has gone from semi-feral to “hey, people give scritches!”
Consultancy that has spent the past year hyping up “AI” solutions as the next big thing, up to and including its founder outright claiming that it made working on accessibility obsolete:
“Nevermind. It doesn’t work. LOL”
“Google Contract Shows Deal With Israel Defense Ministry | TIME”
“Phil vs. LLMs - Funranium Labs”
As I said back during the whole “use generative models to identify which wild mushrooms are safe” thing, and again during the “let’s use generative models for primary healthcare”, these things will literally kill people, if they haven’t already
Kinda weird to see the resources I made and posts I wrote last year on generative models finally do the rounds
The research is all still good and it’s nice to see it being useful to people, but it‘a still an odd feeling
Posting “Here’s what ChatGPT has to say about your blog post” in a reply that mentions me is an automatic mute or, if I haven’t had my coffee, a block
That is all.