... works as a web developer in Hveragerði, Iceland, and writes about the web, digital publishing, and web/product development
These are his notes
“The problem with artificial intelligence? It’s not artificial or intelligent”
The ultimate risk of not retiring terms such as “artificial intelligence” is that they will render the creative work of intelligence invisible, while making the world more predictable and dumb
“AI and the American Smile: How AI misrepresents culture through a facial expression”
Years ago, I had a go at explaining to somebody that AI colourisation inevitably erased variation and minorities out of history. AI-generated images are that x1000. Everything becomes American.
“Code, not Chat, in Generative AI”
I think the seeming effectiveness of AI-assisted coding is leading many coders to assume that it’s as useful in other jobs, which I think is a big mistake.
“Types in JavaScript With Zod and JSDoc - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
Definitely an approach I’d like to try out in my projects.
“JavaScript import maps are now supported cross-browser”
Now all we need are module workers in Firefox.
You see a fashion co revealing their racism and ignorance. I see a multinational attempting a risk-free “AI stock bump” without compromising their processes with untested tech and instead stumbling into a gloriously stupid PR disaster that reveals them to be racist and dumb
“The Online Photographer: How Is TOP Doing? (Blog Note)”
Looks like all of the old photography mainstays, or what remains of them, aren’t doing so well.
“Peerless Whisper – Eric’s Archived Thoughts”
Transcription and captioning is exactly the sort of thing we should be using these systems for.
“The machines won’t save your design system”
We have too much confidence in our ability to make technology better, and not enough respect for its ability to make our lives worse.
Good overview of the pending cases. And, as it points out, EU-based lawsuits are likely to follow.
It’s in the nature of social media discourse to diverge into extremes. So, it shouldn’t have surprise me to see so many people just decide that Adobe is outright lying when it says that it isn’t training its AI on user data.
But it did.
“Privacy Violations Shutdown OpenAI ChatGPT and Beg Investigation”
Almost as if centralising an entire industry on the services provided by a couple of companies was a bad idea.
(A bad idea that tech loves: see AWS)
“AI Takes Over Because of Human Hype, Not Machine Intelligence - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
“Here are more details on Ubisoft’s Ghostwriter AI tool from GDC 2023”
“OpenAI’s policies hinder reproducible research on language models”
People are justifiably frustrated at the fact that the world’s most powerful people are simultaneously incompetent and invincible, ever protected from the consequences of running a risky, rotten economy.
“ChatGPT-4 produces more misinformation than predecessor - NewsGuard”
This shouldn’t come as a surprise. In the research I’ve read, hallucinations are an emergent property that increases with the size of the model
Not disclosing that something is AI-generated is so obviously unethical that I expect the tech industry to fight any and every attempt to mandate disclosure tooth and nail.