“Can publishing survive the oncoming AI storm?”
Publishing outlets are going to be drowned in garbage (LLM-generated text really is mediocre garbage) and the publishing industry is completely unprepared for it
“You can just put a folder of files on the internet if you want to. - Chris Coyier”
This.
“The Great Gaslighting of the JavaScript Era - The Spicy Web”
Yeah.
“Linguist Emily M. Bender on How an AI Chatbot Is Not a Human”
Read this.
Generally good points.
“Indirect Prompt Injection on Bing Chat”
It genuinely feels like Bing Chat is the result of a series of incredibly poor decisions.
“Draft2Digital killed my account – angelahighland.info”
Eek.
As I’ve been saying, app stores are unsuitable for serious software businesses. Way too risky.
“New AI-generated RadioGPT can broadcast voice, DJ music and find local news stories”
The issue, as in education and news, is that years of cost-cutting have driven quality down to a level where you can pull this off
A little bit 😳 at the cost. I keep forgetting just how expensive this supposed cost saver is.
“Apple’s machines are learning more intelligently than Bard and Bing - Macworld”
Apple’s approach to machine learning is looking better and better every day.
“End Users Over All Else, Even In Our Tools - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
“Agile Leadership. How I’ve Wasted 3 Years of My PM Career 😟”
“How much of AI’s recent success is due to the Forer Effect? – Terence Eden’s Blog”
I hadn’t made this connection but it seems obvious in hindsight.
“Place your bets - Charlie’s Diary”
This is what I’ve been saying all along 🙂
I don’t want to say that these qualities can’t or won’t be achieved, I’m trying to argue that investors are already pricing in these non-existent features.
‘Don’t believe ChatGPT - we do NOT offer a “phone lookup” service’
I don’t think ChatGPT users have got the message that it doesn’t actually deal in facts or factual research.
“Chrome’s Headless mode gets an upgrade: introducing --headless=new - Chrome Developers”
I’m hoping this will fix the issues headless Chrome has with hyphenation on Linux. Looking forward to test.
Boostered! 💉
“GPT is an unreliable information store - by Noble Ackerson”
Ok so obviously it got one fact half right, and then made up pretty much every other fact is upsetting. I’m pretty sure I’m still alive.
‘This AI chatbot “Sidney” is misbehaving - Nov 23 2022 Microsoft community thread’
It exhibits all of the same misbehaviour that came to light in the past few weeks