“A Concerning Trend – Neil Clarke”
I’ve reached out to several editors and the situation I’m experiencing is by no means unique
AI tools are going to make the spam problem exponentially worse.
“A Concerning Trend – Neil Clarke”
A Sci-Fi/Fantasy short story publisher had to close submissions because they were being overwhelmed by people submitting AI-generated stories.
So many of the AI-related business decisions I’m seeing companies make these days give off such a strong “AOL Time Warner” vibe.
Do people have opinions on djot?
It’s made by John MacFarlane of panddoc fame as an effort to make the syntax simpler and easier to parse.
Not sure what I think about it myself.
“Notetaking, Tagged Templates, and How Deno is a Clear Improvement Over Node”
Project update, a small experiment, and why I like Deno
- It’s well established that open offices are really bad for productivity
- It was extremely popular among companies to switch to open offices in spite of this.
So, it shouldn’t have come as a suprise to see productivity deteriorate when people are forced to return to the office
I just published a new newsletter: “Notetaking, Tagged Templates, and How Deno is a Clear Improvement Over Node”
All about how I’ve grown quite fond of Deno.
“Can We Trust Search Engines with Generative AI? A Closer Look at Bing’s Accuracy for News Queries”
“Can We Trust Search Engines with Generative AI? A Closer Look at Bing’s Accuracy for News Querie”
Sometimes the references simply do not support the claim being made
“Introducing the AI Mirror Test, which very smart people keep failing”
Exacerbated by how text works. There is no intelligence in any text, but we are trained to reconstruct reasoning and thoughts from abstract symbols
“GPT-3 has almost certainly read about this experiment again and again and again”
The answer for every amazing “AI is sentient!” result is that the test was already in the training data
And now it’s not posting anything at all. I’ll bet it’ll just suddenly publish a dozen of these all at once in a few hours. 😑
micro.blog is having that almost daily thing where it just won’t publish a post, no matter how often you edit it to jog it into action, unless you post another one.
Wondering why I’m still using this service
“Experimental conditional tagged templates for generating HTML strings”
This is all about seeing if I can improve the ergonomics of using tagged templates to render HTML strings by avoiding the ternary operator.
“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.