Tag: AI
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“Sometimes translation is almost like a session of free association.”
Human translators for literary work aren’t going anywhere soon
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“The pace of Internet Time has slowed down”
Dave Karpf and others suggest that maybe tech is just plateauing
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“…hot air, pumped through a combination of executive bullshitting and a compliant media…”
Ed Zitron thinks we’ve hit Peak AI and isn’t impressed. He makes a pretty good case for it.
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A couple good pieces about AI
Two great pieces on AI and the mismatch of hype and delivery – one from Rolling Stone in January, another from Tobias Revell just this week.
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“We’re not seeing just with our eyes. We are seeing with our eyes and our memories.”
A scientist with poor vision describes how his superpower helps him in developing AI’s ability to see things. In Quanta Magazine (via Aeon): I understood early on about the importance of prior data when looking at the world. I couldn’t see very well myself, but my memory of prior experiences filled in the holes enough…
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“This ballet needs more umami!”
LitHub: Amy Kurzweil on Text, Image, AI and Artistic Translation Amy Kurzweil (whose book Artificial: A Love Story is top of my Christmas list) writes about how transforming an idea from image to text (or music, or a digital form) is actually translation, same as from one language to another, and how much our brains…
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“…we find the resilience to do and make beautiful things, and this is where the meaning of life resides.”
This video was on Open Culture today. I don’t know a lot of Nick Cave’s music, but the letter is great, you can read it here if you’d rather not listen. It led me down a rabbit hold of Nick Cave’s letters to fans – here are a couple that landed for me: On his…
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“There is no moderation without surveillance because moderation is surveillance”
Garbage Day is one of my favourite substacks right now. Ryan is a sharp writer and the content is right up my alley. Today he published this video (and accompanying post) discussing a novel approach to regulating AI and it’s great: The AI guys are on to the next version of ‘move fast and break…
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…ever wonder why the 21st century feels like we’re living in a bad cyberpunk novel from the 1980s?
Charlie Stross (whose books I’ve never read, but will now) shares the text of a recent speech about the origins of today’s tech leaders and their ethos. We’re sorry we created the Torment Nexus: I’d like to talk about something that I personally find much more worrying: a political ideology common among silicon valley billionaires…