Tag: AI
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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…
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Will ChatGPT’s hallucinations be allowed to ruin your life?
From Ars Technica, this article goes to some very interesting places. Can an AI defame someone? AI companies watching this case play out might think they can get by doing as OpenAI did. Rather than building perfect chatbots that never defame users, they could simply warn users that content may be inaccurate, wait for content takedown…
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The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century’s Greatest Dilemma by Mustafa Suleyman
This is a pretty good substack post padded with 250 pages of filler. What a frustrating disappointment. If the subject interests you, save yourself a lot of time and start on chapter 14. The first 200-plus pages of this book are table-setting, long essays with scares like, “What if the Unabomber, but with AI”? It reads…