Category: en
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Quoting Nick McGreivy
To be clear, AI can drive scientific breakthroughs. My concern is about their magnitude and frequency. Has AI really shown enough potential to justify such a massive shift in talent, training, time, and money away from existing research directions and towards a single paradigm?
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Resetting WiFi on a GoPro Hero 3 White Edition
Wanted to do some underwater photography. Bought a used GoPro Hero 3 with its waterproof case for 20€ on the second hand market. In perfect condition. Previous owner took really good care of it or barely used it. But when I tried to connect it to my phone over Wifi, it asked for a password.…
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Quoting Benedict Evans
It might also be that the chatbot as chatbot is the right UX only for some people and some use-cases, and most people will experience this technology as features and capabilities wrapped inside other things.
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Quoting Dave Karpf
Inside every Silicon Valley company are two businesses. One is a business that attempts to sell products for more than it costs to make them. The other is a speculative stock, trafficking in vibes. So long as the latter doesn’t overshadow the former, that can be just fine. But (again ell oh ell), selling actual…
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Paper surgery
This early 2000 work by Stephen J Shanabrook, in collaboration with Veronika Georgieva, feels like GenAI artifacts reproduced in analog form.
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Dice drawing
Love this simple generative art recipe by @wblut. All you need is a piece of paper, a ruler, a compass, a pencil and a dice.
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Link dump from MDRAI
Tonight I attended an event at Elisava organized by the Master in Design for Responsible AI. I gathered a few links from the presentations by Caroline Sinders and Leandro Ucciferri. I’m just going to dump them below to explore later.
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Deltachat is amazing
Deltachat, a messaging application I’ve talked about here before, is adding features at break neck speed and is now, from my point of view, on par with a lot of the other secure, open source and/or proprietary messaging applications most people have heard of.
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Quoting Sonia Shah
Human mobility is fundamental to our biological resilience. Our capacity to cooperate across geographic barriers relies on the cultural connections forged by people on the move, injecting genetic and cultural diversity into otherwise insular societies. Migration is the planet’s connective tissue. It’s not the crisis we reflexively imagine it to be. In a rapidly changing…
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Quoting Henry Farrell
Large Models should not be viewed primarily as intelligent agents, but as a new kind of cultural and social technology, allowing humans to take advantage of information other humans have accumulated. […] Our central point here is not just that these technological innovations, like all other innovations, will have cultural and social consequences. Rather we…
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Barefoot developers
[L]ocal software that means software that is built close to the home and serves the needs of the home. It’s software someone might build for themselves, their family and friends, their neighborhood and community. It solves local problems for local people.