Category: !me
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Quoting cats4606
All I wanted was to use my Quest 3 as a Minecraft server for an upcoming LAN party with my friends and turn off the display to keep temperatures down says, by his own description, “an Australian teenager who had just stepped into the VR world”, who’s just published an exploit to get root access…
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Citando Marta Peirano
Los modelos viven encerrados en un mundo de palabras, un universo wittgensteniano compuesto exclusivamente de signos, jerarquías y estadística. No pueden mentir, alucinar o equivocarse porque todas las palabras son verdaderas cuando dejan de describir el mundo. No habrá inteligencia artificial general
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Quoting Janelle Shane
I wish more people understood that any “apology” or “self-reflection” from chatbots are meaningless – they’re just continuing with your improv session. ChatGPT will apologize for anything – by @janellecshane
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Quoting Emilia Di Lorenzo et al.
Eggs are one of the most valuable foods on the tables of consumers and in the kitchens of chefs due to their abundant functional properties that make them the funniest and most versatile ingredients to work with. In fact, not only do they contain almost all essential nutrients, which is fundamental for human nutrition, but…
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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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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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Citation de Gregory Chatonsky
Vectofascisme : Néologisme désignant une forme contemporaine de fascisme qui s’adapte aux moyens de communication et aux structures sociales de l’ère numérique, caractérisée par la vectorisation (direction, intensité, propagation) de l’information et du pouvoir à l’ère de l’IA.
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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…