This curious fellow welcomes me to our co-working space from time to time. I wanted to take a photo of him earlier this week but he was busy with a prey.
Jay
The weather today
It’s way too wet these days. I’m far from my 10k steps daily goal for a second day. The greenery, however, is very green 🙂
Cory Doctorow on AI
Spicy autocomplete absolutely can’t replace journalists.
— Cory Doctorow on AI
There’s something very deep in our response to righteous anger. Spicy autocomplete. Righteous anger, followed by italic uncertainty. Dehumanizing the AI so that we’re ready for eradication. At the same time, AI is already replacing human content creators – journalists, bloggers, illustrators, troll farms, SEO experts, photographers, data labelers, etc.
Generative AI is not necessarily terrible. ChatGPT can be forced to link to the source of each of its statements and will become like a search engine. Websites can flag human-created content with a badge of honor. The chatbots could be used where human support was previously impossible, increasing the need for more specialized human support and sales.
The society managed to navigate harmful technological advances in the past. Open Source happened. I don’t quite see how we’ll push back against some of the negative uses of AI like deepfakes but we’ll have to figure it out.
Art
Someone designed this monument, financed it, got a permit, built it, painted it multiple times with different colors for us to wonder. What is it?
Plums
The weather might be confusing but the plums are ready.
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