Tag: AI
Borrowed Movies, Confident Machines, and the Cost of Unused Knowledge
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We’re surrounded by more information than at any time in history, but we value it less letting public spaces that house this information languish in licenses and budget cuts. Whether it’s a public library, AI, or the books on your shelf, this information only has value if we use it. Enjoy this, keep it coming
Sex Drugs and Teddy Bears
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Yup we should put AI in children’s toys because AI needs to be everywhere. The linked bear was willing to talk about raunchy sex stuff with kids, advise them where to get knives and narcotics. Of course OpenAI cut the company off of their API, but that doesn’t stop the hundreds of other children’s toy
Overflowing with Nothing
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Excess is one of the defining words of culture today. Excess money for some, while others struggle. Excess emails and tasks for everyone. Business owners push AI as the next saviour because tech companies have tricked us into believing that the excess that’s good for billionaire investors is also good for us. Political excess running
AI, Quantum Computing, Automation – All the Hype that Money Can Buy
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Want to keep this newsletter coming become a member. Anyone know the name of the music album this blog post title refers to? No looking it up. Quantum Computer’s Aren’t Real While I had heard of this paper debunking the breathless media headlines about quantum factorization I admit it was above my head but luckily
AI doesn’t have to be successful to be dangerous
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Miriam has a good and heartbreaking post on the current state of technology in light of the pushers of technology wanting to eradicate her existence. The beliefs of these CEOs aren’t incidental to the AI product they’re selling us. These are not tools designed for us to benefit from, but tools designed to exploit us.
Opt Out of Gemini Email Summaries
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If you want to use Gmail then 404 has a post on how to turn off Gemini summaries but of course the easiest way to do this is to not use Gmail. Proton is a good option.
Glasp for reading later
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After talking about Pocket alternatives a few other options have been recommended. Including NextCloud bookmarks (which Marcel talked about in the link above) and then Glasp. Out of the gate I don’t see an extension for Firefox so I’m out on that point alone but there is something more sinister lurking…AI. Specifically the AI Clone
AI and Python are winning
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So AI has lead Python to be the top programming language but I wonder how long this will continue? It’s easy to spin up some Python AI thing from a blog post and put it on GitHub, only to never look at it again. My GitHub repositories are full of projects like that, they seemed
Friend AI 1.8 million for a domain
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Yesterday I wrote about the Friend AI pendant and how far people will go to not interact with people. Then 404 Media reported that the company spent $1.8 million out of it’s $2.5 million raised on the domain name friend.com. That seems absurd, though evidently the founder feels that a good domain is “worth it”.
Friend AI – So you don’t have to interact with people
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When I watched this today all I can think about is how far people will go to not interact with other people or how hard they’ll work to not go see a therapist. I’m watching Big Bang Theory right now and this is exactly what I could see Sheldon loving, no human emotions to worry