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The drama at OpenAI has made it clear that we’re in the first season of a long-running reality show about the future of AI. If we’re signed up for episodes of mudslinging and backroom dealing, we may as well familiarize ourselves with the cast of characters. Luckily, The
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Something of a crisis for a company that needs you to, uh, read things.
The Mop Up
AI Meets Media
"I was documenting the decline and the eventual death of the open web. Our app was a eulogy."
Does OpenAI have a secret agenda to flatten the world’s rich collection of unleavened breads into the bland, American pancake?
"Oh god, I’m so tired, what’s going on? Did I miss anything? Am I already screwed?"
"The point I will attempt to demonstrate here: The rubric for building engaged audiences around emerging media tech is nearly universal."
"Connecting those specific error patterns to long-term reader behaviors is… harder."
I recently attended SRCCON, a lovely conference held in Minneapolis that focuses on the tooling needed to help modern news organizations innovate and also, sadly, stay alive. AI came up a lot. The notes and transcripts from the sessions are online if you’re interested in reading (or auto-summarizing) them.
"Many of us working on anything even tangentially-related to ethical AI are already deviants."
"The problem is that all these use cases are Nice-to-Haves. A Nice-to-Have is a bot that coaches the debate team or a text-to-worksheet app."
Here at Machines on Paper, we’ll be following the integration of AI into our professional lives with curiosity, humor and a smattering of computer science.