The MoP-Up #4: Why Release Half-Baked AI Products?
"I'd love to be a fly on the wall for that postmortem."
"I'd love to be a fly on the wall for that postmortem."
The pressure is high in the AI world right now and baselines are wobbling.
It’s about forcing speech on you, and forcing platforms to host speech they otherwise wouldn’t want to.
The best thing at the inaugural Paris deeep AI Art Fair was generative art from 55 years ago.
One of the clauses of the modern social contract is that adults should follow the news. This may sound onerous, but the bar is quite low. We’re talking about being aware of the big stories, maybe engaging with a bit of analysis from different perspectives, perhaps even spending a
From AI appropriation to browsers that evade monetization, the foundations of the Internet teeter
Evaluating whether out-of-the-box LLM technology can assist with copy editing at a professional level.
"I don’t know, but I am not ready to leave our democracy in the hands of citizen journalists on TikTok."
"It’s about believing your own hype, which, untreated, can lead to acute ego-monster syndrome."
Low-risk models and the challenges of "extreme domain generalization".
"His supporters criticized Anadol’s work, calling it a 'glorified lava lamp' and a 'half-million-dollar screensaver'"
To kick things off, Google DeepMind has some ideas about "self-training"
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The announcements are streaming by and the FOMO is real.
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Ironically, I’m writing this particular post in the default 'notes' app on Mac.
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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.
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"I was documenting the decline and the eventual death of the open web. Our app was a eulogy."
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Does OpenAI have a secret agenda to flatten the world’s rich collection of unleavened breads into the bland, American pancake?
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"Oh god, I’m so tired, what’s going on? Did I miss anything? Am I already screwed?"
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"The point I will attempt to demonstrate here: The rubric for building engaged audiences around emerging media tech is nearly universal."
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"Connecting those specific error patterns to long-term reader behaviors is… harder."
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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.
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"Many of us working on anything even tangentially-related to ethical AI are already deviants."