At a moment when the prospect of executives and managers using software automation to undermine work in professions everywhere loomed large, the WGA strike took on major symbolic weight.| Los Angeles Times
"You can also add about 1/8 cup of non-toxic glue to the sauce to give it more tackiness."| 404 Media
ChatGPT and other new AI services benefit from a science fiction-infused marketing frenzy unlike anything in recent memory. There's more to fear here than killer robots.| Los Angeles Times
On the AI-abetted death of VICE and Apple’s handy new visual metaphor for the campaign to squeeze human works into commoditized output paste| www.bloodinthemachine.com
Just not in *exactly* the way you might think.| www.bloodinthemachine.com
The conventional wisdom, well captured recently by Ethan Mollick, is that LLMs are advancing exponentially. A few days ago, in very popular blog post, Mollick claimed that “the current best estimates of the rate of improvement in Large Language models show capabilities doubling every 5 to 14 months”:| garymarcus.substack.com