Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool.| A Working Library
How shall we ever conceive However express a new idea If we are bound by the categorization That delivered our problem to us In the first place ? -- Stafford Beer How do you measure intelligence? You take a tape measure, wrap it around someone's cranium, and jot down the number| Second Breakfast
What remains when we automate most manual labor and cognitive labor?| www.workingtheorys.com
Earlier this week, it was discovered that the Chicago Sun-Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer had both published an externally-produced "special supplement" that contained facts, experts, and book titles entirely made up by an AI chatbot. There's been a lot written about this (former Chicago Reader editor Martha Bayne's is the best), and I don't need to rehash it all. But the thing that is most disheartening to me is how at every step along the way, nobody cared.| dansinker.com
Fair warning: this is the longest thing I've written on this newsletter. I do apologize. Soundtrack: EL-P - $4 Vic Listen to my podcast Better Offline. We have merch. Last week, Bloomberg profiled Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, revealing that he's either a liar or a specific kind of idiot. The| Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
Bjork is currently promoting a new concert film being released called . She's been releasing new photoshoots and interviews almost every day for the past two...| Tadaima.
Republicans try to use the Budget Reconciliation bill to stop states from regulating AI entirely for 10 years.| 404 Media
CJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests.| Ars Technica
Culture wars are won through aesthetics.| www.workingtheorys.com
While the chatbot still seems to lean left on many issues, its bias is changing.| Gizmodo
Under authenticity, the value of a thing decreases as more and more people like it. This is clearly no longer the case.| subpixel.space
None of what I write in this newsletter is about sowing doubt or "hating," but a sober evaluation of where we are today and where we may end up on the current path. I believe that the artificial intelligence boom — which would be better described as a generative AI boom| Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
