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“The pervasiveness of digital media fosters a culture of immediacy and hyper-stimulation, which gives rise to fatigue, boredom and apathy concerning the effort required for seeking the truth. Education, by contrast, is a long journey requiring patience” www.vatican.va/content/…
fellas is it good if you've sunk a trillion dollars into a technology that's roundly booed whenever someone trots it out at a commencement speech? www.businessinsider.com/students-boo...
"The values described in Claude’s constitution sound very nice, but that hardly matters; it’s dishonest to suggest that Claude is capable of moral reasoning, because it’s not." -Ted Chiang, No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...
Today’s free newsletter is about how LLMs are the perfect grift to exploit an economy dominated by do-nothing managers and executives disconnected from any real work, and how the facade is crumbling as companies pay the true cost of AI. www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-of-the-b…
“The Facebook and Instagram owner plans to significantly expand its selection of AI glasses and add a business-focused service called ‘Wearables for Work…’”
.. chatbot preference for confident vocabulary .. what ,, we’re measuring during preference learning .. goal .. #LLM .. to optimize for accurate, reliable information .. optimizing for human trust signals instead, creating the #Appearance of accuracy .." www.washingtonpost.com…
“Any developer is going to argue: it’s not us, the employer made that decision…It will be very fact dependent, in terms of how it’s used and deployed and how it’s marketed.”
Bad content drives out good. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
"Max Weber once described bureaucracy as asystem grounded in rational and predictable rules. AI‐driven governance introduces a new kind of bureaucracy where rules are replaced by models that no one fully understands" discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
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