The Who's Who of AI

““Writing builds our working memory, executive planning skills and metacognition — the ability to think about our thinking, weigh alternate viewpoints and revise for clarity and style. It takes decades to develop writing skills, from toddlerhood into adultho…” evidence ↗

“I’m working with a librarian to develop a module for undergraduates about conducting research, and I’m once again grateful for this resource from @emilymbender.bsky.social and @nannainie.bsky.social:” evidence ↗

“Note “the possibility of communities forming compacts that establish minimum terms for data center development, allowing them to prevent firms from playing various jurisdictions against one another in a race to the bottom.” www.thetechbubble.info/p/the-futu…” evidence ↗

“One way of reading the data center backlash "is as a many-headed protest against inevitability — about not just the technology itself but also the whole package of breakneck build-out, social disruption and insane wealth creation," writes @dwallacewells.bsk…” evidence ↗

“Those “who own our algorithms, who own our cable news networks . . . they and their platforms are engineering our emotions so they can profit off our pain. They are selling us conflict, and they’re calling it connection.” www.ft.com/content/63e8...” evidence ↗

“admissions industry in which families pay $$ for human help what that looks like if the applications are screened by non-humans. But more important, what kind of world are we building in which "the human voice on the phone that once was a reasonable expecta…” evidence ↗

““Besides building troves of personal information gleaned from commercial databases, the dossiers offer advice on potential ways to blackmail, coerce or stalk the individual in question…”” evidence ↗

“"Humanoid robots won’t face exactly the same deployment challenges as autonomous vehicles. For example, a mistake by a humanoid robot may be less likely to kill someone. But a lot of the same bottlenecks apply to both types of robots." www.understandingai.o…” evidence ↗

““We can think of many kinds of knowledge work, including software development, as a “decide-execute-deliver sandwich”. AI compresses the “execute” layer…but the other two layers resist automation in a way that will not be overcome by capability improvements…” evidence ↗

“Before GenAI, specialized AI "systems were rendering important services: cancer detection, prediction of extreme weather events, acceleration of drug development, to name just a few. These systems have little in common with gigantic data centers being prote…” evidence ↗

““In May, 89 of the top 100 animated dramas on Douyin, ByteDance’s domestic Chinese version of TikTok, were AI productions” www.ft.com/content/7117... “In some cases, performers are being forced to “distil” their images, voices and performing styles into AI …” evidence ↗

““Paglen tracks what he rightly sees as an epoch-making development, which is superficially marked by the recent inability of people to reliably distinguish machine images from those made by cameras or humans” newleftreview.org/issues/ii160...” evidence ↗