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5 experts · 6 posts · 22h ago
Hypervisible Christopher Mims Tim Carmody Neil Turkewitz Amy Hoy
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1
Hypervisible : Technology enthusiasts severely overestimate the average person’s desire or willingness or capacity to build and use AI agents. I understand some work roles that could mandate or encourage it but t…
Tim Carmody: Also the AI agents on the market (even/especially Muse, the new popular agent for nontechnical people) are too powerful, suck up too much data, and have too lax permissions for regular folks who do…
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6 experts · 11 posts · 20d ago
Christopher Mims Benjamin Riley Mary Branscombe austin René Walter david-p-reichert.bsky.social
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Benjamin Riley: No more cults today please
René Walter: Three notes: (1) this is not *just* marketing. These guys really do mean it. They are convinced they’ve built a vengeful digital god. (2) but also they’re a cult. They are not impartial scientific …
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3 experts · 6 posts · 12d ago
Christopher Mims Ingrid Burrington VE, cybersocial occult investigator
Ingrid Burrington: feels kind of wild that the default great future achievement of LLMs is "someday if could cure cancer" when mRNA vaccines are in fact making progress on potentially curing or preventing certain can…
Ingrid Burrington: has machine learning been involved in some of that new vaccine research? probably! but if LLMs were part of it I feel like we'd be hearing about it nonstop idk
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