At this point I’d believe you if you told me OpenAI somehow influenced the choice of Pope so that people who up until now have sworn off AI are instead furiously getting ChatGPT to show him holding up a shot glass of Malört or whatever
Where Eastwood’s depiction of the aviation system distorts it to his own ends, Fielder’s analysis of it is vastly more insightful and no less dramatically powerful.
Don’t let a computer write for you! I say this not for reasons of intellectual honesty, or for the spirit of fairness. I say this because I believe that your original thoughts are far more interesting, meaningful, and valuable than whatever a large language model can transform them into.
Forget the totally implausible tech, the thing that really takes me out of a Black Mirror episode is an American character saying “the studio are.”
I can’t explain it but calling it the “Elvis operator” in Kotlin because “this thing kind of looks like that thing” (with no concern for what the operator actually does) is the most Google-coded thing I’ve ever heard
Want to read: The AI Con by Emily M. Bender 📚
The newest and most powerful technologies — so-called reasoning systems from companies like OpenAI, Google and the Chinese start-up DeepSeek — are generating more errors, not fewer. As their math skills have notably improved, their handle on facts has gotten shakier.
If you’re still in line at the polls, stay in line!
Si vous êtes encore dans la file au bureau de vote, restez dans la file !
I flat out refuse to believe that “Elmira” is a Soviet-era name derived from “electrification of the world.” Come on.
Have some self-respect. Add that red-underlined word to your OS’s spelling dictionary before sharing a screenshot of your Notes.app note.
We’ve reached an eerie point where anything depicted in media is seen as an endorsement of that thing. This means that any main character (nay—any “not explicitly the villain who is swiftly defeated” character) has to be someone you think is morally correct and aspirational.
To understand where hipsters went, you first have to understand who they replaced — and what made hipsters so different from all the other weird subcultures in recent history.
It might take another generation or more to secure judicial recognition of fetal personhood, but that does not trouble the activists who had successfully destroyed Roe v. Wade. They have played the long game before.
Recently, my social media feeds have become full of people making predictions about how in X months/years everything in the software engineering industry will be done by AI, via doomsday-style content about how everyone is going to lose their jobs and everything will fall apart.
Want to read: Dividing Lines by Deborah N Archer 📚
It’s been 64 years, we don’t in fact still need to label astronauts as having an entirely different profession if they’re from this one specific country