Euan Semple: "Anyone who thinks that AI can write literature can only have seen reading as chewing gum for the soul."
The Obvious?
Just saying... - The Obvious?
Anyone who thinks that AI can write literature can only have seen reading as chewing gum for the soul.
This is a sobering look at OpenAI’s funding. No sniff of a profit for at least a decade, according to HSBC forecasts. A lot of non-industrial AI use is predicated on it being a cheap and easy solution to certain problems. If customers weren’t being so heavily subsidised by investors, when does that equati... adders.blog
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This is a sobering look at OpenAI’s funding. No sniff of a profit for at least a decade, according to HSBC forecasts. A lot of non-industrial AI ...
Turns out, AIs are a humourless bunch. (I’m mainly talking about satire and cartoons here. Maybe the role of humans in the AI age is… taking the piss.)
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AIs have no sense of humour
Face it: nobody's going to be selling prints of ChatGPT's best cartoons…
Still, kudos to Google for digitally watermarking their AI-generated images. image
Video generation is getting good scarily fast. There are some weird, weird sheep in there, though.
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Video generation is getting good scarily fast. There are some weird, weird sheep in there, though.
The challenging thing about running a training course on Ai over four weeks, is that things can change dramatically between sessions… image
One of the deep problems with algorithmic social media is the incentive to figure out how to game the system: “growth hacks” as a certain constituency likes to call them. Some of them are surprisingly akin to religious rituals. You have faith that they work, but not a lot of evidence…
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Linkedin: Playing the algorithm links game
Can you really “cheat” the LinkedIn algorithm by hiding links in comments? Or is there something else at work?
Nice to see that @marsedit@mastodon.social has escaped squircle jails… image
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Hosting a Warhammer morning for my daughter’s friends. (Kill Team and Underworlds: Emberguard) image
This is interesting: one of the most interesting news startups in the UK is leaving Substack and heading to Ghost: Mill Media titles to depart newsletter platform Substack. https://pressgazette.co.uk/newsletters/mill-media-leaves-substack-ghost/