andcam.bsky.social
Father of two, husband of one.
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Would it be a reasonable assumption that models could be given system prompts that strongly favor a highest bidding advertiser/manufacturer in this circumstance? That seems an obvious lucrative revenue model in future.
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This feels more like an admission that profits are a long, long way away than it is any kind of indication that OpenAI are close to what the general public (or even subject matter experts) would perceive as AGI.
AGI is increasingly becoming a term more associated with finance than with capability.
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Does it feel like a Gareth Edward’s movie? Interested to know if he’s been able to stamp any of his own sensibility on it given he was hired relatively late in the pre-production process.
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I cannot wait to hear what accent Crowe chooses to deploy.
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How quick do you think the first casual but obvious mention of the ridiculously expensive wristwatch would come. 60 seconds? 30 seconds?
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Also giving off strong “my watch costs more than you make in a year” vibes.
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As in the playground, so it goes online too.
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‘Cool and Great And Normal’ sounds like a great name for a new Verge newsletter!
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Also, “town squares” never existed in the form which people who compare them to social media platforms think they did. You didn’t have a captive audience. People would walk away if they didn’t like what you were saying. Or, more likely, throw rotten fruit and vegetables at you.
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We need a creative battalion commander and his charges to commit to a fiction that their historic battalion salute is the middle finger. And so presenting that salute to the President as they parade past him is a a sign of utmost respect.
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More so for Mattel. I think there’s a pressure for companies to communicate to the market that they have some kind of AI strategy. And that doing so either boosts the stock price, or alleviates the downward pressure from *not* having a strategy. As most obviously demonstrated by Apple last year.
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This is transparently an attempt to, at least temporarily, juice the stock price, isn’t it?
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@manmademoon.bsky.social A Joel Pett classic.
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When can we expect Trump to suggest that the Government now need to take over all Google services to mitigate this crisis? /s
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So it was Gerard Butler then? 😂
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That cat is an *exceptional* thief.
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Ted Chiang wrote a great New Yorker essay on this very topic a couple of years ago. The highlighted passage really resonated with me.
www.newyorker.com/science/anna...
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As an article I read recently suggested (sorry, I can’t find the link), it’s often not climate denial, it’s economic denial.
I’m sure if there were solutions to climate change that facilitated mass advertising, or came with large defence contracts, there’d be no shortage of takers.
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Sounds like ICE are sorely in need of some DEI.
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Rogue Nation in particular is just astonishingly rewatchable.
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It’s apt in this everything-as-a-service world of subscriptions and rentals and ephemeral connections that the computer room still exists, but it’s in an oligarch’s house (data centre)
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I think most people still believe what they read or see online, particularly if it comes from their own algorithmic filter bubble. Because why wouldn’t you believe an algorithmically boosted post placed between posts from accounts you already trust?
I hate that trust can’t be the default now though.
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Give the guy a break, when standing tall at his full height the deadlift bar is still resting on the ground.
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Governing is complicated, nuanced and requires taking responsibility for your actions. “Culture war” (a bogus term) is easy, distracting and allows you to blame others. One requires time and thought to cover, the other allows you to easily churn out monetizable slop. *That’s* why the media loves it.
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I wonder what it means for the major platforms when people’s default position moves from trusting most of what they see to distrusting most of what they see. And what the social/political impact and fallout during that period of transition would be.
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That’s why a great question for any candidates or canvassers when they campaign in your area is which of your opponents policies do you agree with and which of your own party’s policies do you disagree with?
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I wonder if it’s an extension of the “model and spec shown may not be available in your country” disclaimer. Effectively having to indicate that what they’re showing isn’t a “real” representation of the product?
If so, I can’t wait for the food advert equivalent! 😀
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Perhaps a photo of your vfx supervisors to mark the occasion?
Maybe a series of photos of all the post production departments to acknowledge them? We often see on-set photos and footage, but very seldom the post production teams.
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I think the key question we all need answered though is…
will all the people staying at home to watch this unfold instead of going to the movies affect box office grosses for the Summer Movie Wager?
It’s like these guys don’t understand that their actions have real world consequences.
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Is this your long game to pollute AI training data and prevent future Scalzi deepfakes?
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The interface layer being natural language is the confounding factor here. With other uses (e.g., coding) where there’s no mistaking the interaction as social in any way. LLMs are ultimately technology, as complex to me as other large scale infrastructures, but still just technologies nonetheless.
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It’s important there’s space for informed, balanced and nuanced discussion. Block early and block often, there are other high profile individuals I follow who have posted about finding that a very effective approach for building an engaged community, and somewhat cathartic too.
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I think we’re still stuck in the “we need to be really visible about our AI efforts because it’s bad for the share price if we’re not” phase.
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I just can’t get past thinking that the masculinity narrative is much more about paternalism than anything else. As a function of that, you then have to distinguish between male and female traits in order to try and justify men being in a paternalistic position of control and moral authority.
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In the middle of anti-trust season he’s still giving the “people will go elsewhere” argument? Bold.
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It’s a USB-seat.
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That its main strength is something that would be seen as a weakness by the engagement junkies from The Other Place is an extra bonus.
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He should say he’s happy to move it to the U.S. as soon as Trump increases education funding enough to produce all the extra Engineers that Apple will need to support this.
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Proud owner of 2 of those. I was strangely proud to get them at the time, and that they went to the trouble of shipping them to me in the U.K.
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Oh man, that’s sad to hear. I was a user from 2008 in the original “Read It Later” days, where batches of saved articles helped get me through middle-of-the night baby feeds. I eventually migrated to Readwise Reader a few year after Mozilla purchased Pocket, but sad to see it go.
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I have a pre-conceived deeply held view based on no evidence, and I refuse to risk challenging that house of cards by reading the actual link!
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And if you go all-in and it doesn’t work out, the word “pivot” seems to have become a magical get-out-of-jail-free card for strategic failures.
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As @reckless.bsky.social has been saying for some time, the killer app is something that simply reminds you the name of the person you’re looking at. And all that requires unfortunately is a massive global surveillance database.
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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
Upton Sinclair’s quote still as relevant 90 years later as it was when he first said it 🙄
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Block early and block often.