A fun experiment: bestselling author vs ChatGPT in writing a "summer beach read". ChatGPT given same prompt and asked to imitate the writer's style. www.nytimes.com/2024... 1/2

Opinion | An Experiment in Lust, Regret and Kissing

I challenged ChatGPT to a beach read writing contest. Here are the results.

Go Champion Lee Saedol on losing to AlphaGo in 2016: "What he regarded as an art form, an extension of a player’s own personality and style, was now cast aside for an algorithm’s ruthless efficiency. “I could no longer enjoy the game,” he said. “So I retired.” www.nytimes.com/2024...

Defeated by A.I., a Legend in the Board Game Go Warns: Get Ready for What’s Next

Lee Saedol was one of the world’s top Go players, and his shocking loss to an A.I. opponent was a harbinger of a new, unsettling era. “It may not be a happy ending,” he says.

An important reminder from @melaniemitchell.bsky.social#AIaiguide.substack.com...

AI Sidequest by Mignon Fogarty @grammargirl.bsky.socialai-sidequest.beehiiv...

A more climate-friendly, private AI

AI is learning to Rickroll people

Do you use #AI to help you summarise content as part of your research or writing process? If so, how? If not, why not?

According to Cloudflare, the vast majority of their customers opt to block the crawlers that #AIblog.cloudflare.com/...

Is AI overrated or underrated? Depends very much on who you ask... www.npr.org/2024/09/...

What accuracy rate should we accept when relying on #AI to summarise information as part of our workflows? 100%? 90%? What level of accuracy would you expect and accept from a human?

My first impressions of ChatGPT Advanced Voice (v2.0): - It's not anywhere near as flirty as the original demo (thank God) - It can't see with your camera yet, unlike the original demo - It can switch languages and accents on demand but it can feel a bit stereotyped 1/3

There's a big problem with Altman's working out here. The statistical effect for 1:1 tutoring is 30+ years old, only applied to two contexts with small samples, referred to *human tutoring* not AI tutors, and - the kicker - *has never been replicated* 3/ www.educationnext.org/two-sigma-tu...

Two-Sigma Tutoring: Separating Science Fiction from Science Fact

An experimental intervention in the 1980s raised certain test scores by two standard deviations. It wasn’t just tutoring, and it’s never been replicated, but it continues to inspire.