it really does read like āimagine the robot ballerinas of the future, too long has ballet been confined to those whoā¦ took dance lessonsā¦ā these are the jerks in bars with an idea for a book & are like āyou could write it & we split the profitsā but theyāve revised their offer from a split to zero.
āThe liberation of global creativity excites me.ā Why is The Bookseller publishing this nonsense? āAIā does not empower artists, it empowers tech to devalue the work of artists. Want to be creative? Then CREATE. Stop placing orders on an app and do the work. www.thebookseller.com/comment/craf...
AI is ushering in a new generation of creators that publishing should embrace.
I remember this one š she's still so cute in your style!
The reason AI grifters push their product so hard in creative fields is that untrained eyes canāt tell how badly the output sucks. For anything with an objective standard of success, their climate-destroying plagiarism machine just straight up doesnāt fucking work. www.cio.com/article/3540...
Code analysis firm sees no major benefits from AI dev tool when measuring key programming metrics, though others report incremental gains from coding copilots with emphasis on code review.
Recently, I tweeted about how in 90s/00s it was common to be assigned a book to read in 1 or 2 weeks. Many younger people replied they'd NEVER been assigned that much reading even while getting graduate degrees. Others said they hadn't been assigned entire books AT ALL in h.s....only excerpts.
To read a book in college, it helps to have read a book in high school.
"As a result, generative AI kind of felt like the perfect SaaS snake oil, a magical new way to indefinitely charge customers for the thing that they already should have."
Buried in the 8000 words I wrote last week was a worrying story ā that Microsoft considered drastic measures to free upĀ capacity in its US-based servers for GPUs to power the AI boom. In an email shared with me by a source from earlier this year, Microsoft's senior leadership team
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"Of course, questions like these apply to all kinds of writing, whether or not the reader knows the ending in advance. But this is about how I learned."
When I was younger, I thought I was going to become a sports reporter. I read all the good journalism I could find, wrote a column for my college paper, interned at Sports Illustrated. Life took meā¦
"In many ways, public schools are now operating like private schools historically have, easily beholden to their greatest donors. One of the most striking comparisons between the two is how similarly disenfranchised faculty can feel in both." slate.com/life/2024/...
Teachers say it only takes one parental complaint for school administrators to get nervous.