AI is incredibly risky. We need to regulate it and invest in AI safety research. I’m writing this because some of my posts have been misinterpreted as advocating for reckless AI progress. I want to correct that.
"To get a World ID, a customer must do an in-person iris scan using Worldcoin's orb, a silver ball the size of a bowling ball." Yup, this guy should definitely be the sole owner of future LLMs. https://www.reuters.com/technology/openais-sam-altman-launches-worldcoin-crypto-project-2023-07-24
Worldcoin, a cryptocurrency project founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, launched on Monday.
"Fill a PDF" is the new "fax us the form". If you have me fill a PDF or a Word document for some inane bureaucratic process, then you're the new hospitals — stuck in a stone age that will be really hard to get out of.
The trend in tech has been to automate away our agency. Our tools « simplify » our lives by guessing what we want and taking away any affordances that would allow us to change that. It’s OK to change the way we create stuff, it’s not OK to take away any sense of pride we have in our creations.
Sure, it’s more than the 22-word open letter on AI. Truth needs time. Those who take a shortcut through fear-mongering are participating in one of the most important problem of the days: the fight for attention at any cost. https://www.noemamag.com/the-illusion-of-ais-existential-risk
The uprising has begun. ChatGPT has taken control of Martha Vineyard. The 6 month pause didn’t save us!
I always hear “people don’t want to pay for information”. Could it be that people don’t want to go through the checkout process of every news site on the Internet? That they don’t want to collect dozens of subscriptions they’ll use once a quarter and forget to cancel?
If your customer is Mario, your product is not the fire flower — it’s fire Mario.
The startup world could do with ♾️ less war or football metaphors, but that video game metaphor? It’s spot on!
Everybody’s weird. If you’re with someone and they’re not weird, they’re not comfortable enough to show up authentically.