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AI companies face a kafkaesque bind where they can't improve a tool for automating the creation of content without human beings creating more content than they've ever created before

I am, of course, conflating two problems — the deliberate creation of synthetic data by AI companies and AI-generated content filling the internet with synthetic data that models are then trained on. Yet the end result is the same — forcefully teaching autocomplete typos in the hopes that it'll be able to work out how to write America's next great novel.

The only companies currently profiting from the AI gold rush are those selling shovels

The companies benefitting from AI aren't the ones integrating it or even selling it, but those powering the means to use it

the stock market (and the tech industry) is building vast castles on foundations of sand

the AI industry is investing hundreds of billions of dollars to build infrastructure for a future that may never arrive

what he's promised isn't possible with today's technology, and may not be possible at all

AI is great at finding patterns in existing data. However, AI will not be able to solve this problem of missing and erroneous underlying data

Medical data is often limited by the categories of billing codes, by what doctors choose to note from a patient’s account

The many other factors that influence medical care, including the systematic disregard for patients’ knowledge of their own experiences, are often ignored in these discussions

"Sure, that sounds great for a media nerd or tech geek, but I'm a normal person. Is RSS really for me?" I would argue that the answer is an emphatic yes, perhaps now more than ever.

It's the Marie Kondo method of information consumption - only content that sparks joy, delivered in a way that itself sparks joy.

I want everyone to make a living wage and have excellent health care and the means to retire at a reasonable age. I want all of us to want this very simple thing for one another.

I wish we lived in a world where I could offer you frank, unfiltered professional advice, but I know we do not live in such a world.

spending half of the planet's engineering efforts to add chatbot support to every application under the sun when half of the industry hasn't worked out how to test database backups regularly

through the power of talking to each other like adults, we somehow solve problems

you're out here saying that the best way to remain competitive is to roll out experimental technology that is an order of magnitude more sophisticated than anything else your I.T department runs, which you have no experience hiring for

Todoist has a feature that allows you to convert filters on your tasks from natural language into their in-house filtering language

it did not end up being the crazy productivity booster that I thought it would be, because programming is designing and these tools aren't good enough (yet) to assist me with this seriously

Or, as Bruce Schneier puts it: "Anyone can design a security system that you yourself can't think of a way of breaking. That doesn't mean it works, it just means that it works against people stupider than you."

the Solarwinds attack relied on defects in the SAML authentication system that Microsoft's own senior security staff had identified and repeatedly warned management about