The Magnificent Bribe — Real Life
Half a century ago, Lewis Mumford developed a concept that explains why we trade autonomy for convenience
💡 The foundations of AI
ChatGPT, Claude and other language models have dominated the mainstream discussions and use. However the future of AI lies in models outside of language.
The Rapid Adoption of Generative AI
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The Other Bubble
Buried in the 8000 words I wrote last week was a worrying story — that Microsoft considered drastic measures to free up 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
This is where your smartphone battery begins
Workers, including children, labor in harsh and dangerous conditions to meet the world’s soaring demand for cobalt, a mineral essential to powering electric vehicles, laptops, and smartphones, according to an investigation by The Washington Post.
The Map is Eating the Territory: The Political Economy of AI
It's all driven by who gets what
Rather than appealing to some vague notion of the awesomeness of progress, or the malignity of technology, we want, collectively, to coordinate on paths of technological development that will have spread benefits as broadly as possible, while mitigating for, or compensating for the costs.
LLMs should not be viewed as a substitute for high quality human generated knowledge. They should instead be viewed as an obligate complement to such knowledge - a means of making it more useful, which doesn’t have much independent worth without it.
Misinformation is the symptom, not the disease | Daniel Williams
Explore philosopher Daniel Williams' perspective on the multifaceted nature of misinformation as a symptom of a larger societal issue, challenging the notion that debunking and censorship alone can provide a comprehensive solution to this pressing concern.
If misinformation is a societal disease, it should be possible to cure societies of various problems by eradicating it.
What I Learned About AI in 2023
A Very Niche Foresight Report
Inside the Chaos at OpenAI
Sam Altman’s weekend of shock and drama began a year ago, with the release of ChatGPT.
Not much is changing, a lot is changing
OpenAI, Microsoft, and the OpenOffspring
Generative AI exists because of the transformer
The technology has resulted in a host of cutting-edge AI applications — but its real power lies beyond text generation
🌪️ Three months of AI in six charts
AI developments that made us spin