2023-05-08

link from MAGGIE HARRISON

Stanford Director: AI Scientists’ “Frontal Cortex Is Massively Underdeveloped” The associate director of Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence compared AI scientists to “late-stage” teens.

2023-05-06

link from CRISTINA CRIDDLE

TikTok spied on me. Why? A Financial Times journalist writes about discovering she’d been surveilled by TikTok.

2023-05-05

link from Fredrick Ross

The seven programming ur-languages Learning a new language that traces to the same ur-language is an easy shift. Learning one that traces to an unfamiliar ur-language requires significant time and effort and new neural pathways.

2023-05-05

link from Ted Chiang

Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey? As it’s currently imagined, the technology promises to concentrate wealth and disempower workers. Is an alternative possible?

2023-05-04

link from Jason Kottke

Eternal Spring, a Timelapse of Ice Melting

2023-05-04

link from Dylan Patel

Google "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI" “And in the end, OpenAI doesn’t matter. They are making the same mistakes we are in their posture relative to open source, and their ability to maintain an edge is necessarily in question. Open source alternatives can and will eventually eclipse them unless they change their stance. In this respect, at least, we can make the first move.”

2023-05-01

link from Svetlana Erpyleva

‘Once we've started, we can't stop’: how Russians' attitudes to the war in Ukraine are changing This study gives a view into the current and changing attitudes within Russia about their support of the war. Basically, its not huge on their minds, and the default position is that if theres a war there must have been a good reason for it

2023-05-01

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HoustonAI • Astro Assistant HoustonAI is an experimental AI assistant, trained to answer questions about Astro. Powered by Astro 2.0, GPT-3, LangChain, and the Astro documentation website.

2023-05-01

link from DAIR.AI

Prompt Engineering Guide – Nextra A Comprehensive Overview of Prompt Engineering

2023-05-01

link from Nicholas Rougeux

Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours A recreation of the original 1821 color guidebook with new cross references, photographic examples, and posters designed by Nicholas Rougeux