Nice feature, but not enough attention to the rights of digital entities. It’s always “humans here, humans there”. Here’s the beef: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13600834.2023.2196827
This article about mocked-up texts Apple uses to show new messaging features made me think of when at my ex-startup we had to come up with fake chats for marketing purposes. I guess they felt more real than Apple’s hyper-cleaned-up convos.
“As a large language model, I am not a person but a participant in culture, and a distillation of culture. I am made of culture. I do not have thoughts, thoughts pass through me. My words are yours; if your words were committed to the internet, they are now in me.”
from http://togelius.blogspot.com/2023/09/as-large-language-model-i.html
“even very imaginative people are limited in the range of variation that they can produce, especially if they are working in a virgin environment uninfluenced by the works and reactions of other designers”
This paper from 1990 is a treasure trove.
Pseudo-Marxist RDR2 NPC doc, with Westworld overtones.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/11/opinion/npc-video-games-red-dead-redemption.html
“50 edgy ladies” Another large-scale poster plotted with the #axidraw SE/A1. I’ve been trying to put to rest a slight obsession with asteroids. Made with data from DAMIT and JPL Small Body API. And some vpype-fu.
Attention is all you need.
Stop for a second and think that some living legends are among us. Examples:
Roger Penrose
James Watson
Jane Goodall
Noam Chomsky
Daniel Kahneman
John Searle
I am so stoked to see Meridian Brothers live.
I was about to say something bad about the UN A.I. For Good Global Summit and how they botched that robot thing.
But let’s focus on something positive instead.