Anyone who thinks that AI can write literature can only have seen reading as chewing gum for the soul.
This is a sobering look at OpenAI’s funding. No sniff of a profit for at least a decade, according to HSBC forecasts.
A lot of non-industrial AI use is predicated on it being a cheap and easy solution to certain problems. If customers weren’t being so heavily subsidised by investors, when does that equation start breaking down?
Turns out, AIs are a humourless bunch.
(I’m mainly talking about satire and cartoons here. Maybe the role of humans in the AI age is… taking the piss.)
The challenging thing about running a training course on Ai over four weeks, is that things can change dramatically between sessions…
One of the deep problems with algorithmic social media is the incentive to figure out how to game the system: “growth hacks” as a certain constituency likes to call them.
Some of them are surprisingly akin to religious rituals. You have faith that they work, but not a lot of evidence…
Nice to see that @marsedit@mastodon.social has escaped squircle jails…
I was chatting to a former student the other evening, and I predicted that it would be ages before The Telegraph sale was resolved, after the collapse of the Redbird deal.
Not one of my better predictions. In fact, it has aged like rancid butter.