The leaked script for the Apple WWDC keynote…
10:35: “Here at Apple,” Federighi continues, “we believe in honesty, in accountability, in holding ourselves to the highest possible standards. And when we make a mistake, we hold our hands up and blame John Giannandrea. Get out here, John!”
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My wife’s first book is released later this month. I’m in awe of how much work a textbook takes compared to the books I’ve written.
Original 1980s #warhammer40k Space Marines, a relic of my long-ago teenage years.
#mbjune Day 4: Nostalgia 📷
This is brilliant – a piece told in screenshots (which is probably an accessibility nightmare…) showing how ChatGPT’s confident tone can make complete bullshit seem plausible at first.
Read the whole thing.
There’s a good chance we’re headed into a negative loop in which genAI creates slop that is custom-tailored for recommender AI systems to go viral, creating stronger incentives to create more slop — and all the while drowning out human-created as well as higher-quality content. Which we need, because participation and democracy needs us to have good info.
Compelling piece from 404 Media about the accelerating crisis in education driven by AI: Teachers Are Not OK.
We’re staring down a future where students exit education having learnt little but how to write good AI prompts, and then disguise the fact that’s what they did.
