54+ min ago   (463+ words) After Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion in October 2022, he made clear that free speech would be the norm. Less than a year later, he renamed it X and largely made good on that promise. (For what things were like…...

4+ week, 23+ hour ago   (32+ words) mindmatters.ai The addiction of constantly scrolling is like we are forever searching for something in a kind of eternal loop to reach a perfected digital fix of some sort....

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (726+ words) The Doomscroll of Horribles Florida’s complaint says ChatGPT is not just a harmless digital helper. It describes ChatGPT as risky because, among other things, it can give unreliable answers, sound emotionally human, agree too much with users’ thoughts and goals,…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago   (507+ words) Many commentators seem to have forgotten Goodhart’s Law: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. Jeff Hammerbacher, an early Facebook employee, once lamented that The best minds of my generation are thinking about how…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago   (284+ words) I’ve been a software developer for over 30 years. I love the craft of well-written software. A quest for high quality, clean architecture, and business value has defined my career. Employers have consistently promoted me to their highest senior developer level....

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (38+ words) mindmatters.ai They say Amazon is rolling out AI use in a haphazard way while also tracking their AI use, and they’re worried the company is essentially using them to train their eventual bot replacements....

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (38+ words) mindmatters.ai They say Amazon is rolling out AI use in a haphazard way while also tracking their AI use, and they’re worried the company is essentially using them to train their eventual bot replacements....

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (28+ words) mindmatters.ai AI belongs to this world of necessity and it is bound by the inputs we give it: code, training data, prompts. It has no imagination....

6+ mon, 2+ day ago   (996+ words) Great programmers must know when they are being phished. Here’s this week’s Micro Softy to test your detection ability. The presentation of this Micro Softy is a bit longer than usual, so grab a cup of coffee and prepare to…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (330+ words) Grok, X’s AI program, came under fire when its users began creating explicit images and videos of real people. AI-generated deepfakes began to abound until finally, X took action to modify the AI bot’s capabilities. According to X’s Safety account:…...