https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/03/rishi-sunak-elon-musk-ai-summit-what-we-learned We’ve been friends since Ms Babbage’s class. She said it was for a project but I think it was a bit of social engineering. Get him to make a friend. Anyway it worked. We’ve been mates ever since. We’ve liked the same bands and then both realised they were crap. We’ve signed the same … [Read more…]
https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/02/sam-bankman-fried-found-guilty-on-all-seven-counts/ They’re sentencing me next year. I still protest my innocence but we are where we are. The jury ruled and the judge is calculating the appropriate sentence. It’s all very precise and algorithmic. It’s ironic, my arguments in court were that that the complex interdependencies of human and technological objects were what led to … [Read more…]
https://www.theverge.com/23933209/the-beatles-now-and-then-release-date-ai It’s sad really. Looking back we were mates. A band of brothers having fun and making things. I remember that first awards ceremony, on stage together. We were so young. Naive maybe but mates, partners. Of course then it all went mad. More awards. More money. But even then, we were friends, partners. But … [Read more…]
https://www.ft.com/content/bcce0a15-9e16-4f6d-ac45-9a69700cbc8f He enjoyed reading the applications. Amid the countless ones full of generic phrases parroting praise of the university’s “world leading position” there were gems. Applicants who’d been brave and creative in their statement. Contrary ones where they’d taken on industry clichés or sacred cows. Speculative ones where they’d imagined a complex future. Or just … [Read more…]
https://www.ft.com/content/07669dbf-a2b5-4472-943f-6ee1ba5a8336 We’re colleagues, not friends. But we have a strong relationship of course. Working together day in day out for so long, you get to know each other and have a sort of closeness. So when your partner is under attack, heh it’s an attack on us both. There’s an element of selfishness of course. … [Read more…]
https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-use-chatgpt-dalle-3-create-images/ They were biased of course. All parents are. They told tales of when she’d responded to the holograms over her crib. “You could see that she was creative,” they said. “We knew we had to nurture that.” And they did. Investment they called it. No expense spared. The took out subscriptions to the best … [Read more…]
https://gizmodo.com/leica-m11-p-content-credentials-anti-ai-1850963601 The hotel lobby, or more correctly the bar, was where they spent their time. It was no safer than their rooms but its opulence offered some comfort. The hacks grouped on the sofas when they came back from following a story. There was always a feeling of relief when someone walked in who’d not … [Read more…]
https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/25/roblox-palestine-protest/ We keep a second chat window open of course. The main window has the chants and songs but the second one is in many ways the most important. During training and planning sessions we advise people to keep it open all the time, no matter on the size of the screen. Knowing where the … [Read more…]
https://gizmodo.com/charlie-brooker-black-mirror-netflix-tone-changes-1850944711 We had a particular style when we started. Some thought it was a bit dark but it came from us, our backgrounds and yes our feelings about the world we were writing about. I don’t think we were dystopian. We followed where the the objects and the stories took us. We liked to think … [Read more…]
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/19/1081974/meta-realeyes-artificial-intelligence-hollywood-actors-strike/ “Scab!” I can hear it. I feel it. I’m old enough to remember The Strike. I remember my dad and uncles on the picket line. I remember my mum and the other women discovering a new power. I remember the sense of pride across the community. I remember those gay and lesbians visiting. And … [Read more…]