Category: Technology
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I want my money back: investment problems and CrapGPT
Really interesting piece in Alex Hern’s always-excellent tech newsletter. In short: OpenAI are forecast to spend $5,000,000,000 more than it makes in revenue this year… and are going to need to raise some major extra cash. But that is becoming more of a problem, because the shine is coming off AI: “The first time you…
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‘Falling asleep at the wheel’ – a cautionary tale about good AI
I’ve been away for a break up in the French Alps – a wonderful time and place, and a great chance to mulch while hiking from bright sunshine up over the snow line about Getting High, and God-Like and the connections between them. So I was delighted when my good friend Jonathan got in touch…
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American Psycho x Middle Class
A very interesting piece the New Yorker a couple of weeks ago. Rachel Monroe documents the story of a wealthy neighbourhood in Arizona that has been terrorised by the ‘Goons’ gang of rampaging, uber-privileged kids… ending with a murder, and seven boys on trial. In south Gilbert, the Goons looked like J. Crew models. “Some…
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Hallucination: an ancient and modern concern
I’ve been asked a few times about how the work I did in GETTING HIGH links to the issues raised in the new book GOD-LIKE, and I wanted to answer that with some thoughts around the issue of hallucination. GETTING HIGH plots the history of the human quest for flight, mainly through the twin prisms…
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AI-Cadabra: say it’s AI and make it so | Talking AI with Caputo
In the last post I set out how we see a sense of ‘magic’ being ascribed to AI systems – especially Generative AI – and this is no more clear than in the icons that tend to get used for them. I’ve been in New Mexico this week for a family wedding, so have been…