The next financial crisis will be due to a Python quant model or Excel sheet that uses just a little too much ChatGPT to autocomplete the code.

#ai #chatgpt

If you want to picture the future, imagine a hand palming a human face -- forever.

With the news that Musk has apparently selected a woman to take over for him as Twitter’s CEO, I am reminded of the “glass cliff” phenomenon:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/women-often-put-charge-failing-companies

When/if Twitter ultimately goes under, remember that Musk created the conditions for it to do so.

It’s kind of mind-blowing that we’re on the verge of stuffing LLMs into everything and normalizing _less_ accuracy from computers.

If the Internet of the 90s and early 00s was about listening to each other through cans, and finding connections:

"Facebook is like a can within the can that pipes in all the cans but makes decisions about which cans I want to hear and most of the cans are foreign spies anyway.

Twitter is like all the cans, all at once but also if Elon musk’s can had the thickest wire attached to it and I can’t turn it off and also the can is breaking."

https://www.chrbutler.com/what-i-want-from-the-internet

#Links #OpenWeb

[#GEOLOCATION|#CHATGPT] Unlocking Geolocation with Large Language Models (ChatGPT)

By Henk Van Hess, via @cyb_detective

https://www.digitaldigging.org/p/4-chatgpt-unlock-geolocation-data

#osint #imageanalysis

Interesting #geoint tip from @henkvaness newsletter:

If there is only a part of the sign of an building in the picture and you know the city where it was made, ask #ChatGPT to find objects that have certain letters in the name.

https://www.digitaldigging.org/p/4-chatgpt-unlock-geolocation-data

#ai #chatgpt #bard #artificialintelligence Just a note about the article on the BBC and Sky News this morning. The one regarding AI being more intelligent than us.
I just asked ChatGPT what colour the sea is, but typed it upside down, and it answered very quickly in Spanish.
I thought it was round one to us, but the translation’s quite disturbing.
I’ll leave it to you to decipher, but I think it’s trying to be a smart ass…

You can imagine the disappointment of expecting the visual quality of film and being delivered the best that 80s video could muster. I’d react the same. #thethe #music #mattjohnson #thisistheday #musicvideo https://www.instagram.com/p/Cr3DuUttlmx/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=

#GreatAlbums1990s - #Elastica – Elastica (1995). If you can excuse the Wire/ Stranglers ripoffs (for which royalties were indeed paid), Elastica’s debut is a smartly played set of pop tunes with enough rabblerousing spirit (“punk” as opposed to Punk) to give, say, the Bangles or Go-Go’s a run for their money. That’s a good thing, because you need a bit of levity sometimes, and “Connection” and “Stutter” are a lot more fun than Hole or L7.
#GreatRockAlbums, #Reviews, #Rock, #Britpop

Reality continues to be written by a malfunctioning Markov chain generator.

A Wes Anderson Star Wars trailer made with Ai

#midjourney #AI #wesanderson #starwars #trailer #movies #dalle #chatgpt #art #design #filmphotography #cinema

Everything good about Twitter happened in spite of the series of assholes and sociopaths that ran it, not because of them.

#Radiohead (Covers) - NYC Busker performs an acoustic Radiohead Set at the Metropolitan Ave. Subway
#music #live #busking #NYC #video

https://youtu.be/CNBLdMelfVo

Reposting with alt text, since I'm now thinking about this tweet too

The renewed interest in open, social web protocols has been a long time coming. It’s like we were in a drought for most of the 2010s, subsisting on the water leftover from the early blogosphere, and now it’s raining. Drink up, folks! The skies are blue and the future’s bright.

This, but for social media products:

“When bigots are loudly announcing they don’t want your beer because they are bigots, that is an opportunity for you to say, ‘then our beer is not for you.’”
— John Oliver talking about the stupid Bud Light controversy

@anildash My strong suspicion is that Bluesky (or any similar corporate product that preaches federation) will use federation for their initial growth spurt, and then find a way to pull up the drawbridge once private equity or the Saudis decide that lock-in sounds more profitable.

I don't know why I would be so cynical, except for my lying eyes and the entire history of Facebook, Twitter, Google, YouTube, RSS, XMPP, OpenID, and even Open Graph meta tags.

Yes, please. #sydbarrett #pinkfloyd #documentary #music https://youtu.be/ALajTTcXwZE

@anildash If Bluesky ever actually goes anywhere, there's probably no reason they can't be bridged the same way Mastodon was when it supported both OStatus and ActivityPub.

We might see a situation where people pick the model that suits them best, and the platforms built on top handle translating the differences. The two are often presented as being in opposition, but coexistence is possible and probably the better situation.

It's not like a Twitter or Facebook where you're either in a closed off silo or you're in the happy fun frontier of decentralized networks.