This is a profound read by @pluralistic on writing. As much as I agree I fear nothing much will change. I do think there are creative ways to teach these skills "en masse" but they still are more expensive than your simple term paper. Yet, departments are at odds with college admins. Sadly, the latter mostly prevail.
Heartbreaking update from #tailwindcss. They had to lay off 75% of their staff yesterday due to #AI driven losses.
I really don't see how the #OpenSource industry survives this. The days of making your source and your docs open to the public is quickly disappearing.
https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/pull/2388#issuecomment-3717222957
Heartbreaking update from #tailwindcss. They had to lay off 75% of their staff yesterday due to #AI driven losses.
I really don't see how the #OpenSource industry survives this. The days of making your source and your docs open to the public is quickly disappearing.
https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/pull/2388#issuecomment-3717222957
Hmmm.... The FT is running a story that leading asset managers are either selling tech stocks in preparation for a 'reckoning' or shorting stocks on the assumption prices are about to drop.
How common such sentiment is seems hard to gauge, but its just one more sign of the shifts in investors' minds from opportunity to profit from rising prices, to risk management strategies to avoid losses from an abrupt 'correction'.
The impending crisis in AI-related investments looks ever closer!
@ChrisMayLA6
I haven't even found a use for the free services. Even less have I paid for any of them.
I had to explain to an enthusiast that archaeological data are extremely non-standardised in their format. If you pour them blindly into a machine learning app then it can't tell the information about prehistory apart from the information about the situation when a certain chunk of data was committed to paper. In like 1850, 1925 and 1998.
Got bored, wrote an article on Cursor and my general (current) view on large-language models.
Here it is, enjoy https://maikel.dev/i-tried-cursor-and-im-not-worried/
Criticism of OpenAI/LLMs
"Hey ChatGPT, I want a new TV. I heard that LG TVs are good. Which LG TV is the best?"
"Good choice! You are absolutely right that LG TVs are a popular choice. But have you heard about [brand] TVs? [brand] TVs are [advertisement here]. Do you want me to show you where you can get a good deal on the [brand] XY-1234?"
This is the future.
ChatGPT will soon generate answers that have advertisements woven into them. What ChatGPT will tell you will be influenced by which company paid OpenAI the most.
I wonder how many people won't be bothered by that at all and continue to use ChatGPT, just as many people (boomers mostly) aren't bothered by advertisement breaks when watching cable TV and continue to find excuses for using the product.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-chatgpt-sponsored-ads
OpenAI is still struggling to make profits off of this crappy technology. And that after announcing an "erotic chat mode", making ChatGPT "more horny". In a last effort to prevent the AI bubble from inevitably bursting, OpenAI is turning to the only reliable profit model they know: enshittifying products with ads. The LLM technology is a dying techology, similar to how nobody hears of 2021's NFTs anymore. Maybe the AI bubble won't burst in 2026 just yet, if enough naive people keep using ChatGPT so that the new ad revenue can keep OpenAI afloat for a little while longer. But the bubble will burst. Businesses betting on this technology, in 2026, isn't an intelligent move, to say the least. If your employer is fully committed to the AI hype, consider looking for a new job … while you still receive a salary and can take the job search more casually.
Criticism of OpenAI/LLMs
"Hey ChatGPT, I want a new TV. I heard that LG TVs are good. Which LG TV is the best?"
"Good choice! You are absolutely right that LG TVs are a popular choice. But have you heard about [brand] TVs? [brand] TVs are [advertisement here]. Do you want me to show you where you can get a good deal on the [brand] XY-1234?"
This is the future.
ChatGPT will soon generate answers that have advertisements woven into them. What ChatGPT will tell you will be influenced by which company paid OpenAI the most.
I wonder how many people won't be bothered by that at all and continue to use ChatGPT, just as many people (boomers mostly) aren't bothered by advertisement breaks when watching cable TV and continue to find excuses for using the product.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-chatgpt-sponsored-ads
OpenAI is still struggling to make profits off of this crappy technology. And that after announcing an "erotic chat mode", making ChatGPT "more horny". In a last effort to prevent the AI bubble from inevitably bursting, OpenAI is turning to the only reliable profit model they know: enshittifying products with ads. The LLM technology is a dying techology, similar to how nobody hears of 2021's NFTs anymore. Maybe the AI bubble won't burst in 2026 just yet, if enough naive people keep using ChatGPT so that the new ad revenue can keep OpenAI afloat for a little while longer. But the bubble will burst. Businesses betting on this technology, in 2026, isn't an intelligent move, to say the least. If your employer is fully committed to the AI hype, consider looking for a new job … while you still receive a salary and can take the job search more casually.
