We’re in the last few years before AI can meaningfully do attention management across various inboxes. Won’t *that* be a product challenge and opportunity.
@patio11
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AI Accountability: Legal Compliance with Government Demands
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Every penny and/or yen that the people of the United States and Japan have, through their elected representatives, deemed fit to demand of me; not more than that.
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Algorithmic engagement optimization versus truth in content
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It’s designed to make you feel something, not designed to reflect the world. Causing you to feel disgust, disbelief, or pity is a victory condition; if it can accomplish that will outcompete a less evocative video of a family eating dinner. “Solve for equilibrium.” as they say.
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ChatGPT Hallucinations in Code Citations: A Critical Warning
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(Careful on using ChatGPT as an oracle for the code, Internets, as it sometimes hallucinates citations, and they’ll look as plausible to you as they do to it.)
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ChatGPT Generates Citations Efficiently with Simple Instructions
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And it’s sufficiently legible that it only took one instruction and a rephrase to get ChatGPT to generate that citation for me, which is great because doing it by hand on a phone would be excessively painful.
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Tournament victor selects prize in competitive AI landscape
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There’s also something to “I stand here the winner of a tournament with many hundreds of thousands of entrants, most of whom were broken by it. Even most players who win rounds quit long ago. I am unbowed and unbeaten. Of the many prizes offered to the victor, I picked you.”
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AI Memory Limitations: Text Outperforms Numbers and Lists
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It didn’t work for math, numbers, lists, or anything with less narrative than a textbook, but was fairly reliable for anything presented as paragraphs on a page. (My memory still exhibits notable skew in this fashion.)
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Cognitive Ability Decay: From Exceptional Memory to High School Normalcy
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(My ability here decayed to something more approaching “has an anomalously good memory” by approximately late high school. I was both sad but also happy because it eased some social difficulties.)
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Diverse Learning Minds: Memorization and Individual Cognitive Differences
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You know the general class of phenomena that is learning minds function in diverse ways? My most vivid experience with it was in seventh grade when a teacher explained memorization to me for the first time and, patiently, said that most people had to intentionally try to do it.
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Class Credentialing Institutions and Educational Gatekeeping Mechanisms
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I sometimes wonder if I am too cynical about our class credentialing institutions and their funding and gatekeeping mechanisms. Then, I remember they are our class credentialing institutions, and so the baseline level of cynicism should be high.