No no. Its too early to worship the machine gods. We will get there.
CULTURE
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Treating AI Chatbots Like People for Better Results
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Working with AI is already weird and is going to get weirder. Many forces are combining to make working with AI more like working with people, for better or for worse. In fact, you basically need to treat chatbots like people to get them to work well.
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Copyright’s Bizarre Outcomes: The Terrifying Egg Collection
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A good reminder that copyright is a construct, and its rules result in various bizarre outcomes, including the existence of the most terrifying egg collection on Earth.
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Swiss-Mile Robot Greets Switzerland’s President in Historic Meeting
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The Swiss-Mile #Robot greets the president of Switzerland
— Ronald van Loon (@Ronald_vanLoon) 31 mars 2024
via @WevolverApp#Robotics #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #EmergingTech #Technology #FutureOfWork
cc: @pascal_bornet @pbalakrishnarao @ravikikan pic.twitter.com/Tb2CYjty56The Swiss-Mile #Robot greets the president of Switzerland
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Recognizing Infrastructure Work: An Undervalued Company Strategy
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Undervalued strategy for a company is to go out of its way to reward behind-the-scenes or infrastructure work. Usually such work is in areas which are only talked about when things are going wrong; good to proactively let the people in those areas know they are seen.
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Defensiveness in Computer Science Culture: A Social Dynamic
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I might ask why you are so defensive? It seems like anytime I say anything about the culture of CS you show up in my mentions.
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ChatGPT’s Overuse of Certain Words and the Rise of ‘Delve’
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ChatGPT tends to overuse certain words, outing itself. But I also wonder what’s going on with the increased use of the word delve even before ChatGPT was being released.
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Treating AI Like a Person: Necessity and Risks
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To get AI to work well for you, you need to treat it like a person, even though it isn’t. I wrote about the necessity, and risks, of anthropomorphizing AI. https://
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hing/p/on-the-necessity-of-a-sin?r=i5f7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Organizational Culture Drives Innovation and Digital Transformation Success
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Organizational culture is crucial for both successful innovative growth and the adoption of new technologies. Siloed and risk-averse mindsets can weaken innovation culture and stall digital efforts. Source @McKinsey Link https://
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Nuance as Intellectual Cowardice: A Critical Examination
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The term "nuance" is so commonly deployed as a 'magic wand' capable of absolving its user of the duty to recognize and synthesize difficult realities that, TBH, when I see it now I reflexively assume intellectual cowardice masquerading as critical thought. https://
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/drvolts/status/1773782346032185798
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