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In most markets, the more time passes the clearer things become. In generative AI (“AI”), it has been the opposite. The more time passes, the less I think I actually understand. For each level of the
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I. Everyone knows politics makes people crazy. But what kind of crazy? Which page of the DSM is it on? I’m only half joking. Psychiatrists have spent decades developing a whole catalog of ways brains
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It’s a dramatic, messy era on the internet. Everything is changing rapidly. There’s broad dissatisfaction with the dominant search engine, and activists are worried about the privacy implications of i
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By Arvind Narayanan, Sayash Kapoor, and Rishi Bommasani. The Biden-Harris administration has issued an executive order on artificial intelligence. It is about 20,000 words long and tries to address th
Twitter always used to look a lot like Craigslist. It stumbled into something that a lot of people found very useful, with very strong network effects, and then it squatted on those network effects fo
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Opinion AI is learning from stolen intellectual property. It needs to stop. By October 19, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EDT (Washington Post staff illustration; iStock) William D. Cohan is a best-selling author
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In January 2021 I posted my typical day which resulted in some fun people following suit on their own blogs. Lately, my typical day is less than typical. I’ve been on a tear for about 12 months with s
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Microsoft has finalized its $68.7 billion deal to acquire Activision Blizzard, the publisher of Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Diablo. The Verge exclusively reported last week that Microsoft was
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Image by me, DALL-E and Craiyon 5 min read· Jun 8, 2023 -- This Monday, from June 12th, Reddit is facing a “blackout”, meaning many subreddit moderators will turn their subs temporarily — possibly for
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21 May 2023 I retired a year and a half ago after having worked for twenty-six years as a programmer for Apple. I’m not sure which would have been more surprising: if I had continued programming in my
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