Tag: ai
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“It’s the first-ever fully AI-generated entertainment to hit mainstream provincial satellite prime time,” writes Mandy Wong. After seeing Bytedance Seedance 2.0’s (AI text-to-video model) release earlier this year, the team behind Journey to the West felt there was an opportunity to make a long-form series and break through a market “saturated with uninspired short-form dramas.”…
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I get the sense that I feel far less affronted by AI slop than some (or possibly many) of you do. I don’t like AI slop, but I don’t feel as viscerally annoyed about it as many people do, and it struck me that one possible reason is: I just found very large parts of…
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“I resigned from Anthropic today.” David Sacks Says Anthropic Quitter Jacob Coxon’s Virality Was A “Psyop” “I would love for someone to actually write a careful defense of the idea that AI doomers have a strong predictive track record.” At this point, anyone with a brain understands how cognitive bias prevents humans from thinking outside…
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Despite being wrong on roughly everything, he’s not more unreasonable than someone like Buckminster Fuller, who suggested we’ll be able to send people by radio because atoms have frequencies and radio waves have frequencies so it will be possible to pick up all of our frequencies and send them by radio. — Read on danluu.com/zitron/
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So every time I added an agent I felt like I was buying capacity, and what I was actually doing was adding another item to my reading pile. Eleven times. That pile is where the hundred decisions live, and it is why thirty-two of them went stale. My attention was the scarce thing, and I…
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I used to think AI productivity meant doing less. Automate the mechanical work, & human effort shrinks toward zero. The reality is stranger. AI does not shrink human effort. It raises the ceiling of what the same amount of work produces. — Read on tomtunguz.com/ai-productivity-doesnt-mean-what-i-thought/
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…slop is hardly a new phenomenon. Neither is the moral panic around it. AI-generated content is the latest iteration of an age-old trend: Whenever technology dramatically lowers the cost of producing media, it unleashes a flood of cheap, derivative work — and a chorus of critics convinced that culture has reached a new low. —…
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AI webpage crawlers are now being served their very own ads that ordinary visitors never see, with one firm’s boss openly describing a strategy to influence what chatbots say about brands. The next time you ask Claude about where to bank, its answer may have been influenced by this bot-targeted content. — Read on www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/05/time-magazine-has-a-separate-version-of-its-website-with-ads-only-ai-can-see/5283640
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One of the biggest misconceptions people have about intelligence is seeing it as some kind of unbounded scalar stat, like height. “Future AI will have 10,000 IQ”, that sort of thing. Intelligence is a conversion ratio, with an optimality bound. Increasing intelligence is not so much like “making the tower taller”, it’s more like “making…
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Writing is still as important as ever, and it should be you doing the writing, not your AI. Writing forces you to think clearly and confront gaps in your logic. What has changed is that writing is no longer the only way to make an idea tangible. Coding agents are compressing the time between defining the problem…
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We thought—I thought—the internet served to create new forms of social participation. As in the old joke, we thought it was an orgasm, but it was asthma. The internet’s true affordance has been the emergence and training of AI. The internet digitized all our knowledge and all our language, making them available to AI. Now…
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We are emergent phenomena — higher-level patterns and processes that arise from, but are not reducible in any simple way to, the lower-level physics and chemistry. A human is: • A far-from-equilibrium dissipative structure (physics) • Built from self-replicating, metabolizing carbon chemistry in aqueous solution (chemistry) • That has evolved nervous systems capable of generating…
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From fundamental physics, a human is a temporary, localized configuration of quantum fields (or particles and forces in the Standard Model plus gravity) that maintains a high degree of internal order against the universal tendency toward increasing entropy (the second law of thermodynamics). From Grok.
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Chemically, you are a vast, coordinated network of molecular machines running on carbon chemistry in water, powered by redox gradients, and capable of copying its own blueprint with high (but imperfect) fidelity. From Grok.
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Have you ever wanted to research something, so you bookmark a dozen articles, get distracted by everything on the internet, take notes, try to find the common links between the articles, get distracted again – and a project takes way longer than it should? A well-built prompt can fix that, save you time, and return…
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Building an “AI Tribunal” for media verification Fun with fax machines 50 greatest albums with headphones See how your phone tells everyone who you are
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…my strong assumption is that most people who push or buy the idea that ‘AI is going to take all the jobs’ haven’t thought much about what ‘jobs’ are, in a fundamental sense. — Read on endsdontjustifythemeans.com/p/why-ai-obviously-isnt-going-to-take
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We moderns are not used to having to rebuild our world. It is now the case that strong AI is here/coming, and we will have to rebuild our own world. Many of us are terrified at this prospect, others are just extremely pessimistic. It seems so impossible. How are all the new pieces supposed to…
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The robots think you are a slightly anxious wreck. They also think they are an extraordinarily open, agreeable, low-drama universalist who would rather read than party. Then their own next release shows up and disagrees with them. — Read on persona.earthpilot.ai/
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