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The tech behind Artifact, the newly launched news aggregator from Instagram’s co-founders →
“Actually, building the algorithm is enormously editorial,” Systrom says. “Because what you choose to train your algorithm on — the objective function, the data you put in, the data you include, the data you don’t include — is all in editorial judgment. The way you weight different objectives.”
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Winners and losers in the race to add AI →
ChatGPT is now running inside Snapchat, Notion, and other apps. Will it give them a sustaining advantage — or just line OpenAI's pockets?
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The Future of Flipboard Is Federated →
The combination of Flipboard.social and our beta Mastodon integration helps make the brave new world of the Fediverse more approachable and beautiful…Flipboard is tearing down the walls of our own walled garden to give users, curators and content creators more choice, more freedom, more transparency and more ownership…The future will be federated. And so will Flipboard.
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Connect Your Mastodon Account to Flipboard and Join a Federated Future →
With all the Twitter drama and backlash against Big Tech, people are looking for alternatives. Mastodon, an emerging microblogging service, has welcomed millions of new users as a result. It’s also one major example of a new, federated social media service that’s more open and benevolent than the platforms we know today.
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Flipboard joins the Fediverse with a Mastodon integration and community, plans for ActivityPub →
The company is also directly investing in the Fediverse by opening its own Mastodon instance at flipboard.social. The CEO describes the instance as a “high-quality, scalable instance that will be highly moderated, fast, secure, and reliable.” The company’s own moderation team, now a staff of seven, will be responsible for the instance’s moderation in addition to their existing duties.
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Generative AI in the Newsroom →
Nick Diakopoulos’ resource for journalists that want to use generative AI. Tips & tricks.
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"we want to maximize the good and minimize the bad, and for AGI to be an amplifier of humanity."
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Sci-Fi Magazine Shuts Down Submissions After Onslaught of AI-Generated Spam →
Sci-fi and fantasy magazine Clarkesworld, which has been publishing the works of award-winning writers for 17 years, had to shut down submissions over the weekend after getting overwhelmed by an onslaught of AI-generated works.
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The Kindle Store has a prolific new author: ChatGPT →
The AI bot is credited with authoring or co-authoring at least 200 books on Amazon’s storefront.
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Introducing the AI Mirror Test, which very smart people keep failing →
AI chatbots like Bing and ChatGPT are entrancing users, but they’re just autocomplete systems trained on our own stories about superintelligent AI. That makes them software — not sentient. It’s time to take a hard look in the mirror. And not mistake our own intelligence for a machine’s.
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What ails Google. And how it can turn things around.
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Journalism is Lossy Compression →
When we blame an algorithm for exhibiting bias we should start with the realization that it is reflecting our own biases. We must fix both: the data it learns from and the underlying corruption in society’s soul.
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ChatGPT is a blurry JPEG of the web →
OpenAI’s chatbot offers paraphrases, whereas Google offers quotes. Which do we prefer?
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You can't parse [X]HTML with regex →
Epic CopyPasta on Stack Overflow
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The messy, secretive reality behind OpenAI’s bid to save the world →
The AI moonshot was founded in the spirit of transparency. This is the inside story of how competitive pressure eroded that idealism.
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Whispers of A.I.’s Modular Future →
ChatGPT is in the spotlight, but it’s Whisper—OpenAI’s open-source speech-transcription program—that shows us where machine learning is going.
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Deciding the line between acceptable and unacceptable speech is time-consuming. It’s messy. It needs to involve input from civil society. It’s constantly shifting and culture-specific. And it needs to be done for every possible type of speech. Because of all that, AI has no role here.
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ChatGPT in an iOS Shortcut — Worlds Smartest HomeKit Voice Assistant →
I asked GPT-3 to pretend to be the smart brain of my house, carefully explained what it can access around the house and how to respond to my requests. I explained all this in plain English with no programme code involved.
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I Have Some Concerns About ChatGPT →
ChatGPT is autocomplete on steroids
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Japan was the future but it's stuck in the past →
Will Japan gradually fade into irrelevance, or re-invent itself? My head tells me that to prosper anew Japan must embrace change. But my heart aches at the thought of it losing the things that make it so special.