Manton ReeceCatching up this morning on all the OpenAI and Microsoft news. Hard to overstate how dramatic a weekend this was for the tech world. As a (small) OpenAI customer, I’m not sure where this leaves me. One thing is clear: Satya Nadella is a really impactful CEO. He turned a crisis into a triumph.
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Dave Winer's linkblog in MastoClarence Thomas Secretly Accepted Luxury Trips From GOP Donor.
https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-scotus-undisclosed-luxury-travel-gifts-crow
Rudy RuckerWondering about the new boom in AI? Rudy was there first. SOFTWARE, 1982. The birth of cyberpunk. Kicks ass. Read SOFTWARE and its three sequels. THE WARE TETRALOGY. https://www.rudyrucker.com/wares/
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Talked to someone today who is unvaxxed because they didn’t like ‘being forced to do it.’ Anyway the reason I was talking to them was because they had just died.
My short short SF story about 1967, the cosmic wall, and Sylvia dying. In Nature, no less!
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00411-8
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00411-8
In case you've been successfully distracted by the wag-the-dog spy balloon drama lately and missed it, here is the aerial view of the horrific vinyl chloride train derailment in East Palestine, OH that has successfully been hidden from you:
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I asked ChatGPT to draw me a picture over the course of several prompts. I am in no way afraid that this "AI" is going to take over anything, including kindergarten art class.
Here's how it did:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SMz7kFQ7xuu5Ru1iHftig6ILFyuqxYD6ah2S3Lnk_Zo/edit?usp=sharing
ChatGPT Drawing Session
This is the result of trying to get ChatGPT to draw a picture. My prompts to it are in blue, the SVG graphics code it generated follows, and then the rendering of the picture in the browser… let's make a svg drawing. draw a yellow circle in the upper right. draw a green rectangle in the lower th...