Simon Willison
I've been playing with GPTs over the weekend! The result is Speaks, a series of language buddies to help you get by in European Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, French, German and Italian.
@mikesten
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Designer and tinkerer.
Paul Calcraft extended this idea into an implementation of Pictionary where different vision LLMs generate SVGs and race to guess what the others are drawing and it is absolutely brilliant https://twitter.com/paul_cal/status/1850262678712856764
[ Jer moved instances ]I've been talking about how AI will directly lead to Idiocracy (2006) scenarios (like Brawndo has what plants crave, Charlie Chaplin leading the 3rd Reich, etc) for some time, but today's update to the "can you melt eggs?" saga is as clear an illustration of how as I think it's possible to ever have.
Quora's AI answers made up the melting point of eggs, and then Google picked it up and responded affirmatively that you can indeed melt eggs.
Then people wrote articles about how stupid it is that Google says eggs can melt. Then Google fixes the answer.
Then Google ingests an article about how stupid it is that Google says you can melt eggs, and suddenly Google starts answering affirmatively again that you can melt eggs, citing the article about how stupid Google is for thinking you can melt eggs.
Quora's AI answers made up the melting point of eggs, and then Google picked it up and responded affirmatively that you can indeed melt eggs.
Then people wrote articles about how stupid it is that Google says eggs can melt. Then Google fixes the answer.
Then Google ingests an article about how stupid it is that Google says you can melt eggs, and suddenly Google starts answering affirmatively again that you can melt eggs, citing the article about how stupid Google is for thinking you can melt eggs.
League of the LexiconToday's #nationalpunctuationday. To mark this auspicious occasion, we've prepared a handy usage guide to some less-than-common punctuation.
Eric A. MeyerTwitter learned, and Reddit is fast learning, that people are not addicted to the platform, they’re addicted to the community they found there. Ruin the community, and people will leave the platform. It really is that simple.
Jonatan HildénThis webstore has a great Stock of ”Sorry, as an AI” products.
Jason LeopoldMy 1st cover story for Businessweek: A wild tale of celebrity & political intrigue based, in part, on govt docs that show how Pras Michél of the Fugees got caught up in the $4.5B 1MDB scandal, negotiated the release of an American citizen held in China, put together a team of GOP operatives at the direction of 1MDB mastermind Jho Low to pressure DOJ to drop its 1MDB probe & lobbied Trump to extradite to China a businessman living in NYC. Now Michél faces decades in prison
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2023-us-china-tensions-scandal-fugees-1mdb/
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2023-us-china-tensions-scandal-fugees-1mdb/
I wrote up a detailed guide to some of the absolutely wild examples of Bing's new AI-assisted search feature that have started to circulate:
Bing: "I will not harm you unless you harm me first" (that's genuinely something it said to someone)
There are certain podcasts where the guests speak with preternatural fluency. I assume the producers edit out the "ums", "ahs" and pauses. Is this the audio equivalent of airbrushing on Instagram?
I wish Midjourney had a proper UI. Browsing the Discord channels is fun - and a super useful learning tool - but it's miserable for tinkering.