Nick F

@nickautomatic
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I make web things.
Websitehttps://nickautomatic.xyz
LocationLondon, UK
Pronounshe / him

My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"

Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_with_large_language_models/RfC

Wikipedia:Writing articles with large language models/RfC - Wikipedia

Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.

#UNIX

Apparently, the Metaverse is this close to being shut down...

So, to celebrate, this link from four years ago by McKinsey:

https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/growth-marketing-and-sales/our-insights/value-creation-in-the-metaverse

#Metaverse #McKinsey

An Open Letter to Georgetown Students, In Response to Recent Announcements about "Generative AI"

Image source: Bibliothèque nationale de France An Open Letter to Georgetown Students, In Response to Recent Announcements by the University about “Generative AI” Dear students, As you know, in …

Medium

"What purpose will humans serve once AI dominates every aspect of our lives?

Humans have and always will be important for watching ads."

https://theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-interview-with-sam-altman/

The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Sam Altman

While leading OpenAI, Sam Altman has weathered leaked internal memos, an attempt to oust him as CEO, and widespread skepticism about artificial intelligence’s role in society. The Onion sat down with the entrepreneur to hear his vision for the technology’s future. The Onion: Good morning, Sam. How are you doing today?Altman: Certainly! Here are some […]

The Onion
From above, the Sicilian city of Centuripe looks like a person. https://kottke.org/26/03/the-human-city
The Human City

Photographer and drone pilot Pio Andrea Peri captured this overhead photo of a Sicilian city called Centuripe. Perched atop hilltops, the city looks like a

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@Garwboy Carbon capture (on any sort of useful scale), and - in recent years - "AGI," Artificial General Intelligence (which I suspect is likely to remain "imminent" for the foreseeable future).
Do you have a Substack newsletter that you wish was NOT a Substack newsletter (for whatever reason)? I’ve just spent about six weeks learning how to overcome all the obstacles they put in the way of leaving and would love to help. Let’s talk.
@robinince Oh, sorry to hear that. Fwiw I've been enjoying your posts.
If you make web things this might be useful: a faster, nicer UI for browsing the npm registry, with useful info about dependencies, package sizes, etc.
https://npmx.dev/
npmx - Package Browser for the npm Registry

a fast, modern browser for the npm registry. Search, browse, and explore packages with a modern interface.