Mastodawn

This is a Pioneer Stereo Receiver SX-850 from just about 50 years ago.

It’s not spying on you.
It doesn’t need firmware updates.
There’s no subscription.
It’s widely compatible with other audio equipment from other manufacturers.
It won’t suddenly decide you can’t listen to explicit lyrics anymore.
It won’t “autocorrect” you, interrupt you with notifications or get hijacked by a botnet.
If a component breaks, it’s pretty easy fixable, even by amateurs.

It still works great, sounds great and looks great and it will probably do so for another 50 years. It’s a piece of useful electronics that you can hand down for literally generations.

Can you do this with modern technology?

Why is modern technology considered “better”?

supriti 1d ago

Harold Jarche 1d ago

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@teledyn/116652708401285794

"every single warning that paper made about large language models has now happened at scale"

1. The hallucination problem before anyone had a word for it.
2. Bias amplification
3. Environmental cost
4. Documentation — the training datasets being assembled were too large for anyone to actually audit

#AI #GenAI

supriti 1d ago

For a panel discussion on #Creative #Industries in 2040, I want to ask the lovely people of #mastodon, what they envision as potential pathways/scenarios for the future?

What do you think are the ways technological #innovation ( #AI or #immersive #technologies ) will transform how and what we #create/ #collaborate as #artists and #game developers, how will it inform #research and #policy, and how will it impact #media consumption and production?

Please comment, share, boost!

supriti 1d ago