The AI role almost nobody talks about
A useful way to think about AI/model training is to picture it as the problem of picking the best possible…
Organizational hollowing and the lethal 80% AI
There’s a way to frame the ongoing disasters at Boeing, Twitter, and newsrooms in general as coming from a quirk…
Ask not what AI engineering can do for aesthetics, but what aesthetics can do for AI engineering
Computer programming is an art, because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, and…
New short story: “Sanity Economics”
There used to be special drugs for those who worked in the city’s biodesign labs. There is only so much…
New short story: “Generation Gap”
Every night Francesca’s room continued its methodical process of killing her. The how had been easy enough to find in…
Quick link: BREAKING NEWS: Cheap rewrites crowd out expensive research
The Link: Google News Is Boosting Garbage AI-Generated Articles The one-line version: Google News promotes “content” regardless of origin, and…
The most useful phrase about AI you will read this month
From Cory Doctorow’s indispensable Pluralistic: That’s the true cost of all the automation-driven unemployment criti-hype: while we’re nowhere near a…
New short story: “When he himself might his quietus make”
Romanticism hadn’t made Jason’s boyfriend suicidal — that was an stereotype — but it was what was going to get…
The goal of data analysis is to kill time
You probably know this, but maybe you don’t know you know. The takeaway first: One of the foundations of what…
New short story: “The Traveler and the Goddess”
Beyond the orbit of Mars there was nobody but Asra and the goddess who lived in her spaceship. (And a…