Bewildering and Discombobulating
This is the first of a series of pieces based on Mary Meeker’s recent deck about AI. The first is an overview of the technology and its current impact.
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Behind AI’s latest bout of chaos
The last few days of chaos at OpenAI have illustrated some deeper chasms within the tech world about the future (and ethics) of artificial intelligence. That it seems to have ended with Sam Altman and his crew out of the company is only a resolution of OpenAI’s chaos, not those in the industry itself. Behind … Read more
OpenAI’s flawed bid for mass adoption
OpenAI’s attempts to make ChatGPT a tool for everyone is not only flawed, but dangerous
Generative AI: Another way at looking at our new overlord
We have grown sick of social media. But what comes next? We have had nearly two decades of it now and it’s made a lot of us unhappier. What’s coming next could go either way. In some ways generative AI — the flavour of AI in ChatGPT and its competitors — offers us something even … Read more
Chatting our way into trouble
The success of ChatGPT (in winning attention, and $10 billion investment for its owners, OpenAI) has propelled us much further down the road of adoption — by companies, by users — and of acceptance.
I’m no Luddite, but I do feel it necessary to set off alarums. We are not about to be taken over by machines, but we are bypassing discussion about the dangers of what this AI might be used for. This is partly a problem of a lack of imagination, but also because the development of these tools cannot be in the hands of engineers alone.