Kevin Kortum

motherjones.com

7 years of free school lunches. 3 years of Medicare dental coverage. 2,000 Trump heads on Mt. Rushmore.

This is the argument I and others have been making for years. These war mongers don't blink an eye at spending billions on killing people, but when it comes to trying to help people who could use it here at home, every penny has to be scrutinized to the point they start making up "welfare queens" and "fraud and waste."

techcrunch.com

Such a shift could represent a solid revenue driver for Apple. Google has included ads in its navigation app for years, and Bing Maps also offers a similar advertising capacity to local business owners.

Apple should use all that cash to take themselves private. Seriously, come on. Y’all did it, you made a trillion dollars and won capitalism. Every decision Apple has made in the last decade has been at a detriment to the consumer experience. How badly they ruined the Apple Store and Genius Bar experience is still unforgivable in my mind.

theverge.com

Fridman, the podcast’s host, defines AGI as an AI system that’s able to “essentially do your job,” as in start, grow, and run a successful tech company worth more than $1 billion.

“Essentially” is doing a whole lot of work in that definition. No matter what the definition, a real AGI would be smart enough to never hallucinate, and frankly, I don’t think the current path of LLMs will ever reach real AGI.

nytimes.com

In an email to The Times late on Thursday night, Ballard denied using A.I. to write “Shy Girl,” contending that an acquaintance she hired to edit the self-published version of the novel had used A.I.

On the one hand, I love that publishers are taking a stand against AI. On the other, I’m increasingly nervous accusations are going to fly around with no regard for the truth and really hamper people’s ability to publish their writing. In this case, the author admits their editor used AI, so it’s a fine line. Did they use Grammarly to edit? Did they ask AI to help come up with alternate phrases or words? Ideally AI wouldn’t touch any creative pursuits, but if the author is telling the truth, they shouldn’t be the one coming under fire, but their self-published editor and Hachette should be bearing the blame—are they not putting the novel through their own rigorous editing process?