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Hell, Facebook even wants to issue their own sovereign currency so that they can track every cent of every purchase you make globally. To become a shadow bank that integrates purchasing data with behavioural data, to finally complete their user manipulation loop. (10/)
Stephen, Why Are You So...
@smdiehl on Twitter
It’s by observing the young, indeed, that you eventually understand the sort of idiot you yourself were once upon a time — and perhaps still are.
The Measure of a Life Well Lived
brainpickings.org
We don’t know yet if AI will ultimately change the world the way the internet, social media, and the smartphone did. Those things weren’t just technological leaps — they actually reorganized our lives in fundamental and irreversible ways. If the final form of AI is “my computer writes some of my emails for me,” AI won’t make that list. But there are a lot of smart people and trillions of dollars betting that’s the beginning of the AI story, not the end.
ChatGPT Turns One: How OpenAI’s AI Chatbot Changed Tech Forever - The Verge
David Pierce
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