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In many ways a timeless cautionary tale, Kindred, with its symbolic demonstration of the tragic truth that social progress is reversible, is especially relevant now. As our world is transformed by political shifts, we must remain conscious of this, and, like Dana, arm ourselves with all that might be needed to protect our freedoms.
Kindred
Octavia E. Butler
Great experiment on GPT-4 for legal tasks finds the increasingly familiar disruption:
1) Boosts quality, especially for lowest performers
2) Big increases to productivity
3) The Jagged Frontier: AI is better at some tasks than others
4) Users are happier https://t.co/4YA0Pm2Wxi https://t.co/k3QlPdByRM
Tweets From Ethan Mollick
@emollick on Twitter
This "AI debate" is pretty stupid, proceeding as it does from the foregone conclusion that adding compute power and date to the next-word-predictor program will eventually create a conscious being, which will then inevitably become a superbeing.
The #OpenAI Soap-Opera Hijacked the Attention of Millions of Productive...
Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr
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