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We have domesticated our humanity as much as we have domesticated our horses. Our human nature itself is a malleable crop that we planted 50,000 years ago and continue to garden even today.
What Technology Wants
Kevin Kelly
When Max asked ChatGPT to help him out with the sprinkler at the park, the model wasn’t just spewing text. The photograph of the plumbing was compressed, along with Max’s prompt, into a vector that captured its most important features. That vector served as an address for calling up nearby words and concepts. Those ideas, in turn, called up others as the model built up a sense of the situation. It composed its response with those ideas “in mind.”
The Case That A.I. Is Thinking | the New Yorker
James Somers
Facebook is one of the companies that degraded the internet so that it consists of “five websites, each consisting of screenshots of text from the other four.”
“Metaverse” Means “Pivot to Video”
Cory Doctorow
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