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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
The contest is now not between two candidates in a democracy. It is between democracy and a coup. And the only thing standing in the way of the coup’s success are a handful of norms. Not even laws. Just…polite gentlemans’ agreements. Trump has spent the last four years shattering those. He knows that now all that stands in between him and absolute power, an authoritarian dynasty, is the very last handful.
American Democracy Is Hanging on by a Thread
umair haque
If, to quote Jennings, the “internet now feels like a place whose sole purpose is selling you something,” that’s because the entire world feels that way. This was social media’s mission: to drive capitalist value seeking into areas heretofore resistant or oppositional to it, the “havens in a heartless world,” if not the inner reaches of subjectivity itself.
Two Riders Were Approaching
Rob Horning
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