Join 📚 J'S Highlights
A batch of the best highlights from what J's read, .
The second reason to be concerned is that these AIs will be more intimate. One of the promises of generative AI is a personal digital assistant. Acting as your advocate with others, and as a butler with you. This requires an intimacy greater than your search engine, email provider, cloud storage system, or phone. You’re going to want it with you 24/7, constantly training on everything you do. You will want it to know everything about you, so it can most effectively work on your behalf.
AI and Trust
Schneier on Security
With deep learning networks, you don’t need to worry about which features of the training data to use, or whether you understand the nuances of the context, you just need to force enough training data through the layers and apply a method of optimization called stochastic gradient descent (of which more in a moment). Deep learning can find patterns in data that we can’t even put into words – the kinds of patterns that have always been intractable to analytical description.
Resisting AI
Dan McQuillan
Our quality of life is in decline, and along with it, the quality of aesthetic experience available to us. The contemporary novel is (with very few exceptions) irrelevant; mainstream cinema is family-friendly nightmare porn funded by car companies and the US Department of Defense; and visual art is primarily a commodity market for oligarchs.
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally Rooney
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
Readwise