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by Bjorkbat 3y ago
Scary as the prospect of job losses sounds, I feel like the real threat is that AI copywriting is just going to destroy content marketing altogether as businesses try to outdo each other with more noise and people begin to tune-out of the i
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Kind of upsetting given that BuzzFeed News was probably the sole good part of BuzzFeed. All the other stuff people love to hate is staying. Quizzes, listicles, celebrity garbage, they’re keeping that
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Depending on how much you believe autism is hereditary you could argue that these couples are going to really cause problems for humanity’s gene pool.
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Something kind of funny (but mostly annoying), about this announcement is the people arguing that OpenAI is, in fact, working on GPT-5 in secret . To my knowledge, NFT/crypto hype never got so bad that conspiracy theories began to cir
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by Bjorkbat 4y ago
Personally, I think no-code tools are much more of an existential threat than LLMs. Or rather, they should be. Instead, despite the prevalence of tools that seek to democratize software authorship, the demand for software engineers has
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by Bjorkbat 4y ago
That's kind of what I was betting on. I don't see it going away anytime soon, but I also think it's potential impact is being overblown. With regards to AI image generators, I think people overestimate the importance of illu
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by Bjorkbat 4y ago
Incidentally I was about to say that even speculation based on present utility can get a little bit out there. Modern AI is already quite good at generating code snippets, and it already increases developer productivity, but just how much
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You've pretty much nailed what I've been thinking about when comparing generative AI hype to crypto/metaverse hype. I keep hearing this argument that generative AI has more utility, making it more "real". Sure, but
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I made a similar comment here on HN, but in a different post, in response to someone arguing that there should be fewer spoken languages and that the death of a language was “a good thing”. A language is more than a means of communication.
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Language is pretty foundational to culture. When you lose a language you lose more than a way of speaking, but also the subtleties and emotions behind the "shape" of certain words, not to mention those words that reflect somethin
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We also have Genizaros (a kind of Spanish corruption of the word Janissary). They're descended from Native American slaves who were freed by the Spanish in exchange for settling on frontier outposts. New Mexico's a strange place.
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Very exciting! On a side-note, I wonder if this decision relates to Stripe’s ambitions to IPO soonish.
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Kind of a tangential comment, but something I think about semi-regularly is that AI in a way feels like overkill for removing the programming part of software engineering. When you think about it, it's kind of surprising that we still
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You’re implicitly trying to make a prediction on where the technology is going based on present trends, something that the industry has never been good at. Remember how 3D printing was supposed to be ubiquitous by now? Or how self-driving
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Yeah, I was about to say the same thing. The use of technical debt is a bit “funny” in that they’re using it to refer to a deficit of software, whereas it’s more commonly used to refer to less-than-ideal code that will need to be fixed lat
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I'm kind of skeptical of this simply because people were saying the same thing about chatbots back when there was a lot of hype around Messenger. Sure, they weren't as advanced as what we have now, but they were fundamentally cap
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I won't argue with you that they have gotten more colorful, but I feel like they've also lost a lot of originality as well. Advertising in the 60s and 80s seemed more fun and witty, and you had commercial artists like Andy Warhol
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by Bjorkbat 4y ago
The involuntarily celibate (don't say incel, that'll be a slur tomorrow) consider the word "fucking" to be a triggering term used by the sex-privileged /s
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I generally err on the side of skepticism when it comes to LLM-derived innovation, but this has to be my favorite use case yet.
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I’m intrigued as well, but especially with regards to how it would perform in the real world given that I’ve also observed that diffusion models aren’t great with vectors. I suspect the example they used might have been cherry-picked
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This touches on a big reason why it's so hard for me to get on board with generative AI. The hype around it is pretty much the same as the hype I saw with NFTs, complete with a community lacking any awareness of just how uninteresting
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Disappointed but not surprised that it suggested the most milquetoast idea possible: affiliate marketing.
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The boldness of its orange color palette, obviously
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This is really just the latest is a list of reasons why I no longer consider reading by itself to be an intellectual past-time. The line between books and content is "blurring", and has been well-before ChatGPT. You could "
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Call me crazy, but I think that it's premature to think that Microsoft's days of bungling acquisitions are over. They probably will manage to ruin Github, the catch being that it'll happen over a much longer timescale. Reall
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Looking forward to when Etsy becomes the new Silk Road. I can shop for hand-crafted gifts for friends and family, and a little black tar heroin for myself, all in one go.
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Ah, all these arguments seem to be too much of a reach for me. I have a much simpler theory as to why we think flowers are beautiful. One of our distant evolutionary ancestors was a small primate that fed on the nectar of flowers, kind of
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by Bjorkbat 4y ago
Reminds me of Paul Skallas (LindyMan) and his thoughts on refinement culture. https://twitter.com/paulskallas/status/1546563161587089408 https://medium.com/@lindynewsletter/refinement-culture-
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It's actually disillusioned me quite a bit when it comes to tech. I feel like software developers are some of the most empowered people on the planet, and yet we continue to push and enable the dumbest crap and make the most overhyped
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