Cerstin Mahlow @CerstinMahlow@qoto.org

The Google post does talk about Bard being useful for "where there’s no one right answer." But often there is, and these LLMs unfortunately don't appear to currently have the capability of distinguishing between these two cases.

Personally, I wish that the "code red" response that ChatGPT inspired at Google wasn't to launch a dozen AI products that their red teams and AI ethicists have warned them not to release, but to combat the tsunami of AI-generated SEO spam bullshit that's in the process of destroying their core product. Instead, they're blissfully launching new free tools to generate even more of it.

Google used to take pride in minimizing time we spent there, guiding us to relevant pages as quickly as possible. Over time, they tried to answer everything themselves: longer snippets, inline FAQs, search results full of knowledge panels.

Today's Bard announcement feels like their natural evolution: extracting all value out of the internet for themselves, burying pages at the bottom of each GPT-generated essay like footnotes. https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-google-ai-search-updates/

OpenStreetMap is in trouble

#Microsoft #Bing Map Builder “…has entered the ecosystem with parasitic intents … If no improvements at all happen, we should consider cutting off mapbuilder from the API, and we should consider starting a lawsuit over the copyright infringement. This is not a small hobby website which happened to have forgotten the attribution. This is a cancer that is starting to grow. This is designed to kill the community.”

By @pietervdvn #embraceExtendExtinguish #OpenStreetMap

I've never had a smartphone and have always had separate digital camera, dumbphone and mp3-player. I prefer it this way. Along with the psychological focus, why should my phone know what songs I play or my camera know whom I speak with?

The Case For Digital Minimalism - by Talia Barnes

https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-case-for-digital-minimalism?publication_id=61579&post_id=101218784&isFreemail=true

Jetzt noch bis zum 22.2. bewerben auf die Stelle als wiss. Mitarbeiter/in (m/w/d) als Leitung des Archivs für Gesprochenes Deutsch (AGD) in unserer Abteilung Pragmatik! 👉https://ids-mannheim.de/org/karriere/stellen/stelle8 Gern teilen und an Interessierte weiterleiten! #Stellenausschreibung #Jobs #Mannheim

#ChatGPT’s answers can be a little off.

Google is much better at providing facts.

It’s not able to create a true creative work of art.

But it might be just the right kind of tool to help you break through writer’s block and get the creative juices flowing
https://theconversation.com/chatgpt-is-great-youre-just-using-it-wrong-198848

#AIArt #AI #Creativity #Writer #Writing

The Animals - Paint It Black
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https://youtu.be/I3-E65NtOgs

I was asking https://symbiotic.fyi/ about the main contributions of our recently submitted #JCDL paper. It worked surprisingly well.
Try it out yourself. You can upload a paper, get a summary and ask questions about the content.

via @bryanhpchiang@twitter.com
#gpt #llm #ai #nlp

I confess myself a bit baffled by people who act like "how to interact with ChatGPT" is a useful classroom skill. It's not a word processor or a spreadsheet; it doesn't have documented, well-defined, reproducible behaviors. No, it's not remotely analogous to a calculator. Calculators are built to be *right*, not to sound convincing. It's a bullshit fountain. Stop acting like you're a waterbender making emotive shapes by expressing your will in the medium of liquid bullshit. The lesson one needs about a bullshit fountain is *not to swim in it*.

Ein Traum geht in Erfüllung: Ich werde auf einer Party gefragt, wieso das Alphabet ausgerechnet mit A-B-C beginnt. Ganz, sage ich, weiß ich es nicht, aber ich kann beitragen. Ich reduziere und vereinfache, so viel wie ich mag: Die Ägypter und die Phönizier; ursprünglich war das A ein Glottis-Verschlusslaut und das C ein G (siehe Hebräisch, Griechisch und Latein C. für Gaius), so dass die ersten vier Buchstaben alle Verschlusslaute waren. - Dass die Frage von einer Erstklässlerin kam, geschenkt.

Possibly the most frightening talent of the brown bear is an uncanny ability to blend seamlessly into the environment in an almost chameleon-like manner, allowing them to easily surprise their unsuspecting prey.

Over on Twitter Mike Sharples posted link to this paper. (https://twitter.com/sharplm/status/1621537532163792896?s=20&t=XZQCRYerFEV_gUE1cf1Iow)

Worth a read if this is your interest (genesis of technological ideas):

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.05570

Circular windows in the long staircase allow views of the Gustav Gull building and the park landscape outside.

Full photo series: https://dominikgehl.com/museums-landesmuseum

#architecture #photography #museum

The new extension building by the Basel architects Christ & Gantenbein was inaugurated in 2016. Connecting two wings of the Gustav Gull building, the extension makes it possible for the first time to make a round tour of the entire museum. #architecture #photography #zurich

The building was designed so that entire historically important rooms from all over #Switzerland could be dismantled and reinstalled inside the museum. Two examples are a room from Casa Pestalozzi in Chiavenna dating back to 1585 and the baroque hall from the "Langen Stadelhof" house built in 1667

Completed in 1898, the Landesmuseum Zürich was built in the historicist style as a castle-like building to plans by Swiss architect Gustav Gull. #architecture #museum

Bisher beweist #ChatGPT vor allem, dass die meisten Menschen sich mit Klischees und Kalendersprüchen zufrieden geben. Und das für intelligent halten.

Das schafft #RichardDavidPrecht bereits seit Jahren mit lukrativen Buch- und Auftrittsverträgen.