There was a #LoveData23 planning meeting today in the library, so I wore my library data dress: both digital and analog. #LoveDataStanford #DHsewing #sewing #textiles
Shift Happens: A book about keyboards
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwichary/shift-happens
@Ekynos Viel zu höflich auch! Dieses ständige sich-entschuldigen, mich macht das aggressiv
@chrisstoecker Lets see whether this one goes better than Galactica …
It‘s both interesting and useful that #OpenAI and now #Google are basically turning they‘re #AI product development into a (partly) public exercise. Bonus for them: more testing and feedback. Bonus for us: Public scrutiny is possible. #Bard #ChatGPT https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-google-ai-search-updates/
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@Ustinoff Haben wir? Wir haben sicher „gelernt“, dass Recht hat, wer am lautesten schreit und die tollsten Flyer hat …
It may seem that LLM or anything “AI” in general will make studying (or learning at schools) easier for students, but harder for institutions bc they have to come up with exams to exclude effects of using those tools and trying to control what’s happening
The effect on the long run will be very different, though: it will get much harder for students as the use of AI is assumed and expected. So students are demanded to do much more than that and explicitly show creativity, innovation, etc.
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.”
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
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@Ustinoff Das ist tatsächlich ein weiteres Produkt, aber auch „nur“ ein Chatbot, der dann Zugang zur Google-Suche hat. Was dabei rauskommt, bleibt abzuwarten. Die Erwartungshaltung ist sicher, dass die produzierten Texte „wahrer“ sind als die von ChatGPT, was so sein wird, aber auch nicht vollständig immer korrekt. Sie werden aber noch überzeugender formuliert sein und so Leserinnen austricksen/verführen, es als wahr zu lesen und zu benutzen
#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
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