John Borthwick
@borthwick
Betaworker
John Borthwick
betaworks.com
There falls a shadow, as T. S. Eliot noted, between the conception and the creation. In the annals of innovation, new ideas are only part of the equation. Execution is just as important.
Walter Isaacson • Steve Jobs
Evidence that LLMs are reaching a point of diminishing returns - and what that might mean
Gary Marcusgarymarcus.substack.com
🤔 Questions, things I'm pondering
Relates to the broad question re; scaling, and the Bitter Lesson
From Ezra Klein:
AI might be able to churn out content faster than we can, but we still need a human mind to sift through and figure out what’s good. In other words, A.I. is going to turn more of us into editors. But editing is a peculiar skill. It’s hard to test for, or teach, or even describe. But it’s the crucial step in the creative process that
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We also now have a persuasive “so what?” These technologies have enabled a whole new user interface for computers: human language. Just like the graphical user interface made the personal computer accessible to millions of customers in the 1980s, so too have the new natural language interfaces made AI accessible to hundreds of millions of users wor... See more
Konstantine Buhler • AI and the Frontier Paradox
we are just base for technology.
Maven
what a strange idea
"You should stay plugged in. You can manage anxiety and beat the House without resorting to shaming social platforms into managing attention for you. That's a terrible yielding of agency." Venkatesh Rao
The concept of efficiency — how much one can accomplish per unit of time (or per dollar, etc.) — requires a quantitative numerator as well as a denominator. It requires a metric. Therefore, it tells us nothing about results we cannot quantify or measure. When we gear our society around efficiency, we produce more and more of the measurable, while t... See more
➰ limitations to the efficiency paradigm ...
While you and I have lips and voices
Which are for kissing and to sing with
Who cares if some oneeyed son of a bitch
Invents an instrument to measure Spring with?