Delicious research

Zitron writes, how I’d like to write. But what I really like about him - is he does the research. Opinions, arguments and critical thinking are so much more powerful if you’ve done the work (I think). Even Google had to respond to one of his pieces. Much more impressive than hopes, dreams and not looking behind the curtain.

Or getting a Linkedin certificate on prompt creation.

I really do recommend grabbing your favourite beverage and reading this.

Expectations Versus Reality
A few months ago, OpenAI showed off “Sora,” a product that can generate videos based on a short prompt, much like ChatGPT does for text or DALL-E does for images, and I asked myself a pretty simple question: ”...how can someone actually make something useful out of this?” and “how
“That’s ultimately the problem with the current AI bubble — that so much of its success requires us to tolerate and applaud half-finished tools that only sort of, kind of do the things they’re meant to do, nodding approvingly and saying “great job!” like we’re talking to a child rather than a startup with $13 billion in funding with a CEO that has the backing of fucking Microsoft.”

Subscribe to Gary P Shewan

Don’t miss out on the latest issues. Sign up now to get access to the library of members-only issues.
jamie@example.com
Subscribe