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“I think you should know in what surroundings you do your best work and solve for that.”

đź’¬ David Sparks

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Words In The Wild - v1

 

Words In The Wild - v2

Soon enough, the traditional 10 blue links on a search engine results page will seem as archaic as dial-up internet and rotary phones.

đź’¬ Sridhar Ramaswamy

Sridhar is the former head of Google search and co-founder of Neeva, a new search engine powered by AI - so of course he would say that … wouldn’t he?

As the hype around BlueSky builds, I am reminded of the hype that surrounded Clubhouse. Looks like that’s what Charles has been thinking.

Velvet rope: it tells you that the people who got past it are special. Unlike you.

đź’¬ Charles Arthur

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“Standards are like toothbrushes - most people don’t want to use someone else’s.”

đź’¬ David Bray

The most recent proposal from the WGA concerning AI is the following: “Regulate use of artificial intelligence on [Minimum Basic Agreement] covered projects: AI can’t write or rewrite literary material; can’t be used as source material; and MBA-covered material can’t be used to train AI.” And, as it currently stands, the response from the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers is a big wet fart of an offer for “annual meetings to discuss advancements in technology.”

đź’¬ Ryan Broderick

Who goes on to write;

Their counter, put another way, is actually: “we do not want to commit to anything until we know if this technology will be good enough to replace whole writers rooms.”

… Which was my thought on reading that first paragraph, but Ryan summarizes more eloquently and efficiently.

“Spending less money and making more would’ve been something I would’ve worked on.”

đź’¬ Ben Smith

… Ben is the founder of Semaphor, a new publication with a stable of great writers that I presume cost a lot of money to run. The countless newsletters that come out of Semaphor .. daily … are totally free.

Anyone else confused?

“The fallout from our cultural obsession with personal rights is that we too easily forget about personal responsibility. If I demand my rights and you demand yours, we end up butting heads again and again and again.”

đź’¬ Yonason Goldson

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“Google searches for ’VPN’ have skyrocketed in Utah this week for one reason: You can no longer visit Pornhub from a Utah IP address.”

đź’¬ Morning Brew

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đź”— Are large language models intelligent? Are humans?