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ChatGPT Is Nothing Like a Human, Says Linguist Emily Bender
nymag.com
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"You Are Not a Parrot and a chatbot is not a human" - an interview/profile of Emily M. Bender, the "computational linguist at the University of Washington ... [who] co-wrote the octopus paper... to illustrate what ... LLMs ... can and cannot do"The paper: "Climbing Towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Ag…

The Art of the AI Prompt - Techonomy
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Wired's rules for using generative AI: "Not for images, yes for research, no for copyediting, maybe for idea generation". Meanwhile interactive book PromptCraft shows how to "get the most out of the creative man/machine communications... AI is like querying our collective intelligence".So how best to design an AI prompt?…

Opinion | Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT - The New York Times
www.nytimes.com
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Noam Chomsky on ChatGPT, Bard and Sydney, which "take huge amounts of data, search for patterns in it and become increasingly proficient at generating statistically probable outputs — such as seemingly humanlike language and thought... hailed as the first glimmers on the horizon of artificial general intelligence ... surpassing human ... inte…

10/03/2023
Distributed digital gardens
commonplace.doubleloop.net
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"the distributed/federated digital garden approach is the way to go for knowledge commoning... cribbing from ActivityPub's local, global, and 'those-you-follow' timelines... you could have local, 'those-you-follow', and global gardens... [with] some kind of liquid democracy", and interest-based groups, perhaps s…

Microsoft will offer ChatGPT tech for companies to customize: source
www.cnbc.com
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"Microsoft imagines helping clients launch new chatbots or refine their existing ones", using a version of ChatGPT trained on post-2021 content. "The service should also provide citations to specific resources... give customers ways to upload their own data and refine the voice of their chatbots... replace Microsoft and OpenAI brand…

09/03/2023
Design thinking was supposed to fix the world. Where did it go wrong? | MIT Technology Review
www.technologyreview.com
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Good history of design thinking."IDEO’s way of working: a six-step methodology for innovation called design thinking... Key ... was its replicable aesthetic, represented by the Post-it note:... Not too precious, not too permanent... promises a fast-moving, cooperative, egalitarian process", but is also "disruptive, startup-flavored …

Startupy
startupyworld.notion.site
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"a modern version of del.icio.us meets Roam... a searchable, interconnected repository of the most insightful content on the Internet" - and a pretty interesting example of convergent evolution vis a vis myhub.ai

How to Improve Your Creative Thinking - Superorganizers - Every
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from Alice Albrecht, who "runs re:collect, a startup building an AI-powered thought partner:... advances in AI and cheaper compute lower the bar for getting from a creative idea to a final output... though, we still need to provide the initial seed... and ... judge whether we’re heading in the right direction. We’re still the creative direct…

Feedbot
feedbot.net

Feedbot vous permet de faire de la veille, de suivre et d’automatiser la publication de vos flux RSS favoris sur Mastodon

02/03/2023
Snapchat releases ‘My AI’ chatbot powered by ChatGPT
www.theverge.com
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ChatGPT-powered, the "‘My AI’ bot will ... initially only available for $3.99 a month Snapchat Plus subscribers.., eventually all... we’re going to talk to AI every day" - useful, if you're a messaging service.It's a "fast mobile-friendly version of ChatGPT inside Snapchat... trained to adhere to the company’s trust and sa…

02/03/2023
Stephen Wolfram sees peril, and promise, in ChatGPT
www.bostonglobe.com
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While "Wolfram Alpha... seeks to distill scientific facts and perform calculations", ChatGPT and other similar AIs "build statistical models and string together sentences or pictures by calculating probabilities (of what the next word should be, for example). That has led to all kinds of mistakes ... Wolfram is not optimistic that t…

02/03/2023
ChatGPT as muse, not oracle
www.geoffreylitt.com
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"What if we were to think of LLMs not as tools for answering questions, but as tools for asking us questions and inspiring our creativity? ... even simple tools can lead to interesting results when they clash with the contents of our minds"So he tries using ChatGPT as a muse. TL:DR; "ChatGPT asked me probing questions, suggested spe…

01/03/2023
How Mermaid diagrams work in Obsidian
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Mermaid lets you "creating diagrams using simple markup language... for quickly jotting down a sequence of steps or a set of interconnected relationships. The above diagrams are created with just a couple of lines of code. Other types include pie charts, sequences, gantt, etc.

Visualising with Obsidian
www.sarman.work
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David's "journey trying to visualise relationships in my Obsidian notes" passed via various approaches, including d3, as he tried to create diagrams encapsulating relationships between nodes.He then stumbled upon the obsidian-excalidraw-plugin ... [which] automatically generate Excalidraw diagrams with its Excalidraw Automate featur…

How to create a Map of Content (MOC) using Dataview in Obsidian
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How to create a Map of Content (MOC) using dataview, "effectively collating all the notes relating to a particular subject or theme in a singular higher level note."new note template: includeup:: (add link to MoC here) - needed?tags:: other tagscreated:: {{date}}alias:: # {{title}}" Obsidian inserts the date and title automatically …

25/02/2023
Obsidian Task Management (several posts)
thesweetsetup.com
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First of 3 posts on managing tasks with Obsidian, which I need to invest in as I'm creating tasks as I write my notes and then never looking for them again. This post starts with installing Calendar and Obsidian Tasks plugins. As always, to follow this advice I then needed to set up another plugin. Journaling Using Daily Questions in Obsidian…

Bing Is a Liar—and It’s Ready to Call the Cops
www.motherjones.com
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When James West "joined a small wave of users granted early access" to the new Bing (I'll call and tag it "BingGPT"), powered by the same LLM behind ChatGPT, which is "a great party trick ... powerful work tool, capable of jumpstarting creativity, automating mundane tasks", he soon "noticed strange inconsist…

The Collective Intelligence Project
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Defining collective intelligence as "Effective, decentralized, and agentic decision-making across individuals and communities to produce best-case decisions for the collective.", this is "an incubator for new governance models for transformative technology" which wants to "overcome the transformative technology trilemma&qu;…

Massive.wiki pilot project: Tools for Thought Map
mathewlowry.myhub.ai
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A pilot project to help bootstrap decentralised collective intelligence

Journalism is Lossy Compression. In The New Yorker, Ted Chiang ...
medium.com
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Jeff Jarvis is not a fan of Ted Chiang's piece on CgatGPT, although he does admit TC (one of my favourite authors) "makes a clever comparison between lossy compression... and large-language models, which learn from and spit back but do not record the entire web". Indeed, he takes the metaphor further: "what is journalism itself…

ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web
www.newyorker.com

Interesting, illuminating (but contested) metaphor for thinking about LLMs from one of my favourite authors, Ted Chiang:"Think of ChatGPT as a blurry jpeg of all the text on the Web. It retains much of the information... but, if you’re looking for an exact sequence of bits, you won’t find it; all you will ever get is an approximation... nonse…

Mapping Tools4Thought using collective intelligence tools
mathewlowry.medium.com
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The last of my 1/1/2023 bundle of 5 posts introduces a first pilot project into exploring and demonstrating decentralised solutions to collective intelligence.The knowledge domain is Tools for Thought (TfTs), so the end result will be a map of the TfT landscape, which "is forbidding to newcomers, with software still aimed at early adopters, a…

How Artificial Intelligence will finance Collective Intelligence
mathewlowry.medium.com
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The 3rd part of my 1/1/2023 bundle of 5 posts looks at how AI could turbocharge collective intelligence "and finance the resulting ecosystem, providing an alternative to Big Tech AI monopolies".

Social knowledge graphs for collective intelligence
mathewlowry.medium.com
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The second in my 1/1/2023 bundle of 5 posts exploring collective intelligence looks at the role of decentralised social networks: "A personalised, decentralised Social Knowledge Graph for each user multiplies the knowledge available to them via a trusted network of Followers and Friends, and creating collaborative possibilities more akin to w…

Thinking and writing in a decentralised collective intelligence ecosystem
mathewlowry.medium.com
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The longest of my 1/1/2023 bundle of 5 posts asks "What would a Tool4Thought designed to support decentralised collective intelligence look like?"While it explores some of the key features I'd like myhub.ai to offer, it also recognises that creating decentralised collective intelligence will require multiple, interoperable software,…

A Minimum Viable Ecosystem for collective intelligence
mathewlowry.medium.com
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The "executive summary" of my 5-part bundle of 1/1/2023, which "provide a snapshot of my current thinking into how a decentralised collective intelligence ecosystem could be bootstrapped into existence."

Turning notes into remixable slides
indieweb.org

via Chris Aldrich: "This template is used to turn a wiki page into a slideshow for presentation during IndieWebCamp events."Example: https://indieweb.org/2018/Baltimore/Building_Blocks#As discussed with Jerry, it creates a slideshow from the page's content, in the order as defined by the page. But I imagine the idea would be realiti…

The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI
maggieappleton.com
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Starts with articulating I've been meaning to write for many years about the oncoming AI-driven content flood: "The dark forest theory of the web: ... life-like but life-less state of being online... overrun with bots, advertisers, trolls, data scrapers, clickbait... algorithmically manipulated junk... eerily devoid of human life ... liv…

Boris Mann Digital Notes Garden
bmannconsulting.com

Good example of a digital garden: "This is my space for Notes, saving and highlighting Articles. It's a [[Second Brain]] or personal wiki" built using loqseq.

Manton Reece - Micro.blog Mastodon
www.manton.org

"Micro.blog can now cross-post to a Mastodon user account... Your custom domain on Micro.blog can now be ActivityPub-compatible, so that you can follow and reply to Mastodon users directly on Micro.blog ... someone can follow your blog posts".As a result "you can consolidate your identity and posts back to your own blog at your ow…

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