Day: 10 September 2024
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According to news media: today, a billionaire is being taken into space, where the crew will open the rocket door and put him outside.
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The Polaris Dawn crew (billionaire Jared Isaacman, accompanied by a retired US Air Force pilot and two SpaceX employees) preparing to launch.
This seems like a great start, and I hope that the remaining 1,780+ billionaires left here on earth will be following suit soon.
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Why don't I like pickled onion crisps?
I like pickled onions. And I imagine that the flavourings used in pickled onion crisps are basically the onion flavouring from cheese & onion and the vinegar flavouring from salt & vinegar, both of which are varieties I like.
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AI posts on social media are the chicken nuggets of human interaction
Ruth shares her thoughts on the current state of generative AI, and I had a surprising amount to say about them. But mostly, I just love her metaphor about AI-generated social media posts!
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How is it the Tenth of Bleptember already? This young lady has so-far put off her morning nap and is instead intently watching me to see what I do next with my workday. Maybe it'll involve dog treats! (Spoiler: it probably won't. But you never know...)
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Exaggerated soft-focus photo of a sitting French Bulldog looking up from her basket, her tongue sticking out.
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The biggest problem with “AI” is probably that it’s used as label for two completely different things: 1. Specialized neural networks trained to do highly specific tasks (e.g. cancer screening) which often work reasonably well as a tool to support human experts. 2. Generative AI which thoroughly produces the most mid bullshit. It doesn’t help that neither are intelligent in any way, they’re both statistical pattern matching. - Thomas