weekly reel April 9, 2023
BEHIND YOU, A THREE-HEADED MONKEY! And music, with Blithe Field.
Grits Kissed by Blithe Field (bandcamp.com)
News
[fr] Fanny Ruwet / Les gens qui doutent : Entrevue Guillaume Meurice.
SMBC: Suffering, Human arts, Words.
Tech
CoRecursive: Doug Crockford talks about JavaScript.
Andy Baio / The Verge: Chasing rainbows.
Yahtzee Croshaw / Extra Punctuation: For everyone that says I hate video games.
AI
Rodney Brooks: What will transformers transform?
Simon Willison: Language models like ChatGPT as a “calculator for words”.
Timothy B Lee: Copyright lawsuits pose a serious threat to generative AI.
The Economist: Big tech and the pursuit of AI dominance.
Shitty tech ℹ️
jwz: Clearview AI scraped 30 billion images from Facebook and gave them to cops.
Feedly launches strikebreaking as a service.
WaPo: ChatGPT invents a sexual harassment scandal and named a real law prof as the accused.