Check out this explanation of why ChatBot version of A.I. is bogus. This video explains it by what I would call The Face on Mars effect. Just as our brains are wired to merge random topographic features on Mars into a face if one squints hard enough, our brains our also wired to parse pronouncements from certain political leaders into profound statements. This was also explored in the comedy film Being There of an intellectually limited character played by Peter Sellers, where circumstance had the pundit class as hanging on to his every word as being a metaphor for politics and society.
The following video explains why the electric car is bogus. Die hard EV enthusiasts will say they can “debunk” the claims against EVs, but the account of public transportation in downtown Budapest using locally made “midi-buses” had me in stiches. Warning, not-safe-for-work by dropping s-bombs, but funny as anything I have seen recently.
An attempt to replace journalists goes awry.
Well my first thought was, “How can you tell?”
But then again, usually, journalists do bother to get basic facts correct. In some areas (like sports journalism, which abounds with falsifiable facts and statistics) it’d be easy to spot. Opinion or advocacy “journalism” maybe not so much?
Shoulda used them at Buzzfeed. No one could tell the difference then.
They’re using AI as a clickbait generator and the human clickbait authors are complaining about the threat to their bogus jobs. I can understand why they’re worried. Writing clickbait articles is as close to being a “journalist” as most of these people will ever get.
A clickbait generator that never sleeps, thus is on the job 24/7, isn’t part of a union, takes no vacation, family leave or sick time, as long as the server farm is up. What’s not to like?
Well, that didn’t take long….
Sarah Silverman, novelists sue OpenAI for scraping their books to train ChatGPT
Where there’s smoke there’s fire,
Where there’s money there’s lawfare…
Check out this explanation of why ChatBot version of A.I. is bogus. This video explains it by what I would call The Face on Mars effect. Just as our brains are wired to merge random topographic features on Mars into a face if one squints hard enough, our brains our also wired to parse pronouncements from certain political leaders into profound statements. This was also explored in the comedy film Being There of an intellectually limited character played by Peter Sellers, where circumstance had the pundit class as hanging on to his every word as being a metaphor for politics and society.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro130m-f_yk
The following video explains why the electric car is bogus. Die hard EV enthusiasts will say they can “debunk” the claims against EVs, but the account of public transportation in downtown Budapest using locally made “midi-buses” had me in stiches. Warning, not-safe-for-work by dropping s-bombs, but funny as anything I have seen recently.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1kOLhhSjl8
An attempt to replace journalists goes awry.
Well my first thought was, “How can you tell?”
But then again, usually, journalists do bother to get basic facts correct. In some areas (like sports journalism, which abounds with falsifiable facts and statistics) it’d be easy to spot. Opinion or advocacy “journalism” maybe not so much?
Shoulda used them at Buzzfeed. No one could tell the difference then.
They’re using AI as a clickbait generator and the human clickbait authors are complaining about the threat to their bogus jobs. I can understand why they’re worried. Writing clickbait articles is as close to being a “journalist” as most of these people will ever get.
A clickbait generator that never sleeps, thus is on the job 24/7, isn’t part of a union, takes no vacation, family leave or sick time, as long as the server farm is up. What’s not to like?
Well, that didn’t take long….
Sarah Silverman, novelists sue OpenAI for scraping their books to train ChatGPT
Where there’s smoke there’s fire,
Where there’s money there’s lawfare…