Simon Willison: AI for Data Journalism – an annotated version of a recent talk where Simon gave twelve (!) demos of using AI tools to process data – jam packed!
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Tracy Durnell: Recursive human thought – “How much will replacing the thinking work of writing with generating content dull and slow progression of ideas?“
My thoughts on the current AI explosion
For some time now, people have been exploring public AI models like DALL-E and GPT-3/GPT-4. From the software development standpoint, it appears that with the correct prompts, these models can generate source code that can do 80-90% of what you want (for specific tasks). Simon Willison has a great walkthrough of one of his experiments. Another area is training models on your own data. Dave Winer is working with Chat Thing to create his own personal chatbot which can answer questions about the content he has published since 1994 (Ton Ziljstra has shared some thoughts on this topic). I don’t think that these types of applications will be replacing programmers just yet, but they are already helping programmers be more productive. The uptick of people using these apps to create content is somewhat troubling, I would say the “jury is still out” on those types of use cases.
I posted a question on Dave Winer’s chatbot about fat pages, got a decent response!
Frank McPherson would like a personal search engine for his writing rather than an AI. I don’t think I have enough online writing to make use of an AI of my writing.
Read: How do we learn to work with intelligent machines
I had not thought about how AIs might prevent people starting in a profession from being able to learn about the profession.