«The precondition for kitsch, a condition without which kitsch would be impossible, is the availability close at hand of a fully matured cultural tradition, whose discoveries, acquisitions, and perfected self-consciousness kitsch can take advantage of for its own ends. It borrows from it devices, tricks, stratagems, rules of thumb, themes, converts them into a system, and discards the rest. It draws its life blood, so to speak, from this reservoir of accumulated experience.» #genai
Demystifying GenAI and ChatGPT
-- harness the practical and pragmatic parts of AI
-- you don't have to run your own models and LLMs
-- call out to OpenAI straight from your Kotlin/Java SpringBoot codebase
-- the real magic is finding a good use-case
-- most of what you hear and see out there today isn't a good use for LLMs in the first place
“But this doesn’t save any time!” 3 useful questions when trying #LLMs:
Is there another way to get results I want? Don't give up right away.
Does AI make this task less or more annoying? Sometimes supervising drudge work feels better even if it's not faster; other times you'd still rather do it yourself.
Are results likely to improve as LLMs get better? If so, add a calendar reminder to try again in a few months. Or, keep a list of things you want to re-try post GPT-5 class models. #GenAI
Laws, ethical debates? It's all too late. The cat's out of the bag. Women over 60, 70 from our village share things like this on WhatsApp and laugh their heads off: https://mastodon.online/@asol@mastodon.social/112291529251522267
Can I take a photo of you? - Why? - I can do that with you too! - Oops!
101 real-world gen AI use cases featured at Google Cloud Next ’24.
Here’s a snapshot from Google Cloud Next ‘24 of how companies, governments, researchers and startups are already using Google Cloud AI solutions to enhance their work.
Includes 101 real-world projects covering Customer agents, Employee agents, Creative agents, Data agents, Code agents, and Security agents.
Tried to use generative AI to create a trip report. Ugh. What a disaster. I mean, it's like spewing marketing spak at me. Had to make extensive changes.
I think it saved me some time by giving me a general outline of the report. Otherwise, meh. #GenAI#AI
I understand the importance of alt text for images. But as I was drafting my image description just now a question occurred to me – in adding alt text to images am I also inadvertently making it easier for the AI bots to scrape my artwork?
The true power of #genAI is not technological, but rhetorical: almost all conversations about it are about what executives are saying it will do "one day" or "soon" rather than what we actually see (and of course no mention of business model which doesn't exist).
We are told to simultaneously believe AI is so "early days" as to excuse any lack of real usefulness, and that it is so established - even "too big to fail" - that we are not permitted to imagine a future without it.
“Star Trek's Holodeck is no longer just science fiction. Using AI, engineers have created a tool that can generate 3D environments, prompted by everyday language.” This was designed to train robots, not entertain us humans. But Star Trek fans can easily envision other uses. #GenAI#AI
"I believe that artificial intelligence has three quarters to prove itself before the apocalypse comes, and when it does, it will be that much worse, savaging the revenues of the biggest companies in tech.", predicts Ed Zitron.