@caseynewton Another very informative and thought-generating episode. I'm glad Kevin asked about privacy, because that is my biggest concern. I can see why Nomi doesn't want to jump to a suicide prevention phone number, but how would it handle someone planning a mass shooting? There are so many of these AI bots, how do we know China or the FBI isn't catfishing on one of these? Seems they could make a useful agent of sorts. Thanks for this, Casey!
It's Hard Fork Friday! This week, FTC Chair Lina Khan on regulating AI, open vs. closed development, and when she's going to get around to suing Elon Musk. PLUS: We build our first GPTs, and Kevin talks to one of the ApeFest attendees who got his eyes burned https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/podcasts/hardfork-chatbot-ftc.html
@caseynewton Thank you for the Flying Toasters moment. Dantz - where I worked in the late 80's into the 90's - was right across the street from Berkeley Systems in North Berkeley. We were secretly a bit jealous at how fast they grew just from those toasters.
I've had dozens--perhaps hundreds--of conversations with people and entities who could potentially support this kind of work in the medium to long term. Some have been incredibly enthusiastic about that prospect! But all have ultimately fallen through, and now it's crunch time.
@warmapper Thank you for transferring your skills to this conflict. (Wouldn't mind being able to see Ukraine, too, if you've got time, even if there isn't anything to mention.)
@caseynewton@zoeschiffer Trying to find something positive: new editions of Marketing 101 textbooks have an excellent example of how to destroy a brand.
To respond en masse to all the Mastodon folks who have been sending me angry messages regarding my presence here versus on other social media platforms, I'll say only this: that sure isn't a great way to convince a person to spend more time here. I'm baffled by it, and very disappointed.
@weatherwest I'm fine with the cross-posting, even though the posts repeat and drop portions of your original X posts. I just don't want to miss your YouTube Lives and new Weather West blog posts. I really need those advance announcements you post so I can adjust my schedule. Your analysis of weather patterns has greatly reduced stress during our winegrape harvest. Thank you!
Ukraine has made advances behind the Russian defensive network west of Verbove.
For the first time since Ukraine initially breached the line with infantry, two weeks ago Ukrainian vehicles are now in use behind the anti-vehicle ditches and dragons teeth defences.
@warmapper Thanks for the heads-up before your well-deserved break. Hoping you'll be super-busy marking up your map with tan areas when you get back. Have a good time!
I can't believe. The bird site is about to die. The final hours of Twitter before Elon is moving to X. It is already https://x.com/nixcraft (redirecting to https://twitter.com/nixcraft) So much history is about to go to the /dev/null. So many links are going to break forever. 🤡 #twitter#birdsite
@nixCraft We have Twitter bird icon share links in our websites and on our business cards. Do you think I'm going to update them, or simply ex them out? Goodbye.