I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that, in my opinion, *computing* itself is only tenuously about computers, and the sooner everyone gets on board with that – the sooner tech enthusiasts stop behaving like they have all the questions as well as all the answers to the world’s problems, and the sooner the rest of us stop playing the Emperor’s New Clothes in awe of their opaque bullshit – the safer we’ll all be.
– Jenny Andrew på Mastodon – link til indlæg
Je ne suis pas plus moderne qu’ancien, pas plus Français que Chinois, et l’idée de la patrie c’est-à-dire l’obligation où l’on est de vivre sur un coin de terre marqué en rouge ou en bleu sur la carte et de détester les autres coins en vert ou en noir m’a paru toujours étroite, bornée et d’une stupidité féroce.
– Gustave Flaubert, Brev til Louise Colet 26. august 1846
It is a strange world we live in now, wherein the output of a computer perfectly following its programming can be said to be “hallucinating” simply because its output does not match user expectations or wishes.
– Per Axbom: ChatGPT and Mad Hatter
The first half of life is Tetris; the second half is Jenga.
– Mark Leidner (link)
“AI UNLEASHED” but consider: everyone involved in this is in dire need of leashing
– David Gerard om konferencen AI Unleashed Summit – link til Mastodon-indlæg
No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.
– Ursula K. Le Guin: The Dispossessed
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
– John A. Shedd: Salt from My Attic (omdiskuteret)
With the police as hopeless and disinterested as a flapper in a nunnery, she’d have to tackle the investigation herself.
– Verity Bright: A very English murder