I can see why publicly proclaiming that you’re being innovative with new technology to reduce your headcount is a better alternative to admitting your firm isn’t doing well or to publicly blaming US policy. It might not be the whole truth, though. Usually, when there are large layoffs, the truth is a questionable idea anyway.…

I think we can agree that granting someone full access to the open internet without education or tools to protect themselves would be dangerous, no? 
OK, but what is a general-purpose LLM but a collection of everything that the model could ingest, without rules about what was safe and what wasn’t? 
Yet we expect people…

Personally, I’ve moved away from using the POP feature in Gmail to import mail from other email accounts into Gmail to take advantage of the spam protection. Since I host my own sites and my own M365 tenant, much of that spam protection lives elsewhere for me, but I can understand why others have continued…

I’ve always written under the assumption that people were reading what I put out here and, hopefully, learning something. In the age of AI-slop, I want more of that, and only that. I’m seeking it out and connecting with it. I am not connecting with people who are creating crap content in a chase for…

This challenge, in part, is why my job title is now related to Information Governance and Compliance. It’s recognizing that data is a valuable asset and a significant risk. Grounding your AI in low-quality data is a massive risk
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So what you’re telling me is that AI chatbots can spout so much bullshit, so fast, and so confidently that they are incredibly effective at changing people’s political beliefs?
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With the demand for chips, processors, and memory from AI data centers, there’s a ton of money to be made, and selling small amounts of these same parts to computer enthusiasts is a distraction that isn’t worth the effort. 
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