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Generative AI warnings cont’d

david — Sun, 07 May 2023 05:05:00 +0000

It was a heavy hitting week for humanity scale concerns and generative AI warnings. Heavy hitting, not because of the usual media churn but because of the actors and the emerging clarity. Warnings focussed, not about imminent AGI, but what we already know is going on – social manipulation for power and profit. Gems from …

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When will pro-human/planet AI overtake manipulation?

david — Thu, 04 May 2023 23:34:16 +0000

In 2022 my team released an AI neural net plugin to our SurfControl email filter that was trained to detect possible inappropriate (nude) images in corporate emails. As an “applied” use of AI it was groundbreaking and exciting. As a product it was very good at detecting sand dunes and baby faces 👶. A neural …

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Prometheus, Icarus, Sweetums and Lucifer walk into a bar…

david — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 00:18:13 +0000

regarding: https://paulkingsnorth.substack.com/p/the-universal I enjoyed this intriguing and well-written post forwarded to me by a friend. This post has some thoughts: By proposing (from previous posts) that each age of humanity fixates on a sovereign for their age, he sets out to uncover the someone or something that is the heir to the throne. Spoiler Alert: …

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The Sanctity of Human Experience (maybe)

david — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 01:55:38 +0000

One minute on twitter has me questioning the sanctity of human life, but recent AI advances with GPT-4 raise questions of the uniqueness of our creative output. What takes sweat and time and inspiration suddenly feels average compared to the output from ChatGPT as it rapidly scrolls words out in seconds. People with a vested …

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Splitting stories from posts

david — Sun, 30 May 2021 05:48:44 +0000

We’ve moved prose and poems to its own section, you can find it at Writing

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What is One Step Beyond?

Pamela Bray — Mon, 18 May 2020 06:27:14 +0000

Everyone is creative. Creativity is a birthright. But we seem to have lost the art of it. As children, we played. Everything was a game. We made things with mud, paste and paper, our food. We didn’t think about it, compare it, keep it. It was just about the moment. As adults, we hold opinions …

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10 ways smart people stay calm

Pamela Bray — Fri, 17 May 2019 06:51:23 +0000

I’ve just come back from a couple of days in the country – a complete change of pace, demand, activity … even got a few hours of forest bathing – bliss. I think for me, this ticked off #1 and #4 in this article I’m sharing about staying calm and staying on top of the …

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A return to authenticity

Pamela Bray — Thu, 04 May 2017 08:49:13 +0000

Many years ago I used a bought image in a job for a client for the Asian market. The girl in the image was clean and sparkly with a fabulously engaging smile – perfect! Over the years I see her pop up more and more often, in everything from a nurses outfit to a tennis player. …

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