You mad bc #OpenAI stole Johansson' voice?

Me, I am mad that Altman called #chatGPT's voice *SKY* , as in "talking to (my!) #AI is talking to God"

This man is really off the rails. A new Fra Dolcino https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra_Dolcino

This story CONFIRMS what I wrote: https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/the-only-thing-that-ai-tech-bros

@MidnightRider no doubt that greed caused huge damage, but what I propose is "good" in the sense that as things stand now, it's the least impossible way to solve certain problems. E.g. mass urbanization, which is unstoppable barring REAL catastrophes, is incompatible with the car industry of today, REGARDLESS of who makes cars, and what fuel they use.

Three characteristics of your next car:

1, very likely, it will be Chinese

2, very likely, it will be your LAST car

3, and this will be GOOD, if it happens the right way:

https://open.substack.com/pub/mfioretti/p/carmakers-must-die-and-flat-cars

"We are close to what I call #covid19 shipper capitulation"

because of "surprisingly strong market, plus lower vessel capacity due to the Red Sea crisis"

https://theloadstar.com/mounting-container-shortages-creating-total-havoc/

My "real #smartgrid at HOME"

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/the-real-smart-grid-should-be-inside

would ALSO reduce "the black carbon that humans are directly spewing into the atmosphere" that Matt Simon describes

https://www.wired.com/story/the-world-is-ignoring-the-other-deadly-kind-of-carbon/

"No, Today's #AI isn't sentient"??? (*)

Of course it isn't but the REAL point is that even if #AI were sentient, we REALLY shouldn't give a f**k, for (at least) all these reasons:

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/taking-ai-too-seriously-is-not-intelligent

(*) from https://time.com/collection/time100-voices/6980134/ai-llm-not-sentient/

If anybody has already written, or found, a decent explanation of what this latest crap from #facebook #meta #ai is REALLY about, can they please post it? Thanks.

"There was a time when Medium was useful. But those days are long past."

"I wonder whether the writers who still use Medium have assessed the trade-off between the minuscule revenue produced and the negativity that they engender. As a means for showcasing talents and expertise there are better options than Medium."
(from https://buff.ly/4azRoHH )

1, that's 1000% true

2,here's why I never considered Medium: https://buff.ly/3Vb2IFB

@feloneouscat of course. But in practice, what''s the difference?

"so far, the consumer applications for #AI are simultaneously underwhelming and dystopian."

which is EXACTLY, EXACTLY the same thing we were saying no more than 3/4 years ago about the Internet of Things, for the same, equally valid reasons:

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/10/business/ai-dystopia-silicon-valley-nightcap/index.html

#Iot

Exactly. With #UBI, it's not IF, it's WHEN.

(do see the full post for details!)

https://open.substack.com/pub/mfioretti/p/ubi-ai-and-reality-always-in-the

"Anyone who peddles the idea of plenty of beef for the masses might as well be selling you the idea of #electriccars for everybody." (*)

Discuss

(*) just seen on FB, about #degrowth

Worrying PSA from **1941** on what contributes to create Nazis:

https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/

Worrying, and ominous, because THAT "type of education, feeding etc... " is exactly what #overparenting plus #socialmedia are and do nowadays.

"We need a third-way intellectualism", says HermesCorp:

https://darkrenaissanceradio.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-private-intellectuals

True. That's what I hope to be when I grow up, hopefully soon:

https://mfioretti.com

"Small, compact and light. The (electric) cars of the future must be redesigned":

https://www.infrajournal.com/en/w/best-electric-car

Of course. For lots of suggestions, see: https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/how-cars-are-dying-why-and-what-comes

and https://stop.zona-m.net/tag/electric-car/

"We're going to shift from typing into an address bar to search back to typing in an actual address because we can't trust the results of our query."

https://coryd.dev/posts/2024/search-is-dead-long-live-curation/

@ps9714 this (the browser technical problem, I'm just speechless about the actual crime) is disgusting. Worst than the "browser wars" in the 1990s, a step back from there, actually.

@GeorgeVotesBlue even/especially if "close your eyes to facts" means trusting AI chatbots!