Weekly Web Harvest for 2024-07-07

  • Disability:IN 2024 Agenda Bookmarklet — Adrian Roselli
    Splendid.
  • 583: Language Models, AI, and Digital Gardens with Maggie Appleton – ShopTalk
    I listened to this again recently. It’s worth listening to.
  • I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity
    And then some absolute son of a bitch created ChatGPT, and now look at us. Look at us, resplendent in our pauper’s robes, stitched from corpulent greed and breathless credulity, spending half of the planet’s engineering efforts to add chatbot support to every application under the sun when half of the industry hasn’t worked out how to test database backups regularly.
  • Programming, Fluency, and AI – O’Reilly
    And that’s a problem. I’ve said, many of us have said, that people who learn how to use AI won’t have to worry about losing their jobs to AI. But there’s another side to that: People who learn how to use AI to the exclusion of becoming fluent in what they’re doing with the AI will also need to worry about losing their jobs to AI. They will be replaceable—literally—because they won’t be able to do anything an AI can’t do. They won’t be able to come up with good prompts because they will have trouble imagining what’s possible. They’ll have trouble figuring out how to test, and they’ll have trouble debugging when AI fails.
  • Michael Tsai – Blog – Calling AI a Bubble
    He added that the problem is that generative AI is not human or even human-like, and it’s flawed to try and assign human capabilities to it. He says people see it as so capable they even want to use it for applications that don’t make sense.

  • Amplify GenAI
    Amplify is an open source enterprise Generative AI platform for organizations. The platform has advanced Gen AI capabilities and gives you choice in which model providers you use, from Anthropic Claude to OpenAI GPT-4 Turbo. Build your own assistants, integrate your data, and share across your organization.

    h/t Amy Collier

  • Cognitive Engineering Lab
    We research how to use computers to support complex cognitive tasks: programming, verification, communication, learning, and more.

    h/t John Udell

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