I was well prepared for this, having read Simon's rollup of the AI water issue is fake, and sure enough not an hour has passed before I came across AI-related data centres use vast amounts of water. But gauging how much is a murky business from our friends
The fine folks at Amazon randomly sent me an email about some kind of "Build Games Challenge" where if I built a retro game using Amazon Q Developer's agentic coding tool I could get a t-shirt. This offering seemed tailor made for me, as I don&
Via Kottke: in an NYT article about Doom's ability to be run on just about anything, they made a point of embedding Doom into the article. I haven't checked (or actually read the article,) but I'm assuming they used a Webassembly port similar to
If ever there was an example of how "dot now" is a prompt for whatever's taken over my mind in the moment... When I was a kid, fireflies were abundant. I don't think we ever caught them in jars, but I absolutely remember briefly
Simon Willison has some thoughts on ChatGPT's new memory dossier (title spoiler: he doesn't like it.) He's finding that his past queries are influencing new responses, which on the surface sounds like a feature, but... "I try a lot of stupid things with
"Separated at Birth was a police program you used in missing persons cases. You scanned a photo of the person you wanted, got back the names of half a dozen celebrities who looked vaguely like the subject, then went around asking people if they'd seen anybody lately
I’ve been spending some time lately trying to get AI to do things that I’m not very good at personally. I don’t expect amazing outcomes and these aren’t high stakes activities (and that’s a good thing; more on that in a sec,) but while I
Microsoft’s AI security chief accidentally reveals Walmart’s AI plans after protest. There was a protest at their Build event, and when the screen sharing went back up, it wasn’t the slide deck that went up on the big screen, but rather an MS Teams chat with sensitive
Well, it happened. My teenage son said, “By the time I need English, I won’t need English.” Ironically, that’s a pretty clever use of English. He explained that with tools like Grammarly and ChatGPT, he doesn’t see much value in putting extra effort into English class. Other
"My first games involved hand assembling machine code and turning graph paper characters into hex digits. Software progress has made that work as irrelevant as chariot wheel maintenance." John's talking about tooling (computers are probably the ultimate tools to make tools,) but let's not
"Reflexive AI usage is now a baseline expectation at Shopify" Pasting the whole thing below, because while Ghost's ability to embed social media posts is super easy to get into, long posts don't render directly and who knows how long that tech will last.
"We're at the stage where every city committee meeting features a councillor moving a motion asking "can we use AI?" to fix whatever problem they're debating." And part of me is like... But the other part of me (two wolves!) is interested