2026-01-06
Some people are mad about this. I think it's great. Let kids build stuff and understand sensors as a material that can be repurposed! It seems like a foundational bit of tech literacy that could spur creativity. I'd have used the hell out of this brick. As an artist I still might!
Wired
Lego unveils the Smart Play platform, with a brick powered by a custom chip that connects to compatible minifigures and tags for interactive lights and sounds
2025-04-29
Remember last week, when AI was going to transform the world and end all labor? [embedded post]
Wired
OpenAI starts rolling out product recommendations in ChatGPT, including Plus, Pro, Free, and logged-out users, with buy buttons that link to merchants' websites
OpenAI is launching a shopping experience inside of ChatGPT, complete with product picks and buy buttons.
2025-01-08
This article may as well have been about him using GMail, but I have to reluctantly admit that my inner Barthesian just realized how much the resulting image of the explosion seemed as if it came back from a prompt window.
Associated Press
Las Vegas police say the man who exploded a Cybertruck outside the Trump hotel used ChatGPT to help plan the attack, including to seek info on explosive targets
police release details on prompts used to decide crucial details Elizabeth Urban / International Business Times : Cybertruck Attack on Trump Hotel Was Planned Using ChatGPT in Dist...
2024-12-19
I can't tell if researchers still believe this stuff or if they are “alignment faking faking,” but the examples they give in this paper are totally explainable as a result of token prediction, as always, because that is what these machines are and always will be. www.anthropic.com/research/ali...
TechCrunch
Anthropic demonstrates “alignment faking” in Claude 3 Opus to show how developers could be misled into thinking an LLM is more aligned than it may actually be
AI models can deceive, new research from Anthropic shows. They can pretend to have different views during training …
2024-12-06
Anyway here's the full post I'm responding to, looking forward to reading much spicier takes on this tomorrow. www.platformer.news/ai-skeptics- ...
Platformer
The “AI is fake and sucks” people who take phony comfort in their AI skepticism need to accept that AI is more real and dangerous than they currently admit
It's fun to say that artificial intelligence is fake and sucks — but evidence is mounting that it's real and dangerous — I. Bluesky: @matrig.net , @rickywlmsbong , @rjcc , @avell...