David Shapton
digitalbigdave.bsky.social
David Shapton
@digitalbigdave.bsky.social
Tech writer, strategic communicator, electronic musician. Intrigued by AI. Curious about consciousness. Progressive politics. European.
That press conference by Trump was the maddest thing I have ever seen on live television!
January 30, 2025 at 5:50 PM
What is AI best at? It's best at sounding confident. Even if the answers it gives you are completely wrong, it will have been trained on well-written, confident-sounding material. This will be less of a problem as AI becomes more sophisticated, but always beware of the AI confidence trick.
November 23, 2024 at 11:42 AM
I was in M&S this morning. I still think Karl and Lady Diana had the most unlikely business partnership.
November 19, 2024 at 2:54 PM
I have evidence that the trillions of dollars invested in AI research is wasted. I just asked Google Gemini if it could fix my printer, and it said "I can't help you with that".
November 18, 2024 at 6:25 PM
Does anyone else feel like we're edging closer to the brink of, well, something...?
November 18, 2024 at 10:50 AM
Exponential progress is not intuitive. If you don't think exponentially, then you're only ever right for a very short time, or just plain wrong.
November 17, 2024 at 4:48 AM
Is it just me? It feels like almost no one is behaving like we're likely to see more technological progress in the next ten years than in the previous century.
November 17, 2024 at 4:40 AM