Oscar C. Tirabassi
@oscarctirabassi.bsky.social
Towards a new AI gradualism. MSc @lsephilosophy.bsky.social 💙
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It's hard to shake the sense that if generative AI were any other tech trend—without the AGI mythology, the industry-wide bias confirmation, the historic levels of investment many firms treat as sunk costs—the AI boom would either just be one pretty successful app or dead in a ditch altogether.
Newsletter: There is no AI Revolution. Consumer adoption of generative AI outside of ChatGPT is barely 100 million people, every single company in generative AI is deeply unprofitable, Microsoft is pulling capex, and OpenAI spent $9bn in 2024 to lose $5bn.
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There Is No AI Revolution
Soundtrack: Mack Glocky - Chasing Cars
Last week, I spent a great deal of time and words framing the generative AI industry as a cynical con where OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei hav...
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February 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
It's hard to shake the sense that if generative AI were any other tech trend—without the AGI mythology, the industry-wide bias confirmation, the historic levels of investment many firms treat as sunk costs—the AI boom would either just be one pretty successful app or dead in a ditch altogether.
I wrote about The Brutalist's AI controversy + the impossible economics of making arthouse movies
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Brutally Dishonest
The beleaguered American film industry and its discontents
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February 22, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I wrote about The Brutalist's AI controversy + the impossible economics of making arthouse movies
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Making my students read "The Californian Ideology" for class this week and it's kind of incredible that Wired has gone from being a founding standard bearer of that ideology to the outlet most aggressively and critically covering the horrors said ideology has wrought
February 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Making my students read "The Californian Ideology" for class this week and it's kind of incredible that Wired has gone from being a founding standard bearer of that ideology to the outlet most aggressively and critically covering the horrors said ideology has wrought
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“Grindr users will be presented with the option to allow their sensitive data, such as the contents of their conversations and precise location, to be used to train the company’s AI tools.”
I Took Grindr’s AI Wingman for a Spin. Here’s a Glimpse of Your Dating Future
Grindr CEO George Arison is going all-in on artificial intelligence. I tested the beta version of the queer app’s AI wingman, letting it guide my interactions and offer advice.
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February 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
“Grindr users will be presented with the option to allow their sensitive data, such as the contents of their conversations and precise location, to be used to train the company’s AI tools.”
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Would Karl Popper think OpenAI is open?
February 5, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Would Karl Popper think OpenAI is open?
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sci fi short story where the technocrat population increasingly uses ai for everyday tasks, believing they will evolve into a more advanced species. those who still learn and read are banished from society. over time the former transform into primitive beings, morlocks reliant on their machines
January 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
sci fi short story where the technocrat population increasingly uses ai for everyday tasks, believing they will evolve into a more advanced species. those who still learn and read are banished from society. over time the former transform into primitive beings, morlocks reliant on their machines
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Worth also pointing out that there are many "tests so easy no AI system can pass them".
Moravec's paradox remains.
E.g., arxiv.org/abs/2404.12390
Moravec's paradox remains.
E.g., arxiv.org/abs/2404.12390
January 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Worth also pointing out that there are many "tests so easy no AI system can pass them".
Moravec's paradox remains.
E.g., arxiv.org/abs/2404.12390
Moravec's paradox remains.
E.g., arxiv.org/abs/2404.12390
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“Meta continues to believe that people want to be shown more and more AI-generated content and is finding new ways to fill people’s feeds with AI. Now, it seems, some of that AI-generated content will feature AI versions of users themselves.”
New: Days after Meta had to kill its AI-generated profiles due to backlash, some Instagram users are now being shown AI-generated images of themselves that are being automatically created by Instagram and put in their feeds
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Instagram Begins Randomly Showing Users AI-Generated Images of Themselves
Meta AI put a Redditor into "an endless maze of mirrors" as part of a new AI feature it is testing.
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January 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM
“Meta continues to believe that people want to be shown more and more AI-generated content and is finding new ways to fill people’s feeds with AI. Now, it seems, some of that AI-generated content will feature AI versions of users themselves.”
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Excerpt from a thread comparing OpenAI to Enron — from someone who saw the latter collapse from up close.
I mostly steer clear of OpenAI palace intrigue but man, all the signs are there. High flying VC darling. CEO with known ethical issues (ask former board member Helen Toner). Predictions about the future that continue to spiral in their grandiosity (see Altman blog post yesterday).
January 6, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Excerpt from a thread comparing OpenAI to Enron — from someone who saw the latter collapse from up close.
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“AI scribes seem inevitable to many doctors I spoke with, but whether it actually saves them time is an open question. A study published in November of one of the first academic health systems to use AI scribes found that the tech ‘did not make clinicians as a group more efficient.’”
Column | Should you trust an AI-assisted doctor? I visited one to see.
Our tech columnist visits a doctor assisted by AI. He finds potential and worrisome questions about whether it’s accurate, biased or always useful in health care.
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December 25, 2024 at 2:49 PM
“AI scribes seem inevitable to many doctors I spoke with, but whether it actually saves them time is an open question. A study published in November of one of the first academic health systems to use AI scribes found that the tech ‘did not make clinicians as a group more efficient.’”
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Three o3 predictions, re OpenAI’s rumored release today:
– People will initially be amazed
- Once they dive in, they will see that it is not reliable
- It will work best in closed-domains (like math problems) but less reliably in open-ended domains (like everyday reasoning about the real world).
– People will initially be amazed
- Once they dive in, they will see that it is not reliable
- It will work best in closed-domains (like math problems) but less reliably in open-ended domains (like everyday reasoning about the real world).
December 20, 2024 at 2:46 PM
Three o3 predictions, re OpenAI’s rumored release today:
– People will initially be amazed
- Once they dive in, they will see that it is not reliable
- It will work best in closed-domains (like math problems) but less reliably in open-ended domains (like everyday reasoning about the real world).
– People will initially be amazed
- Once they dive in, they will see that it is not reliable
- It will work best in closed-domains (like math problems) but less reliably in open-ended domains (like everyday reasoning about the real world).
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The underlying assumption is that a person’s writing style is something to be divined only from what they’ve done in the past, rather than an evolving process that changes as you change as a person who experiences the world.
Anthropic says Claude AI can match your unique writing style
Or just pick from three style presets to make quick adjustments.
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November 26, 2024 at 6:15 PM
The underlying assumption is that a person’s writing style is something to be divined only from what they’ve done in the past, rather than an evolving process that changes as you change as a person who experiences the world.