Weekend links: Comments on OpenAI's DevDay, AI hardware, and a harmful domain

Almost an Agent: What GPTs can do Ethan Mollick frames the “GPTs” OpenAI launched at the company’s DevDay as the best way yet to share prompts. I think that’s a really good way to think about them. Removing the prompt engineering from people who are not interested in

Weekend links: Open vs closed AI in the wake of Biden's EO

With Joe Biden signing an Executive Order on AI, and a high-level meeting on AI safety hosted by the UK government, there should be no surprise that this weeks linkblog is mainly about artificial intelligence. With these two as the backdrop, much of the debate now is focusing on the

Weekend links: Misinformation, democracy, and the need of innovation

A lot has been said about potential risks with generative AI. Lately, much of what I read are more grounded in research rather than gut instinct. The conclusion is often (most of the time, even) that generative AI won’t change the playing field for disinformation that much. The reason

Weekend links: AI transparency and AI and misinformation

While a lot of the public debate about AI risks are frustratingly vague, there is also a lot going on around AI safety that is much more specific. Among other things research aiming at building better understanding for how models are built and function, but also about what effects AI

Weekend links: Govern AI – and govern with AI

The first link this week is a long-read about the future of democracy and what part AI will play. Not only as a subject that needs to be governed, in one way or another. But also as a tool for building democracy. I think of this as duality that'

Weekend links: Return of my link-blog

Reading tech-news has been a central part of what I do for a living for 20+ years. This results in numerous intriguing links to share. On Facebook, on Twitter, on my personal blog. Sometimes in a more structured way, mostly more ad hoc. When I started this site, link-blogging was

We need to refine our discourse on artificial intelligence

Instead of mocking tools that aren’t suitable for every task, consider what they can actually be used for and why.

Note-taking, note-thinking, AI, and peripheral vision

I take notes for a couple of reasons. The most important is to help me think, to bring structure to what I read, listen to, watch, what I hear colleagues say in a meeting, or my own random thoughts while driving to work. It's not so much "note-taking" as it is "note-thinking".

Finite feeds and friendly friction

How a little road bump in your iPhone nudges you to make more deliberate decisions on where you spend your time.

Social media, algorithms, user control, and server costs

What I want is better control over the algorithms, both on a general level and also access to some settings to fine-tune how they perform.