We know that the task demands of cognitive tests most scores: if one version of a problem requires more work (e.g., gratuitously verbose or unclear wording, open response rather than multiple choice), people will perform worse.
«The precondition for kitsch, a condition without which kitsch would be impossible, is the availability close at hand of a fully matured cultural tradition, whose discoveries, acquisitions, and perfected self-consciousness kitsch can take advantage of for its own ends. It borrows from it devices, tricks, stratagems, rules of thumb, themes, converts them into a system, and discards the rest. It draws its life blood, so to speak, from this reservoir of accumulated experience.» #genai
«Kitsch, using for raw material the debased and academicized simulacra of genuine culture, welcomes and cultivates this insensibility. It is the source of its profits. Kitsch is mechanical and operates by formulas. Kitsch is vicarious experience and faked sensations. Kitsch changes according to style, but remains always the same. Kitsch is the epitome of all that is spurious in […] our times. Kitsch pretends to demand nothing of its customers except their money-not even their time.» #genai
«Because it can be turned out mechanically, kitsch has
become an integral part of our productive system in a way in which true culture could never be, except accidentally. It has been capitalized at a tremendous investment which must show commensurate returns; it is compelled to extend as well as to keep its markets. While it is essentially its own salesman, a great sales apparatus has nevertheless been created for it, which brings pressure to bear on every member of society.» #genai
«[Kitsch] predigests art for the spectator and spares him effort, provides him with a short cut to the pleasure of art that detours what is necessarily difficult in genuine art. [Kitsch] is synthetic art.» #genai
Demystifying GenAI and ChatGPT
-- harness the practical and pragmatic parts of AI
-- you don't have to run your own models and LLMs
-- call out to OpenAI straight from your Kotlin/Java SpringBoot codebase
-- the real magic is finding a good use-case
-- most of what you hear and see out there today isn't a good use for LLMs in the first place
“But this doesn’t save any time!” 3 useful questions when trying #LLMs:
Is there another way to get results I want? Don't give up right away.
Does AI make this task less or more annoying? Sometimes supervising drudge work feels better even if it's not faster; other times you'd still rather do it yourself.
Are results likely to improve as LLMs get better? If so, add a calendar reminder to try again in a few months. Or, keep a list of things you want to re-try post GPT-5 class models. #GenAI
Laws, ethical debates? It's all too late. The cat's out of the bag. Women over 60, 70 from our village share things like this on WhatsApp and laugh their heads off: https://mastodon.online/@asol@mastodon.social/112291529251522267
Can I take a photo of you? - Why? - I can do that with you too! - Oops!
101 real-world gen AI use cases featured at Google Cloud Next ’24.
Here’s a snapshot from Google Cloud Next ‘24 of how companies, governments, researchers and startups are already using Google Cloud AI solutions to enhance their work.
Includes 101 real-world projects covering Customer agents, Employee agents, Creative agents, Data agents, Code agents, and Security agents.
Tried to use generative AI to create a trip report. Ugh. What a disaster. I mean, it's like spewing marketing spak at me. Had to make extensive changes.
I think it saved me some time by giving me a general outline of the report. Otherwise, meh. #GenAI#AI
I understand the importance of alt text for images. But as I was drafting my image description just now a question occurred to me – in adding alt text to images am I also inadvertently making it easier for the AI bots to scrape my artwork?