Teknologi- og produktdirektør, NRK. @nedregotten@oslo.town
Oslo
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“Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo, buffalo Buffalo buffalo.”
The above sentence actually means something and is grammatically correct.
Come with us on this journey where the buffalo roam.
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16. Norway Is So Damn Rich
In 2022, Norway's oil fund was larger than the combined wealth of the 10 richest people in the world.
It makes $1 billion per week -- and holds 1.4% of the world's shares.
(Nuance: Be skeptical of individual Forbes net-worth figures)
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2. The Rise Of Negative Media
Since 2010, the media massively increased headlines that use fear, anger, disgust, and sadness.
It has also decreased articles of neutrality and joy.
It's no surprise that few media outlets are covering this meta point.
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It’s literally worse than Blade Runner
ALT Images showing New York Monday versus Wednesday versus blade runner and Wednesday is worse than blade runner - far darker
Poeng:
"So if he had to invent a term [to replace AI], what would it be? His answer is instant: applied statistics."
archive.is/2023.06.04-050658…
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Deja vu.
I'm told Facebook is announcing tomorrow it will block ALL news for 5% of Canada starting Monday. When FB ran this play in Australia, it was a global intimidation playbook. Canada is at finish line to pass similar law #C18. #ParliamentStayStrongAgainstBullyMonopolist
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What Wikipedia did: we stood strong for our principles and fought to the Supreme Court of Turkey and won. This is what it means to treat freedom of expression as a principle rather than a slogan.
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At the @guardian we've been quite quiet about generative AI. It's mainly because we're treating a complex topic with the care it requires. Here's my piece on journalism, responsibility and why, in some crucial respects, nothing has changed theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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NEW: I’m not sure people fully appreciate how dire the US life expectancy / mortality situation has got.
My column: enterprise-sharing.ft.com/re…
And some utterly damning charts.
1) at *every* point on the income distribution, Americans live shorter lives than the English.
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every american president, but they're all cool and they all sport a mullet
46. Joe Biden
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ChatGPT is trained on a large amount of news data from top sources that fuel its AI. It's unclear whether OpenAI has agreements with all of these publishers. Scraping data without permission would break the publishers' terms of service.
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Here is how #platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. 1/
