Training AI and my embarrassing naïvité
The Verge wrote an incredibly depressing article on the gig-economy workers teaching genAI models. Laid-off lawyers, history PhDs, and scientists are now part o...
Tag: genai
Highly suggestive uncertainty: Is Claude smarter than a puppy?
For almost 20 years, I, and some others, have been using puppies as a yardstick for smart things. We kinda push back at this idea that software and services nee...
GenAI needs editors – just like humans
Go to the back of any blockbuster novel and invariably there’s a slew of acknowledgements from the author. Acknowledgements that are common are for the ed...
Fixing omissions in the Claude UI, using Claude
I use Claude.ai a lot. One feature that I wish Anthropic offered was to search for text _inside_ the chats.* I often come back and want to use search to review ...
Is AI homogenizing our thoughts. Or are we just being idiotically lazy?
I’ve been meaning to post on this since the article came out a month ago (see link below). Back then, this article did trigger a bunch of discussion. But ...
Project: Spotify “like” Shortcut
I built a silent, tap-based Apple Shortcut that lets me like the currently playing song on Spotify. Y’see, often my phone is in my pocket when I listen to...
I did a thing: Expressive t-shirts for makers and hackers
I’m the great-grandson of a haberdasher, as I keep telling my wife. And my mother is an obsessive maker – she used to have her own children’s ...
Project: Space Invaders game, in collaboration with Claude
About two years ago, I was at one of my Hardware Happy Hour evenings and one of the guys showed what he was doing with generative AI. He showed a logo he’...
Just a thought: AI agents are mobile coupons all over again
A new phrase is bubbling up: ‘agentic AI’. That’s the AI as agent that goes out and does your bidding. The concept keeps coming up all the tim...
Does genAI have a (Gödel) incompleteness problem?
I use ChatGPT (whom I call Geoffrey) and, much more, recently, Claude (whom I call Claude), quite a bit. I use it as a sparring partner, helping me hone ideas a...