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Is Chat the Future of AI?

Chat isn’t great at making one thing incredible.

It’s inexact, it’s unreliable, it’s hard to steer precisely, it’s slow, and it forces repetition. Many next-generation AI creative tools won’t have a chat interface at all.

But, viewed correctly, these flaws are chat’s genius. It is inexact and unreliable—so it introduces you to new things. It is hard to steer precisely—so you’ll bump into things that you don’t expect and broaden your horizons in any new domain. It is great at filling a blank page; it will allow you to venture forth into ideas that you can barely put into words.

No, chat isn’t great at making one thing incredible. It’s incredible at making 1,000 things. And therein lies its genius.

Any kind of creative endeavor has two phases: divergence and convergence.

Most creative tools are built for convergence.

ChatGPT is different—it is built for divergence.

ChatGPT is for rambling. It’s for rapid prototyping. It’s for getting up to speed quickly in completely unfamiliar terrain. It’s for the dreamers and the generalists—not for the specialists.

https://every.to/chain-of-thought/is-chat-the-future-of-ai
The Visual Language of China’s Official Press

Understanding the political messages of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) requires much more than mere summary and translation — and more even than close textual readings. Here’s a walk through the basics, looking at today’s edition of the Party’s flagship newspaper.

The space must be used to achieve one goal: signaling the power of the CCP Central Committee and its top leader.

When visits are reported between China’s top leader and multiple foreign leaders in a single edition of the People’s Daily, the visual treatment of these visits can often reveal the CCP’s prioritization of various bilateral relationships.
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从毕业分配到自主择业:就业关系中的个人与国家——以1951_1999年《人民日报》对高校毕业分配的报道为例.pdf
尽管私营企业在中国的劳动力市场上占主导地位,但受过大学教育的工作者仍然高度集中在国有部门。利用中国大学生就业追踪调查数据(2010–2015),我们发现样本中 64% 的学生非常倾向于在国有部门就业。研究还发现了与获得国有部门工作机会相关的几个因素,包括男性、拥有城市户口、中共党员、标准化考试成绩好、就读于精英大学,以及拥有较高的家庭收入或高地位的父母背景。这些发现表明,尽管中国经历了经济转型,私营部门可能仍然难以吸引高学历的工作者。

Li, Hongbin, Lingsheng Meng, Yanyan Xiong, and Sinclair L. Cook. 2023. “Job Preferences and Outcomes for China’s College Graduates.” The China Quarterly, November, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741023001510.
Is My Toddler a Stochastic Parrot?

The world is racing to develop ever more sophisticated large language models while a small language model unfurls itself in my home.

What makes us real to each other?

Talking about the outside world, as seen from the inside of our skulls. About the trees and the grass on our walk, the smell of the air.

Talking-about ourselves and others. About what we feel and think and imagine.

Human obsolescence is not here and can never be.
强烈建议做中国研究的各位学者在文中写出中文人名,罗马化后的拼音真的太难辨别了。

图一出自 Self-Reliant Science: The Impact of the Cold War on Science in Socialist China

我查了半天,才搞清楚 Le Tianyu 指的是 乐天宇,一位农林生物学家。图二是 1952 年 6 月 29 日人民日报刊登的一篇批判乐天宇的文章《我对于乐天宇同志所犯错误的感想》。
Loved, Yet Lonely

What plagues accounts that tie loneliness to an absence of basic recognition is that they fail to do justice to loneliness as a feeling that pops up not only when one lacks sufficiently loving, affirmative relationships, but also when one perceives that the relationships she has (including and perhaps especially loving relationships) lack sufficient quality (for example, lacking depth or a desired feeling of connection).

After undergoing a particularly transformative experience, we become different people in key respects than we were before. If after such a personal transformation, our friends are unable to meet our newly developed core needs or recognise and affirm our new values and central desires – perhaps in large part because they cannot, because they do not (yet) recognise or understand who we have become – we will suffer loneliness.

Even with loving friends, if we perceive ourselves as unable to be seen and affirmed as the particular people we are, or if certain of our core needs go unmet, we will feel lonely.

Those with a strong need for their uniqueness to be recognised may be more disposed to loneliness.

Others with weaker needs for recognition or reciprocal emotional attachment may experience a good deal of social isolation without feeling lonely at all.

Most of us can recall a friend who once met certain of our core social needs, but who eventually – gradually, perhaps even imperceptibly – ultimately failed to do so.

To position your friend to better meet your needs, you might attempt to communicate those needs and articulate ways in which you don’t feel seen.

Of course, such a strategy will be successful only if the unmet needs provoking one’s loneliness are needs one can identify and articulate. But we will so often – perhaps always – have needs, desires and values of which we are unaware or that we cannot articulate, even to ourselves.

We are, to some extent, always opaque to ourselves. Given this opacity, some degree of loneliness may be an inevitable part of the human condition.
The OpenAI board is in discussions with Sam Altman to return to the company as its CEO

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/18/23967199/breaking-openai-board-in-discussions-with-sam-altman-to-return-as-ceo
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Once again, do not read the Simplified Chinese translation. https://fxtwitter.com/whi93833334/status/1726160333742702655
除了中译本修改英文版的原意外,最近我还发现了一种中文论文中自我审查的胡乱引用方式。

在上图中,左侧 的中文论文引用了 右侧 的英文书籍。容易发现,作者自以为是地将台湾替换为了阿富汗。此外,作者的这个引用本身也是有问题的,右侧英文部分的作者并非 Murphy。
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(從明至今)中國歷史地名查詢系統 Chinese Historical Geographic Names Database https://newarchive.ihp.sinica.edu.tw/hplname/
中央研究院近代史研究所《英華字典資料庫》收錄 1815 年至 1919 年間極具代表性的早期英華字典。

每日一字

Dictator: 操權的,1916 赫美玲官話,382 頁

Biden: Well, look, he’s (Xi Jinping) a dictator in the sense that he is a guy who runs a country that is a communist country that’s based on a form of government totally different than ours.
Not much is changing, a lot is changing

OpenAI is likely to continue, though in what form, and with how many of its original employees, is unclear. There will clearly be a change in strategy, and in mission. Its partnership with Microsoft is going to change as well. Given the immense capabilities that remain in the organization, I think we should all be paying very close attention to what those changes are, and what they mean for OpenAI’s timeline for creating new forms of AI.

I think the exodus we are about to see from OpenAI is going to be at the level of Fairchild and PayPal. We are going to see many OpenOffspring (ChatGPT’s suggestion for a catchy name, we will see if it sticks) funded to compete with the existing AI labs, and to pursue new ideas. Microsoft will be one beneficiary, but it will not be the only place OpenAI veterans go. The question is not whether new startups will form, but how many. And, also, how much realignment will happen among the other, larger, players in the space like Google and Microsoft, relative to the AI labs.

The probable changes to OpenAI as an organization are unlikely to change our present, but they do change our future.

As momentum shifts from OpenAI to a mix of large companies like Microsoft and the new OpenOffspring, we are likely to see the field accelerate, not slow down.

For most people, little about how AI will affect their jobs or education will change as a result of what happened this weekend, but our future may be very different than what might have been.

https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/not-much-is-changing-a-lot-is-changing
2025/07/07 03:34:41
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