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
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
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Is Chat the Future of AI?
The promise and perils of chat and ChatGPT
巴蜀喜剧兴衰考略:关于春晚、李伯清、中江表妹和假老练
推荐一下这个播客《打脑壳WordsMisunderstood》,打脑壳的特点是主播只会说四川话和英语,不会说普通话。
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05. 巴蜀喜剧兴衰考略:关于春晚、李伯清、中江表妹和假老练 - 打脑壳WordsMisunderstood
这一期打脑壳我想来聊一个轻松点儿的话题——巴蜀方言喜剧的兴衰史。这一期虽然还是单口,但是加入了很多音频资料,算是在audio essay这个方向上的一次尝试。巴蜀喜剧可以聊的内容很多,当然不可能在一集播客里面聊完,如果大家感兴趣,也可以再继续聊具体的方言电视剧。In this episode of WordsMisunderstood, I want to discuss a topic that is very dear to my heart - comedy in the Sichuan dialect.…
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巴蜀喜剧兴衰考略:关于春晚、李伯清、中江表妹和假老练 推荐一下这个播客《打脑壳WordsMisunderstood》,打脑壳的特点是主播只会说四川话和英语,不会说普通话。 打脑壳 RSS Feed:https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2243225.rss
不算特别相关,但这期播客节目让我想到前段时间发现的这本书:Li, Jie. 2023. Cinematic Guerrillas: Propaganda, Projectionists, and Audiences in Socialist China. New York: Columbia University Press. https://cup.columbia.edu/book/cinematic-guerrillas/9780231206266.
期待多年以后有作者能够在书籍或论文中写一写巴蜀喜剧,就像二十世纪早期 四川的地方报业 一样,记录一下逝去的 The Sichuan Comedy 和 Modern China。
期待多年以后有作者能够在书籍或论文中写一写巴蜀喜剧,就像二十世纪早期 四川的地方报业 一样,记录一下逝去的 The Sichuan Comedy 和 Modern China。
Columbia University Press
Cinematic Guerrillas | Columbia University Press
Winner, 2024 Moving Image Book Award, Kraszna-Krausz FoundationHow might cinema make revolution and mobilize the masses? In socialist China, the film exhibit... | CUP
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.
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.
China Media Project
The Visual Language of China's Official Press - China Media Project
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…
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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.
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.
Cambridge Core
Job Preferences and Outcomes for China's College Graduates | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Job Preferences and Outcomes for China's College Graduates - Volume 258
本集 專訪臺大歷史系教授陳翠蓮,談談花了六、七年完成的新書,《重探戰後臺灣政治史:美國、國民黨政府與台灣社會的三方角力》
原來台灣民主化並非蔣經國主動推動的。
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原來台灣民主化並非蔣經國主動推動的。
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不好意思請問一下by致昕
這節目以前叫真相製造,劉致昕主持、午營聚樂部協力。
我們有一些好玩的實體活動,官網上還有一些好東西。
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This screenshot echoed me what happened on 27th October: Did you hear about Li Keqiang?
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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.
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.
The New Yorker
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.
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》。
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.
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.
Aeon
Loved, yet lonely
You might have the unconditional love of family and friends and yet feel deep loneliness. Can philosophy explain why?
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
https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/18/23967199/breaking-openai-board-in-discussions-with-sam-altman-to-return-as-ceo
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不是推荐大家读中文译本,最好选择自己最熟悉的某一种外语去读原版。中国严苛的出版审查制度逼迫每一个热爱知识的人必须一步步扔掉中文这个拐杖,去习惯阅读外语。拄着拐杖是走不远的,扔掉它才能 拥抱自由。 前几天看到历史学家王笛的作品《茶馆:成都公共生活的衰落与复兴(1950–2000)》出版一事因不可抗力 被迫叫停,让人深有感触。如果一本书有多种语言,简体中文书籍总是应该作为最后的选项甚至忽略的对象。如果是中文的话,可以优先考虑繁体中文版,当然阅读英文原版是最好的,特别值得一提的是,很多关于中国研究的英文书籍,…
Once again, do not read the Simplified Chinese translation.
https://fxtwitter.com/whi93833334/status/1726160333742702655
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文字审查一直没有消失过,哪怕是社会最开明的那几年,感觉读简体书如同咀嚼别人得排泄,仅仅刻意扭曲翻译一个单词,就能毁了整部书,原书叫mao a life,菲利普肖特著,1999年出英文,2004出简中。
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Once again, do not read the Simplified Chinese translation. https://fxtwitter.com/whi93833334/status/1726160333742702655
Why We Need to Talk About Marriage
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/30/on-marriage-devorah-baum-book-review-the-two-parent-privilege-melissa-kearney
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/30/on-marriage-devorah-baum-book-review-the-two-parent-privilege-melissa-kearney
The New Yorker
Why We Need to Talk About Marriage
It’s an institution that informs the tax code and the disposition of wealth—while also shaping the idiosyncratic goings on within households. What could it be, at its best?
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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/
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
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
www.oneusefulthing.org
Not much is changing, a lot is changing
OpenAI, Microsoft, and the OpenOffspring
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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…
Same view: Everyone except OpenAI wins.
https://fxtwitter.com/sindresorhus/status/1726519818839580714
https://fxtwitter.com/sindresorhus/status/1726519818839580714
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Sindre Sorhus (@sindresorhus)
I have to admit, this is a good outcome. Everyone except OpenAI wins. Sam and gang gets to continue where they left off with unlimited resources. They can hire everyone that quits from OpenAI (a new company would probably not be able to do so). They have…
500+ OpenAI employees will quit and join Microsoft unless the board resigns and reinstates Sam and Greg.
OpenAl is nothing without its people
https://fxtwitter.com/balajis/status/1726600151027073374
OpenAl is nothing without its people
https://fxtwitter.com/balajis/status/1726600151027073374
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Balaji (@balajis)
500+ OpenAI employees will quit and join Microsoft unless the board resigns and reinstates Sam and Greg.
↘️ Quoting Balaji (@balajis)
Wow. Does this mean the whole thing gets reversed, like a fire drill where everyone marches back into the building?
Suppose…
↘️ Quoting Balaji (@balajis)
Wow. Does this mean the whole thing gets reversed, like a fire drill where everyone marches back into the building?
Suppose…