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Part of the process of stoking hype around generative AI are the many articles and tweet threads promising to let readers in on the tips and secrets of how to better prompt the models, to unlock their true potential. Don’t be too proud to ask it to explain things as if to an…
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Overreliance as a service
I am imagining a scenario in the near future when I will be working on writing something in some productivity suite or other, and as I type in the main…
Rob Horning
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Motivation crowding theory and practice
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Rob Horning
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Doom loopism
Concern about algorithmic culture often recurs to the fear of a doom loop, the idea that nothing new will be possible because we will be fully embedded…
Rob Horning
Mar 11
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The signal of compliance
“Messages are themselves a form of pattern and organization,” cyberneticist Norbert Wiener writes in The Human Use of Human Beings (1950). “Indeed, it…
Rob Horning
Mar 4
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Live album
If you are posting to a general audience on a social media platform, you are making an attempt at “influencing.” There is no coherent position from…
Rob Horning
Feb 24
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Paralogisms of AI
In a since-deleted tweet, Ars Technica reporter Benj Edwards, after hearing reports that Bing’s chatbot was making up information about chats it had…
Rob Horning
Feb 18
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Garbage island
This week, in a widely anticipated move, Google and Microsoft both announced their intention to augment search engines with large-language models. It…
Rob Horning
Feb 10
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