@KevinMarks @stevenlevy Good point, those OpenAI demos were dubious. Still, even the current range of AI tools available for people to use are impressive.
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Steven Levy @stevenlevy has written his “This Changes Everything” for AI (referencing his Dec 1995 article about the Internet). -
Steven Levy @stevenlevy has written his “This Changes Everything” for AI (referencing his Dec 1995 article about the Internet).@stevenlevy has written his “This Changes Everything” for AI (referencing his Dec 1995 article about the Internet). Certainly the power of AI now is gob-smacking…and frightening. I have found AI very useful in various ways, from helping me debug stuff in my 11ty website to assisting me with research tasks. But over the past 6 months or so, I’ve also come to realize that the human parts of the web — and it’s inherent openness — are worth fighting for, and saving. https://www.wired.com/story/its-time-to-believe-the-ai-hype/
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A media podcast I listened to today said that “the web is old-fashioned”, as part of their analysis of the OpenAI and Google news this week.@claudius Yes and I’ve had similar conversations with youngsters. But for your students, when they use their laptops and open a browser, are they aware that is the web? Do they see the browser as an app? (because of course it is) #JustCurious
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Good suggestions in the comments. https://indieweb.social/@jaredwhite/112453177663648794Good suggestions in the comments. https://indieweb.social/@jaredwhite/112453177663648794
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A media podcast I listened to today said that “the web is old-fashioned”, as part of their analysis of the OpenAI and Google news this week.@lucasgonze I think they meant AI interfaces will usurp the need to browse the web; they were especially referring to the Her version of talking AI that OpenAI showcased (as a demo) this week. But I think that’s shortsighted — AI isn’t going to create original content, it’s a statistical machine. AI is amazing, for sure, and will continue to improve. But the human aspects of the web, not to mention its openness, are vital to the future of the internet…IMHO.
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A media podcast I listened to today said that “the web is old-fashioned”, as part of their analysis of the OpenAI and Google news this week.A media podcast I listened to today said that “the web is old-fashioned”, as part of their analysis of the OpenAI and Google news this week. As if the web will turn into The Well, or something. But I am seeing the fediverse, standards-based web builders like Eleventy, and open newsletter platforms like Ghost and Buttondown (that both support the web), and I just don’t agree that the web is old-fashioned. Quite the opposite, it’s only just getting started (again)!
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Whenever I scan X these days, I can’t help but picture the WALL-E humans… e.g.Whenever I scan X these days, I can’t help but picture the WALL-E humans… e.g. here are highlights from a riveting discussion on X about the OpenAI desktop client. Apparently they are waiting for the “ask and get” era to arrive, including from their overlord’s Neuralink.
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It's May 2008 and I have a meeting at Ziff Davis Enterprise headquarters, at Lexington and 28th.btw I did some re-design work on the header of Cybercultural.com, so that the header is more visually consistent across the site (and also to make it a bit more like RWW back in the day!).
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It's May 2008 and I have a meeting at Ziff Davis Enterprise headquarters, at Lexington and 28th.It's May 2008 and I have a meeting at Ziff Davis Enterprise headquarters, at Lexington and 28th. I bet The Velvet Underground never wrote a song about accounting terms. (part 032 of my Web 2.0 memoir) https://cybercultural.com/p/032-zde-discussions-ebitda/ #InternetHistory #Serialization
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Another hint that web creators (bloggers / journos / youtubers / whatever...) *should* be furious about our data being used without compensation.As an Internet Historian (in my spare time), this is a profoundly disturbing realization. Knowing that my internet history work over the coming years is unlikely to make any money or even help in my career, but it will be incredibly valuable to the LLM companies, as part of the aggregate of web data they will hoover up and then spit out as Search Results sans referral traffic...well, that sucks, tbh.
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Another hint that web creators (bloggers / journos / youtubers / whatever...) *should* be furious about our data being used without compensation.Another hint that web creators (bloggers / journos / youtubers / whatever...) *should* be furious about our data being used without compensation. It occurs to me this is the current era's version of Big Tech building empires off UGC ("user generated content"). Back then, in Web 2.0, it was all about harvesting real-time user data. But now, the new tech empires are being built off *our archives*, both social (Reddit, et al) and the long-form content we've all created.
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"And now that LLMs promise to let users understand all that the web contains in real time, Google at last has what it needs to finish the job: replacing the web, in so many of the ways that matter, with itself." @caseynewton says it so much more eloque..."And now that LLMs promise to let users understand all that the web contains in real time, Google at last has what it needs to finish the job: replacing the web, in so many of the ways that matter, with itself." @caseynewton says it so much more eloquently than my own clumsy post about Google I/O (as a snooker player might say when he/she loses a game, I didn't quite get the angle right in my post!). https://www.platformer.news/google-io-ai-search-sundar-pichai/
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Today’s Google I/O developer conference was heavily focused on AI.@Ciantic Yes, my bad, I meant they didn’t mention it in dev context. I tweaked the post to clarify.
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Today’s Google I/O developer conference was heavily focused on AI.Today’s Google I/O developer conference was heavily focused on AI. However, web ecosystem concerns about AI and Google Search went unanswered. https://thenewstack.io/devs-get-ai-pixie-dust-at-google-i-o-but-no-search-updates/ #GoogleIO
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This is a good use case for AI…revealing how incredibly complex the human brain is! “The one cubic millimeter tissue sample contained about 50,000 cells and about 150 million synapses.” https://blog.google/technology/research/google-ai-research-new-ima...This is a good use case for AI…revealing how incredibly complex the human brain is! “The one cubic millimeter tissue sample contained about 50,000 cells and about 150 million synapses.” https://blog.google/technology/research/google-ai-research-new-images-human-brain/
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Life update: having a kid in October. 🥰@jmduke Congrats Justin, and all the best!
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Eleventy is an act of rebellion against the dark forces driving today’s internet, said its creator @zachleat at #11tyConf.Not sure how many people read to the end of articles these days, but I have to say I was quite pleased with my final paragraph
"Perhaps it’s that feeling of being subversive — kicking against the platform pricks — and going back to our roots as a web developer community that has led to the Eleventy Renaissance. All I can say is: vive la résistance!"
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Eleventy is an act of rebellion against the dark forces driving today’s internet, said its creator @zachleat at #11tyConf.Eleventy is an act of rebellion against the dark forces driving today’s internet, said its creator @zachleat at #11tyConf. Also at the lively event, we discovered that @eleventy does scale! https://thenewstack.io/static-sites-do-scale-eleventy-vs-next-js-at-11ty-event/ #WebDev
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These “non-answers” from bigcos drive me nuts as a tech journalist.These “non-answers” from bigcos drive me nuts as a tech journalist. I was in a Google press briefing the other day and there was a lot of it. I get it, execs don’t want to put themselves in the firing line (literally, these days), but I miss the days when we got imaginative “what if” answers and forward-thinking responses about their goals. Although, admittedly that did get the whole web ecosystem in trouble post-Web 2.0! Still, imagination > bland answers any day. https://social.coop/@J12t/112419949747609108
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I've given search engines a hard time today, but I have to say a recent blog post of mine is now on page 1 of results in Google search for the name of a certain scummy company So even though I didn't "go viral" or anything with that post, if people ...I've given search engines a hard time today, but I have to say a recent blog post of mine is now on page 1 of results in Google search for the name of a certain scummy company So even though I didn't "go viral" or anything with that post, if people actually search for the name of that company, they might be interested in the background I provide! https://ricmac.org/2024/04/29/why-clickout-media-a-gambling-pr-company-bought-readwrite/