“ With this fund, we will work with partners to scale impact and foster innovation by leveraging AI’s transformative potential in areas such as education, economic opportunity, community organizing, and healthcare. We will also support community-led research and innovation for using AI’s potential to advance the public good.”
We will subsidise the use of our technology in schools, to get people dependant. This will be our future revenue. We need to make it sound flowery though. ChatGPT. Make me sound like a philanthropist.
I have that issue too. But for literature it’s something more primal.
Fiction feels like the ultimate distillation of the human experience. A way to share perspective and experience. And having some algorithm flatten that feels utterly macabre.
Not to be too dramatic. I know that not all fiction is transcendent. But still. There’s something so utterly gross about using a machine for it.
Yeah? The sentiment of “why read something somebody didn’t bother to write” sort of has to be.
And when it comes to books, I find that to be a fairly compelling argument. I want my fiction to be imbibed with the experiences of the author. And I want my nonfiction to be grounded by the realities of the world around me, processed again through a human perspective.
It could be the best written book in the world, it’ll always be missing that human element.
The website is unfortunately down now, due to the fact I no longer work at Amazon, but the code is still readily available if you want to run it yourself.
It's the same if you sum it up across the population: all the benefits that elderly consume without producing are subtracted from what young people produce without consuming.
If you want your parents to retire earlier than the population-averaged system can allow, you're free to do it a non-averaged way.
Apparently the community is trying to shape the project into a workable self-hosted state. Ironic post from two months ago about a user trying to migrate away from Pocket to Omnivore:
They should be able to change it with fairly minimal changes. I managed to modify some things to proxy articles from Omnivore to it, and the functionality remained largely the same across the two services.
They'd have to implement some kind of login, but they they should just be able to build some kind of converter between whatever format and the format that is expected by the Kobo device.
We will subsidise the use of our technology in schools, to get people dependant. This will be our future revenue. We need to make it sound flowery though. ChatGPT. Make me sound like a philanthropist.