Life and times of Jason since 2001
Epic Games v. Apple judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers just ruled that, effective immediately, Apple is no longer allowed to collect fees on purchases made outside apps and blocks the company from restricting how developers can point users to where they can make purchases outside of apps. Apple says it will appeal the order.
— Read on www.theverge.com/news/659246/apple-epic-app-store-judge-ruling-control
It is odd that science fiction did not predict the internet. There are no vintage science fiction movies about the world wide web, nor movies that showed the online web as part of the future. We expected picture phones, and online encyclopedias, but not the internet. As a society we missed it. Given how pervasive the internet later became this omission is odd.
— Read on kk.org/thetechnium/the-unpredicted/
Overheard: “AI is bullshit’s superpower.”
— Read on doc.searls.com/
The phrase has roots in Saugerties, N.Y., where Hallion grew up. He would go after school to play baseball at a local field from 4 p.m. until it got dark. The only problem was that his mom would start making dinner around 5 p.m. As a result, his siblings would often ride their bikes to the field and yell to him that his “ass was in the jackpot” because their mom was angry that he wasn’t home.
– The inside story of ‘ass in the jackpot’ and its insights on umps and managers
Modern generative AI systems are opaque in a way that fundamentally differs from traditional software. If an ordinary software program does something—for example, a character in a video game says a line of dialogue, or my food delivery app allows me to tip my driver—it does those things because a human specifically programmed them in. Generative AI is not like that at all. When a generative AI system does something, like summarize a financial document, we have no idea, at a specific or precise level, why it makes the choices it does—why it chooses certain words over others, or why it occasionally makes a mistake despite usually being accurate.
— Read on www.darioamodei.com/post/the-urgency-of-interpretability
California’s community colleges are reporting a rise in financial aid fraud. In January, suspected bots represented 1 in 4 college applicants. Schools have given away millions to these scams, and college officials say fraudsters are getting smarter with the help of AI.
— Read on calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/04/financial-aid-fraud/
It’s a lot of responsibility, and being a father is one of the two most important jobs in the world; the other, of course, is being a mother, but you’re not cut out for that role. No offense.
According to some researchers, puffins cannot fly unless they have a view of the ocean; that’s why the best way to rescue the babies is literally to throw them off the cliffs.
— Read on www.aol.com/people-iceland-collecting-baby-puffins-152349435.html
COMPUTERS CAN’T CRY
A computer can tell you how old she is. It can tell you where she lives.
How big her family is. How much money she makes. Or where she shops. What she buys. How much she spends.
And what she reads and when she watches television.
But a copywriter like Greta Nissen can tell you what makes her cry.
Or laugh. Or buy.
Young & Rubicam likes computers.
Young & Rubicam loves Greta Nissen.