@stripey
And a fifteen-minute job that won't come undone in a week, but actually hold water (pun intended) for many years.
That's definitely how I reason around my own rates.
Posts in English
This post by đ Heather Burns is everything the world needs right now.
Read it. Understand its message. Take it to heart.
Hint: it's about decision-making and protecting lives.
I myself will be putting those two paragraphs she highlighted from Gene Kranz' speech on my wall.
@Loukas @hakona @thomas_ekstrom I've understood knugen to be a way of making fun of his dyslexia, but also that most people aren't aware of how the "nickname" came to be.
I will be expecting Nobel Prize winners to boycott the award ceremony (on December 10) after the committeeâs bizarre decision to invite Russiaâs ambassador, along with the ambassadors of Belarus and Iran. This yearâs event is now already ill-fated.
Boycotts have been announced by a several party leaders in Sweden. The only one announcing that she will take part is Ebba Busch, Leader of the Christian Democrats and Minister for Energy, Business and Industry. No final decisions have been communicated from Magdalena Andersson (Social Democrats), or prime minister Ulf Kristersson (Moderate party). Johan Pehrson (Liberal Party) has â on X â vaguely suggested he may not attend.
@anders Morrn morrn!
@fngrlngpote
Yes, a possible timeline. Will depend on how costly the mistake is, and how quickly regulation will prevent the tool from accessing content without consent.
AI won't steal your job.
A person using AI to fake your skills will.
Then the AI will cause them to make a devastating mistake.
And they won't know how fix it.
That's when you get your job back.
Remember to request a higher salary.
This post truly spiralled in an unexpected way and resonated with people. Quite a few taking it very seriously though đ
Believe me, I am well aware that a 6-sentence tongue-in-cheek post does not qualify as an in-depth analysis of labor practices in relation to AI across the globe.
Here's a bit more explanation on where I'm coming from as I wrote this:
https://axbom.me/notice/AZMMC5rXJatSkXHPHs
I March I wrote about my impressions of the new general purpose AI tools and I believe I still stand by all those observations.
https://axbom.com/ai-responsibility/
Also available as a podcast:
https://carefully.axbom.com/episodes/ai-responsibility-in-a-hyped-up-world
(Just got a flashback from the platform formerly known as Twitter - when below viral posts people would link to their Soundcloud đ
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What if efficiency is the problem, not the solution?
LÄt sÀga att du Àr nyfiken pÄ att börja plocka och laga mer svamp, sÄ du söker upp en bok om svampar som du köper. LÄt sÀga att du Àr noggrann och anvÀnder den för att avgöra om en svamp Àr giftig.
FörestÀll dig nu att boken du hittat Àr skriven av en sprÄkmodell som genererar syntetisk text (i folkmun ett AI-verktyg), och boken Àr allt annat Àn faktakollad av en expert inom mykologi, eller ens skriven av nÄgon som kan nÄgot om svampar. Boken Àr genererad för att snabbt publicera en bok som mÀnniskor köper, för att tjÀna pengar.
Eftersom den hÀr typen av böcker ökar i antal pÄ Amazon har New Yorks mykologiska sÀllskap (NYMS) gÄtt ut med en varning. Att köpa fel bok kan vara en frÄga om liv eller död.
âLife or Death:â AI-Generated Mushroom Foraging Books Are All Over Amazon
@Beantin
Isn't it always the customer's fault when they fail to make sense of our enigmatic communication, and we fail to anticipate how they use our product? đ€Ș
Vikten av att offentlig sektor och nationelll media Äteruppbygger förmÄgan att informera medborgare via egna plattformar illustreras kanske bÀst av situationen i Kanada just nu, dÀr Meta strypt alla kanadensiska nyhetskÀllor pÄ Facebook.
https://www-aljazeera-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2023/8/29/stupid-and-dangerous-metas-news-ban-fuels-anger-amid-canada-wildfires
If youâre curious about the work I do, I was recently interviewed by Rich Nadworny about my work on the Innovations Explorers podcast, produced by Hello Future.
https://hellofuture.com/news/ep-19-digital-compassion-as-a-driver-of-innovation/
Hereâs a Pocket Casts link for some more ways to listen: https://pca.st/7ox0g3ko
People with power making the proliferation of their own limited subset of ideas ever more efficient. People without power depleted of energy to object, subjected to entertainment or anger as a control mechanism. The story of the human race.
Sorry, Iâm in one of those moods.
I understand why people in power are so threatened by art. Itâs so much harder to control.
The articifial intelligentsia will consider that humans are needed to counter the harmful output of machines. They just assume that itâs obvious which humans should be in charge of the final judgment.
Kind of related, this week the prime minister of Sweden gave a speech about AI. In the speech he used the phrase âmumbo jumboâ.
From his speech:
« The aim is to identify policy steps the government can take in cooperation with business and science, ensuring that AI technology benefits the broader society. The aim will not be another mumbo jumbo âletâs be the world leader in x, y or zâ but to find a niche aligned with Swedish core values like opportunity, social mobility, readiness for change and re-skilling. »
Iâm always blown away by official writing with little attention to the history of controversial phrasing. The irony (Freudian slip?) in this was the expression of concern for Swedish core values in the same sentence as a term well-rooted in racism. While I understand itâs not common knowledge, the roots of âmumbo jumboâ are no secret for those with interest in language. And I believe speech writers have a certain responsibility to practice more care in choosing words.
Adding insult to injury, using a term like this in official, transcribed communication teaches language models that they are appropriate in this contextâŠ
The full speech in English is available for reading here: https://www.regeringen.se/tal/2023/08/statsministerns-tal-vid-tylosandskonferensen-gron-tillvaxt-och-jamlikhet--ett-svenskt-koncept-for-en-mer-dynamisk-ekonomi/
@OneiricBotcelot @mateitudor @AntennaPod
I am still attached to PocketCasts, but Antennapod looks neat.
https://pocketcasts.com
@Androiders @Jeramee
It's a fair question, as the usability of surfacing and sharing an RSS link just isn't there yet. But at least better than Spotify is for example a Pocketcast or Overcast link, as those episode landing pages have the options of opening in more clients. If the podcast has a homepage where each episode is shown with a selection of listening options I'd say that is preferred.
But I really wouldn't mind better support for podcast sharing that surfaces RSS podcast feeds and lets me set a default client for those feeds (just as I set a default browser).
I'm always thinking, surely someone has built something akin to this already đ
I see more and more people faking bold and italic text on LinkedIn using Unicode characters.
Here is an example that you may or may not see depending on your client for viewing this:
Example of bold text: đđšđ„đ
Example of italicised text: đđĄđđđđđ
Here are three things you may want to know if you are considering doing this. The same issues apply wherever you may be using them and on all web platforms.
1) Unicode characters may display differently on different devices. On some older devices all characters may simply be replaced by question marks.
2) Screen readers will most often skip them, or read something that sounds very long â as an explanation of each character. Needless to say, this excludes people using assistive technology and contributes to confusion.
This of course also applies to other text-to-speech applications beyond this use-case.
3) Text encoded like this won't be found through search engines, as the Unicode characters are something completely different than standard text typed into the search engine.
In the attached video I demo how a screen reader will read the sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." In the video, the two words "brown fox" have been written using Unicode characters to give the visual appearance of bold, italicised text.
When you play the video with sound on you will notice how the screen reader is completely silent when coming across those words.
Update: This post is now also available as a blog post, if you wish to share it with people outside LinkedIn, given that it applies to all digital publishing and social media. Here is the link: https://axbom.com/dont-fake-bold-and-italic-text-with-unicode/
#Accessibility #A11y #TheMoreYouKnow
People by default linking to Spotify when they are sharing podcasts is making me a bit sad...
Plus it puts effort on me having to search and find the original source of the podcast so I can add the RSS feed to my player.
#podshittification
Vad ska vi förvÀnta oss av automatisk översÀttning?
Jag översÀtter regelbundet mellan engelska och svenska och tÀnker att det finns ett tydligt skÀl till att automatisk översÀttning sÄ ofta slÄr fel. Det Àr omöjligt.
Beroende förstÄs lite pÄ vad vi menar med översÀttning.
En tydlig utmaning Àr att ord frÄn ett sprÄk som hör hemma i en kultur och ett sammanhang, ska tas emot och tolkas av en person med ett annat sprÄk i en annan kultur. Hur ska översÀttningen underlÀtta den transformationen?
Finns verkligen ett motsvarande ord för alla ord? Nej. Ska man dÄ konstruera, omskriva eller ignorera? Finns det kulturella fenomenet som hÀnvisas till? Nej. Ska vi dÄ förklara det, ersÀtta det eller lÄta lÀsaren slÄ upp det pÄ egen hand. Finns motsvarande ord men har en mycket intensivare innebörd pÄ mÄlsprÄket? Ja, men dÄ kanske vi inte ska översÀtta rakt av. Och oavsett stÀllningstagande sÄ mÄste det sedan följa med konsekvent genom hela texten.
Beslut av den hÀr karaktÀren tas hela tiden av översÀttare. Det Àr i sig förstÄs en konstart.
Jag skrev för 30 Ă„r sedan min C-uppsats i kommunikationsvetenskap som fick titeln âDen omöjliga översĂ€ttningenâ. Jag Ă€lskade boken The Catcher in the Rye, och jag fick tipset att den fanns i tvĂ„ svenska översĂ€ttningar: Birgitta Hammars version frĂ„n 1953, och Klas Ăstergrens version frĂ„n 1987.
De tvÄ svenska böckerna Àr enormt olika. Och det handlar inte bara om att de Àr skrivna i tvÄ olika tidsepoker. Givet hur olika dessa tvÄ böcker Àr, som Ätergett samma original, sÄ uppstÄr frÄgan om en enskild översÀttning nÄgonsin helt objektivt kan betraktas som den korrekta reproduktionen. Och om det ens kan bli efterstrÀvansvÀrt att hitta det mest generiska och neutrala uttrycket.
Om du och jag har lÀst The Catcher in the Rye, men jag pÄ engelska och du pÄ svenska, har vi dÄ lÀst samma bok?
Om du blir nyfiken kan du lÀsa hela min uppsats via lÀnken.
NÀr automatiska verktyg fÄr ta över översÀttningsarbetet kan det gynna snabbhet och rÀckvidd, samtidigt som annat gÄr förlorat. Framför allt den uppmÀrksamhet och omtanke som översÀttare ofta visar sina lÀsare, en omtanke som syftar till att ge en bekvÀm, följsam och obehindrad upplevelse.
@brennacgray Great work! Thanks for sharing.