Notes
A parable of our decade in two pieces of nearly-identical hardware:
In 2012 we had the Descriptive Camera using Mechanical Turk, as a thought provoking student project and a blog post.
In 2024 we get the Poetry Camera using AI, with a slick website and signups for buying one.
I see a lot of experts-of-the-day gnashing teeth over @rabbit@threads.net being “exposed” for using puppeted Android apps in the cloud.
What did you all think they were using? Hand-wavy AI magic you’ve been pretending to understand? Some secret Android API that app developers have been quietly implementing just for them?
This is the obvious way to pull off what they’re doing with today’s ecosystem. It’s funky and pushing the envelope in ways that deserve scrutiny for security and privacy, but isn’t this what “innovation” is supposed to look like?
If we expect to treat AI agents like people, why wouldn’t we expect to organize them similarly?
Back in 2011 when Microsoft demoed them, I didn’t see that communication avatars (sorry, “Personas”) would be useful for AR; strapping an iPad to my face was a distant dream. I think I still believe the real value will be in facing emotional states, though. https://twitter.com/gerwitz/status/84311406148718593
If the feedback you give is always critical or always affirmative, you’re probably not being constructive.
Maybe we don’t only need conscience models but also doubt models.