Any other Sydney Uni alumni at the festival today?
Author: Kris
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Shared today on Facebook
The fine folks at Multitudes have posted my talk from yesterday, if you missed it and want to check it out!
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ChatGPT Did Not Write This Talk
Yesterday I was invited to give the final talk of the year for the Tech Leader Chats meetup group, which is run by Multitudes from NZ. I had a righteous rant about generative AI and creativity, and I think I did a pretty good job with it! My references are below, and you can watch the talk online here:
I also wanted to share the list of references and news stories that I mentioned during the talk:
- “The Great Automatic Grammatizator” by Roald Dahl
- Google’s “Dear Sydney” commercial that ran during the Olympics
- Alexandra Petri’s response in The Washington Post to Google’s ad
- Forbes‘s article suggesting you use ChatGPT at the Thanksgiving table
- The Verge‘s review of Google’s Pixel 9 phone
- The Guardian’s story about LJ Hooker’s hallucination-filled home listings
- The Harvard Misinformation Review‘s article about GPT-fabricated scientific papers on Google Scholar
- The Atlantic‘s exposé revealing that AI systems have been trained on TV and film writers’ work
- The Verge‘s article about OpenAI engineers accidentally erasing critical evidence from a lawsuit
- Study in Nature about how AI generates covertly racist decisions about people based on their dialect
- Bruce Sterling’s blog post about “Delvish”
- Wired‘s story about the prevalence of AI-generated text on LinkedIn
- International Business Times story about the environment crisis the AI industry is exacerbating
- Dr. Linda McIver’s keynote from PyconAU 2024
- Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
- Ted Chiang’s essay on why AI isn’t going to make art, from The New Yorker
- Slate article about this year’s NaNoWriMo AI controversy
- The Bookseller article about new startup Spines aiming to disrupt publishing
- Issue #218 from Nick Cave’s Red Hand Files
- The Economist article about the AI investment bubble
- Procreate’s AI statement
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Shared today on Facebook
Happy Thanksgiving! It’s way too hot to cook a traditional Thanksgiving dinner in Sydney this week, so I decided to spin it into a classic American picnic: chicken salad rolls and potato salad. Yum. 🦃
The Snook had a special Thanksgiving surprise for me: he downloaded the 1997 MTV Thanksgiving special, with poor Kurt Loder trying to interact with Beavis and Butthead. 😂 It’s terrible.
My pumpkin pie ice cream turned out really well! Much more suitable on a hot day than trying to bake.
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Dessert
My pumpkin pie ice cream turned out really well! Much more suitable on a hot day than trying to bake.
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MTV Thanksgiving Special 1997
The Snook had a special Thanksgiving surprise for me: he downloaded the 1997 MTV Thanksgiving special, with poor Kurt Loder trying to interact with Beavis and Butthead. 😂 It’s terrible.
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Happy Thanksgiving!
It’s way too hot to cook a traditional Thanksgiving dinner in Sydney this week, so I decided to spin it into a classic American picnic: chicken salad rolls and potato salad. Yum. 🦃
Recipes:
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Shared today on Facebook
I discovered this week that 7-11 Japan recently took over the Australian franchise, and as a result we are finally starting too see some of the amazing Japanese “konbini” foods here in Sydney! They are currently selling three different types of onigiri, and I was thrilled to see the special wrapping that keeps the seaweed crisp. ❤️🍙 I bought all three and tried them over two days… https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/26306 and https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/26327
It’s 35C/95F out; all of Sydney is under extreme heat warning; and all I want is a can of pumpkin so I can make pumpkin pie ice cream for Thanksgiving. But alas, none to be found, not even for ready money. So I will be roasting butternut this evening once the sun goes down…
Oh, and I asked the butcher how much it would be for a turkey breast to sous vide, and he told me $97 AUD (that’s $62 USD), and I laughed in his face and then bought a couple chicken breasts instead. I think it was actually a turkey crown roast, but whatever. Chicken it is.
Final call! In 30 minutes I’ll be ranting about AI online at Tech Leader Chats.
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Used book JACKPOT
I’ve put a fair number of old books in our local “Street Library” box over the past few months, but this is the first time I’ve fished one out! #sunny
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Thanksgiving
It’s 35C/95F out; all of Sydney is under extreme heat warning; and all I want is a goddamn can of pumpkin so I can make pumpkin pie ice cream. But alas, none to be found, not even for ready money. I will be roasting butternut this evening once the sun goes down…
Oh, and I asked the butcher how much it would be for a turkey breast to sous vide, and he told me $97 AUD (that’s $62 USD), and I laughed in his face and then bought a couple chicken breasts instead. I think it was actually a turkey crown roast, but whatever. Chicken it is.
EDITED – ONE HOUR LATER:
Me: So we’re going to be roasting pumpkin tonight so I can get puree, because I couldn’t find any canned. 😒
Rodd: You know, we already have some frozen puree from the last time you did that?!
Whaaaaaaat. THANKS, PAST KRIS!