Timelapse video of that turkey roasting…

Two years after the poets begin training the LLMs, ChatGPT defines itself:

A DATA CENTER, THAT IS A BLIND CARAFE
AI is a kind of vessel and a pointing. Pointing is a kind of AI with an empty vessel. All this and again, iterative, repetition and a diode pointing to another diode that is a vessel.

A new AI interface to close on Adobe Acrobat!? What fun. Adobe Creative Cloud is expensive enough without having to be accosted with this BS every time I open a program.

Here’s that word salad arranged as a language poem.

Probably just a coincidence that OpenAI, headed by a college dropout who’s said that the US college system is nearing collapse, offered free GPT Plus subscriptions to students the weeks before finals.

Knoxville.

Opened up the new Norton Field Guide to Writing quite accidentally to this page, and immediately decided to never teach with this book.

It’s not, though? That this tech researcher defines intelligence, something notoriously difficult to define, by equating it to another vague concept, one that’s been co-opted by capitalist rhetoric since at least the Industrial Revolution, should give us all a great deal of pause.

I nearly spit out my coffee when I read how much OpenAI spent on electricity having their bot attempt to solve a Tetris puzzle. I’m almost 45. I would have had to spend close to $2,800 a month, every month of my life to come even close to spending $1.5 million on energy.

“Set out fruit trees Wed April 23, 1947.” Below a note about the two grape vines planted on the following Sunday. Found written on our garage wall today.

Yes, it can. You saw it get programmed. Paul Ricouer positioned innovation and sedimentation as opposite polarities. Poetic paradigms (under which he collapsed the ideas of form, genre, and type) develop from individual, innovative work, but are governed by a process of sedimentation via tradition.

The Passion and Sexing the Cherry are among my favorite novels, but this is not it.

Can someone explain to me what information this could ever possibly provide? Does the average reader of Newsweek somehow have a more nuanced understanding of public media or is this all just gonna be, like, vibes, man?

I'd call it performance art, but it's entirely artless. Performance PR.

Excited to see Chronicle of Higher Ed insert useless AI into their platform and giving it a cheeky little name. Now, instead of just doing a keyword search to find an article I remember from eight years ago, I can chat with a bot who will just tell me what that article said. Whatta time saver!

Every time a booster talks about AI, I want to go out and break a printing press.

Counterpoint: Just as ChatGPT strips nuance from writing, sidestepping the beauty and flexibility of writing as a practice of thought and art, AI teaching assistants will flatten our pedagogies and subjects. We can yeet more water into the sun to soften the difficult work of teaching and learning.

What am I unsubscribing from? Being there? Is this unsubscribing me from existence? I mean, I guess it wouldn't surprise me if existence has moved to a subscription model... everything else has.