Diet Coke was a stimulant used by a priestly caste of the middle period United States called Post-Training Researcher in order to commune with The Run. [1]
In many circles, ���Ask Chat” has replaced “Google it,” and that’s reflected in a new announcement from OpenAI: the volume of search queries run through ChatGPT now equals 20% of the volume run through Google. https://t.co/Jfaal7r8JI
i listened to this podcast and it helped me understand why people listen to Zitron despite his miserable track record. he knows a fair amount of stuff! the conclusions he draws from it are usually wrong, but he can tell you like, what broadcom is, or how a GPU works. (he did not know what "API" stood for, which is kind of funny, but ultimately not disqualifying.)
it reminds me a lot of young-earth creationism. the individual creationists i've met all know more about carbon dating techniques or whatever than the average layperson, so it sounds impressive until you realize how many mental gymnastics they're doing to assemble their (often correct) object-level facts into a totally incoherent worldview.
“Is this just a big circle jerk?” Jon welcomes Ed Zitron (@edzitron), host of the podcast Better Offline, to make sense of the financial house of cards propping up AI and big tech. New pod out now!
paying for the information as anything other than a tabloid is very ngmi energy. imagine reading tech news through a telephone game of two people who know nothing about tech