I can’t keep up with the printed things I get but I try and they are worth it
Nice chill beats for the bank holiday - YouTube
The internet is in decline - it needs rewilding - The Observer / Guardian via @adders thanks
Rage against the Machine never specified which machine they were furious with but I reckon it was probably a printer.
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Why a toggle for AI on or off is important.
I am no AI luddite nor do I fear the AI, but for a start its not Artificial, it has huge real world impact, its not Intelligent, its not magic and its not unfathomable, we should stop ascribing human traits to machines, running programmes. AI is useful but it is not the hype machine many would have you believe and we need to be critical about the current approaches to building and using AI.
I estimated just for water needed for my photos to gain alt text on micro.blog with the new AI tool (powered by the blackbox of chatGPT4) This process would need at least 58 litres of water to complete.
2351 photos / 20 = 117.55 bottles
117 * 500ml = 58,500
This doesn’t take into account the fact the query is not just a question but involves machine vision nor have I factored energy use.
Yes I think all my photos should have alt text and am slowly manually adding to a number of them and plan to be more diligent going forward but I dont want to waste water and energy on automating this process at this stage in approaches to AI. Hopefully soon on device LLMs on my iPhone or ways to do this locally on my Mac will automate the process but with considerable less wastage.
cc thanks @adders for related couple of articles and I would also recommend Kate Crawfords Atlas of AI book
I see Dorsey has quit Bluesky
Our British made Dualit toaster might have cost £60 to repair but we’ve had our toaster for well over 20+ years so I don’t mind. Could have binned it and bought a cheap one but no this is the future, right to repair and all.
Winchester, UK Monday 13th May come play some student games from
Year 1 and 2 Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton at the Nutshell 15:30 - 18:30 - www.thenutshellwinchester.com/shows-and…
Well tomorrow may 10th is the official eFootball boycott. Do not even launch it. In protest of the major 3.5 regressions!
I dunno students trolleys and cones it’s just a thing!
AI and Arts Festival Winchester, UK
Next month I am doing a thing in Theatre Royal Winchester as part of AI and Arts Festival - check it out
WetAI Lab: PaintR – Dr Adam Procter and Dr Christina Mamakos
In this session Dr Adam Procter will talk about his work related to human centred and human understandable Education Technology and AI considerations.
Dr Christina Mamakos will present thoughts around how contemporary painting practice might inform image/text AI technology.
Together with attendees we will workshop the process of creating prompts and creating images. Both attendees and machines will develop images from the prompts, a human to human and human to machine workshop. Helping us explore the way we process and understand text to image as humans and machines!
Annoying and weird steamdeck gaming mode no longer loads public WiFi login pages. Have to go into desktop mode to get online. Hmm must be a recent update thing
Just being able to play Sensible Soccer (SWOS) on the train steamdeck is worth every penny
Interval at Romesh Ranganathan gig Bournemouth.
Onwards and upwards! COYD
Ian the cat venturing outside a little with his “buddy” Tails 🐱
Gah BBC iPlayer PS3 app no longer works. Hmmm that messes up my set up for front room. Blooming annoying and shouldn’t happen. Hmmm
Eurovision
