Anthony Bardaro

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BingGPT: Shut up and dance with me

Satya asked Sundar to dance, but Google can decline Microsoft’s advance — Oh we were bound to get together Bound to get together He took my arm I don’t know how it happened We took the floor and Satya said Oh don’t you dare look back Just keep your eyes on me I said you’re holding back He said shut up and dance with me…

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King TUT: FTX and Trustless Utility Tokens

Separating crypto’s irreparable sublimate from its redeemable remnants — In case you missed it, FTX filed for bankruptcy and SBF is now in custody. I’m not going to recount the whole background or circumstances regarding that accelerated collapse of the world’s second largest crypto exchange — for which a more forensic autopsy is forthcoming. I’m also not going to…

Crypto

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King TUT: FTX and Trustless Utility Tokens

Crypto

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The machine in the man: Pure AI content production and a botnet to replace the internet

The 6th Estate; the real Web3; the Reverse Turing Test; and the economics of large language models (LLMs) — Over the last few years, I’ve talked a lot about both the potential for and implication of fully-autonomous content creation — that media produced entirely by artificial intelligence and machine learning — a picture of which has been clearly painted by large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s GPT-3 and DALL-E…

Artificial Intelligence

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The machine in the man: Pure AI content and a botnet to replace the internet

Artificial Intelligence

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The future of free speech (Part II): Trustless Verification

Information theory and the social pillar of content moderation — Back in 2018, the chief supervisor of Europe’s GDPR, Giovanni Buttarelli, mentioned the following in “Tim Cook’s Magnum Opus”: [T]here is an urgent need for regulators and indeed societies to agree on and establish “a sustainable ethics for a digitised society… The paradox is that we have not yet learned…

Social Media

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The future of free speech (Part II): Trustless Verification

Social Media

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Three’s Company: Of Shopify, Amazon, and Etsy

The Janus Rule, the Misjudgment of Solomon, and a critique of Aggregation Theory —

Startup

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Three’s Company: Of Shopify, Amazon, and Etsy

Startup

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BingGPT: Shut up and dance with me

Anthony Bardaro

Followups: BingGPT told Google to shut up and dance with me

The following highlights provided by Annotote: Don’t waste time and attention, get straight to the point. All signal. No noise. The Roaring 20s: A future-proof economy and the business of adapting to automation/AI/ML by Anthony Bardaro (Adventures in Consumer Technology) 2020.01.06 Microsoft researchers unveil Kosmos-1, a multimodal LLM they claim can understand image content, pass visual IQ tests, and accepts a variety of input formats

Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial Intelligence

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Published in Annotote TLDR

·Jan 31

King TUT: FTX and Trustless Utility Tokens

Anthony Bardaro

Followups: King TUT and crypto's evasive Trustless Utility Tokens

The following highlights provided by Annotote: Don't waste time and attention, get straight to the point. All signal. No noise. White paper: Cryptoeconomics as a Limitation on Governance by Nathaniel Schneider (University of Colorado Boulder) 2022.08.11 [R]eliance on cryptoeconomics also introduces limitations on governance possibilities. Drawing on earlier critiques of how economic logics can erode democracy, this paper…

Crypto

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Crypto

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Published in Annotote TLDR

·Oct 5, 2022

The machine in the man: Pure AI content and a botnet to replace the internet

Anthony Bardaro

Followups: The man in the machine and pure AI content production

The following highlights provided by Annotote: Don’t waste time and attention, get straight to the point. All signal. No noise. The Roaring 20s: A future-proof economy and the business of adapting to automation/AI/ML by Anthony Bardaro (Adventures in Consumer Technology) 2020.01.06 BingGPT told Google to shut up and dance with me: Traditional search, chat-based search, and the actual applications of LLMs

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Mar 5, 2021

In Da Clubhouse: Live audio and vertical social

Anthony Bardaro

Followups: In Da Clubhouse' s live audio and vertical social

The following highlights were provided by Annotote: Don’t waste time and attention, get straight to the point. All signal. No noise. If you’re interested in the voice interface start here by Annotote TLDR 2018.12.27 The Gutenberg Parenthesis: Oral Tradition and Digital Technologies by Thomas Pettitt (via MIT Comparative Media Studies) 2010.04.14 Is our emerging digital culture partly a return to practices and ways of thinking that were…

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Followups: In Da Clubhouse' s live audio and vertical social

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·Mar 2, 2021

In Da Clubhouse: Live audio and vertical social

Clubhouse’s strategic path; orality’s crusades; and the voice interface — One part radio phone-in; one part conference call; and one part massive online open TED Talk. That’s essentially the formula for the latest, hottest consumer app on the market, Clubhouse, which officially launched in April 2020 before hitting escape velocity in January 2021. Right now, Clubhouse is live, unrecorded, audio…

Clubhouse

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Clubhouse

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