Or, in a turn of phrase from former FT Alphavillain Cardiff Garcia: "the self-referential vortex of psychologically important thresholds."
From Inverse, November 3:
Services like Google's NotebookLM and Fabric are building AI experiences around analyzing your links, files, and personal notes.
That last year of AI hype has largely been driven by the allure of general knowledge chatbots. Experiments masquerading as services called Microsoft Bing, ChatGPT, and to a lesser extent, Google Bard, that attempt to answer just about any question or request with a natural language response, whether that's providing factual information you might dig up in a search through Google, or generating entirely “new” text.
There are real concerns to be raised about the use of these large language models (LLMs), but also dozens of exciting ways that they can be used. Chatbots and other AI features have spread to apps even quicker than Instagram Stories clones ever did, likely because the potential for these features as parsers and generators of information is so great.
The reality of living and working online is that we’re constantly bombarded with new information in the form of articles, videos, screenshots, and PDFs. No one has time to read or watch it all, but if there was a place to save it for later, that could also help you understand what you’ve saved and generate new ideas? That could really change how we use computers. And that’s something made possible by generative AI.
The AI Notebook....
....MUCH MORE
That was some of the impetus for the beginnings of this blog. A place on the internet to stash things that caught my eye that was searchable by the GOOG.
But using AI to draw inferences from everything that has been posted?
That way lies madness, or at minimum, a competency hearing with all powers and privileges suspended until the expert witnesses weigh in on the deeper meanings of cat videos:
