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Very Specific Issue with Adobe Digital Editions
How I fixed Adobe Digital Editions crashes when trying to get borrowed eBooks onto a Kobo eReader. I would post this on the help forums for Adobe Digital Editions, but I can’t find the needle in the haystack of different types of crash that the application presents, so in the spirit of being community minded,…
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These two posts get at the sense of fancy statistical pattern systems (aka AI) having some purpose, but that purpose very much not being even on the horizon of the path we are on with current applications of AI.
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Thinking Machines
I like this post about ‘impressionist blogging’, mainly because it gives voice to a sense of how using generative AI as a tool shapes the work it serves. I still don’t know how generative AI will work its way into my life. For all the risks that it poses, there are myriad interesting possibilities. But…
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Will it hurt anyone, can I trust it, and will it make me look stupid?
I feel very uncertain about where we are with AI in practical use. It is unavoidable (literally, every time I open Illustrator, I get prompted to use generative AI) and certainly convenient. I’m also too aware, though, of the flip side of AI to feel very comfortable using it. Indeed, an AI holiday planning mishap…
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A More Complete Picture on New Tech and Society
I’ve had a few interesting conversations in the last couple of weeks that have ended up at the same conclusion: we can talk tech until the cows come home, but the really interesting debates—the debates that are too often absent, especially from the Silicon Valley perspective—are not from the sciences.
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