Bits

If you were suspected of a crime, would you trust a chatbot to accurately explain what happened? https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/08/chatbots-offer-cops-the-ultimate-out-to-spin-police-reports-expert-says/

“interactive HTML apps, Markdown, HTML, SVG, Mermaid diagrams and React Components.” https://www.anthropic.com/news/artifacts

“Reading widely about things that don’t seem immediately or practically useful, in the hope that what you learn now may prove meaningful later—that’s pretty much the definition of a liberal-arts education.” #education #university #highered https://archive.ph/owJ8Z

We’re a cross between a band, a hackathon team, and an ephemeral research lab. We’re musicians seduced by math. We do the science, we engineer the software, we make the music. All in one project. Don’t need nobody else. Except we do, because we’re standing on the shoulders of giants, and because the whole point is to collaborate with more artists. https://www.dadabots.com

AI as Algorithmic Thatcherism https://danmcquillan.org/ai_thatcherism.html

Sound & Music

Great #wfmu Techtronic conversation with #negativeland Jon Leidecker on #genai #fairuse https://wfmu.org/archiveplayer/?show=142638&archive=256757