Goldman Sachs reported this week in a sobering and alarming report about AI’s ascendance. The investment bank estimates 300 million jobs could be lost or diminished by this fast-growing technology.
“In the digital era, the leader as an organizational midwife is typically a chief experience officer or a people leader who takes on the role and responsibilities of someone who nurtures a culture in which decisions on how something should and should not be used are made deliberately and intentionally by everyone.” (The art of leading in the AI age) read more >
“I think we’re going to be back to purpose. What is your mission? Because now you can accomplish your mission. What is your worthy mission that’s going to attract people to work with you?” (How Generative AI Changes Productivity) read more >
ChatGPT and the like are already working in the economy, creatng first-draft or low-/mid-value content. In the hands of experienced writers and editors, this is a huge time- and money-saver. This alone is “worth it”. There are many uses for this outside of creating search engine bait and gaming Google.
The outputs of ChatGPT or other AI-based writing can easily be abused, just like any writing. You could use it to generate (merely) SEO-based content. You could fail to read and edit its outputs. You could consume this content without being critical. All these things already happen today. Just …
This process could probably be used also to send things to Ulysses.
“The process involves both integration platforms IFTTT and Integromat with Dropbox as the cloud storage for my Obsidian vault. IFTTT is used to get the data from Instapaper to then send it on to a Webhook in Integromat which processes it and uploads a markdown note to Dropbox.”
One thing I’ve been wondering about (in all my musings on #microblogging) is the relationships among sources and references. Earlier, I speculated that all blogging is only reference, because an #rss feed is just a sign to a #blog post.
Interestingly, it’s a robust sign. Some feeds are so robust that they are copies of their source. There is no need to “click through” to the source, because the same information is in the feed.
Working on content interop super-ontology in the #mastodon, #micro.blog, #twitter, #feedland, and #wordpress multiverse.
Posts are actual pieces of content. They are mostly made on the platform where you find them.
Timelines are views into (yours and others’) posts. These views are made possible by transmitting information about the post via #RSS (or something else) and aggregating into a timeline. Timelines can include feeds from yours or others’ sources.
What’s interesting is that timelines can also be published and consumed, also via #rss.
