Weekly Links, 06/10/2022
- This fictional scenario (with fictional newspaper article) is about using AI to isolate online trolls in their own “heaven”. Clearly possible, not so clearly desirable. heavenbanning, the hypothetical practice of banishing a user from a platform by causing everyone that they speak with to be replaced by AI models that constantly agree and praise them, but only from their own perspective, is entirely feasible with the current state of AI/LLMs
- Social media is not as bad as old media is reporting. One old media (New Yorker) article sums up the blurry picture quite fairly. There are problems, but not end of the world. How Harmful Is Social Media?
- Neal Stephenson @nealstephenson is going to build the actual Metaverse he imagined 30 years ago. I thought this was a joke at first, but it seems to be a legit crypto project. Good luck friends! Visionary Futurist Neal Stephenson and Crypto Pioneer Peter Vessenes Announce Lamina1, the Layer-1 Blockchain for the Open Metaverse
- Artificial Intelligence can be a co-creator of music as well as images and text. Robin Sloan used OpenAI Jukebox to co-create some pretty experimental music. The Greatest Remaining Hits is the new sci-fi concept album from The Cotton Modules.
