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Sep 26Liked by Mike Freedman

Never being a fan of AI I’m happy to hear of the problems programmers face as I’m certain some of the issues weren’t even thought of during their testing phases. I love the entropy because AI is in nefarious hands. It’s like the old adage in programming…garbage in, garbage out and now an added bonus of an elliptical spin to the system as a whole. The main/only thing that worries me about AI is the growing expertise in faking people, voices, situations, etc. as this is the ultimate tool to framing folks for crimes they never committed or other unfortunate circumstances. That being said, the generation of potentially deadly information by AI is truly awful…wouldn’t wish that on the good people 😎

Hong Kong was such a vibrant place, a unique place. It’s so sad that it’s turned into the hellscape of totalitarianism as the mainland China. Should the cackling word salad “somehow” win the election I envision a rollout of something very similar.

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Regarding the internet post-AI, the words of Lou Reed certainly seem apt: "Don't believe half of what you see and none of what you hear."

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Sep 29Liked by Mike Freedman

If I recall correctly those sage lyrics were by Marvin Gaye - "I heard it through the grapevine"

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You recall correctly. Although I quoted Lou Reed's version of the phrase in Last Great American Whale (1989), it was written earlier (1966) and in a slightly different way by Barrett Strong at Motown in I Heard It Through The Grapevine, which was recorded by The Miracles, Marvin Gaye, and Gladys Knight & The Pips.

Strong's version is:

"People say believe half of what you see

Son, and none of what you hear"

The generation gap strikes again!

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Sep 27Liked by Mike Freedman

Sage words to be certain!

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