Just like with "automatic checkout systems" at a grocery store. Passing the labor onto the individual, vs. the expert. We don't even get the same infrastructure professionals get. A PLU for a piece of fruit is a mind-blurring whisk of hands over a dial pad for a pro, and a bit of mind-numbingly arduously piss-poor series of taps for the ill-positioned entrant.
Excited to see this. I've really been enjoying Claude. It feels like a different, more creative flavor of experience than GPT. I use Claude a lot for dialogues and exploring ideas, like a conversational partner. Having web access will add an interesting dimension to this.
Ditto. I use Claude 3.7 to refine drafts of research papers and ask it “What have I missed?”.
Now I can prompt Claude to ping PubMed and make sure that its suggested references are verified. Each citation/claim should be accompanied by a PMID or a DOI.
That's how I use it as well! It'll also occasionally hallucinate things, but much less often than other AI tools I've tried. But typically I'll just run things by it that I'm question myself about, or if I want to solidify a concept I'll ask it if my understanding is correct.
It's also fun to ask the same question to multiple AI tools and see how the answers differ. Usually Claude is the most accurate and helpful, though.
David Rosenthal (one of the makers of NeWS) is married to Mark's widow Vicky, and he just emailed me that while cleaning out his office he ran across a couple of old VHS tapes labeled "Don's NeWS demos" that he's going to digitize for me! I hope they include a recording of Mark's SunView SDI game for which he implemented pie menus while snowed in at home with a Sun workstation during the January 22 1987 Blizzard of Discontent.
From: mark@markssun.cs.umd.edu (Mark Weiser)
Subject: pies in sunview
Date: January 24, 1987 at 02:12:37 GMT+1
To: don@mimsy.umd.edu
I used the snow to hack pies into sunview. It works now without walking menus.
Will have walking over th weekend.
-mark
I'd love to get this running again in a 68K Sun 3 emulator with SunOS 3.2!
Do we already know each other in real life, or should we begin? Say hi! Email is in my profile.
Here's another old email from Mark that I cherish, from just before he left UMD for PARC:
From: mark@markssun.cs.umd.edu (Mark Weiser)
Subject: paper
Date: February 25, 1987 at 06:24:52 GMT+1
To: don@gyre.umd.edu
Leave it (a) on my sun keyboard, (b) in my second floor mailbox,
(c) at the bottom of a pan of hash brownies. I'll be sure
to find it in any of those places.
-mark
When I was in college in '93 getting my BA is CS, my mother once told me: "You should email Cousin Mark. He does stuff with computers and I bet he has an email address."
I figured he was just any another software developer. Kind of an understatement, mom. Wish I still had those, but it was a school account all those decades ago.
I read the pie menu code and implemented it as a final project in Turbo PASCAL that year.
The bright blue light of flat, rectangular touch screens, fans, and displays may be appealing from an aesthetic perspective, but there is a deeper story behind the scenes.
I think OpenAI has done great work in advancing the field of AI and developing powerful tools like GPT-3. At the same time, I also believe that it's important to ensure that the development of AI systems is as inclusive and diverse as possible.
While OpenAI currently has a team of skilled engineers, I think it could benefit from hiring individuals with from different social classes and backgrounds (like blue collar workers, historians, anthropologists and artists) to contribute to the development of AI systems. This could help to create more well-rounded and effective AI solutions that consider a wider range of perspectives and potential impact on individuals and society.
We played a game in high school that I called "The Root is Right!" We'd take turns coming up with crazy numbers for each other to estimate in our heads. Then we'd draw little pictures of prizes for the person closest to the real root. We all got super good at estimating roots!
We used a lazy version of Heron’s method, which was just to memorize a bunch of general number roots, and then average our guesses based on closeness to that root. It ended up being as easy as mental math around tipping at a restaurant. It definitely came in handy for engineering classes later on!
