"Je ne dis pas cela méchamment, mais j’espère vraiment que ce document est tout simplement erroné. Une détérioration rapide du puits de carbone terrestre dans un avenir proche pourrait avoir des conséquences vraiment terribles." Voici ce qu’a déclaré Robert Rohde, directeur scientifique au Berkeley Earth, le jour de la sortie de l’étude.
As OpenAI and Meta introduce LLM-driven searchbots, I'd like to once again remind people that neither LLMs nor chatbots are good technology for information access. [...]
If someone uses an LLM as a replacement for search, and the output they get is correct, this is just by chance. Furthermore, a system that is right 95% of the time is arguably more dangerous tthan one that is right 50% of the time. People will be more likely to trust the output, and likely less able to fact check the 5%.
But even if the chatbots on offer were built around something other than LLMs, something that could reliably get the right answer, they'd still be a terrible technology for information access.
Mais l’élargissement des autoroutes permettrait-il réellement d’atteindre l’objectif souhaité, à savoir réduire les embouteillages? La recherche nous a appris que non. En tant que professeurs et chercheurs dans le domaine des transports et de la mobilité actifs dans les universités suisses, nous souhaitons expliquer pourquoi dans les paragraphes qui suivent.
Saviez-vous que si on parle aujourd’hui français en Suisse romande, il n’en a pas toujours été ainsi ? Pendant des siècles, les Romands parlaient des langues cousines du français, elles aussi descendantes du latin. Comment le français a-t-il pris racine en Suisse romande et éclipsé les autres langues ? Pour comprendre de quelle façon cette transition s’est opérée, il est essentiel de plonger dans l’histoire riche et complexe de la région…
Whenever you take a measure during a moment of strength that guards against your own future self's weakness, you enter into a Ulysses Pact – think throwing away the Oreos when you start your diet.
There is no such thing as a person who is immune to rationalization or pressure. I'm certainly not. Anyone who believes that they will never be tempted is a danger to themselves and the people who rely on them. A belief you can never be tempted or coerced is like a belief that you can never be conned – it makes you more of a mark, not less.
I went to the UX Brighton conference yesterday.
The quality of the presentations was really good this year, probably the best yet. Usually there are one or two stand-out speakers (like Tom Kerwin last year), but this year, the standard felt very high to me.
But…
The theme of the conference was UX and “AI”, and I’ve never been more disappointed by what wasn’t said at a conference.
Jezz Bezos and Elon Musk emit more carbon pollution in 90 minutes than the average human does in their entire life. That’s according to a new report from Oxfam International, a British NGO that fights poverty.
There would be a 5% chance that a single chimp would successfully type the word "bananas" in its own lifetime. And the probability of one chimp constructing a random sentence - such as "I chimp, therefore I am" - comes in at one in 10 million billion billion, the research indicates.
In a recent earnings call Sundar Pichai claimed that at Google now 25% of Code is AI generated (“and then reviewed and accepted by engineers”). In the AI boosterism parts of the web (so basically X and LinkedIn) this number was celebrated: Even Google does AI code generation. So if your whole startup is just ChatGPT in a trenchcoat, you’re basically at the industry standard, right?
Let’s not be cynical here and point at Google’s not exactly stellar recent track record when it comes to great products and software, but let’s ask us where that number comes from and what it means.
La semaine de quatre jours a séduit l'Allemagne. 73% des entreprises ayant participé à une étude pilote refusent de revenir à la semaine de cinq jours. Productivité maintenue, bien-être accru : le modèle "100-80-100" fait ses preuves et ouvre la voie à une nouvelle organisation du travail.
Today I hope to persuade you that the same thing that happened to aviation is happening with the Internet. Here we are, fifty years into the computer revolution, at what feels like our moment of greatest progress. The outlines of the future are clear, and oh boy is it futuristic.
But we're running into physical and economic barriers that aren't worth crossing.
We're starting to see that putting everything online has real and troubling social costs.
And the devices we use are becoming 'good enough', to the point where we can focus on making them cheaper, more efficient, and accessible to everyone.
So despite appearances, despite the feeling that things are accelerating and changing faster than ever, I want to make the shocking prediction that the Internet of 2060 is going to look recognizably the same as the Internet today.
Unless we screw it up.
And I want to convince you that this is the best possible news for you as designers, and for us as people.