Author: Jim Wallace

  • In the US Lawyers think they’ll be able to ban AI in their field to protect their livelihoods.

    Except people have the right to defend themselves and use whatever tools they like in preparing that defense. So even if AI is not allowed to represent you, it can through representing yourself.

    I think they’re still quite at risk

  • Hear me out: H1B visas but only for ICE agents

  • Working on a new metric.

    How much money and how often do you have to find it in your clothes to be considered rich?

    I once found $160 in the pocket of a north face jacket I was purchasing in an emergency the first time I went to San Francisco as the temperature dropped to below 60 and the store was closing at 6pm. The jacket was on the rack. I found the money as I went to the checkout. The employees awkwardly tried to claim it should be theirs. That was when I knew tipping had gone outa ctrl

  • AI: What Could Go Wrong? With Geoffrey Hinton

    This week’s episode of “The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart” is absolutely positively hands down the best conversation about AI for non-technical people

  • Seems to me there’s a lot of people preaching but not a lot practicing

  • Truely unpopular opinion: There is no such thing as being cut off in a car. People in front of you have the right of way and you need to be paying attention to what’s going on around you just like downhill skiing/snowboarding. People wait for your to pass when pulling out as a courtesy. If everyone just paid attention to what was happening directly in front of them instead of their phones the roads would be a lot safer.

  • Readmebio.com Wokstyle Assessments released

    I’ve just added a fun new feature to readmebio.com – working style assessments. Think: Myers-briggs but for working style.

    Take the assessment and it puts a fun badge with your results on your profile. I’ll likely be adding other assessments that will show other dimensions of your work personality, for now though take this assessment and tell me your results!

  • Today in I love AI,

    My son got some scratches on our car. Small but deep to the metal. I don’t really care about the esthetics so I’m not going to go to the body shop to get an exact paint match or whatever. I asked ChatGPT what I could do – it’s advice: Primer + Nailpolish. Done.

    I went to Autozone and was suddenly hit with a delema I’ve had a million times in my life. There are 50 different kinds of primer on this shelf. I have no idea which one to get or why.

    Normally I’d stand there for an hour reading the labels, only to inevitably take home the wrong thing. This time, I snapped a photo of the shelf inside that and said “Which one?”

    ChatGPT thought for a long time, and then just told me the answer. Top left, Gray cap with Red label that’s for priming + sanding. Then explained why.

    I love the future

  • GitHub is not for muggles