@timoreilly: This is a great set of takes. Everyone should read this
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Tim O'Reilly boosts Séb Krier's thread of 20 takes on AI, which critiques the anxious, risk-obsessed framing common in tech and journalism around AI and calls for a more balanced discussion of its impacts.
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This is a great set of takes. Everyone should read this
Séb Krier (@sebkrier): I haven’t posted in a while so here are 20 takes about AI, in no particular order.
- It’s very telling that the default question in tech and journalism is “how worried are you about X” and fighting over what to worry about. There’s a deeply anxious cultural backdrop in Western
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