Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ We have the kiddos for the weekend so let’s see how much of this I can get through before they wake up. My first cup of coffee is nice and hot and my fingers are ready to type. I hope you enjoy the links. Cory Doctrow • The Guardian The promise of AI – the promise AI companies make to investors – is that there will be AI that can do your job, and when your boss fires you and replaces you with AI, he will keep half of your salary for himself and give the other half to the AI company. We’re beginning to see what Cory is talking about. Layoffs continue at tech companies, see Meta for example. I’m curious to see if we have course corrections somewhere down the road. Will these companies decide they need more people due to LLMs? Anil Dash You must imagine Sam Altman holding a knife to Tim Berners-Lee’s throat. It’s not a pleasant image. Sir Tim is, rightly, revered as the genial father of the World Wide Web. But, all the signs are pointing to…
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