Yeah, it’s this subject again. But there’s been a turn in public sentiment recently, paired in part with a political shift in the US that I hope will continue. You all know my biases anyway. The promise of generative AI seems to be largely hollow these days, with clowns like Sam Altman scrambling to try […]
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