OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory consisting of the for-profit corporation OpenAI LP and its parent organization, the non-profit OpenAI Inc. The company, considered a competitor to DeepMind, conducts research in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) with the stated goal of promoting and developing friendly AI in a way that benefits humanity as a whole. The organization was founded in San Francisco in late 2015 by Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and others, who collectively pledged US$1 billion. Musk resigned from the board in February 2018[3] but remained a donor. In 2019, OpenAI LP received a US$1 billion investment from Microsoft. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI (more)

ChatBot (Conversational Interface) SaaS. https://api.ai/ (more)

Had it in my calendar for yesterday. Today site was broken. Gotta schedule a couple days in advance. (more)

Google, Microsoft, And Startups Are Going To War On Chatbot Technology. Earlier this week Google planted a major flag in the war as it pushes further into the enterprise business dominated by Salesforce, SAP and Zendesk announcing bot technology for call centers alongside a raft of other machine-learning tools for its cloud customers. (more)

Peter Kaminski: What I Tell Friends About COVID-19 in December 2022. Version 2022-12-10-001. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 12/08/22: Another Winter Wave. Cases will for a time double or triple from where they are. Combined with the flu and RSV, this will mean that while our health care systems will hold, they will be under substantial strain that impacts quality of care. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 11/24/22: Thanks for Good Health (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: What's The Deal With Elon Musk and Twitter? At the end of long saga well-covered in hilarious fashion by Matt Levine, Elon Musk has purchased Twitter. He then began doing things. (Musk Buys Twitter) (more)

aka flu vaccine

primate/anal insult - see Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy

Mike Caulfield: The Annotation Layer as Fact-Checking and Context Marketplace: A Proposal. A lot of our thinking about giving articles a “fact-checking” context has been about automated, centralized, closed approaches. (more)

encouraging growth/sustenance of a Virtual Community; cf Community Moderation (more)

On Internet websites that invite users to post comments, content moderation is the process of detecting contributions that are irrelevant, obscene, illegal, harmful, or insulting with regards to useful or informative contributions. The purpose of content moderation is to remove or apply a warning label to problematic content or allow users to block and filter content themselves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_moderation cf social media, user-generated content, blog comment, community management

Zvi Mowshowitz research biz (more)

What are Twitter's usage stats? (more)

Sometimes refers to "A-List" member, sometimes to nodes that are key to maintaining flow across other nodes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernode_(networking) (more)

EFF: The Fediverse Could Be Awesome (if we don’t screw it up). How the Fediverse Can Get it Right. (meh I'm dubious about all their details.) (more)

Mastodon Growth Numbers Might Not Mean What You Think They Mean. Mastodon’s growth in the last month has been extraordinarily fast – but just how fast? Did the number of users jump up to 2.5 million or 8 million in the month or so since Musk took over Twitter? Both those numbers for current users are swirling around. (more)

Robin Sloan: A year of new avenues. It’s so pow­er­fully obvi­ous to me, it might as well be writ­ten in ten-foot let­ters of flame: the plat­forms of the last decade are done...we all have a new opportunity. ­Here’s my exhortation: Let 2023 be a year of experimen­ta­tion and invention! Let it come from the edges, the margins, the provinces, the marshes! THIS MEANS YOU! (more)

Robin Sloan: Visions. This newsletter is a fun one, with lots to explore and think about. First, I’ll review my upcoming releases, then share some interesting work from other people. I’ll also describe a recent encounter that I found both alluring and unnerving. (more)