Speak plainly to me
Go with the flow
That's how you show your love
Speak plainly
Speak plainly
Words by Marlon Williams and Kommi Tamati-Elliffe.
Morena all,
This morning, I thought we’d have a bit of a kōrero about whatever you like. I’ve skimmed through the headlines, and there wasn’t much I wanted to cover.
I did contemplate writing a thousand words on Mike Hosking being a bell-end, but I figured that was pretty well understood.
Or some of the commenters online regarding Jacinda’s book or the Te Pāti Māori suspensions, but trolls these days are so dull. You’ve heard it all before; it’s as if Seymour’s horrid little incel army is using ChatGPT, boring bots akin to his three-dollar lunches, lacking all appeal.
So, what would you like to talk about? You're welcome to ask me anything or share your thoughts.
It doesn’t have to be political. What’s on your mind? Is there anything you ever wanted to know but were too shy to ask? It can be as silly or serious as personal or as wide-ranging as you’d like.
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It’s bloody cold out there, but hopefully warm where you are. Last night, my newsfeed changed from people proudly displaying and describing tā moko to pets sleeping in front of fireplaces. Feel free to share how things are where you are, if you’d like.
So rug up and let’s have a kōrero.
Ngā mihi,
Nick.
To end, some Marlon Williams, because why wouldn’t you? 🙂
What are people’s thoughts on AI and where it’s going? I’m in the tech industry and seeing it added to everything.
Lots of different things like machine learning and big data analytics are being rebranded as AI which irks me as it’s not all the same.
I think large language models can be useful time savers but their tendency to make stuff up puts me off using them. Plus the energy, cooling water use and cost of the datacenters seems wrong.
I’m much more on the cautious/cynical side after listening to Ed Zitron and his analyses of the costs. How can openAI be sustainable if they lose more money the more their product is used? They lost 7 billion US dollars last year (5 billion revenue, 12 billion in costs) and are on track to lose much more this year. With basically no use-case for their product beyond maybe decimating entry-level positions.
Where does that leave us in ten years when no-one is trained for the more experienced roles?
What of the whole bubble bursts?
How do we shift our education system so people learn rather than using AI to pass courses?
Imagine being 21, you used AI to get a degree but have a big student loan, no knowledge, and there’s no graduate jobs because AI replaced them. Now what?
Ain’t Marlon great! In the video there were moments of joy, same but more so during the hikoi. I wonder if being joyful is our secret superpower against these bvv’s trying to make our world miserable.