Tagged: power
14 entries
- Openish is dead. Long live Openish!
Open is dead! Open is everywhere! Long live open, long live the *praxis* of open. Which is what I'm going to go do some more of for a while.
- Centaurs, reverse and otherwise
If the first wave of LLM criticism is on life-support, what ethical questions do we face now? And how can/should open engage?
- En route
Links on culture, tools, and SAP in a trenchcoat.
- Back in the Saddle
Vocabulary, ethics, and disclosures, and some news and links from The Week That Was in AI + Open.
- Agent of Change, three years in
About the next phase of the newsletter—what happens to open source when the LLM is an agent of change?
- all this power
Getting angry about Senator Vance’s call for… open? and some good examples of what smart open could look like.
- Deck the halls
Many small notes, plus three long-simmering micro-essays—two on OpenAI and Facebook, and one on how the switch from public licenses to 1:1 contracts might impact open.
- Is this thing on?
Catching up on power, Facebook, and a range of miscellany.
- Live from Sweden
Upcoming public panel moderation; shifting power via foundation models (open or not); public ability to understand via great WaPo visualization; modularity; and more.
- thought experiments
A busy week: copyrightability, throwbacks to late-90s monopoly concerns, who is a coder anyway, permission culture revisited, artistic typography, and so much more.
- structure is good
Focusing on some key themes, via deployment on laptops, government algorithms, a blog post from Anthropic, an intro to foundation models, and more.
- Power, accountability, speed: pick (one?)
Updates, including data from Hugging Face, new litigation, and thoughts on power.
- Why open(ish)?
“Open” is a shortcut to a bundle of values, and the new generation of open will weigh those values differently. This newsletter is about those values, and those changes.
- Machine Learning As An Agent of Change
tldr: Machine learning should probably blow your mind more than it already does. What changed my mind on this was, probably ironically, a book on the impact of the printing press—and how it changed our world even more than most of us realize.