AI Writing Tools Like ChatGPT Are the Future of Learning & No, It’s Not Cheating. Sally Brandon, a communications lecturer at Melbourne’s Deakin University, applied bot detection technology to 54 essays she marked over summer and found 10 had “significant, detectable bot assistance”. (more)

How will ChatGPT change product management? (more)

Inside-Higher-Ed: Freaking Out About ChatGPT. Over the weekend, lots of folks working in academia learned that the OpenAI, ChatGPT interface is now capable of producing convincing (though uninspired) college student quality writing to just about any prompt within seconds. (more)

Clive Thompson: On Bullshit, And AI-Generated Prose. *There’s a word for prose and speech that exist mostly just to fill the space: bullshit. Recently, OpenAI released “ChatGPT”, a quite remakable chatbot. It’s built atop GPT-3 (more)

Andrew: TfT #1 / Tools of Tomorrow: 5 key trends for Tools for Thought (more)

Erik Hoel: I Got an Artificial Intelligence to Write My Novel. According to the literary critic Harold Bloom, among writers “influence always proceeds by misinterpretation.” In The Anxiety of Influence, Bloom argues that writers willfully ignore and misinterpret their predecessors in order to make their canvases as blank as possible. (more)

Noah Raford gave a talk on "Collapse dynamics: Phase transitions in complex social systems". (more)

MarketingBS: A Review of Talent. Today’s essay takes a look at Tyler Cowen's latest book, Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World (co-written with Daniel Gross). (more)

Dan Shipper: Can GPT-3 Explain My Past and Tell My Future? What do you want to know about yourself? asks the bot. The bot is built with GPT-3, and has access to hundreds of my old journal entries from the last 10 years that it can use to answer my questions. (journaling) (more)

digital Notebook, second brain (more)

work done by a Team, esp D And D (more)

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Google internal project/research to investigate what makes a successful team (team work). https://rework.withgoogle.com/print/guides/5721312655835136/ See Psychological Safety.

Drug overdose deaths in the U.S. have topped 100,000 for the first time. More than 100,000 people died over a 12-month period from fatal drug overdoses for the first time in U.S. history, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. (more)

co-founder Groove. Brother of Ray Ozzie

Zvi Mowshowitz: COVID-19 01/26/23: Case Count Crash. Executive Summary: Cases down by 27%. Former FDA head calls for CDC to be CDC, former CDC head returns fire. Jury duty? School? Covid positive? No problem, come on down. (more)

Jon Udell: making Mastodon relationship graphs. The new release of Steampipe is all about relationship graphs. Our blog post shows how these graphs provide contextual awareness for devops and security pros who can now see all the resources related to an EC2 instance (more)

Steampipe Blog: v0.18.0: Relationship graphs. Graphs are just panels in existing Steampipe dashboards. They load from live data and can be saved as snapshots (more)

Jon Udell: GitHub for English teachers. In “GitHub for the rest of us” I argued that GitHub’s superpowers could serve everyone, not just coders. Ever since then (2015) I’ve felt that I overstated the case (more)

Jon Udell: Debuggable explanations. I’ve been reviewing Greg Wilson’s current book project, Software Design in Python. (more)