From a trainer and speaker on AI adoption (or advising against thereof): the reality is attention mechanisms have limited windows. They think they are building detailed profiles but the longer that context gets the more gpts will guess and ignore the rest. The insidious part are private companies finding an even more intimate way to farm personal data. The gpts themselves are quite crap.

Toronto’s publicly funded bike rental is exploding with growth but they mandate docks. Its a pro con trade off as if there are no docks, no bike, but the roads are clean and the program is expanding

Shoshana Zuboff’s Surveillance Capitalism will be work remembered 500 years from now… we didnt heed the warnings.

Fascinating to me thats the perception in the first place. Here in Canada its at least acknowledged that driving is dangerous, but its seen as more convenient and a status symbol even though in many contexts its a lot less convenient.