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“Only 21% of French workers say work is very important [in 2022], compared to 24% in 2021 and 60% in 1990. A fundamental shift in money versus time: workers no longer want to work longer hours for more pay. Instead, they will forgo money for time off. Basically, people are less interested in working long hours and thinking about work all the time. They are disengaging with the symbols of work ‘success’ and finding less value in seeking meaning through the sense of 'belonging' with their company.” — “I love you, me neither”: the ambivalences of the new relationship to work through WorkFutures.
People: The coming of Allocation economy. Can we think non linearly ? UK councils targeted by cyberattacks.
2024 meta-trends, includes AI Colonization, and competing realities. Climate fictions for 2024. AI in the year of elections.Tech: LLM query principles (github) - from “Principled Instructions Are All You Need for Questioning LLaMA-1/2, GPT-3.5/4” (PDF). Tab - an ai-powered listening Tamagotchi: feels weird. Decentralized AI chip factory network, TSMC expands. Ultrasound sensor mimicks eyes. Huggingface wants to challenge the GPTs marketplace. US DoD starts a (LLM) AI Bias Bounty.
AI: More AI voice scams - now in accidents - but also fake Biden robocalls. Persisting sleeper agents in LLMs, even after safety training (PDF). CEO slow their buy-in of AI. DPD (bot) swore at customer. EU goes for the AI Act. A truly open LLM?
AI Strat: Gartner radar for deployment.
Random: Lost tetrapods. Can far-UV disinfect air well?