I participate in the "AI as a catch-all" language problem. For example, this series focuses building tests for subjective outputs, a primary creation of generative AI. It's a terrific series (as @maudnals.bsky.social is a brilliant teacher) that matters because of the different of types of AI.

People don't understand what AI is--that's unintentional and intentional consequences of marketing. Tech companies have used traditional machine learning for decades. Generative AI is a specific beast that should be named to help people understand the difference.

I went to the ER for the first time while in Athens. While I haven't been in NY, I *know* that being in-and-out in 3 hours having seen the literal specialist who needed to see me and actions for care would just never happen. And don't get me started on the cost.

This is an incredible, highly specific to Baltimore metaphor, and I am here for it.

It is difficult, as a Jew whose family was massacred in the Holocaust, to watch people come to this realization. Millions of us died because of people like this. The Holocaust was not that long ago! People have not evolved out of racism and bigotry. Folks like this will always live among us.

I'm *so proud* of Learn AI. We worked so hard on this course, for 10+ months. Web development is changing. Learn how to design features that benefit from AI (rather than adding it to everything, everywhere, all at once)

"If you have already run OpenClaw on a work device, treat it as a potential incident and engage your security team immediately." - @jmeller.bsky.social Many security folks and devs are talking about potential problems, so this is unsurprising and yet jaw dropping. 1password.com/blog/from-ma...

@anildash.com clearly identifies this dissonance between the billions spent on AI and the mass chaos in tech. I'm exhausted, as are many friends and colleagues. All we can do is take control of what we can, acknowledging that our power may be limited, but we can do *something*.

This feels like fears of voter fraud. People are furious about a threat of others taking advantage of a system, when in reality, the threat only exists so those in power can build hateful, racist policies. Since COVID, the number of people with disabilities has grown an amount we cannot understand.

Today marks 7 years at Google. I was shocked to get a response to my application, shocked they wanted an interview, then devastated I was offered a position requiring me to take a 20% salary cut. It took 4 more months to get a new offer, another 4 to start. In total, the process was 13 months. (1/2)

"Our first point of contact with most information is rarely the information itself but some lossily compressed derivative that’s already been processed and strained through a dozen layers of reinterpretation." from Lane Brown at @nymag.com. A great Monday morning read. nymag.com/intelligence...

Absolutely iconic

Imagine the screams 10x louder. And the joy 100x. It’s a beautiful night to be a New Yorker.

“Siri, play 'A New Day has Come' by Celine Dion.”

At just 34 years old, Zohran Mamdani culminated a meteoric political rise Tuesday by scoring a decisive victory in a polarizing mayoral election. He will become the youngest mayor in over a century, the first Muslim to lead New York City. buff.ly/7kOwKhb

I love a confidence boost about choices right into the voting booth. So excited to vote for Zohran.

Happy (belated) Halloween.

Much of the NYT has been bad for years, sure, but this is *disgraceful*.

@zohrankmamdani is a deeply thoughtful human being and we think he would make the best NYC mayor imaginable. We feel this as New Yorkers, as Jews and as human beings who are desperate for kindness, compassion and empathy to be represented in our politics. GET OUT THE VOTE here bit.ly/4nxYXFp

Last week, I attended the Rabbis for Ceasefire Yizkor service. It was incredible to be surrounded by fellow New Yorkers, many of whom are Jewish like me, in mourning for Palestine. Today marks 2 years of this war. 70 years since the occupation began. Ceasefire now. rabbis4ceasefire.com

It was in fact perfect and all of the mistakes were totally intentional.

Translate content in your web app without the server costs → goo.gle/4pbiFc2 Use the built-in Translator and Language Detector APIs in Chrome to run inference for free with expert models, all on the client-side.

IRL vibing 😎

Server costs? Latency? Pfft. Not with client-side AI → goo.gle/4g5M0Ak Build that real-time, AI-powered photobooth app you've been dreaming of. Run the image segmentation model directly on the user's device and give your users the privacy and speed they deserve.

When you say "AI," what are you actually talking about? The acronym seems to mean everything. Learn more about different types of AI in @developer.chrome.com's latest YouTube Short! Starring: me and @bandarra.me. (The number of times I had to try to catch that popcorn... but I finally got it.)

I saw a thing the other day that basically said “no matter what prompt you give it, the question an LLM is answering is ‘what would a plausible response to this prompt look like?’”

This thread 🔥🔥🔥🔥

I've been thinking about this for 24 hours.

100000/10 to our social team because I'm obsessed with these images. Today and tomorrow, developers are coming to Google I/O Connect in Shanghai. It's amazing to be able to share and talk to people around the world about client-side AI.

Next week is Kat's birthday. Every so often I see a flash of curly red hair or a rye smile that makes me think she's alive. Then, I remember, she's not. I feel guilty having adventures she could never have, even if she'd say that's ridiculous. But again, she can't say anything. Grief's a monster.

The people demanded that I make more videos for @chromium.social. Coming this fall, a girl who cannot toss popcorn to save her life.

Docs love is the truest love. Thank you!

"The sun might not come out. It might not come out tomorrow, and it might not come out the next day, and it might not come out ever again. And if you don’t think that’s true, then watch the movie musical about all the orphans who didn’t get adopted."

Truly one of the most beautiful and haunting essays I’ve read.

Really hoping folks chuckle as much as I did when writing dad jokes. 👨

Never have I ever seen a rat run up the center aisle at a Broadway show. However, I have now seen it on the West End.

I’ve been thinking about this nonstop for 24 hours. It’s one of the most beautiful pieces I’ve ever read.

Are rick rolls still funny? Asking for a friend.

Once again. Dying. Dead. Deceased.

“And then I paused. Wait. Why am I thinking about the POPE cleaning up his timelines?” Dying, dead, deceased.

Many of my friends stopped using search because they can’t find the information they’re looking for anymore—there are devastating climate impacts. But you can’t blame the user for trying to solve a problem with the tools that are available to them.

Brooklyn bus stop ads being replaced with guerilla public service announcements.

For years, I've been thinking about digital death, and what happens to myself online when I die. I've shut down accounts across networks, deleted all social apps from my phone. With that, I've lost connections to ghosts of people I loved. medium.com/@alexandraw/...

I was asked by another laid off Googler if I knew Adam, if I read this blog, and all I could think to say is that he is incredibly kind, patient, thoughtful, and all of the adjectives you can think of when you think of your favorite people. I don't understand this. I'll never understand this.

Adam is the brightest, most authentic, inspiring, truly creative, high performing, deeply passionate, and nice person I have ever worked with. And then my employer decided to terminate his role. I am gutted and sick to my stomach. I will miss you, my friend 💔

This thread made my day.

I'm just a few videos in, but really enjoying this course in responsible AI development from Laurence Moroney (future proofing with @laurencemoroney.com, should he join BlueSky eventually). www.linkedin.com/learning/res...

Fulfill your dreams of moving or living in Canada -- and also working on Chrome, that, too.

@andreban.bsky.social and I are really proud of this one.