you've got the abyss diving down pat

curser

article updated - apparently Whisper uses a transformer model and is closely related to GPT-2. thus, hallucinations.

I am actually talking book proposals about this one. (I told my agent about the Akon City article and her eyes lit up.) There's a definite strain of compelling crazy to pursue here.

obviously I should write an AI book first. But also, writing isn't fungible, so it'll be what I come out with first.

TIRED: AI generated images
WIRED: obvious 5-minute edits that don't give a shit

well so far it's the whiny little chuds app

though today's was the Nigerian crypto guy who was angry I'd apparently deleted several of his articles

not included: a few hundred words of other ranting about the pervasive race science in AI research and especially from anyone talking about "AGI". Maybe later.

there’s a whole much larger drama around the commander format that i haven’t got the energy to go into here. the most tolerable summary is that they printed a card so ridiculous that the format dissolved and was remade under a wave of death threats when it was banned. i know that doesn’t make sense, just trust me, or write your own summary of it.

now i really wanna know

also, thinking about it, this is shockingly on topic for tech takes

no no, that one i totally did and i'll fuckin do it again

HOW MANY HAVE WE GOT

they're well at the top of the S-curve and now there's only desperate over-engineering and bolting on special cases left

dude. the AGI will simply vanish the evidence wherever they're standing

so far it's two (2) idiots on X the everything app

lol

trace is on a quillette podcast about it too, prob where Musk got it

no new outbreak on Wikipedia itself

machine learning can surely fix it

now, you might think this is all utterly contemptuous

it is not certain it's a chatbot - but that kind of confabulation is enough of a tell that I'll say so

elf an unsafety

and the ukrainians also telling the very concerned posters to fuck right off

dork elf