David Gerard @awful.systems the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and then Reddit
https://davidgerard.co.uk/
On Monday, OpenAI launched a “research preview” of Operator, an AI agent that browses the web — “you give it a task and it will execute it” — for anyone paying $200/month for ChatGPT Pro. [OpenAI] …
if you ever need to, you know you can rattle the tin. if LessWrong can get fucking $2 million ...
Ulbricht also had really bad lawyers. The FBI evidence on the server in Iceland was tainted in fairly obvious ways and he coulda got much of the case thrown out, then just ... didn't? I can't find it, but Nicholas Weaver wrote some stuff on this.
it's better than that, he didn't dump a penny in
the deal is:
- they get unregulated
- they promise to spend money they were going to anyway, they're totally getting round to it bro
the Smasnug investigation is amazing
Tech YouTuber f4mi discovered her videos were being scraped by bots for ChatGPT-generated spam videos with robotic voices and repeating stock footage with a mangled version of her content. So she d…
The UK government’s AI plans proceed apace, with press releases on the bureaucratic wonders that will befall us if we just shove LLMs into completely inappropriate places! Today’s miracle gadget is…
lol i was about to reply "welcome to awful systems here's your accordion"
Fresh new president Donald Trump has revoked Biden’s October 2023 executive order on responsible AI development. Biden’s order, “Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Us…
also they are rationalists and hence the most gullible mfs on any of this stuff
they can't even sell o3 really - in o3 high mode, needed to do this level of query, it's about $1000 per query lol
enjoy Coffeezilla's flabbergasted despair at Trumpcoin and Melaniacoin
part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zjBj194el8
part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EbV7kyiKZA
OpenAI released its o3 model in December, bragging about the model’s unparalleled ability to do math and science problems. The model’s success on the FrontierMath benchmark — 87.5%, beating t…
or just ask for one here
Guardian Media Group sold The Observer, its Sunday edition, to Tortoise, over the protests of its journalists. During union members’ four-day walkout in December, Guardian bosses tried just a touch…
Could pain help test AI for sentience? You might think that question has far too many hypotheticals to even make sense as a question. But there’s AI hype to propagate. The goal of the Google Deep M…
that being the specific model when we started it! "web3 is going great but it's AI"
molly approved and said it saved people nagging her to start one
(looks at Trump) FUCKING COINERS
President-elect Donald Trump is planning to release an executive order elevating crypto as a policy priority and giving industry insiders a voice within his administration, according to people familiar with the plans.
archive: https://archive.is/H9H1I
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is going all-in on AI. Earlier this week, he announced that the company’s developer division (which makes developer tools and compilers) has been folded into a new unit …
Hacker News: Are there any real examples of AI agents doing work? The answer may not surprise you!
Hacker News is venture capital firm Y Combinator’s site for aspiring startup founders — or, to be less generous, for temporarily embarrassed billionaires. The AI hype runs thick and fast. An AI “ag…
love the linkedin comments trying to insist there will be terrible consequences for this prominent law professor who must just not know his stuff or something
and bullshitting and dogwhistling and obfuscation
did scoot at one time have the mask on, cos if so that must be the distant past
How To Stop Worrying And Learn To Love Lynn's National IQ Estimates
> Isn't It Super-Racist To Say That People In Sub-Saharan African Countries Have IQs Equivalent To Intellectually Disabled People?
> No. In fact, it would be super-racist not to say this!
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/how-to-stop-worrying-and-learn-to
archive: https://archive.ph/BJ6bd
need to start charging these guys $100 a word so they can complain about the merchandise
jesus fucking christ
Stanford law professor Mark Lemley, a partner at Lex Lumina, is withdrawing from the Kadrey v. Meta case over Meta training its Llama LLM on copyrighted material. He’s “fired Meta as a client” beca…
eh not really? this plan involves commercial SMRs, which don't exist yet.
they've already made it clear they're gonna put in wind/solar over the objections of local NIMBYs, which is one move I'll credit them with
as it says at the top, always feel free to spin a post out, there's no quota
just use AI instead obv
What we see over and over is that generative AI is promoted by people who literally can’t tell good from bad. People who can’t write or read promote ChatGPT. People who don’t know a good image prom…
The UK government today announced its “AI Opportunities Action Plan” — a rough and buzzword-saturated sketch promising to spend billions on this magical new technology that will achieve unprecedent…
Salesforce is all in on AI “agents” — whatever that means. CEO Marc Benioff said in December: [Salesforce Ben] We’re not adding any more software engineers next year because we have increased the p…
Photographer Matthew Raifman took a photo of a seagull in flight. He liked the photo but wanted to clean up some circle highlights on the image. So he put it into Adobe Lightroom, marked the areas …
The class action suit Kadrey v. Meta Platforms, running since 2023, alleges massive copyright violation by Facebook in developing its Llama LLM. [Case docket] Just hours before the discovery deadli…
