the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and then Reddit
https://davidgerard.co.uk/
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
what happened next with Max Tegmark and the Swedish neo-Nazis
archive: https://archive.is/ux5pL
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
Foreign Policy: Senegal’s Cryptocurrency City Has Evaporated
archive: https://archive.is/Ji6cs
trace is on a quillette podcast about it too, prob where Musk got it
no new outbreak on Wikipedia itself
OpenAI next model Orion by December, it's 100x cooler bro trust me bro no we're not releasing to the public bro it's just too dangerous and cool bro
Altman has teased that Orion is coming.
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
and the ukrainians also telling the very concerned posters to fuck right off
the hackernewses whining that linus is so unfair in enacting legal sanctions against the russian who works in development for bomb components are comedy gold
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41918760 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41919670 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41927838 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41929585 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41932225 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41932632
you would believe how bad these guys are at understanding basic shit
[let's see how long for this post to turn into a shooting gallery]
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saluting our fallen comrade at TikTok
Chinese technology giant ByteDance denied reports that the incident caused more than $10m of damage.
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Mullenweg/Automattic offers a second round of 6mo redundancy pay in the hope of purging more dissenters
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg made another buyout offer this week, and threatened employees who speak to the press with termination.
archive: https://archive.is/AKASQ
Google has signed a deal with California startup Kairos Power for six or seven small modular reactors. The first is due in 2030 and the rest by 2035, for a total of 500 megawatts. [Google blog; pre…
BRING IT ON NITPICKY NUKE NERDS
Torpedoing a network of tech billionaire funded race science
Group promoting ‘dangerous’ scientific racism ideology teamed up with rightwing extremist, recordings reveal
archive: https://archive.is/cxAl8
Ethos is a restaurant in Austin that doesn’t exist. It’s completely AI-generated. And yet it has 73,000 followers on Instagram. [Instagram] Most of the food shots are slightly off — a foot-shaped p…