David Gerard @awful.systems the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and then Reddit
https://davidgerard.co.uk/
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella went on Dwarkesh Patel’s podcast last week for an hour-long puff piece on Microsoft and AI. [transcript] Nadella says AI will have succeeded if it shows growth in world …
yep that's the stuff. they HINT HINTed what they wanted the LLM to do.
Peer-reviewed scientific journal Time Magazine was chosen as the exclusive outlet to tell us how an AI will cheat at a game if it thinks it might be losing! Wow! This is “concerning” because “scien…
Wired: The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians (archive)
Evan Ratliff has apparently been tracking the Ziz cult since 2022 and when it blew up into mainstream news, he was ready
crayon either way
Has the study itself shown up?
CN: Fascism, US Politics I just got home from the Election Tech Debrief, meeting with 300 other folks who worked on the intersection of ...
The hype cycle for Google’s fabulous new AI Co-Scientist tool, based on the Gemini LLM, includes a BBC headline about how José Penadés’ team at Imperial College asked the tool about a problem…
that gives me questions about China
that's tomorrow's Pivot
Chris Kluwe vs Gamergate is an example of the jocks as the good guys up against the nerds as the bad guys
IQ is a farce multiplier. Elon is a High IQ Individual which means he wreaks 1000x the havoc of a regular dumbass. IQ stands for Idiot Quickly
the user has been gently directed to the debate club
EQL runs promotions such as launches of new sneakers. Some of these, like this year’s NBA All-Star Weekend launch of the Michael Jordan AJ 1, are in huge demand! So EQL runs these as a lottery. Rep…
the Laserjet 4M from the 1990s, the incredible unstoppable tank of lasers
Superbabies is a backup plan; focus the energy of humanity’s collective genetic endowment into a single generation, and have THAT generation to solve problems like “figure out how to control digital superintelligence
The academic institutions in charge of exploring these ideas are deeply compromised by insane ideologies. And the big commercial entities are too timid to do anything truly novel; once they discovered they had a technology that could potentially make a few tens of billions treating single gene genetic disorders, no one wanted to take any risks; better to take the easy, guaranteed money and spend your life on a lucrative endeavor improving the lives of 0.5% of the population than go for a hail mary project that will result in journalists writing lots of articles calling you a eugenicist.
oh no, not a eugenicist!
What is an “AI agent,” anyway? We could concoct a reasonable definition — say, you tell it in natural language what you want and it goes out and does it for you. But that doesn’t describe the thing…
apparently video is just huuuuge
this is also why pivot to AI is mostly 200-250 words, not 1200 or 2000 or 8000
per link, venture capital has been very reluctant to unambiguously realise the losses. a $1b book value is an (imaginary) asset you can hug and hold, a $114m loss is not.
Humane, creator of the fabulous and literally nonfunctional Ai Pin gadget — that’s “Ai,” not “AI” — has finally thrown in the towel. After Humane took $230 million in …
there were counterarguments that the authors anthropomorphised the LLMs inappropriately - which is a valid objection - and therefore these tests shouldn't have been run at all. The answer to that is that the companies are marketing this shit by anthropomorphising the hell out of it and literally claiming these spicy autocompletes are on the path to artificial super intelligence. So of course cognitive tests are gonna be appropriate.
see also: Yudowsky has never consumed fiction targeted above middle school
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@lritter/114001505488538547
master: welcome to my Smart Home
student: wow. how is the light controlled?
master: with this on-off switch
student: i don't see a motor to close the blinds
master: there is none
student: where is the server located?
master: it is not needed
student: excuse me but what is "Smart" about all of this?
master: everything.
in this moment, the student was enlightened
You know how chatbots can do fine in short bursts, but then you ask them how many ‘R’s there are in “strawberry” and they act like they’ve got a concussion? For the British Medical Journal’s Christ…
Vice signalling. https://awful.systems/post/3520479
The Guardian Media Group has announced a content deal with OpenAI. The various GPTs can serve information from the Guardian, with attribution and links back, and GMG gets a wad of cash. The company…
Agencia Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial (ANIA) is a new government agency for AI in El Salvador, operating directly under President Nayib Bukele. [YSKL, in Spanish] The “Law for the Promotion o…
In a world of publish or perish, academics will too often turn to our helpful robot friends and ask a chatbot to write the text of a paper for them. Sometimes they don’t check too closely if the re…
AI-generated images mostly aren’t copyrightable in the US — no matter how much work you put into a prompt, you’re just running it through an AI gatcha game to see what you win. This isn’t enough to…
Bitcoin mining in the US is notorious for inflicting ridiculously noisy data centers on small towns across the country. We can bring these deafening benefits to towns and villages across the UK — a…
Thomson Reuters has won its copyright case against defunct legal startup Ross Intelligence, who trained an AI model on headnotes from Westlaw. [Wired, archive; opinion, PDF, case docket] This was a…
BBC News has run as much content-free AI puffery as any other media outlet. But they had their noses rubbed hard in what trash LLMs were when Apple Intelligence ran mangled summaries of BBC stories…
