David Gerard @awful.systems the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and then Reddit
https://davidgerard.co.uk/
Pivot has also declared scheduled downtime until the new year. So there.
wizz for coading! chapter 17 is out
It’s December 23, and if you haven’t got Christmas organized by now, you’re screwed. But think how well you could have done with our chatbot friends to lend a hand! AI is a gift to advertising agen…
David is in London, so he can’t call 1-800-CHATGPT. So Amy called, though reluctantly. [YouTube] The bot has a pleasant but annoying female voice. It wants to help! It’s a bit like Apple’s Siri, bu…
The only thing OpenAI has scaled up is setting money on fire. They need splashy headlines to keep the funding coming. So today, closing “12 Days of OpenAI” — yes, really — we have … o3! [NYT,…
Control of resident data could be kept at municipality level
no, they'll fuck it up as hard as possible. These are not people who give a shit about the privacy of the plebs.
controller of the key pair
never.
These are not people who are going to do things correctly, let alone doing complex things correctly. They are absolutely going to come up with some hamfisted bullshit, there is no way they are not. If they really try to do this, the most likely version is a central ID register but it's privatised.
Gary Marcus in Wired writes the bloody obvious about genAI being shit
main: https://www.wired.com/story/generative-ai-will-need-to-prove-its-usefulness/ archive: https://archive.ph/0Ok2r
On orders from the Rupert Murdoch newspapers, the Australian government has passed legislation banning under-16s from social media, on extremely dubious claims of protecting mental health. This is …
convincing
in crypto, these guys run on a six to eighteen month cycle - at get in, evangelise, get rekt and disappear in embarrassment. What this means is that the only people who actually remember the history of crypto are the critics.
i once had a coiner demand in outrage that i prooove my claim that bitcoin was started by libertarians.
anyway. dunno if the same will hold in AI grift, but yeah recycling refuted claims as if nothing happened is standard in other areas of pseudoscience.
lol, there has literally never been a gain of function claim that checked out
you're posting like an evangelist, this way to the egress
Did you know that your chatbot might be out to deceive you? That it might be lying to you? And it might turn you into paperclips? Huge if true! Ordinary people have been using chatbots for a couple…
Foreign Policy: Bitcoin and Hawk Tuah Aren’t So Different
archive: https://archive.is/5aTxJ
The UK government has introduced a proposal “ensuring AI developers have access to high-quality material to train leading AI models in the UK and support innovation across the UK AI sector.” [Consu…
various forms of equivocation
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sorry you don't like anger! we'll improve your lemmyverse experience
All Protocols are Not the Same: Joanne McNeil on Bluesky
Publication with a focus on independent film, offering articles, links, and resources.
Microsoft is a proprietary software company, but a lot of its software components and documentation are under open licenses. For example, the documentation for the Windows Subsystem for Linux is un…
profound reasoning indeed, this way to the egress so you can contemplate further
GPT-2 was peak LLM because it was bad enough to be interesting, it was all downhill from there
Bowie vs Voldemort
someone sent out the batpromptfondler signal and the mods are in shooting gallery mode
please refrain from commenting unaccordingly
christ, did someone fire up the Batpromptfondler signal
your comment history is like a tendentiousness bot
actually you know what? with all the motte and baileying, you can take a month off. bye!
u wot? works fine in Firefox here. Try this archive or this archive.
Whenever you say AI is drowning us in garbage, some bozo will say how AI in medicine is actually awesome. They mean machine learning, where a computer does statistics on existing scans and their di…
now imagine Casey Newton but even less technically competent
Kevin Roose is gonna write "A Latecomer's Guide To AI" and the bubble will burst hard two months later
archive: https://archive.ph/oAlsb
Mass resignations at Intelligence as Elsevier actually bothers slightly for once
oh no! anyway,
archives:
https://web.archive.org/web/20241213203714/https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/mass-resignations-at-the-journal
https://archive.is/0lrO6
Mangione "really wanted to meet my other founding members and start a community based on ideas like rationalism, Stoicism, and effective altruism"
Before his arrest this week in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, Mangione’s family desperately tried to find him, reaching out to former classmates and posting queries on social media.
what the hell is Theil on here (CONTENT WARNING: Piers Morgan)
"I think I still think you have, you should try to make an argument." Peter Thiel tells Piers Morgan
amazing to watch American right-wingers flounder at the incredibly obvious questions from UK media guys, even Piers fucking Morgan on a podcast
Morgan - as a fellow right winger - asks Thiel about Mangione quoting Thiel
watch Thiel melting in the excruciating video clip