I like how he even had someone with art expertise literally explain it to him and he writes it off as “lol she must have super artist vision for details.”
Scott knows and is of his constituency
The bipartisan US-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) has proposed a “Manhattan Project” — in the style of the World War II project to develop the atomic bomb, presumably with simi…
i talk about how the idea of a humanity-saving tech revolution from the usual tech suspects is dead (for me).
note that cwebber wrote the ActivityPub spec, btw
ChatGPT is the foe of teachers and students at all levels of education, keeping both teaching and learning from happening. OpenAI knows a juicy market opportunity when it sees one, so it’s put out …
Mao just read his Adam Smith
especially for such important things like fucking tenant screening.
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SafeRent is a machine learning black box for landlords. It gives landlords a numerical rating of potential tenants and a yes/no result on whether to rent to them. In May 2022, Massachusetts housing…
Centrists Don't Fucking Be Like This challenge not achieved yet again
The mask comes off at LWN, as two editors (jake and corbet) dive in to frantically defend the honour of Justine fucking Tunney against multiple people pointing out she's a Nazi who fills her projects with racist dogwhistles
an earlier piece on the, uh, issues in this case (it's pretty juicy)
now seeing EAs being deeply concerned about RFK running health during a H5N1 outbreak
dust specks vs leopards
they'll have to comfort themselves with a Coke(tm), apparently it's a Surreal Thing
not many people are quite aware that the word "systemic" is economics jargon meaning "RED ALERT RED ALERT HOLY SHIT RED ALERT"
The AI bubble demands infrastructure. The big techs can’t build data centers fast enough. These also need power plants and networking. Where does the money come from? Investment bankers and private…
i mean, the Ray Charles one sounds fun. My 1st year maths lecturer demonstrated the importance of not dividing by zero by mathematically proving that if 1=0, then he was Brigitte Bardot. We did actually applaud.
Daniel Kibblesmith is an author and TV writer. His children’s book Santa’s Husband is published by HarperCollins. HarperCollins sent an offer of $2,500 for a three-year license to feed Kibblesmith…
there are apparently two other prospective ads that do include AI renditions of human actors and they're as bad.
Toys’R’Us released a TV ad generated with Sora a few months ago. Everyone loathed it and the ad caused massive brand damage. Toys’R’Us executives considered it a huge success. [YouTube; NBC] You ne…
look, if you just check these objectively calculated numbers,
it's so fitting that these guys are so into the AI slop as well
Substack is a hugely popular newsletter platform. Top writers can draw in over $1 million a year in subscriptions. But a lot of these top blogs may be at least partly AI slop. AI detection startup …
I recently attended a funeral. It was called the Google Web Creator Conversation Event and took place on October 29, … Continue reading "I Attended Google’s Creator Conversation Event, And It Turned Into A Funeral"
In today's rapidly advancing technological landscape, the importance of integrating ethical considerations into our innovations cannot be overstated.
We previously detailed the small modular reactor push in AI — where AI companies put off doing anything about the carbon output from their ghastly power usage by putting a few dollars into alleged …
they'll pay twice as much!
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Once you’ve trained your large language model on the entire written output of humanity, where do you go? Here’s Ilya Sutskever, ex-OpenAI, admitting to Reuters that they’ve plateaued: [Reuters] Th…
ProQuest is an academic information company that sells access to books, journal articles, and dissertations. We’ve heard from authors that ProQuest has been contacting their publishers seeking deal…
a bit of completely original journalism based on reader tips, thank you
What if large language models are actually the Singularity? What if chatbots are intelligent beings we have moral obligations to — and not just statistical slop to predict the next token in sequenc…
oh yes, this one is about our very good friends
Under years of pressure from the right-wing press, the previous and current UK governments have required the Home Office to reduce immigration numbers by any means possible — whether it makes sense…
News sites Raw Story and AlterNet sued OpenAI in February, claiming ChatGPT scraped their stories and that ChatGPT regurgitates their copyrighted material. [Complaint, PDF; Docket] NY District Judg…
Notepad is the Windows operating system RichEdit widget as an application. The whole point is to be the simplest possible text editor. But what if Notepad had some AI? Wait no longer. Microsoft has…
David Gerard @awful.systems the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and then Reddit
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