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PhD student expelled for using AI sues university, files pro-se suit using ChatGPT
looks like tomorrow's Pivot
i am presuming his lawyers, and a special crypto bro pardon
yep that's the stuff. they HINT HINTed what they wanted the LLM to do.
AI ‘hacks’ system to cheat at chess! — because the researchers told it how to
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?
Google Co-Scientist AI cracks superbug problem in two days! — because it had been fed the team’s previous paper with the answer in it
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
BBC summary of the story of Ziz
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!
Yudkowsky: eugenics is now "the third most important project in the world." After AI doom and anime, presumably.
Businesses still don’t know what an ‘AI agent’ is and they don’t really want one
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 AI finally shuts down, HP pays $116m for the pieces — not including the Ai Pin
just started a Ziz thread over on the Reddit sneerclub too
Guardian does OpenAI deal, New York Times goes AI for newspaper content generation
How AI slop generators started talking about ‘vegetative electron microscopy’
The UK’s ‘turbocharged’ AI initiative — bringing data center noise to a village near you