David Gerard @ dgerard @awful.systems Posts 449Comments 1,094Joined 2 yr. ago

I thought I was looking into the camera, but phones are annoying
the wat.jpeg
if i stop saying "um" all the time that's half an hour less in post right there
HEY GUYS CHECK THIS OUT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1yHrZR_Sgg
with the awful (systems) assistance of self, fasterandworse and jp of this parish
no idea when i'll do another one, this one was 3 hrs faff for 5 min video lol
things I need: a better mic, a chair that doesn't swivel
Ilya Sutskever, ex-OpenAI, gets $2b funding not to release anything until he has ‘super intelligence’
only from that article lol
J. Oliver Conroy's Ziz piece is out. Not odious at a glance.
I've read Masnick for over 20 years and he's never learnt to write coherently. At least this one isn't blaming Europe.
he started writing about this stuff and it struck a chord with people
sadly not directly
we now have a Reliable Source for Cremieux being Lasker, which we were previously only 99.999999% sure of
LA Times ‘bias meter’ goes live, pushes AI slop without journalistic review
Google: We’ll reach Artificial General Intelligence if you slackers just show face in the office 60 hours a week
the entire pitch is not having to spend money on employees
Feeding the dreams of AI venture capital: if you want the VC money, just promise magic
The Information's Dealmaker newsletter is talking today about downrounds in AI venture funding
it's been an ongoing exit scam
OpenAI buys services from a pile of Altman's other portfolio companies
Text removed in Mozilla TOS update:
{ "@type": "Question", "name": "Does Firefox sell your personal data?", "acceptedAnswer": { "@type": "Answer", "text": "Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise. " } },
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
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
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
Humane AI finally shuts down, HP pays $116m for the pieces — not including the Ai Pin