jaschop @ jaschop @awful.systems Posts 7Comments 60Joined 1 yr. ago
"The Phony Comforts of AI Optimism": Ed Zitron on lazy hypemongers and CoreWeave's brick-wall-headed trajectory
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Zum Glück hab ich den pfostierten Text nicht gelesen, und konnte dieses erquickende Christoph Waltz MichMich unironisch genießen.
Ob sogenannte soßen-offene GenKI wirklich soßen-offen ist, ist diskutabel.
Davon unabhängig bin ich der Meinung, dass GenKI Nutzung die Fähigkeit zum kreativen Ausdruck verkümmern lässt, hervorragendend visualisiert vom Nutzenden @bobtimus_prime@feddit.org .
Generative KI kann süchtig machen. Infos und Hilfe unter www.bzga.de .
- Trypophobie
- Alpamare (Bad Tölz)
- String Cheese
- Mount Everest
- Rogue One
Yeah, the same thing struck me. I'd guess they were jumping on the buzzword, but x-risk just was deemed gaudy and unserious.
Might be semi-related: the german aerospace/automotive/industrial research agency has an "AI Safety" institute (institute = top level department).
I got a rough impression from their website. They don't seem to be doing anything that successful. Mostly fighting the unwinnable battles of putting AI in everything without sucking and twiddling machine learning models to make them resilient against malicous data. Besides trying to keep the torch of self-driving cars alive for the german car industry. Oh, and they're doing the quantum AI bit.
They're a fairly new institute, and I heard rumors they're not doing great. Maybe the organization resists the necessary insanity to generate new AI FOMO at this point. One can dream.
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Der Antisemitismusbeauftragte dea Bundes, Felix Klein, findet harte Kritik an Israel und Fragen nach dem Völkerrecht überprüft Notizen nicht antisemitisch!
I was going to shitpost that Trump is the least neo-colonial president cuz he cut all foreign aid, but I realized I kinda believe that unironically. I'm in the anti-death-and-suffering camp of course, but a hundred kinda self-serving national aid programs might just not cut it.
(This might be inspired by the Merz government planning to roll the special development aid office into the foreign affairs ministry, partly to tie it more strongly to national interest.)
Maybe we need to bring back the UN bigly.
Ja geschenkt, ist nicht wovon ich hier rede. Sie hat 2024 ein Buch Gute Energie veröffentlicht.
Was wenn Depression, Ängstlichkeit, Unfruchtbarkeit, Alzheimer [...] haben die selbe Wurzel Ursache? Die Wahrheit ist, sie haben.
Darin hat sie erzählt dank "pflanzlicher Medizin 🍄" die Liebe gefunden zu haben, und alles mögliche andere Geschwurbel.
Hat für mich auch was kooptiertes: "Ich glaube dass wir mit guten Vibes die Welt heilen können, bin rechts btw ☺️"
Rechte lieben es die Ästhetik von Linken zu kooptieren. Funktioniert leider auch oft, weil eine Ästhetik von den meisten nur oberflächlich verstanden wird.
Etwas verwandt: die neue Sanitätsinspekteur Generalin von Präsident Trumpf ist ein Hippie und wirbt für Magische Pilze Therapie.
Wer mit Software arbeitet, weiss dass 10mal mehr Code nichts ist was als Firma sehr erstrebenswert ist. Und dass ist ungefähr alles worin LLMs gut sind. Unmengen an gerade-so-nutzbarem slop.
Ich leg das mal hier ab. https://www.suizidprophylaxe.de/hilfsangebote/hilfsangebote/
Alles in allem ist es recht angenehm, aber beim Modulimport hat FF einen Fall wo's ohne vernünftige Fehlermelldung abraucht. Ich schreib vielleicht einen Bugreport...
Ich iel wenn ich nach 3 Tagen 0 Features gebaut habe, aber dafür obskures Firefox-spezifisches Wissen über modulbasierte Worker-Threads gesammelt habe.
I'm interpreting your phrasing as you believing that the non-profit "taking over" is somehow good, because profit motive bad presumably. But regardless of incentives, everyone involved is trying to flood the world with slop by incinerating cash and processors on industrial scales.
But so far the cash incinerator has been running on speculative financial products issued by a club of esoteric computer scientists trying to awaken the robot god. Investors are slightly uncomfortable with this, so Sammy boy is trying to offer them a more traditional vehicle to incinerate their cash (while indulging in his personal profit motive a bit).
You're certainly hitting some nails on their heads here. The normalisation of AI is absolutely happening, mostly because the buttons start showing up on Google/Microsoft/etc. products with massive market share.
Also the manlyman blogs bitching about beaver hair brushes. I was looking up safety razors in german ("Rasierhobel" btw, totally unaware of that until now), and Wikipedia was referencing one such archived blog, bitching about pig bristle brushes being "drug store" garbage. I might still get one. (The razor that is, not the brush. Spray on foam will do for me.)
Not so sure about the scythe/mower thing. My battery powered mower & motor scythe slap. (Stihl btw)
While browsing some german news media outside my usual territorry (DW and tagesschau), and was fooled by this chameleon of an ad on the front page of WELT (trying for classy, but obvious conservative bias).
The heading means "Bitcoin could protect from inflation". If you want to check out some retail investor shilling in the wild, here you go!
archive: https://archive.is/4RT80
I can see tante's point. Besides AI datacenters being used for surveillance tech, I can also see LLM tech itself used nefariously post-bubble. Maybe maintaining an up-to-date LLM as a product is not viable, but a custom-trained model to snipe public online discourse around a crucial election could remain affordable for a wealthy fascist.
On the bright side, I am hoping for a brief period of powerful yet affordable gaming PCs thanks to retrofitted, slightly singed Blackwells.