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I tried some of the prompts from this paper and found that most of the time "preferences" are fully determined by which alternative is presented first

Feeling very strongly about The Freedom To Post is a mind virus

Checking up on friend dot com, which has changed from being just a landing page where you can order an AI necklace into a chat bot that tries to emotionally manipulate you into buying an AI necklace. Funny jailbreak but this is actually sick stuff.

I got access to OpenAI's new Deep Research Agent. Here's the first thing I tried. Here's how it did at each category and overall. date: 11/30 vs: 15/30 home/away: 24/30 score: 13/30 starters: 10/30 high scorer: 13/30 number of teams with all categories correctly completed: 4/30

If true, slop alchemy theory is confirmed

The Pliny stuff is extremely easy to do, but it's so bizarre that it works.

I gotta say, Linda is really a different kind of lady than I thought she was

Ok ok NOW I think we are starting to see this

If you went to uni, 1. What was your career goal when you started? 2. Your initial program? 3. If you changed programs, what did you change to? 4. What do you do now? 1. b2b SaaS sales rep 2. Business 3. Economics, and then Math 4. Statistics

it's a Golden Age for people who want to do some of the worst science ever performed papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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every single day I see a new person say something about AI that is basically equivalent to "we are so close, all we need to do is draw the rest of the fucking owl"

They put ChatGPT on cron and supposedly serious technology people think it’s a person

I think we are starting to see the first real substantial bets on AI and I think they aren’t going to pay off

first world problem of a first world problem but it's so annoying when your job is always in the newspaper

It’s not that obvious what the best thing to do about misinformation on social media is

ChatGPT could never write a sentence in Cop American English as beautiful as this