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be sure to ask Kevin about this one, every time
look at some of the fuckin' talk titles
bsky.app/profile/davi...
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don't reward the NYT with your money: it doesn't deserve it even if it has a good games app.
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can confirm
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* correction, earlier this month!
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attached is the source code of an AI that performs just as well and is therefore human equivalent:
10 PRINT "I AM THE BASILISK WORSHIP ME"
20 GOTO 10
or perhaps your logic is salty rather than basic
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actually that's near plausible. Transcription is pretty fast, you can feed that to a translator pretty fast.
how *good* it is, that's a different question.
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THE HOMEWORK MACHINE IS HERE AND WE HAVE TO ACCEPT THAT AND LEARN TO USE IT FOR THE BETTERMENT OF HUMANITY IT IS A TOOL YOU ALL SOUND LIKE PEOPLE WHO PROTESTED ERASERS ON PENCILS
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In all honesty I have noticed this. While many people who use the tech are perfectly sensible, there are a lot of addicts who have kind of lost their minds, and even the mildest critiques of AI are sometimes met with the kind of rage you only usually get if you threaten to take someoneās coke away
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"Your AI can't do a puzzle that even previous AIs can"
"oh yeah, well, uh, a human can't either so there!"
what the fuck is the force of this non sequitur argument even supposed to be
or are you just completing tokens vaguely in the shape of an argument
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:-O
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According to Nikiforuk, AI models "can evade human control. They can rewrite code to avoid being shut down. They can disobey commands. They can falsify information. They can deceive and cheat. They can even lie to avoid modification."
None of these claims is true. pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/25/a...
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This is why, to borrow @davidgerard.co.uk's term, genAI and the field of AI in general (as opposed to specific, narrow offshoots like ML or data mining) is based on 'impressive demos' - it's based on demos that are intended to remain demos, because demos are all you need now
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well I saw this post, so
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I agree with @davidgerard.co.uk here.
If you don't like it or do like it. I still recommend his videos. His Pivot to AI video is a humorous update on what's happening with AI focusing on one story a day.
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Someday Iāll get around to my āreading the history of philosophy taught me to recognize most kinds of assholesā podcast lol, this is def one of them
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My pet theory is that LLMs track with Silicon Valley's promo culture where all that matters is convincing people that don't actually know anything that you've done something amazing. Just saying you did it convincingly is more important than actually doing things that work. Claim credit and move on.
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Ooh, I wrote a thing somewhat related to this:
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it's probably worth contacting whoever administers your org's microsoft deal to ask about it
i mean it won't change much, but it will tell the reseller and eventually Microsoft that the customers are unhappy about this in particular
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boy, remember when commercial software worked