Artificial intelligence still has some way to go

"written by humans, for humans"

nice to see some job creation

Yeah, you ask a leading question based on bullshit like "Why did Virago Modern Classics have such a hit with John Norman's Gor novels?" and it merrily prattles away with reasons based on total fantasy.

Taiwanese farmers were forced to grow less rice because the AI chip manufacturer needed water.

h/t @SashaMTL https://t.co/bY6um8Ok4M

— Remmelt Ellen 🛑 (@RemmeltE) July 21, 2024

yeah love how we’re all like “let’s dump
potable water in the trash to trick the silly machine”

stop being so weird and giving this bullshit attention

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-is-already-taking-jobs-in-the-video-game-industry/

My youtube feed has been filled the last couple of days with videos on how AI has peaked, AI is in a bubble, as as plateaued (There wasn't really any content on AI there before that I noticed). The plateauing angle seemed to make sense, with chatgpt 4 not obviously much of a difference from 3.5

tough out there for a tech hype cycle

https://www.sagaftra.org/sag-aftra-members-who-work-video-games-go-strike

Striking over AI protections

AI has ruined search for many topics because all the results are AI generated garbage. I tried to search for how Java handles multiple inheritance but all of the non-Oracle articles had the wrong answer -- taking the C++ answer and pretending it's the same in Java. Even giving example code with output that is blatantly false. (The correct answer I believe: diamond problem won't compile; priority is class > interface then subclass > superclass; use the syntax Interfacename.super.f() when the priority is the same.)

ChatGPT: Here is a list of all 47 European capitals ordered from west to east:

Lisbon, Portugal
Dublin, Ireland
Reykjavik, Iceland
Madrid, Spain
London, United Kingdom
Andorra la Vella, Andorra
Brussels, Belgium
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Paris, France

pic.twitter.com/qpruVXpzKH

— shardcore ⧖ (@erocdrahs) July 31, 2024

Some of those in open sources
Are the same who train on corpuses

lol

lmao

I'm really amazed how quickly suno and udio have developed. Despite the stunni g results however I can't imagine anyone caring about the songs it can make

xxp lool

IDK if I'm just reading what I know into them, but the missing element seems to be a sense that there was a writer or performer or even engineer in there somewhere who actually cared about the song. It gives them a very throwaway quality.

Still pretty amazing what it can do.

the amount of raw computing power that has been organized and applied to these programs is extremely impressive and the results are also amazing compared to what was being accomplished just a decade ago. but every recent attempt to apply this technology to fill the needs of the general public has been pretty weak sauce. Google's ads for its new AI interface wants me to believe that "summarize this email" is a compelling application for this wondrous technology. nope

Gary Marcus has been ruthless about that. He’s a fun follow for generative AI skeptics like myself

He's good but it is also partly about him in a draggy way - I was rolling my eyes at the Open Letter to Yann LeCun: We believe the same things! Admit I'm better!
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/open-letter-responding-to-yann-lecun

do you think this cover art is ai

https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3AWilliam+Dube&s=relevancerank&text=William+Dube&ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1

"Gooey Louie and the Mystery of the Vanishing Vegetables"

the hand is suspiciously accurate and the details near the edges seem better than ai usually does. i'd rate it as human-generated, but empty of any feel for humanity

I think the magnifying glass, that thinks it's a mirror, slicing into the guys' head gives it away as ai to me

ha yeah def ai

AI as fuck, as is the text of the book.

Gary Marcus is a fucking idiot. Yann, however, is great and actually understands what he writes about. Hell, I first bonded with Yann however his love of Euroracks (he is my former boss).

He’s also a massive snob and extremely French so he’s a fantastic ally in the “most of this art sucks” battle.

"He's good but it is also partly about him in a draggy way - I was rolling my eyes at the Open Letter to Yann LeCun: We believe the same things! Admit I'm better!
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/open-letter-responding-to-yann-lecun";

This reminds me of a reddit subreddit called r/linkedinlunatics, which is full of incredibly pompous people turning their everyday experience into TED talks. Including a chap who uses his engagement as a vehicle for a lecture on B2B sales, a chap who grudgingly admits that he loved his late wife more than he loved cybersecurity, and this chap, who seems to think that adding +AI to the end of scientific equations actually adds... AI to them, or something. I find it heartening that even though the passage of time has robbed me of so much, I can still write very simple HTML, or very simple pseudo-HTML.

Headlining the essay "a memo for future intellectual historians" is particularly striking. I can get away with that sort of thing, because I don't seriously believe that I'm an intellectual titan whose words will resonate through history - although, ironically, they will - whereas this chap, and I apologise for continually saying "this chap", it's just that I have a very limited vocabulary, but that's by design, because I want my message to reach as many people as possible. The BAC 1-11 remained in production until 1984 in my opinion yes it is AI.

In the past month these giants of the U.S. economy have been faltering. On Friday, the Nasdaq, an index of 100 tech companies’ shares, had fallen more than 11 percent from its peak in early July, entering a technical correction, after the likes of Google and Meta revealed that their spending on AI technology had far exceeded Wall Street’s expectations. “This is an amazing about-face, like we’ve crashed into a brick wall,” Bill Stone, chief investment officer at Glenview Trust, told Bloomberg.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/wall-streets-usd2-trillion-ai-reckoning.html

somehow i think they will recover

but will the ai hype

god you know it will

the reason i think it wont is because as evidenced by that article is its just too expensive, you dont even have to get to the point where people realize that its not living up to the hype, even the biggest companies on earth just cant afford it, which is wild

the saddest tech hypecycle had to be the metaverse no one except tech writers pushing out puff pieces ever thought it was cool, literally no one ever logged on, completely doa

the metaverse is real, it's just called Fortnite

sam altman was asking for trillions of dollars to fund chip making, i think he was actually kinda serious!

wild times

I'm worried about computers

reasonable

again, I may point out that a major reason SV is All In on Trump (see what I did there) is to get his administration to shovel tax dollars to subsidize that mirage.

yup

pretty funny they think trump will honor their agreement after the election but i guess its all theyve got

Trump has been pretty consistent in keeping his promises to corporations and the rich.

has he feel like he pretty much just went along with whatever the gop establishment wanted

He and the establishment are of the same mind in shoveling money upward, eviscerating regulations, and lowering taxes on the rich. He’s no maverick economically.

Trummp is a crypto bro

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-bitcoin-cryptocurrency-stockpile-6f1314f5e99bbf47cc3ee6fc6178588d

again, I may point out that a major reason SV is All In on Trump (see what I did there) is to get his administration to shovel tax dollars to subsidize that mirage.

― Bad Bairns (Boring, Maryland), Monday, August 5, 2024 8:51 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I read the last two words of this as “thai massage” and whew

After months of digging and reporting, I have learned where Facebook's bizarre AI spam (like "Shrimp Jesus") comes from, who is making it, how it works, and how it is monetized.

Turns out Meta is directly paying people to spam FB with this stuffhttps://t.co/FQYLQDaF1q

— Jason Koebler (@jason_koebler) August 6, 2024

Xp subsidized ladyboys for us all!