Oh wow, Dorsey is the exact reason I didn’t want to join it. Now that he jumped ship maybe I’ll make an account finally
Honestly, what could he even be doing at Twitter in its current state? Besides I guess getting that bag before it goes up or down in flames
e: oh god it’s a lot worse than just crypto people and Dorsey. Back to procrastinating
I know this shouldn’t be surprising, but I still cannot believe people really bounce questions off LLMs like they’re talking to a real person. https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/47183/are-llms-unlikely-to-be-useful-to-generate-any-scientific-discovery
I have just read this paper: Ziwei Xu, Sanjay Jain, Mohan Kankanhalli, “Hallucination is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models”, submitted on 22 Jan 2024.
It says there is a ground truth ideal function that gives every possible true output/fact to any given input/question, and no matter how you train your model, there is always space for misapproximations coming from missing data to formulate, and the more complex the data, the larger the space for the model to hallucinate.
Then he immediately follows up with:
Then I started to discuss with o1. [ . . . ] It says yes.
Then I asked o1 [ . . . ], to which o1 says yes [ . . . ]. Then it says [ . . . ].
Then I asked o1 [ . . . ], to which it says yes too.
I’m not a teacher but I feel like my brain would explode if a student asked me to answer a question they arrived at after an LLM misled them on like 10 of their previous questions.
Cambridge Analytica even came back from the dead, so that’s still around.
(At least, I think? I’m not really sure what the surviving companies are like or what they were doing without Facebook’s API)
Former staff from scandal-hit Cambridge Analytica (CA) have set up another data analysis company.
[Auspex International] was set up by Ahmed Al-Khatib, a former director of Emerdata.
I think he might have adhd.
Oh no, I don’t think we’re ready for him to start mythologizing autism + ADHD.
Watching my therapist pull up Musk facts on his phone for 40 minutes going “bro check this out you’re just like him frfr” the moment he learned I was autistic was enough for me. Please god don’t let musk start talking about hyperfocusing.
Itch and Kenney have good ones:
https://itch.io/game-assets/free
https://kenney.nl/assets (all CC0)
Synty also has a nice placeholder pack for $7. The post-it notes are kind of adorable:
https://syntystore.com/products/polygon-prototype-pack
I don’t think most of these are made for Godot, so you may have to mess around with import settings or set up tilesets/materials yourself
Honestly, I’ve gotten more laughs out of messing with markov chains with my friends than anything ChatGPT could put out
This released today: https://www.ic3.gov/Media/News/2024/240709.pdf
Cool (horrifying) look into one of the active Russian bot farms and their use of generative AI
I suddenly feel a lot less bad about him having his game copied and re-sold because he released it under public domain. Maybe the ‘left’ in copyleft scared him
Hateful and stupid 🤝
I hate that I saw that same post earlier today
Here’s a quote from the book:
AI already transcends human perception — in a sense, through chronological compression or “time travel”: enabled by algorithms and computing power, it analyzes and learns through processes that would take human minds decades or even centuries to complete.
Glad to know the calculators I had in school were capable of time travel
People are so, so, so bad at telling what’s a bot and what’s real. I know social media is swarming with bots, but if you’re interacting with somebody who’s saying anything more complicated than “P o o s i e I n B i o” it’s probably not a bot. A similar thing happens in online games, too, and it’s usually the excuse people use before harassing someone else
But damn the lengths people will go to to avoid admitting they were wrong. This comment chain just keeps going on with somebody who’s convinced {origin="RU"}{faith="bad"}{election_manipulation="very yes"} must be real because something something microservices: https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1dlg8ni/russian_bot_falls_prey_to_a_prompt_iniection/l9pbmrw/ It reads like something straight off /r/programming or the orange site
Then it comes full circle with people making joke responses on Twitter imitating the first post, and then other people taking those joke responses as proof that the first one must be real: https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1dimlyl/twitter_is_already_a_gpt_hellscape/l9691c8/
This account kind of kicked up some drama too, basically for the same reason (answering an LLM prompt), but it’s about mushroom ID instead: https://www.reddit.com/user/SeriousPerson9 I’ve seen people like this who use voice-to-text and run their train of thought through ChatGPT or something, like one person notorious on /r/gamedev. But people always assume it’s some advanced autonomous bot with stochastic post delays that mimic a human’s active hours when like, it’s usually just somebody copy/pasting prompts and responses.
Sorry if you contract any diseases from those links or comment chains
This is tangential, but there’s a surprisingly interesting article about penis enlargement from ProPublica. It’s sobering to see people who’ve convinced themselves it must have worked, because it’s too horrible to consider whether they actually made things worse. If there are any crazy, invasive age therapies out there, maybe there’d be similar themes.
https://www.propublica.org/article/penis-enlargement-enhancement-procedures-implants
Yesterday before bed I saw some galaxy-brained takes on PKM (personal knowledge management software) from a 7-day old account, and curiosity took over me. I was not disappointed. (sadly they deleted their account after I woke up: /u/Few-Elephant-2600 if you’re bored and have moderator API access)
Since GPUs continuously generate large amounts of waste heat during AI training, could electric/GPU stoves utilize this unused thermal energy resource through on-demand tickets as distributed networks instead of citizens using a wasteful private electric stove? What are the scientific challenges?
Honey can you preheat the porn generator?
Maybe you could pair it with this accursed AI of Things Smart Oven. Fun quotes:
“Users aren’t aware of any of the oven’s learning processes,”
Ovens that learn from one another
Finally, I can experience Windows progress bars when baking potatoes:
The predictive model updates the remaining baking time every 30 seconds
Unsure if this meets even the lowest bar for this thread but I was jumpscared by Aella while browsing Reddit
I love the word cloud on the side. What is 6G doing there