During the Civil War, disease killed more soldiers than combat did. The Spanish Flu killed more people than all the military and civilian casualties in WWI put together.
Can't wait for the first report of an entire unit being non-combat ready because half the personnel is sick with the flu.
Autocomplete seems to have failed you on that author tag.
Which also neatly illustrates why you don't WANT the glass to be unbreakable, incidentally. It's a lot easier to get out of the flaming dumpster if you can break the damn glass.
They're not errors either. The system is working exactly as designed, which is why they can never be fixed.
It's simply the wrong application of the technology by people racing to grab investment dollars.
Yes to all the rest though!
Part of the problem is the PR trick of getting everyone to call them "hallucinations -- as if the AI is cognitive, general AI that "thinks".
It's not.
They're ERRORS. In the interlocking algorithms that make up the probability-based generative rules that pull from the LLM, or the in data itself.
*sigh*
If your Kickstarter video/image is AI, I won't back it.
If your book has an AI cover, I won't read it.
If you're a public supporter of AI use for creative work, I will unfollow you.
I cannot stress enough how offensive I find AI use in the arts. It is outright theft, it is lazy, it is gross.
Scary experiment: create a FAKE disease & upload FAKE studies to preprint servers to support and PRESTO AI thinks real.
Ugh. Good example of how easily AI can warp knowledge base...
Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Very cool and not concerning at all that the technology that the worst people in the world want to proliferate into every facet of our lives and is boiling the oceans and ruining the lives of vulnerable people carries the same warning as Psychic Readers Network commercials from 25 years ago.
Given a few hundred megabucks I'd also pay her to write some sequels, especially since I know she had an idea for book 3 and the publisher wasn't interested (*grumble*).
"Hello, Artemis 2. This is Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell. Welcome to my old neighborhood." #Artemis2's wakeup call this morning included a message from the commander of Apollo 13, recorded prior to his passing last year. #Artemis2
The internet in general seems deeply unwell. Heck, my cell provider is down.
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As the parent of a small child I just have to point out that this has actually been done, and it's pretty adorable.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewhk...
Heard through the ceiling of my apartment tonight:
(cat wailing)
Person: No!!
(cat wails some more)
Person: You do not want that! Spit it out!
(even louder wailing)
Person: That is a potato! You are an obligate carnivore!!
#ahcats #lifeinapartments
On the topic of AI: "There are elements of gambling and addiction in the way people are using these tools." I would also add that there is an element of peer-pressure, which maybe explains why I'm so bitter about it.
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"Hey sorry I missed your text I am processing a nonstop 24/7 onslaught of information with a brain designed to eat berries in a cave." Image is a drawing of some cavemen around a fire, stock art.
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A chatbot is always going to produce a statistically likely sentence. It is always going to tell you what's routine, likely, "normal." It will not help you break out of cliche. It's MADE of things-already-said. It cannot say anything particularly new.
I've seen people trying to defend it today by saying "No, no, I just use it to brainstorm, bounce ideas, I do the actual writing" and with all the kindness in the world I need to tell you: if there is a stage of writing you are not good at, you need to get good, not use the plagiarism machine.
Awesome, those are always an easy preorder!
This is very much a system's test of a new spacecraft, I expect any science output will be pretty light.
All the news today caused the major outlets to forget that we are taking the first human flight to the moon tomorrow in >50 years! I think about all the wonder & inspiration that came from the Apollo and Voyager missions & how we are missing that now bc of all the terrible things happening. ðŸ”🚀
Honestly, the great crisis of our society is the unwillingness of institutions to inflict consequences.
Impeach the president, fire the sex pests, expel cheating students, excommunicate an unrepentant heretic, prosecute the war criminals.
Believe in your institution enough to enforce its rules.
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Just a helpful reminder to everyone: Wednesday is April 1st. If you see a news story or something that looks like a news story that makes you think "ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME??!??" ...the answer is probably yes, yes they are, that's it exactly.
Andy went on just about the only cruise I'd consider but yeah, this firmly reinforces my fear of the things.
That really socks, sorry that's happening. At least it waited til you got home?
That's quite the sign:
