Loooooool. I blame this on the naysayers! Surely it’s the AI sceptics who are undermining it and who will hasten the crash. (Not the fact that it’s a garbage technology which, in its current form, never had a path to profitability). 🤣
"operational exhaust" is a great expression. I mean, I guess it's marginally better to train on than "synthetic data". It would be better still if we hastened the inevitable realization that this is a garbage technology doomed to fail and move on to something actually productive.
Please, I beg of you, get someone from the national office to return my messages about rekindling (or kindling for the first time?) the EDA for Bowmanville-Oshawa North. I feel like progressive movements could have so much fun in Jamil Jivani territory. (Congrats on the win--very good outcome)
I'll tell you, the motivated reasoning among users is stunning. "It can't be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong.".
AI is profoundly unpopular. A recent NBC News poll found that among 18-34 year-olds, AI's net favorability rating is -44. *Negative 44*. Those are basically serial killer numbers. It's not much better among women 18-49. (Men over 50 and upper class are the only ones who like AI, and just barely.)
Remember, his skill is in manipulation and being an ad man.
I’ll be so glad when this industry finally collapses.
so happy for my emotional support astronauts
I’m going to guess, as a Canadian with no specific knowledge of last year’s tax bill, that there are 2 reasons this number is so high; first, only the wealthiest .1 out of 10 Americans saw their taxes reduced by the bill AND second, that wealthiest .1 of a person will always think they pay too much
The art of the deal! He’s clearly got the new Ayatollah right where he wants him.
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Great news: your future doctor is currently using AI to cheat on his homework so he can spend more time watching Mr Beast videos
A beam struggle between a dragon ball z warrior labeled "the economy is bad and we need to trim the budget" and another warrior labeled "AI is turbocharging workflows and we are 10x as productive as before".
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It…ahhh..it does not sound like fake negotiations are going well. **shrug**
photograph or a poster on cream colored paper. "Dear President Ambar, we are writing to you on a typewriter that is over 70 years old. This is a machine that we all know well. With it, we misspell words without the crutch of spell check or generative AI and we think intently about every phrase we pound out. As we force ourselves, for once, to slow down, we engage in a cognitive dialogue with ourselves. We do not seek perfection because we know that education is about the growing and challenging of our young minds' potential, not the chasing of institutional 'gold-star' approval. We do not believe that your so-called 'Year of AI Exploration; providing enterprise ChatGPT and Google Gemini subscriptions to every Oberlin student aligns with our college's founding principles. You claim that this year will be one of experimentation, not adoption. But even just one semester of accepted (encouraged even) chat bot use will jettison our student body down a lazy and irredeemable tunnel of intellectual destruction. We are a college grounded in learning and labor, which now risks straying from these rooted ideals. With ChatGPT at the helm, our emails, essays,and discussion posts will be generated for us, not by us. And let's not fool ourselves. This is precisely what these platforms will be used for by our busy, anxious student body. We see your vision for this year as.advancing the college's 'businessification'--an alarming trend also seen in the takeover of our beloved library cafe by a 'bookstore' with no books in stock and an app replacing customer service. In one instance, the college assumes we want efficiency at all costs through automated rather than hand pulled coffee. In the other lies the false belief that we simply desire to turn in an essay, regardless of how little we've written of it." there's more that doesn't fit in the 2000 character limit :(
OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚
I loved how he name-checked McKinsey (and it’s $9m contract) in his recent video about savings the admin has found in its initial review. So refreshing.
Well, the markets are nothing if not stupid.
Status Scoop | ProPublica's Walkout Warning: The possibility of ProPublica staffers walking off the job just got far more serious. Unionized staffers at the nonprofit newsroom voted overwhelmingly this week to authorize a strike, Natalie Korach has learned. The ProPublica Guild represents about 150 journalists, videographers, and other newsroom employees. A major sticking point in the negotiations with management has centered on the use of artificial intelligence in reporting, with the union demanding protections from having jobs replaced by the rapidly advancing technology. “We are ready to walk off the job to show management that their refusal to agree to basic protections will not be tolerated and that we will not accept anything less than a fair contract,” said Agnel Philip, unit chair of ProPublica Guild.
these are the best reporters in the country, give them whatever the fuck they want
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Have Vance and Trump said thank you?
the president has no idea what he has set in motion. none.
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“…would have consumed as much power as Edmonton…” My god.
H/t to Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis for the clues from their book Rebooting AI
I’m sorry you seem so persuaded by the pod. Here are some clues from the cognitive sciences, new or nested in “recognizing, abstracting, & applying patterns…” as to why it’s facile and risks category errors to simplify what humans are doing to “recognizing, abstracting…” only. The other stuff:
Well-crafted.
AI is marketed to people who can't get their way out of a jam in an '80s sitcom
Much like "Value(s)", this speech was studiously. . .Rorschach-y (yes, it's a word). A lot of words, but little coherence when considered as a whole. Enough coherence within parts for people of all stripes to see something of "themselves" in segments. Honestly, Value(s) is a masterclass in this.
Please post your findings when they're available. LOL.
1️⃣ He didn't say that.
2️⃣ He said it, but you misunderstood him.
3️⃣ He said what you understood, but he was just trolling.
4️⃣ He was serious but he's just negotiating, not going to do it.
5️⃣ He's going to do it for grand strategy reasons I've invented.
6️⃣ Look what you liberals made him do.
The scale-at-any-cost paradigm will not last long enough to get a single shovel in the ground for “new power plants”. Also, these companies are buying $70k chips that they can’t afford to plug in because they lose money the second they’re operational. Come on now.