"I should start the Butlerian Jihad"
BlueMonday1984
joined 1 year ago
Solid, high-quality sneer from Adactio - the end is a particular highlight:
The worst of the internet is continuously attacking the best of the internet. This is a distributed denial of service attack on the good parts of the World Wide Web.
If you’re using the products powered by these attacks, you’re part of the problem. Don’t pretend it’s cute to ask ChatGPT for something. Don’t pretend it’s somehow being technologically open-minded to continuously search for nails to hit with the latest “AI” hammers.
Considering PC Gamer bought the AI hype hook, line and sinker a few months ago, I'd say this is a particularly notable sneer.
This is pure gut instinct, but it seems AI bros' ability to bedazzle the press is fading fast.
TAKE ME BACK
Ran across a BlueSky thread that fits this perfectly - its a social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education.
If South Park ever does get around to TESCREAL, I imagine Parker and Stone would have a goddamn field day with them.
"i have followed these fucks for 15 years in detail and i still don’t know how to properly explain them to our lovely pivot-to-ai readers"
Personally, focusing on their whacko beliefs around the Impending AI Apocalypse^tm^ seems like a good place to start.
Brian Merchant's given his thoughts on the situation, focusing mainly on the situation as a case of Trump's administration falling for the AGI hype.
You want my off-the-cuff thoughts on these tariffs, I'm putting them down as another nail in the coffin for AI as a concept, and a possible blow to "AI doom" narratives as a whole.
For AI as a concept, this entire debacle is a very public and very high-profile example of AI failing to live up to the "AGI/Superintelligence" hype that OpenAI and pals have been cranking out - and failing in a manner which suggests their AI systems (rightfully so, IMO) to be worse than useless.
For "AI Doom" narratives, whilst this economic clusterfuck is an example of AI dealing a nasty blow to humanity, said blow was dealt through a combo of unambiguous incompetence on the AI's part, and the Trump administration overestimating the AI's own competence. No diamonoid bacteria, no Skynet-style Terminator apocalypse, just sheer unfiltered stupidity on a government-wide level.
There’s now a lot of cheap GPU [sic] in China.
Sure doesn't feel like it, what with graphics cards being ball-bustingly expensive everywhere else :P
New(ish) piece from Gary Marcus: AI has (sort of) passed the Turing Test; here’s why that hardly matters
Ended up reading it a couple times, thinking of turning my thoughts into a full-length post.
Here's my first shot at it:
"Imagine if the stereotypical high-school nerd became a supervillain."
For the enterprise using it, yes. For the enterprise selling it, probably not so much.