dgerard

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

youtube comment:

Zeppelins are here to stay! After all, we still have the technology for rigid airship full of hydrogen cells, you can't unring this bell!

(I have pretty good YT commenters actually. Because I moderate all comments, because this is fuckin AI.)

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

the dream of robot slaves is too powerful to suppress permanently, but it'll be one heck of an AI winter

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

It's a tricky one, because a lot of ML these days is transformer-based, because transformers are unreasonably effective, and many things a transformer can do well, an LLM can do okay at. (e.g. translation, transcription, OCR ...)

A lot of people are super convinced by an impressive demo. We have computers you can just talk to now! That's legit amazing, actually! The whole field of NLP is 80% solved! The other 20% is where it's a lying fuckin idiot and that's probably not fixable ...

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago

ooh good, i'll add that generative AI will likely become as radioactive to the public as crypto is.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 15 points 2 months ago

it's near as joyous as the tesla subs

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

if you want to do stream of consciousness creative writing, we have the MoreWrite community for stuff you want opinions on and the WriteFreely at https://gibberish.awful.systems/ - if that second one sounds useful, PM @self for an account

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 13 points 2 months ago

discuss.

per the sidebar: This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

it was me, I popped AI. I destroyed Twitter (and, in collateral damage, I blew up the United States), and those fuckers are next. You're welcome.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago

In past tech bubbles, it was basically the VCs, the media hypesters and the liars in the companies. So the right people.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 19 points 2 months ago

don't forget to press the button lots! bet they're using it as a metric!

"yeah tried it real hard like you said boss. all its ideas were bad and i rejected them, but it'll get there! stand strong! diamond hands!"

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 2 months ago

he appears to have started like this - i hear he was like this at uni too

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 20 points 2 months ago

you're not even scamming them! you're merely the tax collector for BRUTE MATERIAL REALITY

 

video version

I am particularly pleased with the video, it was a lot of work that came out well, and you should forward it to all your friends

 

see also lab 9

 

video version - I wear a tie

 

video version

I do believe this may be the first youtube video on the issue too

 

video - another outside broadcast from sunny suburban London

 

video version - see my back yard!

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