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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 17 points 3 days ago (5 children)

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being from programming dot dev is just the turd on top

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

and n=16 handily beats the usual promptfondler n=1

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 29 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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 4 days 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 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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 4 days ago

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

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 5 days ago

it's near as joyous as the tesla subs

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days 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 5 days ago

discuss.

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

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 5 days 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 5 days 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 5 days 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!"

 

don't just read the text - watch the video, it's the point of the exercise. And I worked all weekend on it. Thank you.

video version

 

this took me all day, but it's a banger if i do say so myself - watch the video first

video version

podcast probably tomorrow

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