David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 24 days agoI Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Againplus-squareludic.mataroa.blogexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkI Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Againplus-squareludic.mataroa.blogDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 24 days agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 25 days ago"Google Gemini tried to kill me"plus-squarewww.reddit.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-link"Google Gemini tried to kill me"plus-squarewww.reddit.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 25 days agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 26 days agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 23 June 2024plus-squarepinmessage-squaremessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 23 June 2024plus-squarepinDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 26 days agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 30 days agousing GitHub CoPilot leads to the obvious consequenceplus-squarearchive.isexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkusing GitHub CoPilot leads to the obvious consequenceplus-squarearchive.isDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 30 days agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agoOnion: Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AIplus-squarewww.theonion.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkOnion: Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AIplus-squarewww.theonion.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-21 month ago"You can see the future first in San Francisco." OpenAI alumnus Leopold Aschenbrenner pours out a worshipful paean to the AI future, just as if GPT wasn't topping out its S-curveplus-squaresituational-awareness.aiexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-link"You can see the future first in San Francisco." OpenAI alumnus Leopold Aschenbrenner pours out a worshipful paean to the AI future, just as if GPT wasn't topping out its S-curveplus-squaresituational-awareness.aiDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-21 month agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agocome see all the popular super-duper-autocomplete systems failing hard at really simple reasoning questions and babbling nonsense from latent space!plus-squarearxiv.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkcome see all the popular super-duper-autocomplete systems failing hard at really simple reasoning questions and babbling nonsense from latent space!plus-squarearxiv.orgDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agoAt the AI Chatbot conference, an event suffused with use cases for guillotinesplus-squarewww.nplusonemag.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkAt the AI Chatbot conference, an event suffused with use cases for guillotinesplus-squarewww.nplusonemag.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agoCEO of Zoom: what if we take deepfake fraud, right, and make it a push-button feature of Zoomplus-squarewww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkCEO of Zoom: what if we take deepfake fraud, right, and make it a push-button feature of Zoomplus-squarewww.theverge.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agoSam Altman makes $65k a year as CEO of OpenAI. He also makes millions from his portfolio companies doing conflicted deals with OpenAI.plus-squarewww.wsj.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkSam Altman makes $65k a year as CEO of OpenAI. He also makes millions from his portfolio companies doing conflicted deals with OpenAI.plus-squarewww.wsj.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agoshocked to hear that Brian Chau, executive director of e/acc aligned AI "think tank" Alliance for the Future, has a habit of spewing jawdropping racism and sexism on mainplus-squarewww.transformernews.aiexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkshocked to hear that Brian Chau, executive director of e/acc aligned AI "think tank" Alliance for the Future, has a habit of spewing jawdropping racism and sexism on mainplus-squarewww.transformernews.aiDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agoLLMs still don't understand the word "no", much like their creatorsplus-squarewww.quantamagazine.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkLLMs still don't understand the word "no", much like their creatorsplus-squarewww.quantamagazine.orgDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agoDefector: If Kevin Roose Was ChatGPT With A Spray-On Beard, Could Anyone Tell?plus-squaredefector.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkDefector: If Kevin Roose Was ChatGPT With A Spray-On Beard, Could Anyone Tell?plus-squaredefector.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 26 May 2024plus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 26 May 2024plus-squareDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agoRemember how ChatGPT totally aced the bar exam? Wow! yeah, turns out that was just a lieplus-squarewww.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkRemember how ChatGPT totally aced the bar exam? Wow! yeah, turns out that was just a lieplus-squarewww.nytimes.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-22 months agoIlya Sutskever and Jan Leike leave OpenAIplus-squaretwitter.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkIlya Sutskever and Jan Leike leave OpenAIplus-squaretwitter.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-22 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agoEd Zitron on the major issue with generative AI: it doesn't frickin' workplus-squarewww.wheresyoured.atexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkEd Zitron on the major issue with generative AI: it doesn't frickin' workplus-squarewww.wheresyoured.atDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 19 May 2024plus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 19 May 2024plus-squareDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agoA rant on products without purposeplus-squarefasterandworse.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkA rant on products without purposeplus-squarefasterandworse.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agoJack Dorsey, Bluesky, decentralised social networks and the very common crowdplus-squaredavidgerard.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkJack Dorsey, Bluesky, decentralised social networks and the very common crowdplus-squaredavidgerard.co.ukDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink