I try to respond to every genuine engagement. I block trolls, contrarians, and provocateurs because life is too short.
What are you talking about?
Chess using neural nets didn’t happen until around 2017 with Alpha Zero, based on Google DeepMind.
Ie… Two years after OpenAI was founded. ChatGPT is part of the exact same tech rush.
Nobody complained because chess is harmless, ChatGPT is not 🤷
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That’s a great question. I tease, but first step is realising the problem and you’ve done that. Much harder is acting on it.
The truth is nobody really knows. It’s new. Addiction to it is also new as is the research showing its deleterious effects on the brain.
If I was looking for somewhere to start by trying to read a book a every week or two. Alternate between appealing fiction and an important topic. If you have readings set by your educational institution - do those instead. Reading and digesting plaintext information works a lot of your brain and doesn’t come with any immediate answers to questions, it will help you build your patience back.
RIP Korean students in formative years learning critical thinking and social skills.
Govt-funded Chatbot about to gaslight them that every idea and question is genius-level, and that social connections are something a computer can fulfil.
I don’t like Garfield comics.
What I don’t do, is comment on every Garfield comic that I see posted to whine that I don’t like Garfield. I don’t even feel a hint of desire to do that.
This is why people who see all the anti-Pizzacake comments on every one of her comics know that it’s not really about the comics. It’s people who are angry at seeing popular comic lady who self-inserts in many of her comics again and need to share that anger. It’s just kinda pathetic.
Because FOSS isn’t the problem. The problem the law seeks to address is profit-driven big businesses like Meta and Fortnite who don’t care to provide any protections for kids or actively target them in their manipulative behaviour, hence targeting the laws at the actual problem (non-FOSS software).
Fucking embarrassing how little pressure it takes Labor to cave to literal Zionist Lobby pressure tactics that cost them far more in the US, breaking against their own longstanding laws and policy as the reporter points out.
Though I will say that they are helping me convert former Labor voters into future Greenies. So… not a total loss.
This excellent (as always) reporting from MWM is helping.
Occam’s Razor, I suspect X AI simply downloaded/scraped all porn they possibly could access on the internet to build their training data, and this included a large amount of child porn.
Likely Elon-style factors:
I’m running a 10 year old ‘western stuff’ PC and I don’t run into any issues.
Planned obsolescence exists in single-manufacturer products (smartphones, white-goods), even moreso in vertically-integrated businesses (Apple, Samsung).
It doesn’t work at all in the PC industry where component suppliers compete for market dominance, because if their company puts out a shitty product that fails more rapidly than a competitor, they lose sales and brand reputation in a crowded market.
I hear you, but i disagree - at least based on what we know presently. If you look at US unemployment stats (which are a bit fucked from Covid), they jump in 2023 a little, but have since been decreasing each year since (employment is increasing). You can argue it’s because the Trump admin is cooking the books in hwo they report unemployment, but an almost identical trend is seen in the UK stats… Canada… Germany… Italy (barely even an AI blip in their stats)…
Are they all cooking the books?
If you believe the AI hype crew, AI is “improving in leaps and bounds weekly”, but that simply doesn’t align with reality.
Yeah, LLM AIs (the predominant AI tech in the AI© industry) have increased in quality as the sum total of all earth’s investor-class capital is poured into them… But that isn’t being translated in significant real world applications and job losses.
Companies tried (and are trying) AI©, and have mostly found it just isn’t any better or more reliable than a human in the vast majority of real world applications.
If you are a white collar worker and you only make a few minor mistakes now and then - boss doesn’t care, you’re human. On the other hand if you’re a white collar worker and you make only a couple mistakes now and then but wow they are batshit crazy ones that defy your coworkers attempts to understand them - you’re fired. That’s AI.
“AI for the first time can replace or exceed human cognition.” 🤣
No.
Maybe if you chose one tiny sliver of human cognition like memory and isolate it, but cognition overall? No chance. LLM tech is a database inference machine. Some uses? Yes. 1/3 of the worlds stock market wealth invested in it? Dumb.
Not many years ago, Bill Gates said that climate change was the most important issue facing the world.
I guess that’s solved now, because he now says how we handle AI use and access has taken the mantle as the most important issue the world’s facing.
This is just more AI cooker stuff from a billionaire octagonarian.
The US president is such a toddler.
Fuckin embarrassing.
My computer has some gold in it, but I wouldn’t characterize my computer as ‘gold’. Same way modern irons have almost no iron in them. 🤷
For everyone skeptical, we have a central “do not dial” scheme that you can add your phone number to and legally opt out of ever getting a telemarketing call that has worked very well.
Likewise we have “do not ring” notices people can self-apply on doors making it illegal for door-knockers to bother you that has also worked very well.
So this is just bureaucrats trying to extend that thinking to gambling ads on the internet… They mean well, but it’s much more technically complex to hide a certain type of ad from specific users and I don’t think they get that.
Would be much, much easier to just ban gambling ads… But as other have said, they’re big political donors in some states…
Its a good thing you’re spending on infrastructure and services then, and not just building massive amounts of debt due to reduced taxes on the wealthy, defence contracts, propping up AI, and funding the Trump family.
Good job standing up to unsafe bullshit in the workplace. It’s never easy.
Step 1) anonymous ICE brownshirts massively expand their ranks start shooting all sorts of people all over the country with only one common thread amongst victims: they’re not conservative white men, and ICE is almost never held accountable.
Step 2) mail order voting made illegal.
Step 3) ICE brownshirts stationed at all polling locations.
Step 4) omg Trump wins again! Third term shocks America, as Supreme Court declares “I’ll allow it”.
I know you didn’t ask, but Punters Politics is great btw… Very level-headed political analysis in the videos I’ve seen from him, and he seems to be getting through positive messaging to a young demographic with his approach. Which is so important with all the mountains of cash being astroturfed into fake groups like ‘Advance Australia’ to push pro-oil&gas and anti-Greens messaging to that non-politically informed demo.
Well, Karen Weaver and Elizabeth Warren (amongst other examples) were objectively incorrect in their predictions and warnings of an imminent crash and likely financial crisis due to sub-prime mortgages for years… Right up until they weren’t. Along the way they were branded doomers and “public relations hot air”.
Ed repeatedly says verbatim “I’m not a financial advisor” and that he “can’t predict the future” - that markets that should crash due to being fundamentally unprofitable can easily be propped up and strung along by intervention by government intervention, so timeline is impossible to guess.
South Korea’s stock market was in freefall a few weeks back… And then a few days back their government announced yet another massive investment in AI - now everyone gets an LLM account and access in SK, yay. OpenAI and others regularly get on their hands and knees to woo large government investment in the US. Did Zitron predict those? Yes. Noted in this article? No.
The money and resources poured into AI is still not predicted to turn a profit until 2030 directly from the mouths of the LLM business leads… They position the historically high and atypical investment demands as a ‘winner takes all’ first-past-the-post race that’ll pay off in the long run for brave investers - but there’s no real logical justification to believe that. That’s the problem. A new model trained on different data for specific contexts can function far better than a prior model, and users switch their models regularly depending on how well it’s performing for the task they need. That’s a hypercompetitive market, not a winner-takes-all akin to social media.
It sure doesn’t seem like there will be a ‘clear winner’ on paper so how to recoup those investors and government costs? It’s still, 4 years in, the underpants gnome plan and the LLM CEOs give a different answer to part 2 (how the profit arises) every time they’re asked - many of their past predictions have failed.
I find it weird that the skeptics that have invested only time and critical thought are deemed worthy of such a lengthy article, yet the author hasn’t bothered to take the same treatment (beyond a token mention in their opening and a couple handwaves) for the several industry giants currently causing a great many real world ills (environmental, social, psychological, political) that seem to have hoovered up around 1/3 of all investment capital worldwide on promises of riches beyond imagination and a future utopia (if you can afford it).
TLDR; its a dumb question.