David Gerard @ dgerard @awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceedi

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the comments are wild "yes good post having my brain taken over by a superintelligent autocomplete is a reasonable concern"

it should be, but he's been actively promoting the stuff

all the stock sites are. use case: an image that's almost perfect but you wanna tweak it

LEARN PAINT YOU GHOULS

you should be read up on the gospel of @fasterandworse never shutting up about "Hooked"

the psychology of loot boxes?

yep! https://awful.systems/post/4568900

the book is "Hooked" and it's Don't Build The Torment Nexus I'm Now Providing You A Detailed Blueprint Of

AI->cocaine filter: Cocaine isn’t going to replace you. Someone using cocaine is going to replace you.

this sort of bloody stupid metric is widespread, i've heard about it widely

I dabble in conversational AI for work

yeah this may be the wrong sub for you

these are stock images! Which are surprisingly cheap. By Valeriy Kachaev, who puts stuff up as Studiostoks on a pile of stock image sites. His pics are bizarre and keep being the perfect thing.

ahahaha holy shit. I knew METR smelled a bit like AI doomsday cultists and took money from OpenPhil, but those "open source" projects and engineers? One of them was LessWrong.

Here's a LW site dev whining about the study, he was in it and i think he thinks it was unfair to AI

I think if people are citing in another 3 months time, they'll be making a mistake

dude $NEXT_VERSION will be so cool

so anyway, this study has gone mainstream! It was on CNBC! I urge you not to watch that unless you have a yearning need to know what the normies are hearing about this shit. In summary, they are hearing that AI coding isn't all that actually and may not do what the captains of industry want.

around 2:30 the two talking heads ran out of information and just started incorrecting each other on the fabulous AI future, like the worst work lunchroom debate ever but it's about AI becoming superhuman

the key takeaway for the non techie businessmen and investors who take CNBC seriously ever: the bubble starts not going so great

this is not debate club, per the sidebar

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being from programming dot dev is just the turd on top

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

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.)

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

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 ...

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

it's near as joyous as the tesla subs

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

discuss.

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