I recently rewatched season 1 of Westworld (2016). When I first watched it, I though the science was somewhat sloppy. Today, I think it was prophetic.
In the series, you have incredibly lifelike automatons who nearly flawlessly approximate human behavior and can improvise, but somehow aren't sentient. Back then, it seemed like an improbable combo. Today, we have LLMs: statistical token predictors capable of reasoning and mind-blowing mimicry.
Heck, in Westworld S01E06, there's a scene showing that the automatons generate speech sequentially, word by word (pic). Lazy writing, right? Surely, the conversion from thought to speech would be more complex. Well, about that - LLMs...
The automatons of Westworld derive complex identities and behaviors from what the show calls "cornerstones" - simple, singular ideas or memories. Again, seemed sort of dumbed-down, right? Except, this is essentially how system prompts work for LLMs. You tell an LLM it's a fisherman, and off it goes.
In the show, what eventually enables true sentience is the addition of an inner monologue - a sort of a persistent context that anchors the model to something more than just a fixed system prompt and external stimuli. Back in 2016, that seemed like mumbo-jumbo. Today, it might credibly be what the LLMs lack...
I generally try to avoid complaining about travel but getting diverted to another island because there’s a hole in the runway is a new one for me. I just want to see my dogs. To top it off we were delayed, I caught a cold, and our flight time was much longer than normal.
But at least we didn’t find the hole while landing, right? That’s good.
@Viss Bruce Wayne worked with the DA to ensure that people convicted of crimes can’t have computers. Pedro didn’t commit a crime, but he had to plea to save his job who wouldn’t let him miss a day of work. Pedro was recently kicked off of welfare because he makes too much money working 90 hours at minimum wage to feed his family of 4. He has a special needs child and his partner is disabled. Failure of society is what happened to the computer. Batman breaks every bone in Pedro’s body. Pedro doesn’t have insurance, misses work, gets fired, is a convict, and has no computer. Coming to a screen near you. lol that was fun.
well this is fucked.
two escondido middle school teachers sued the school district over a rule where they have to protect the gender identify of a student, vs out them to their parents.
"because it violated their religious freedoms"
what fucking monster classifies tormenting children as a religious freeom?
So #Grindr staff chose to #unionize, and company leaders enforced #ReturnToOffice as retaliation. Company leaders know #RTO sucks, and they are using it punitively.
They started enforcing #RTO of two days a week, and HALF THEIR STAFF RESIGNED.
The response of the CEO is hilarious. “The team will be smaller than where we were before and where we want to be…So that’ll obviously impact margin in a positive way in the near term.”
That’s like saying “The bad news is I lost my entire left leg. The good news is that I finally got my weight under 160 pounds.”
@b0rk the chronicler. The commit history is occasionally messy but the pull request body answers more questions than anyone would ever ask. It always includes alternatives considered that are either in the commit history or live in another branch.
@ptoomey3 on the password prompt, do you see a “sign in another way” link? I remember seeing that a few times so maybe I triggered a condition that suggests it by default now.
@tenderlove@ptoomey3 the only other variable that comes to mind is that I have both chrome and iCloud passkeys registered. So good browser coverage or something? It makes using incognito so much nicer. I want it everywhere. Now.