peteo

@peteo@mastodon.nz

The creature from Aotearoa New Zealand, in the time before the internets, and spell checkers

Ex musterer, farmer, geneticist, economist, dad, homeless, developer, founder, technologist. One day I will find my forte

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qlp, to microsoft
@qlp@linh.social avatar

Microsoft: You get a Copilot! And, you get a Copilot! And, you get a Copilot! Everyone gets a Copilot!!!

Ars Technica: Bing Chat is now "Microsoft Copilot" in potentially confusing rebranding move

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/11/bing-chat-is-now-microsoft-copilot-in-potentially-confusing-rebranding-move/

peteo,

@qlp
I really thought Microsoft would have learnt from when they branded everything as .NET, and customers just weren't that engaged. Maybe their corporate memory is shorter than mine?

upol, to ai
@upol@hci.social avatar

Just had an enlightening chat with 43 startups that use as infrastructure.

>50% have been made irrelevant.

Here's the one thing that has helped the rest stay relevant:

>>Relationships with customers. <<

This isn't rocket science either-- OpenAI or any other company can easily introduce better tech overnight, but relationships take time.

Remember, when you move fast and break things, others can move faster and break your thing unless you build a resilient thing.

peteo,

@upol Feels like Porters Five Forces would be really relevant before basing your startup on a company like OpenAI...

peteo,

@upol
haha, so true. I so often see people who are good at one thing (AI, builders, Software Devs) and join with others good at the same thing - but they are bad at other things (strategy, managing cash flow, selling their product). Like a sports team where everyone plays the position.

itnewsbot, to generativeAI
@itnewsbot@schleuss.online avatar

Samsung jumps on the generative AI bandwagon with Gauss - Samsung is the latest major technology company to debut an own-brand generative AI fra... - https://www.computerworld.com/article/3710248/samsung-jumps-on-the-generative-ai-bandwagon-with-gauss.html#tk.rss_all

peteo,

@itnewsbot
Every person who has owned a Samsung Galaxy reads this and shudders

peteo, to NewZealand

Lots of talk over the weekend over the problems with National’s proposed tax on overseas house buyers

I've not seen a discussion on whether we *** should *** be selling our best houses to people who don't live here. What is the consequence of selling those houses to effectively become holiday homes, lost to NZ ownership in return for short term revenue gain?

(And strangely, Nicola Willis has ruled out asset sales on her Q&A interview)

lightweight, to random
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz avatar

I'd like to be on record saying that people displaying attitudes like Nicola Young's are just plain wrong minded and not the sort of people I admire. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/498223/missing-link-in-wellington-cycleways-divides-factions

peteo,

@ArrestJK @lightweight
Young is old enough to remember when cycling was both safe, and common, so she seems a bit disingenuous to say cyclists are gready and demanding

peteo, to random

Party's Leader Chris has "promised that petrol won't go up under his government "

Unclear how that will work when Brent crude prices rise on the international market, or if the subsidy scheme will take the excess if prices drop. I can't think of this level of market stabilisation for decades, and surprising to see a party that still supports trickle down intervening in the free market

(unclear if this subsidy will also apply to diesel)

stshank, to TeslaMotors
@stshank@mstdn.social avatar

What do you think of the Fisker Pear retractable trunk? It gets slurped into the lower bumper area.

peteo,

@stshank
This kind of complexity is great until it breaks. Fixing this in 20 years will be an expensive challenge

peteo, to NewZealand

Got to appreciate the confidence of Chris Luxon, who after spending much of his working life overseas, before working for an organisation that has received multiple Govt handouts saying that he knows how to govern NZers better than anyone else

Surprisingly, the WEF conspiracy theorists seem to be very quiet about his background

ben, to ai
@ben@werd.social avatar

Black faces are overrepresented in databases used to train AI for law enforcement - and some facial recognition software used in this context fails 96% of the time. This practice is an accelerant for already deeply harmful inequities. Time to ban it. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/every-reported-case-where-police-194117982.html?utm_source=werd.io&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_channel=mastodon

peteo,

@ben
This problem has been known for sooo long...it's almost like no one wants to spend money to fix the problem ?

arstechnica, to random
@arstechnica@mastodon.social avatar

Hate speech researchers sued by X accuse Musk of being an “authoritarian”

Lawsuit comes as Musk and Yaccarino seize control of X's trust and safety team.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/hate-speech-researchers-sued-by-x-accuse-musk-of-being-an-authoritarian/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

peteo,

@arstechnica
, redefining since Oct-22 🙁

itnewsbot, to news
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Introducing ChatGPT for Android - OpenAI continues to push boundaries and redefine the possibilities. Their latest ... - https://readwrite.com/introducing-chatgpt-for-android/

peteo,

@itnewsbot
When spreadsheets arrived, and things went from handwritten to computer output, trust went up immensely

I assume that the same thing will happen when becomes more accessible 😟

janriemer, to ai

The only positive about and is the fact that llama finally get the recognition they deserve. 🦙

They are so cute, aren't they!? 🥺

peteo,

@janriemer
People think everything is great until the spits / 🙂

GW, to ai
@GW@newsie.social avatar

What Kind of Danger Does AI Really Pose?

Perhaps an AI apocalypse primarily threatens to reveal the deeply embedded coded injustices, prejudices, and fallacies in our society, so that we can no longer ignore the widespread suffering in our world.

AI formerly operated mostly within the shadows of our everyday infrastructure, but it is now in the limelight and as such has generated unprecedented reactions from both AI-elite and the general public.

https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-kind-of-danger-does-ai-really-pose/

peteo,

@GW
So many conversations about the of ignore the lessons from amplifying disinformation. Think of doing this at scale with generative AI then tell me that , Covid , is all good

emilymbender, to random
@emilymbender@dair-community.social avatar

Okay, aside from the fact that we need real regulation, not toothless "voluntary commitments" that they're only going to "start" working on, I'm super curious about the collection of companies involved here.

How were they chosen? Is the phrasing "top companies" coming from the white house, or just this reporter? Did any companies decline to join this?

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/21/23802274/artificial-intelligence-meta-google-openai-white-house-security-safety

peteo,

@emilymbender
A belated reminder that Meta sat in front of US Congress before and lied without repercussion

What has changed since then? Apart from trying to distance the company from the history of# privacy and misleading information, and a massive increase in ?

https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/11/facebook-shadow-profiles-hearing-lujan-zuckerberg

theconversationau, to random

Life in plastic is not so fantastic...

Toys are the most plastic-intensive consumer goods in the world.

So how can we avoid movie tie-in fads adding to the surging plastic waste problem?
@rmit
https://t.co/OFbSehdZnd

peteo,

@theconversationau @rmit
It was no surprise to see the Mowbray family (of Zuru Toys) giving donations of over 4 times the median NZ salary to a Party who consistently downplays climate change (and science in general)

remixtures, to ai Portuguese
@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org avatar

: "Meanwhile, AI is evolving at a rapid pace. And despite calls from industry players and others, US lawmakers and regulators have yet to implement real guardrails for AI technologies.

“I’m not confident in even their ability to deal with the old types of threats,” said David Evan Harris, an AI researcher and ethics adviser to the Psychology of Technology Institute, who previously worked on responsible AI at Facebook-parent Meta. “And now there are new threats.”

The major platforms told CNN they have existing policies and practices in place related to misinformation and, in some cases, specifically targeting “synthetic” or computer-generated content, that they say will help them identify and address any AI-generated misinformation. None of the companies agreed to make anyone working on generative AI detection efforts available for an interview.

The platforms “haven’t been ready in the past, and there’s absolutely no reason for us to believe that they’re going to be ready now,” Bhaskar Chakravorti, dean of global business at The Fletcher School at Tufts University, told CNN."

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/17/tech/ai-generated-election-misinformation-social-media/index.html

peteo,

@remixtures
Considering politicians are still struggling with expecting meaningful results around seems optimistic. I am assuming this is why so many of the calling for restrictions think they can play them and encourage increased barriers to entry now they have established a nascent market

Private
peteo,

@herhandsmyhands @romancelandia

I'm pretty sure that some of the low end technical books on Amazon are largely AI written already - and I definitely feel cheated when I read them

With evolving tools like dreampress, holo, sudowrite maturing, the quality is going to improve - and we won't be able to put the genie back in the bottle

TechDesk, (edited ) to tech
@TechDesk@flipboard.social avatar

An American writer asked AI what Europeans think people in each U.S. state look like. The results are quite ... flattering? More from BuzzFeed: https://flip.it/bP-SiO

peteo,

@TechDesk
I hope that when our reporting on matures, people actually start to include the , rather than meaningless disclaimers like saying the is biased

We don't actually know what was asked for, which when are deliberately asking about bias ("what do Europeans think about Americans") is pretty fundamental.

arstechnica, to random
@arstechnica@mastodon.social avatar

Google’s new “NotebookLM” app builds a custom AI based on a source document

Instead of Internet knowledge, NotebookML's chatbot is based on a source document.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-new-notebooklm-app-builds-a-custom-ai-based-on-a-source-document/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

peteo,

@arstechnica
This is, i think, a great step forward - the ability to mine information from specific data sources is a way for small business to apply across their own information without full scale ML pipelines. If it works.

Sadly, not available in my country

williamgunn, to LLMs
@williamgunn@mastodon.social avatar

Now that we have LLM-spam everywhere and deepfakes, can we at least get that fucking app that creates a recipe from a picture of the finished dish?

peteo,

@williamgunn
Yes please!

A good start would be AI that has been trained on food from outside the US - even that still seems to be a challenge...

liztai, to internet
@liztai@hachyderm.io avatar

Ok, so I flipped out on yesterday (meaning, I responded and engaged with someone that said something offensive). I blocked him but should've done that before typing that angry reply.
I think I'm on edge because the state elections is around the corner & feel more anxious than usual. So anti-China posts, which is almost like the anti-Chinese posts on right-wing Twitterjaya really triggered me.
I guess I may be 200+ yrs removed from my...

:blobfoxshocked:

peteo,

@liztai
My (non social media) partner is Chinese from a Pacific Island - and is exactly this, even though she has never been to China. Still has the attitudes and preferences, view of politics, and still swears at me in the village dialect 😔

peteo, to random

An (unpleasant) reminder that this guy was held up as the epitome of a businessman in 2010, as the host of The Apprentice New Zealand

I certainly won't suggest that should be considered a bad thing, but surely no other host of the program has been such a massive looser...

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/132493130/terry-serepisos-mum-again-facing-eviction-from-home-after-business-deal-sours

ChrisPirillo, to mastodon
@ChrisPirillo@mastodon.social avatar

As much as it pains me to say it, I'm gonna wager that will take another engagement hit now that is out (despite all perceived shortcomings). Of course, when it joins the , everything might even out - best of both worlds?

peteo,

@ChrisPirillo
Although i do think these are significantly different audiences (in terms of engagement expectations and attitude to privacy)...?

bananabob, to threads
@bananabob@mastodon.nz avatar

Here is a warning to all those thinking of trying . You can't delete your Threads account without deleting your account.

he Spinoff https://thespinoff.co.nz/live-updates/06-07-2023/a-handy-threads-sidenote

peteo,

@bananabob
So more efficient just to delete your account then?

(Obviously I don't use any Meta services, or products including the things that they have opensourced)

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