It's fashionable to criticize #LLMs, but can you think of another human invention that allows us to spend the energy budget of Tanzania to lift shitposts out of context and present them as if they were authoritative knowledge?
A few years ago I adopted a complete #EncyclopædiaBritannica 15th edition from 1988. I only had to pay for shipping costs. It more and more feels like a good decision. #AI
Starting to get sick of this stuff, Brave. I should not be trying to figure how to turn this off, because it should never have turned on without asking me first. #enshittification#ai
The newest most powerful chips from Intel and AMD don't qualify for Microsoft's newest CoPilot+ AI branding. We're already seeing INCREDIBLE deals on crazy powerful PCs, because of all the AI hype! Here's my review of the Geekom A8, with a BEAST of an AMD chip inside! https://somegadgetguy.com/b/45e
I don't have a huge budget for #art commissions. Had someone chat me up during a recent #twitch#stream , trying to sell me their stuff. Very quickly became apparent that it was largely #AI generated.
I think #AI is at the stage where electricity was in the late 1800s. Tons of incompatible standards run by unregulated companies, people electrocuting themselves at their homes, and promises of electricity as the ultimate cure-all.
It has tremendous potential for the future but it absolutely has to be strongly regulated, and the worst excesses curbed.
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I'd been writing a post for #weblogpomo2024 talking about some of the more comical fuck-ups all of these #ai and #llm have been spewing. And now I'm fucking furious.
Note: content warning for depression, self-harm, and suicide
I've used their operating systems for more than 30 years. And I've used their development tools and databases for more than 25 years.
I haven't been enamored with them since they went all out with Azure. I've found no value in any of the Azure offerings. In fact, they've made my professional life much more difficult. Now they're cramming AI and CoPilot in, up, and down every one of our orifices. I don't want any of it.
It's become difficult to think of them as a technology leader. There's very little coming from MS that feels innovative or that makes life better for me or my customers. The persistent feeling I get is that they're looking for every angle they can find to monetize their relationship with me and other customers and end users.
It took me several years to fully divorce myself from Google.
It's looking more and more like a divorce from Microsoft is imminent.
saw the phrase “wedding recovery day”, googled it, and ended up on an article about it that grew more and more unhinged until i figured out it was “AI”-generated. title: “the newlywed groom’s guide to a perfect wedding recovery day”
Once you get the hang of seeing everyday phenomena in terms of sequence modeling, sure enough everything starts looking like sequences modeling problems 😲