This is a fundamental mistake that people make when trying to assess whether LLMs are an appropriate tool to use in optimizing a process, function, or service:
"LLMs are not search engines looking up facts; they are pattern-spotting engines that guess the next best option in a sequence."
This terrific article is a great explainer on how they work and their limitations.
The student cofounders of an AI studying tool that won them a $10,000 entrepreneurship prize from Emory University have been suspended, for building exactly what the school had given them money to build.
The school’s Honor Council claimed the AI tool, which helps students to generate revision flashcards and practice tests from course materials, “could be used for cheating,” and that it had been connected to a software platform used by the university without permission — even though this feature had been mentioned in the competition pitch. @404mediaco has more.
this has been bugging me a lot. like, yeah, there’s definitely AI scams out there. and yeah, a lot of people are using it from the wrong end, but it’s also clearly a substantial technology. time to realize that https://mas.to/@carnage4life/112484753548884371
my take on the #AI bubble — there will definitely be some sort of decline at some point, but it’s not going to be a bubble pop as widely predicted. ML has been generally growing for 10 straight years, at an accelerating pace, also for 10 straight years. to predict a bubble pop is to ignore a whole lot of data, including the idea of AI is basically the culmination of computing in general, since its inception. it’s quite a different case from blockchain.
A.I.’s Black Boxes Just Got a Little Less Mysterious
In the same way that understanding basic things about how people work has helped us cure diseases, understanding how these models work will both let us recognize when things are about to go wrong and let us build better tools for controlling them. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/21/technology/ai-language-models-anthropic.html #AI
Physicists developed a new method to prepare quantum operations on a given quantum computer using a machine learning generative model to find the appropriate sequence of quantum gates to execute a quantum operation. The study, recently published in Nature Machine Intelligence, marks a significant step forward in unleashing the full extent of quantum computing.
Consider me not at all shocked that Humane is shopping itself.
TBH, I expected Rabbit to do this first because the company doesn’t offer a compelling hardware product but because the software / #AI approach is the real product and far more valuable. Well, if it worked better, that is. I figured Rabbit built a low-cost hardware box simply to showcase the actual product that it would/will later try to sell.
"People who believe in superintelligence present an interesting case, because many of them are freakishly smart. They can argue you into the ground. But are their arguments right, or is there just something about very smart minds that leaves them vulnerable to religious conversion about AI risk, and makes them particularly persuasive?"
I mean that's great that they agree to this but they already have pursued AI with reckless abandon and see zero signs of changing that. I'm thinking this is going to be more like Climate Change agreements: not good for more than wiping your ass with it. #ai#BigTechShouldNotExistneowin.net/news/microsoft-open…
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STEVE ASHEIM Explains DEICIDE's Banished By Sin Artwork: "We Had A Human Artist Design This Thing"
"An artist did get paid for this artwork."
"Inside Microsoft’s mission to take down the MacBook Air"
The not-yet-for-sale Windows "Copilot Plus PCs" are beating M3 MacBook Air (slightly) in Microsoft's home field testing (battery life and benchmark performance)
When will these machines be available?
How will their costs compare to the M3 MacBook Air?
Will Apple release the M4 MBA by then? If so, will the CoPilot PCs still win?
thinking about my education growing up, my k-6 teachers were wretched with getting facts right. one teacher didn’t have a single science experiment work. lots of stuff i was taught k-12 was outright wrong.
the thing is, students exceed their teachers all the time. a teacher isn’t the limiting factor for a student
i keep hearing that #AI is worthless bc it hallucinates. yet it’s taught me functioning skills within UI dev, graphic design, 3D printing, 3D design
Just finished the presentation of my #TheWebConf History of the Web track paper on "Toward Making Opaque Web Content More Accessible: Accessibility From Adobe Flash to Canvas-Rendered Apps":
I'm going through Battlestar Galactica for the third time. I thought it was a good time to do so because one of the major themes of the show was that the robots that the Capricans created went to war with the humans and almost but not quite wiped them out. Almost every episode was about the conflict between humans and AIs. It's a fantastic show, the acting and the writing as far beyond most TV series. I'll let you know if I figure anything out from watching the series again.
@davew Have you read After World by Debbie Urbanski? Not a war theme, but a love theme. Similar with AI and humans inter-relating. I interviewed Debbie for my video podcast Imaginize.World. You might find her work and thoughts relevant be it quite different from Battlestar Galactica. https://imaginize.world/debbie-urbanski-podcast/ #robots#AI#human
JFC now you need to use a browser Microsoft approves of in your operating system to be able to disable its on-by-default continual surveillance of your every action while using it 👀
There's so much discussion of what Microsoft's latest AI blunder of a feature will do and why it's bad, that I genuinely have no idea what it's even trying to sell as a positive for users. All I'm reading is "Recall is going to record everything you've ever done".
Aren't they at least trying to cover it up with some cool use case to lure some people into trying it? If so they've embarrassingly failed to market it.
Interesting local / #private#AI#search in-progress project worth watching: Perplexica. Aims to be similar to #Perplexity but has a ways to go yet. Works with #Ollama, which is what I’m using on #Linux to test local AI.