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 then I saw this one. And now I'm fucking furious.
When Bing, Microsoft’s search engine platform, went down early yesterday, it took down a number of services with it, including ChatGPT search, Yahoo, and DuckDuckGo — all of which rely on the Bing API to operate.
With the majority of Google search alternatives taken out in one fell swoop, it highlighted the lack of competition that Google search truly has, and the implications that has on our online experience. Is there another way? @arstechnica has more.
The earliest instance of a generative AI image from the 15th century. Note only the four fingers and the exaggerated index finger. Obviously no understanding of human anatomy!
If I want to get the American right all wild about #AI accuracy I'll point out that giving Chat GPT 4o the task to estimate #Trump Bronx Rally crowd size (they claim 25k) but the AI has a different thought (< 5k)
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"Jinping's political ideology
China’s latest artificial intelligence chatbot is trained on President Xi Jinping’s doctrine in a stark reminder of the ideological parameters that Chinese AI models should abide by"
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?
"The vision is that there will be a... Jarvis assistant in your phone that locks you into their ecosystem so hard that you'll never leave," Jenson continued, referencing the superpowered AI assistant in Marvel comics that can make meals for Iron Man and help him fight bad guys. "That vision is pure catnip. The fear is that they can't afford to let someone else get there first."
"It’s simply too early to get into bed with the companies that trained their models on professional content without permission and have no compelling case for how they will help build the news business." #AIhttps://werd.io/view/6650ad27ca5e257d7d0600f2