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Roundtrip

@Roundtrip@federate.social

Old hypertext hand. President and co-founder Traction Software Inc • Electronic Book Technologies (EBT) • Mentor Graphics/Context • Ship Analytics • US Naval Research Lab • Drafted US Army • CS and Physics, Brown University “Everything is deeply intertwingled” ― Ted Nelson The hand in the 1969 Hypertext Editing System photo isn’t mine — the photo is

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arstechnica, to random
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Air Force denies running simulation where AI drone “killed” its operator

"We've never run that experiment," says original source, who "misspoke."

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/06/air-force-denies-running-simulation-where-ai-drone-killed-its-operator/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Roundtrip,
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@arstechnica

“As a BlueSky user named "kilgore trout" humorously put it, "I knew this story was bullsh*t because imagine the military coming out and saying an expensive weapons system they're working on sucks."

judell, to random
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I'm downloading Descript as I write this. My first intro to text as the interface to audio editing (such a profound and wonderful idea!) was courtesy of Laurian Gridinoc years ago, I've been eagerly awaiting more general availability.

https://cogdogblog.com/2023/05/changing-up-decripting-my-podcast-methods-eh-ai-eh/

See also https://blog.jonudell.net/2022/09/25/curating-the-studs-terkel-archive/ about remixing the Studs Terkel archive using Laurian's https://hyper.audio/. I wonder if Descript uses the same or a different foundation?

Roundtrip,
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@judell @cogdog

I enjoyed the podcast and your conversation on Descript for synchronized text+audio editing.

Reading the very clean transcript including a few ‘disfluencies’ — like ‘um’ — made me think of this ‘About Language’ podcast: http://becauselanguage.com/76-ooo-yum-uh/

TLDR ‘Um’s are helpful markers to signal pauses while thinking. Host Daniel Midgley decided to leave them in transcripts to keep a natural tone. Some ’s pick this up as well.

Roundtrip,
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@judell @cogdog

E.g.

“So when I first left, I engaged Nancy, my uh, I think when I first left Citrix, we were just married about then, so she was transitioning from fiance to wife, um, to manage our bigger airplanes while I tried to figure out a business plan to make it, you know, like business jets for the masses.”

Sounds pleasantly more like true speech than a cleaned up edit. When used sparingly.

jeff, to random

Some car porn.

I love air-cooled VW's!

This one is for sale in Miami and I may stop and check it out.

VW type 3 fast back 1969

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Roundtrip,
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@jeff I enjoyed my air-cooled VW in Rhode Island for twenty years!

ct_bergstrom, (edited ) to random
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Listening to very smart people talk about I'm reminded of the joke about a checkers-playing dog.

A guy has a dog that plays checkers. "My goodness," everyone says, "that's amazing. What a brilliant dog!"

"Not really," he replies, "I beat him four games out of five."

That's GPT4. It's capacities are amazing and completely unexpected.

But it's also so limited. You shouldn't back the dog in a checkers tournament, and you shouldn't use an LLM as a medical assistant or in many other ways.

Roundtrip,
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@ct_bergstrom Terrence Sejnowski also leads off his fine LLM essay with a version of the talking dog joke:

‘Large Language Models and the Reverse Turing Test’
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.14382

Sejnowski is the Francis Crick Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies where he directs the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory

“A road map for achieving artificial general autonomy is outlined with seven major improvements inspired by brain systems.”

🧵on the paper: https://federate.social/@Roundtrip/109860579092503903

timpratt, to random

It’s a shame Iain M. Banks isn’t around to name a Culture Ship “Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly”

Roundtrip,
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@glyph

“It’s a shame Iain M. Banks isn’t around to name a Culture Ship ‘Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly’.” @timpratt

We can at least start a tag to replace that bird site account

Roundtrip, to random
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‘Large Language Models and the Reverse Turing Test’
Terrence Sejnowski (Nov 2022 v9)

A brilliant and enjoyable essay on Large Language Models, human cognition, and intelligence

“A road map for achieving artificial general autonomy is outlined with seven major improvements inspired by brain systems.”

Sejnowski is the Francis Crick Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies where he directs the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory

🧵

https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.14382

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