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bornach

@bornach@masto.ai

I'm an ex-postdoc researcher who was bullied out of academia over a decade ago

I now pursue my interests in
#science #technology #education #art #mathematics

via online content creation that explores ideas in #computer #programming, science #communication, #visualization, #electronics #circuit design, #cardboard #crafts, kinetic sculpture, #synthesizer music, and machine learning

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steely_glint, to random
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Thanks to @saghul for the perfect illustration of the problems with chatGPT:

bornach,
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@the_moep @steely_glint
It understands kilograms just as well as it understands pounds
https://sharegpt.com/c/vijL1Me
That is, it doesn't understand measurements at all

ben, to random
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Stack Overflow announced that they are partnering with OpenAI, so I tried to delete my highest-rated answers.

Stack Overflow does not let you delete questions that have accepted answers and many upvotes because it would remove knowledge from the community.

So instead I changed my highest-rated answers to a protest message.

Within an hour mods had changed the questions back and suspended my account for 7 days.

Diff view of a stack overflow question showing it being changed from the original text to a protest message, then being changed back again by a mod. Protest text reads: Why does OpenAI get to profit from our work? I have removed this question in protest of Stack Overflow's decision to partner with OpenAI. This move steals the labour of everyone who contributed to Stack Overflow with no way to opt-out. OpenAI has a history of flooding the web with inaccurate information and have explicitly stated that they will never pay creators for their work.

bornach,
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@andrewfelix @mighty_orbot @ben
And their software is laundering the original source of the information from which their AI training data was derived. Doesn't the original author deserve some credit for when ChatGPT regurgitates a lossy paraphrasing of a post scraped from the Internet?

bornach, to ai
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[Cold Fusion] on the real threat that AI poses to human music makers
https://youtu.be/wgvHnp9sbGM

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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People trying to train AIs are now complaining that all of the AI data on the internet are making it hard for them to get quality training sets of natural language and images.

bitter snickering

bornach,
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@futurebird @millerdl
So AI LLMs won't know of the Will Smith slap meme, that a British PM had the shelf life of a lettuce, that a senior trial lawyer in the UK is now called a King's Counsel, or that Twitter has become a letter of the alphabet where blue checkmarks are to be disparaged.

That might be useful for detecting AI bots.

bornach, to random
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https://youtu.be/QV2oTxX2oZc

bornach, to llm
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Asked (formerly ) a familiar riddle but with numbers changed to make it impossible. It generated the same solution but substituting the numbers so that it ends up with the nonsense claim:

10 + 5 = 23

bornach, to ai
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Stephen Falken: "Except, that I never could get Joshua to learn the most important lesson."

David Lightman: "What's that?"

Stephen Falken: "Futility. That there's a time when you should just give up."

RickiTarr, to random
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I'm trying to come up with something witty to say about this sign in a Bible Book Store window, but I think it speaks for itself.

bornach,
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@RickiTarr @MarkRDavid
Do they sell the cutesy sign with the Mark Twain quote?

bornach, to twitter
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https://diode.zone/w/qyV5YVKMJzZiEpiK4CC6nH

It's been one year since Musk laid off half the staff at
https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/3/23439802/elon-musks-twitter-layoffs-start-friday-november-4

His poor treatment of his own employees is a major reason why I decided on that day to stop using Twitter and migrate completely to Mastodon.


bornach, to ai
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Cleo Abram on the debate over as artist's tool vs AI as the artist, and the complexities of ensuring that artists get paid for their work
https://youtu.be/Ey75Xw_ikqs

bornach, to generativeAI
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I asked (creative ) to write a nursery rhyme about a billionaire-owned social network struggling to cover a major news event in the Middle East.

Note that "struggling" was the only word that might have guided the in such a dark direction. Or perhaps "billionaire" also carries a not-insignificant quantity of negative connotations for the

bornach, to math
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[3blue1brown] highlights a few of the many entries (both video and webpage) from this year's Summer of Mathematics Exposition
https://youtu.be/6a1fLEToyvU

bornach, to random
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[Myles Power] on how The World Health Organization embracing alternative medicine and rebranding it as "traditional medicine" may lead to people at best wasting their money and at worst dying
https://youtu.be/9D410FSPN9c

bornach, (edited ) to SciComm
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Visited the yesterday.

They have a Wonder kinetic sculpture by
https://beuplifted.co.uk/

bornach, to random
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Tom Nicholas on the economy
https://youtu.be/2bq3SdfzcA4

He has also noticed passive earning on social media are riding the wave of

bornach, to ComputerScience
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(precise) has concluded that P=NP

I asked it to write a Python script that when given a graph where there are no more than 5 edges for every vertex, it returns the length of the longest path that visits each vertex no more than once. Then lifted the edge count restriction.

In both cases it claimed polynomial time complexity to solve an NP-hard problem

bornach, to ai
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[acollierastro] reminds you that doesn't exist
https://youtu.be/EUrOxh_0leE

and how it will enshittify everything anyway

bornach, to generativeAI
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I asked (creative) to write a nursery rhyme about a billionaire visiting the Titanic wreck in his submersible

The chatbot generated something a bit dark

Notice that I made no mention of , , or and it doesn't look like it did a specific Internet search for the prompt

bornach,
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@lukem
Andreessen's reasons for dismissing Risk #4: inequality - are laughably naive. The billionaires have built walled gardens around their proprietary technology so that customers end up renting it as a service that they get locked into and so they never become equal stakeholders in the technology. His example of Tesla is actually a good example of the inequality that technology leaders promote. Tesla has a monopoly on the repairs and spare parts for their vehicles
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-faces-new-lawsuit-over-monopoly-power-in-repairs-parts-business-174255450.html

bornach,
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@lukem
See also https://www.wired.com/story/artificial-intelligence-marc-andreessen-labor-politics/

bornach, to ai
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Why do I not feel reassured by 's answer after asking it "What are the privacy and security risks of Microsoft's recent integration of Bing AI in Swiftkey?"

bornach, to random
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[potholer54] explains why climate change deniers have gotten very excited about an old 4-minute clip of Jørgen Peder Steffensen talking about a graph that shows that Greenland had been warmer than "the present"
https://youtu.be/v9zAtqrDpzY

bornach, to random
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After a year of YouTube silence, Prof Greg Tucker-Kellogg has released a new video debunking medical

That can only mean one thing - grifter Dr Campbell must have said something really egregiously dishonest and horrifyingly misleading
https://youtu.be/BvAAz4k20MI

bornach, to random
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[Kyle Hill] on the problem of formulaic factually-empty algorithmically-generated science spam/scam videos churned out every few hours on a large number of click-bait YouTube channels, all optimised to grab attention via gaming the recommendation algorithm
https://youtu.be/McM3CfDjGs0

bornach, to random
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Weighing in on that study that found to be more empathetic than human physicians,
@rebeccawatson finds the research lacked certain rigor - the authors participating in the "blind" study, and whether the diagnosis was even correct didn't feature very highly in their assessment of quality

https://youtu.be/zRWm1E2Bn-U

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