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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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bornach, to ai
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[Modern MBA] is just the latest pump and dump in the grift
https://youtu.be/pOuBCk8XMC8

bornach, to ai
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[Coffeezilla] exposes as an overhyped product whose hardcoded architecture cannot possibly deliver the features advertised in their glossy launch video. Its was not a new but just a bunch of scripts
https://youtu.be/zLvFc_24vSM

baldur, to random
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Ran across this on social media

"I just used ChatGPT to generate a 300 character regex for me, saved me an hour.

TBH if you aren’t using it that seems like a skill issue."

And it’s a perfect example of what I mean when I say that “AI” tools are a fundamentally conservative force

bornach,
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@FaithfullJohn @baldur
"That's what the AI is for!", exclaims the AI-bro

https://marketoonist.com/2023/03/ai-written-ai-read.html

tess, to random
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Amused at how Altman helped himself to a woman who denied him multiple times, because he was fond of her*, and despite the fact that she was literally the only person in recent history to sue Disney and win - and that no one else in his circle tried to dissuade him (or had enough pull or made enough effort to be successful).

Says a lot about the people at the helm of the "AI revolution".

  • or perhaps I should say, "Her"
bornach,
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@edomaur @tess @lzg
A bit of a god-complex with that one.
Yannic Kilcher has strong reservations about putting Altman in charge of AI policy
https://youtu.be/5bPBbQyLI7E?t=26m45s
(Commentary at 26:45)

Kurt, to random
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The Google AI isn’t hallucinating about glue in pizza, it’s just over indexing an 11 year old Reddit post by a dude named fucksmith.

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bornach,
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@engravecavedave @Kurt
That's precisely the problem with the anthropomorphising term "hallucination" to describe the "alternative facts" generated by Large Language Models. It is always generating a remix of its training data -- whether humans interpret that output to be truthful or nonsense is largely down to luck. It is highly dependent on the sparsity of the training examples in the area of the latent space that your prompt got mapped to by the Transformer neural network.

bornach,
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@AthanSpod @Kurt
And yet Google has done nothing to fix the Kenya bug which was also due to scraping Reddit

bornach,
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@Npars01 @Kurt
Well is already telling us incorrect solutions to trivial problems that just end up wasting water.

So it needs no assistance from thinktanks

And is no better
https://masto.ai/@bornach/112201311315573304

bornach,
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@scrutinizer @Kurt
Bring back https://yahoo.com

bornach,
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@scrutinizer @Kurt
Ugh!

I meant bring back the human curated directory - what Yahoo! was originally
https://youtu.be/uyl_G6o7JGI

bornach,
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@Buster @Kurt
Laughing that Gemini considers 8 upvotes to be popular...

bornach,
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@Jerry @Kurt
"That was a different and misguided AI!"

bornach, to ai
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Enrico Tartarotti on the current "frenzy" of putting Large Language Model chatbots into everything and marketing everything as having
https://youtu.be/CY_b8w8u9NY

yatil, (edited ) to random
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Will we honestly talk about the trickery in the “Be My Eyes Accessibility with GPT-4o“ video? Like the taxi that uses the signal way before the passenger signal and actually basically passed the signalling passenger before the signal and still coming to a stop? Or that we don’t see any real processing time? Or that the voice is clear despite standing in London with speakers on? (1/3)

bornach,
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@yatil
It's impressive given that a decade ago neural networks were barely capable of distinguishing between a dog and a cat. However all those canned responses to recognizing London stuff are not evidence this is anywhere close to the sentient AI depicted in the movie "Her". You are basically conversing with a mutated remix of the cached annotations of thousands of gig workers in India and other countries spread across Africa and the far East.
https://thedailyguardian.com/indias-data-annotation-revolution-gig-workers-fueling-ai-training-boom/

bornach,
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@yatil @Lottie @pixelate
Just check the video yourself. At 0:46 the taxi has already put its left turn signal on to indicate an intention to pull over. A full 3 seconds later at 0:49 the blind man extends his arm signalling to the driver. He cannot see that the taxi was already going to pull over. The voice over of GPT4o doesn't tell the blind man that the taxi was already going to stop next to him so he didn't need to do anything. He is fully convinced that no one else flagged down the taxi

renwillis, to generationx
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I have some coworkers and was telling them about how we used to take our car stereo face plates with us when we left the car back in the days when stereos weren't integrated into the dash and you wanted a nice one.

They were very amazed. So I made this meme.

bornach,
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@renwillis
What do you mean "we used to..." ?

The factory stereo in my 19 year old car was draining the battery flat in less than a day when parked, so I replaced it with this one. Halfords was selling off their removable faceplate stereos cheap and I got this half price

bornach,
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@hub @renwillis
That eventually developed a fault where it eats the tape

Anyone remember 8-track car stereo?
https://youtu.be/MqewX8Ix7-4

bornach, (edited ) to random
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withdrawn because it is no longer needed and not because of side effects. [Back to the Science] explains
https://youtu.be/49DjUSD8aWQ

What I'd like to know is why did SkyNews (Australia) choose to go with the headline: "AstraZeneca withdrawn worldwide over side effects"

bornach, to OpenAI
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Best part of this [AI Explained] video on 's is at 5:45
"Even though it failed all my maths prompts it is still a big improvement..."
https://youtu.be/ZJbu3NEPJN0?t=5m45s
That in a nutshell sums up the state of AI news coverage on social media

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

bornach,
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@steely_glint @solarisfire @saghul
Bing Chat/Copilot reportedly uses GPT4-Turbo and can search the Internet, yet it doesn't understand that you cannot pour 1 liter into an already full jug
https://masto.ai/@bornach/112201221575789055

bornach,
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@steely_glint @scribe @saghul
Related to the failures that Yejin Choi found
https://youtu.be/SvBR0OGT5VI?t=4m1s

Tried the jugs example on Copilot the other day. No improvement.
https://masto.ai/@bornach/112201311315573304

bornach,
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@raganwald @solarisfire
Likely the OpenAI engineers went through the failures that users uploaded to ShareGPT
https://sharegpt.com/c/vijL1Me

And on Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/11rr668/still_doesnt_pass_the_featherlead_test/

Then turned them into microtasks for an annotation company in Nigeria or India to source a better answer from a gig worker
https://m.economictimes.com/tech/technology/indian-gig-workers-toil-at-frontlines-of-ai-revolution/articleshow/109864213.cms

The training data created by the annotation gig industry (AGI) was then incorporated into GPT4 via RLHF

atomicpoet, to random
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The Thirteenth Floor is set in 2024.

So while I’m watching this VHS tape to get some nostalgia for 1999, this film is speculating about the year I’m living in now.

bornach,
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@jantzen @atomicpoet
IMHO it is the weakest of the 4 scifi films that came out around that time speculating on simulated worlds:

The Thirteenth Floor
eXistenZ
Dark City
The Matrix

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@atomicpoet @jantzen
Wonder why they cut the ending. Perhaps the twist reveal came too early in the plot so this extended ending just seemed to drag things out.
https://youtu.be/lB17_peD96w

Compare this with how eXistenZ paced their plot twist reveal

lowqualityfacts, to random
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Even more impressive, he did both the English and Japanese versions.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

bornach,
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@nikatjef @lowqualityfacts
https://youtu.be/Ch5MEJk5ZCQ
"Penguins didn't exist until he made that movie. He's that good"

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