drahardja

drahardja, 18 days ago to ai

“I'll cut to the chase: it's time to stop listening to anything that Sam Altman has to say. Sam Altman is full of shit, and his reign at OpenAI has been defined far more by its empty promises than any realized dreams.”

#ai

“Sam Altman Is Full Of Shit”

https://www.wheresyoured.at/sam-altman-is-full-of-shit/

drahardja, 19 days ago to random

I’ve been so tired and forced into constant emergency mode for so long that I’ve forgotten how to make.

This is bad. I need to start making again. Gotta set some time aside every day to MAKE SOMETHING.

drahardja, 19 days ago to random

The voters are on to them.

Good. https://journa.host/@gilduran/112457129857283443

drahardja, 20 days ago to random

Kid broght home a friend who just tested positive for #covid.

Wife just got out of surgery with complications.

Fan freaking tastic.

drahardja, 21 days ago to ai

D’Youville University featured “Sophia”, a humanoid robot that talks and moves based on #ai, in its commencement ceremony.

It’s pretty insulting when a thoughtless #LLM is invited to give “life advice” to actual human students.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9a2ToSgWI8

drahardja, 21 days ago to random

Curb Your Enthusiasm ending music plays https://mstdn.social/@DemocracyMattersALot/112462961255364408

drahardja, 22 days ago to random

Predictable. https://mastodon.social/@buermann/112458500212445707

drahardja, 22 days ago to TeslaMotors

Matt Farrah of The Smoking Tire gave an honest and (therefore) devastatingly negative review of the #Cybertruck. Good on him. Every point he makes is spot-on (except maybe the chuckle-inducing post-Apocalypse truck argument).

#cars #carReview #tesla #ev

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC9a3GR1HJY

drahardja, 22 days ago to science

Ho boy. This is a bad take.

Presenting scientific consensus as “fact” is harmful, because it means that it will be harder to change that “fact” when more data is available.

Scientists are humans, but what makes their consensus trustworthy is their commitment to a process of forming testable hypotheses, gathering data, getting rid of confounding noise, and publishing their results. Thence, a model of reality is constructed, and a consensus—a belief—is agreed upon.

But NEW DATA MUST RESULT IN REVISED MODELS. That is good, and that defines progress.

Labeling consensus as “fact” undermines the idea that MODELS WILL CHANGE as more data come in. A “fact” is an immutable truth, and a reporting a change in scientific “facts” over time will undermine trust in scientists much more than the phrase “scientists believe”.

The problem with the phrase “scientists believe” is not the “believe” part. It’s the “scientists” part, which has lost public credibility.

#science #journalism #reporting https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112457986407944025

drahardja, 22 days ago to random

LLMs perpetuate biases that exist in their training data. https://mastodon.green/@pvonhellermannn/112455826772366983

drahardja, 22 days ago to OpenAI

Ethics just get in the way.

#openAI #ai #ethics

“OpenAI Reportedly Dissolves Its Existential AI Risk Team”

https://gizmodo.com/openai-reportedly-dissolves-its-existential-ai-risk-tea-1851484827

drahardja, 23 days ago to ai

I had no idea how bad things are at #DeviantArt.

#ai #artists

“The Tragic Downfall of the Internet’s Art Gallery”

https://slate.com/technology/2024/05/deviantart-what-happened-ai-decline-lawsuit-stability.html

drahardja, 23 days ago to tesla

So…can the #Tesla #Cybertruck actually beat a Porsche 911 in the quarter mile WHILE TOWING a Porsche 911, as Elon claimed?

No. No it can’t.

But it CAN keep up with the slowest Porsche 911 to the 8th mile, which is DAMN impressive.

#cars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0AJmLvKjxw

drahardja, 23 days ago to random

So when is #MSTeams going to start scraping conversations to train AI?

drahardja, 23 days ago to random

There we go. Glad I left and deleted all my posts while I still could. https://mastodon.social/@verge/112453327276706532

drahardja, 23 days ago to ai

On the other hand, successful lawsuits against companies for the output of lousy chatbots will put a dollar amount on the liability of using chatbots to talk to customers, and may actually reduce their usage. #ai #chatbot #generativeAI https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112452961167345476

drahardja, 23 days ago (edited 23 days ago) to random

I love it when Apple does things like these: whimsical and natural-feeling details that make the device easier to use. Kudos to the team. Beautiful work. https://www.threads.net/@snazzyq/post/C7CpmYevMwf

drahardja, 24 days ago to generativeAI

Much as I dislike the theft of human labor that feeds many of the #generativeAI products we see today, I have to agree with @pluralistic that #copyright law is the wrong way to address the problem.

To frame the issue concretely: think of whom copyright law has benefited in the past, and then explain how it would benefit the individual creator when it is applied to #AI. (Hint: it won’t.)

Copyright law is already abused and extended to an absurd degree today. It already overreaches. It impoverishes society by putting up barriers to creation and allowing toll-collectors to exist between citizen artists and their audience.

Labor law is likely what we need to lean on. #unions and #guilds protect creators in a way that copyright cannot. Inequality and unequal bargaining power that lead to exploitation of artists and workers is what we need to address head-on.

Copyright will not save us.

“AI "art" and uncanniness”

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/13/spooky-action-at-a-close-up/#invisible-hand

drahardja, 24 days ago to iOS

If you ever think that you’re disrespected, or nobody cared about you, remember that Safe Area Insets is out there and feel better.

#ios #humor #ux

drahardja, 24 days ago to random

Nice try, Samsung, but

1. The audio was terrible and very obviously out of sync with the video.
2. You didn’t show me how Samsung tablets were better (I saw they can display sheet music, wow very nice).
3. You ended the ad with “With Galaxy AI”. Do you understand why people were mad at the Apple ad in the first place? It was because AI was crushing human creativity. https://mastodon.social/@verge/112449473882043669

drahardja, 24 days ago to TeslaMotors

Oh look, another Elon company stiffing its contractors.

“Texas property records show that Hydroz is one of more than two dozen companies that have filed at least 72 liens since 2019 against sites developed by SpaceX and its contractors. Combined, Reuters found, the liens have sought payments totaling more than $2.5 million.”

#elon #spaceX

https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/musks-spacex-is-quick-build-texas-slow-pay-its-bills-2024-05-13/

drahardja, 24 days ago (edited 24 days ago) to tesla

Oh wow, no way, I thought firing everyone in the Supercharger division was a deliberate, well-thought-out decision!

“Here's the inside story of why Elon Musk fired the entire Tesla Supercharger staff—Employees say it was a snap decision after he got an answer he didn't like”

#tesla #elon #supercharger

https://www.autoblog.com/2024/05/15/heres-the-inside-story-of-why-elon-musk-fired-the-entire-tesla-supercharger-staff/

drahardja, 24 days ago to random

Something something habeas corpus? https://shakedown.social/@clifff/112445964929904039

drahardja, 24 days ago to VintageComputing

Pinot is a skilled pixel artist and animator who does his work on #vintageComputing hardware, mostly early #Macintosh computers.

He suffered a devastating stroke in 2022 and lost much of his motor control. I’m glad to see him back doing #pixelArt and posting again! Give him a follow on Instagram if you’re there.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C6_6lyWuNjQ/

drahardja, 25 days ago to tesla

This “Tesla Influencer” on #Xitter finally recanted his loyalty to #Tesla when they refused to Lemon Law his #Cybertruck after multiple breakdowns.

Glad this guy finally sees the light, but ho boy, the “it’s not a systemic problem until it happens to me” vibe is strong with this one.

#cars

Original source on X: https://twitter.com/LamarMK/status/1790088351502025033

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