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gimulnautti

@gimulnautti@mastodon.green

Pirate Politician, Software Developer, MA Musicology (he/him)

Interests:
Culture, Math, Sociology, Philosophy, Music, Demoscene, Games, #NAFO, Writing, Disc Golf, Skateboarding.

Not here for snarky comebacks. A slur is not an argument.

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https://mastodon.green/@gimulnautti @metapixl.com
https://mastodon.green/@gimulnautti @mastodontti.fi

Blog:
https://gimulnaut.wordpress.com
https://medium.com/@toni.k.aittoniemi

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JamesGleick, to random
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Once again Ted Chiang has it exactly right. The immediate danger from is not that it will become sentient and do whatever it wants. The danger is that it will do what it’s being designed to do: help rich corporations destroy the working class in pursuit of ever-greater profits and thus concentrate wealth in fewer and fewer hands.

https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/will-ai-become-the-new-mckinsey

gimulnautti,
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@JamesGleick with the recent advances in , AI will be available to everyone. And if I know human nature at all it will be first applied by malicious actors, only one of them being capital as specified here.

The steps taken by society to mitigate should be of humans and verification of accurate reporting.

AI for every kind of social and political mischief imaginable will be available by 2025.

Governments need to act, stop looking at business.

mnutty, to politics

1/ Today the kicks off in earnest with ’s re-election bid announcement

There is 560 days to the . Much will happen, conditions will change but it as suggests a continuation of the battle for the soul of America

I’ll use this thread to comment periodically on the election over the next 80 weeks. It’s a long road to , but the stakes couldn’t be higher

https://youtu.be/ChjibtX0UzU

gimulnautti,
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@volkris @mnutty Signing and verifying human-generated content should have been top-priority last year already.

w7voa, to random
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"That was a rigged election," says Donald Trump at the top of his appearance on CNN 'Town Hall' from about , repeating previous lies. "They were stuffing ballot boxes."

gimulnautti,
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@w7voa Putin is literally trying to stalemate the situation in Ukraine right now, so he would have a chance at holding on until 2024.

Because this guy is his man on the job to make Russia great again.

w7voa, to random
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In his high-profile return to mainstream news since his defeat in , former President Trump, during a CNN town hall-style program, repeatedly amplified his baseless claim that his loss to President Biden was the result of a rigged election. Details in my VOA radio report.

gimulnautti,
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@Noupside @w7voa totally out of the blue 😄

alsutton, to ai
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Anyone else betting models this decade will follow the trajectory of social media last decade; In 10 years time folk will be getting what the tech-savvy folk wanted from the start - an open solution everyone can contribute to and use as they want?

gimulnautti,
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@Sh41 @alsutton yes, the recent google leak speculated 93% of gpt-4 level capability of the best open-source models.

davidak, to ai
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is Smarter than You Think: Introducing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVzuvf9D9BU

gimulnautti,
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@davidak Thinking in prompt systems is something I’ve been also trying to explain to people lately. Thanks for this one, it’s almost the perfect example to show to them!

gimulnautti, to programming
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As a programmer, I use -based autocomplete daily.

My career spans almost 30 years now, and there is a issue in which is usually referred to as . It is a combination term from A) code which means the code has bad organisation and lacks structural rules B) mindlessly copying something.

Enough ”doing the same thing over and over again” can slowly turn even the best codebase into a badly organised mess, as the code no longer reflects the big picture.

gimulnautti,
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that I use is simply perfect for creating copypasta. This can probably boost efficiency for a some junior-level tasks, but relying on it too much can also risk deteriorating the quality of your codebase.

Extrapolating from this to what our society is going to face as ML tools augment our communication, I feel we might need to be prepared for a lot more copypasta that does the job, but with itself in ways that make it harder to see what is actually happening.

gimulnautti, to random
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Within a year or two, we will be able to actually talk to animals. We won’t be able to really understand what they mean, but the language probably won’t be the problem.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2tCoKxrVVCUYhfi575XUID?si=cLlQOLarTXW0icia4F21Qw

gimulnautti,
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@JohanEmpa Yes. But the model input would be more than that. Think:

Dog A is the real dog
Dog B is the ML

You specify the position, speed, posture and other aspects of dog B, and the model will spit out how the dog would move and bark in the next 2 seconds.

drahardja, to photography
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This article describes how journalists sent photographs across the Atlantic “instantly” in 1926. The most amazing thing to me is that the image is literally digitized into “pixels” along a helical scanline, quantized into 5 levels of gray—all through analog means.

So utterly fascinating.

An enterprising person could have used the 5 hole punches to encode 32 levels of gray, or used maybe 3 holes to encode 8 levels of gray, saving 40% of the transmission cost at the expense of making the machines more complicated…

https://petapixel.com/2013/07/01/how-they-sent-photos-across-the-ocean-back-in-1926/

gimulnautti,
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@drahardja @retrogaming_bot super cool!

Diggler67, to random
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This video by Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin helped me understand why the current "arms race" in implementation is so dangerous. 😬

https://youtu.be/xoVJKj8lcNQ

I'm probably late to the party on this, but I just saw it linked somewhere today (lost the reference) and just watched it tonight. These guys really know how to explain things to non-technical people. It's really worth watching, but you need to set aside an hour!

I had a vague layman's uneasiness about until now...

gimulnautti,
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@Diggler67 @panamared27401 This is legit one of the best popularisations of the field of problems underlying the worries.

I like how it really underlines that we are largely looking at the wrong moment in AI: where it becomes better than human excellence.

The moment that counts though, has maybe already passed; Where it surpasses human weaknesses.

estherschindler, to random
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Yes, children, we had to pay extra to get sound on our computers.

gimulnautti,
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@estherschindler @damonyoung Unless you had an

atrupar, to random
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Fox News's advice for life in America: "Have a plan to kill everyone you meet"

video/mp4

gimulnautti,
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@atrupar @juuhaa Full circle.

OnceUponAGoblin, to random Portuguese
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I never get tired of this photo. Steve Jobs showing off the first Macintosh to Andy Warhol, Sean Lennon, and Keith Haring in 1984.

gimulnautti,
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@OnceUponAGoblin @retrogaming_bot I bet someone at that age shouted: ”Get a real job!”

ellent, to random Dutch

The UK and US have intervened in the race to develop ever more powerful technology, as the British competition watchdog launched a review of the sector and the White House advised tech firms of their fundamental responsibility to develop safe products

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/04/uk-and-us-intervene-amid-ai-industrys-rapid-advances

gimulnautti,
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@ellent Safety protocols for commercial actors in the AI space are one aspect of the problem, but as a whole just regulating companies isn’t even cutting it close.

The community has answered the call of developing lighter techiques, which I predict will make training AI capable of fooling 98% of the population available to anyone by 2025.

Yes, this means the nasty people. Populists, fascists, nazis.

We need systems for humans and truthfull reporting, now.

gimulnautti, to random
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@tootapp I want to block a user that is sending me pm spam. Do I have to do it in the webapp? The client doesn’t seem to allow it?

gimulnautti,
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@tootapp seems to be the case. Thank you and thanks for the admins!

artomelaranta, to random Finnish

Siinä vaiheessa kun kansanedustaja huutaa kovaan ääneen että poliitikkojen tulisi puuttua jonkin median lähettämään sisältöön ollaan jo koputtelemassa fasismin ovella

gimulnautti,
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@artomelaranta @juuhaa Ja sitten Riikka tanssii Mussolinin.

valoisa, to random
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Populisteilla on meneillään paha paikka kun pitäisi samaan aikaan esittää vahvaa huutamalla pää punaisena ja yrittää saada ulkoa syy päästä oppositioon. Hehän eivät koskaan oikeasti halua demokraattiseen hallitukseen, koska se tarkoittaa kompromisseja ja heidän äänestäjänsä eivät osaa tehdä kompromisseja.

gimulnautti,
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@valoisa Ja sitten Riikka tanssii Mussolinin.

gimulnautti,
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@valoisa Ei se koskaan ole ollut pihalla. Perussuomalaisen puolueen tavoite ja linja ovat olleet selviä alusta alkaen: Poistaa muilta kuin itseltään.

gimulnautti, to opensource
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With the fast advances in low-cost techniques for , its apparent that will not be solved by gate-keepers on what goes into and .

Verifying humans and truthfullness of reporting should be our no.1 priority.

https://simonwillison.net/2023/May/4/no-moat/

gimulnautti, to random Finnish
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hanse_mina, to random
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RT WarFrontline: 🚨, "After we took over a Russian trench, the Belorussian commander used a radio he found and pretended to be Russian and gave false coordinates to the Russian artillery. It worked, they knocked out another Russian unit.",
-Captain Pavel Szurmiej‼️🍻😍

gimulnautti,
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@hanse_mina I think there are still many out there in the Russian lines who would rather see Ukraine win.

gimulnautti, to science
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I nice reminder, that since late most papers in advanced AI have come from people working at: Mega large companies for profit.

Which raises an important question: How is profit and science supposed mix, if peer-review has been impossible due to witholding data?

If a paper can’t be verified, is it science? Science is, after all, an inter-subjective process.

So are these papers more truthfully just fancy forms of advertisements?

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxjdg5/scary-emergent-ai-abilities-are-just-a-mirage-produced-by-researchers-stanford-study-says

gimulnautti,
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@Dinkenfunkle Yes. What I am emphasizing is that in regards to LLM’s we are very much in the research & engineering stage.

For this particular instance however, the progress is inverted from the usual. Science seems like it’s going to happen after this time.

In general people tend to not grasp that science means the communal effort of independent verification, so I thought it important to emphasize the difference.

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