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thomasapowell, to ai
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I asked ChatGPT another BS engine to calculate Googleโ€™s BS engineโ€™s failure cost and it came up with about $10.4 billion. Is that accurate who knows? Hilarious ? ๐Ÿ’ฏ

Cost calc below from ChatGPT

โ€œTotal Estimated Financial Impact:

โ€ข Ad Revenue Loss: $2 billion
โ€ข Increased Operational Costs: $300 million
โ€ข Legal and Regulatory Costs: $600 million
โ€ข Brand Damage: $7.5 billion

Total Estimated Loss: $2 billion + $300 million + $600 million + $7.5 billion = $10.4 billionโ€

schizanon,
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@thomasapowell how much did it cost you to hate about it on Fedi?

thomasapowell,
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@schizanon apparently zero per ChatGPT unless we can go viral with this! Letโ€™s goooo ๐Ÿ˜

thomasapowell, to MemeryAlpha
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Tired: Garbage In, Garbage Out (GIGO)

Wired: Large amounts of content mixed with garbage in, averaged content sprinkled with garbage and sometimes brand new super garbage out (AI)

thomasapowell, to ai
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If I want to get the American right all wild about accuracy I'll point out that giving Chat GPT 4o the task to estimate Bronx Rally crowd size (they claim 25k) but the AI has a different thought (< 5k)

thomasapowell, to ai
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New research paper released today

โ€œTraining on Reddit posts considered harmful to model accuracy.โ€

Peer reviewers gave glowing comments like โ€œNo shit Sherlock!โ€

Asked for a comment the ground breaking paperโ€™s author Captain Obvious simply stated โ€œhave you ever even been on Reddit?โ€™ He also encouraged Google to instead train on 4chan content instead as that will totally โ€œfixโ€ everything.

thomasapowell, to random
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Apparently even ScarJo canโ€™t stop the fever dream of a techbro with billions he will just do it anyway !

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/scarlett-johansson-shocked-angered-openai-voice-rcna153180

thomasapowell, to LEGO
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Not exactly a clean build of a Space 1999 Eagle. Thatโ€™s what you get I guess for knock off Chinese still an icon of 1970s

bazcurtis,
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@thomasapowell That is really good. I want to make my version in . I still have my toy Eagle from when I was a kid.

thomasapowell, to ai
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Last year I told my team we have to get off #Slack because this #AI train wreck would likely happen and I wasnโ€™t ok with info leakage like that of our private and customer chat. Sadly as we are finding out it happened. We had picked #Mattermost and found it was fine as a replacement but the migration has been a slow effort. At least now it will accelerate.

StOnSoftware,
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@thomasapowell so now they only have your old secrets?

thomasapowell,
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@StOnSoftware yep unfortunately thatโ€™s quite true but not a reason to keep with them going forward Iโ€™ll dub staying the sunk privacy fallacy ๐Ÿคช anyway Mattermost is good enough. Weโ€™d used Hipchat before Slack and MS Communicator before Hipchat so this is just another move for a long running firm.

thomasapowell, to random
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Dystopian SciFi books need to be reclassified as Non-Fiction these days.

thomasapowell, (edited ) to LEGO
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So having #Covid does have the upside of free time at home to get to this #Atari 2600 #Lego build. The cartridges can go in, the joystick has movement as do the switches, and a fun seen flips up from the console if you slide it forward.

#retrogaming

thomasapowell, to ai
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A few things about in the cloud we probably should acknowledge. First spinning up a cell phoneโ€™s radio constantly is gonna kill battery life. Add to this the network latency and variability making the UX painfully inconsistent or even unworkable. Also privacy but whatevs right?

Hasnโ€™t Humane, R1, Echo, Siriโ€ฆ taught us anything or we just gonna wave this off as easily solvable?

On device really is required here but AI gold rush time so letโ€™s gooooo! ๐Ÿคท

thomasapowell, to ai
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thomasapowell, to random
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Pithy #SoftwareEngineering thought

Full Team Devs >>> Full Stack Devs

thomasapowell, to random
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Well I finally broke my long term luck and am positive with #COVID

I did most of the right things over the years with masks and vaxxing but we are so loose now it was bound to happen esp being on campus and having massive lectures.

Sadly it isnโ€™t some simple cold or flu I feel weird as hell. ๐Ÿ˜ฌ so shifting down to a lower gear in my life for a bit.

thomasapowell, to TeslaMotors
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I am well over ten and maybe even 20+ #CyberTruck sightings now and it still makes me look, shake my head and wonder what type of person buys and drives this thing? When the tinting isnโ€™t illegal level I always make sure to look. The trend is unbroken so far. Any guesses ?

thomasapowell, to ai
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A student shared this with me about their upcoming graduation ceremony. It's the sign of the times that of course we would use #AI during graduation so it too can mispronounce names.

Sigh.

thundergod97,
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