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@trochee@dair-community.social

NLP (the nerdy kind). Wrong-half Jew. Privilege-traitor.
Linguist. Empiricist. Rager against machines. formerly #indymedia
Also, #comics, #SFF #scifi, languages, big data, algorithms, software design, and more, including #EthicalAI

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siderea, to random

Honestly, the most alarming thing about AI isn't so much about AI itself, but about how utterly hell-bent humans are to use it for things that it does a bad job at. H sapiens is bound and determined to use this chisel as a screwdriver.

Case in point: the recent news story about a lawyer (or pair of lawyers - finger pointing is underway) who submitted a filing in federal court which had actually been written by ChatGPT.

What is the one thing one can assume everyone has heard about LLMs? That they make completely bogus shit up, including inventing nonexistent citations.

It would be hard to overstate how unacceptable to a court it is for a lawyer to submit a legal argument which cites nonexistent case law. That's the kind of shit that can get a lawyer disbarred. It's a, uh, career-limiting move.

But apparently some lawyer actually did it: he took the output of a computer program famous for fabricating false citations and piped it directly into a court.

1/?

trochee,
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@siderea

"irremediable reservoirs of pestilential technological suckitude"

belongs over the new gates of hell

xgranade, to random
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There's a whole essay to be written about how Glass Onion and Mrs. Davis are of a piece, and are weirdly in conversation.

trochee,
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@xgranade whaaat note i really gotta see GO

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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This thread is a microcosm of everything annoying about reddit.

Guy posts photo of a spider wondering if it is a "brown recluse" gets a bunch of different answers many repeats, several people calling him stupid for not 'just googling it' a few calls to burn down the house and move.

It's not a brown recluse. Even if it were they aren't aggressive. With a recluse it's fine to move them to a remote location with care.

This spider I would simply escort out the back door.

https://www.reddit.com/r/whatbugisthis/comments/13x2zgh/wife_thinks_all_spiders_are_brown_recluses_but_i/

trochee,
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@futurebird @MichaelTBacon @zleap

no you're not missing anything.

misc, to random
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This seem fishy to anyone else? We don’t know anything about the design of this AI system. It seems like it wouldn’t have been able to come up with these strategies unless it was more or less coaxed. (Key concepts/associations planted in its training set, or basically run off an LLM that includes stories like this…) https://mastodon.social/@craignewmark/110470812091221525

trochee,
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@misc "a strange game. The only way to win is not to play"

... getting a lot of mileage this quarter

trochee,
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@misc

word, you'd think that "destroying on-side personnel and materiel" should be scored as a major negative. but if you train it with only scoring "kill the enemy", you get something that wants to kill the enemy whatever the cost

basic cybernetics; Norbert Wiener would be embarrassed by this result

trochee,
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@misc and why would you not assign a reward penalty to "destroying your own materiel"

trochee,
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@kissane @misc yeah i strongly doubt that (simulated) autonomous drone strikes are powered by an LLM at all

trochee,
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@eaton hahaha if turns out to be a Halo NPC known bug that would be awesome

trochee,
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@eaton this sounds like a fun list

I knew about the ruler heuristic from being in the ml world for the last 20 years or so

(I was into machine learning social disasters before they went mainstream, is what I'm saying)

trochee,
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@misc @kissane yeah now it looks like the simulation was a storytelling simulation, like a Model UN.

trochee,
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@eaton i was into ML when Bayesian strategies were just breaking into the top 40 and neural nets were still best represented by a self-published zine called PERCEPTRON

trochee,
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@acousticmirror @eaton

I see you too are a Butlerian Jihaadi, perhaps from an even more strict orthodoxy than my own

trochee,
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@acousticmirror @eaton in my order, we were allowed to perform the Rites of Bayes even unto the Noisy Channel (except on the Sabbath)

Even on shabbat, we were permitted the use of the Inverted Index and the Logit. Really quite an enlightened upbringing, and I think the kids have loosened up just too far, really

FeralRobots, to random
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Forget who pointed me to "" the other day but I just read this summary & holy crap there are just some WILD assumptions being made to get from a somewhat interesting basic premise to 'paperclip maximizing computers will kill us all', none of which seem to have inspired anyone to ponder the ways that corporations resemble .
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence

trochee,
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@misc @FeralRobots

I think yeah, Jesse and @Wolven were talking about this day before yesterday, and that shit is craaazy

https://dair-community.social/@trochee/110459707588828474

trochee,
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@misc @FeralRobots @Wolven

I mean "I can just sit here and enjoy cocktails on the beach and not work" sounds pretty smart to me.

And even we have examples from my favorite fantasy AIs (Banks' Culture Minds).

I don't get why "having enough to enjoy" wouldn't be a natural equilibrium for any superintelligence.

trochee,
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@misc @FeralRobots @Wolven

Hah, that response really makes it clear that these jokers don't understand that the world is an iterated Prisoner's Dilemma

Making plans to kill my beachfront neighbors really absorbs a lot of my cocktail beach time

AND it increases the likelihood that my neighbors would come interrupt my cocktail beach time too

since nobody wants cocktails on beach that got glassed by a first strike, better if we just hang

misc, to random
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There has to be an account for mastodon.social status alerts… right? Anyway, perk of having a pushover account for work is I get notifications of stuff like this, which I can pass along to you. https://status.mastodon.social/clidjzzf9206487byoi56k0vp74 (tldr is that there's a backlog and some posts are gonna be delayed)

trochee,
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@misc I got it just now (1pm Pacific 6/1) so ... when did you send it?

resuna, to random
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trochee,
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@resuna
it is REALLY disappointing that this is not in iambic pentameter

An error in the SSL occurr'd
and no secure connected server
links!
naught can be wrought, alas! upon this word
of shakespeare's app. we're sorry bro; it stinks!

Mer__edith, to random
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The hotrod I'm selling? Might be a little too fast and a bit too cool and tbh not sure you can handle it bro.

(This shit is so tiring.)

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-65746524?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Bbbc.news.twitter%5D-%5Bheadline%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D&at_campaign_type=owned&at_link_origin=BBCTech&at_link_id=55BE50F0-FEDA-11ED-9C7F-22C0D772BE90&at_medium=social&at_bbc_team=editorial&at_format=link&at_campaign=Social_Flow&at_link_type=web_link&at_ptr_name=twitter

trochee,
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@jeffjarvis @Mer__edith

It's early 2000s pick-up artist "negging" on a corporate scale

trochee, to random
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in a talk about generative AI (and AI snake oil) this morning: @randomwalker asks:

  • Resistance, or harm reduction?

"at best, RNGs, at worst, amplifiers of existing inequities and inequalities"

https://predictive-optimization.cs.princeton.edu/

trochee, to random
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LLMs always seem to be good at someone else's job -- usually somebody who I treat as a cost center.

and somehow never good at my job (I am a true creator of value)

ubiquity75, to random

Watching a cooking competition show and…

“When you first started talking about the house and the 18th century, my mind immediately went to medieval times.”

“[Your dish] looked like a Renaissance painting.”

Okay, can anyone maybe broad strokes recognize that each one of these time periods is wholly distinct and not the same?!

trochee,
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@ubiquity75 this is like those pictures of Patrick Stewart holding a lightsaber with the caption "So Say We All"

It's so many step-on-a-rake pratfalls that you have to imagine it's intentional

jdp23, to random

Heel of Fortune


trochee,
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@jdp23

honestly sounds like a fun show

acousticmirror, to random
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Attack of the Cones

trochee,
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@acousticmirror

like a silent VLC Player subtoot

Are0h, to random

Catching up on this RustConf dialogue I see floating around and for fuck's sake.

trochee,
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@Are0h see, you did have it figured out. I knew it from "for fuck's sake"

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