This has to be hands down the absolute dumbest take I’ve seen from Musk ever. Dude has the mental capacity of a boiled pear.

Considering they were saying this while having trouble doing internet radio at scale, a problem basically solved 20 years ago, I’m not sure we should listen to them.

Related to Musk, Trump and all the other fools. PrimalPoly revealing just how shallow and culture war brainwormed thinker he is.

They are both stupid men who repeat stuff they hear to make them look good. So the question is who are this time the “very smart people” that are telling numbnuts like these two that nuclear war is survivable - and by extension winnable? Because if that is the US defense establishment, then yeah we might be cooked.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/quotes/?item=qt0454445&ref_=ext_shr_lnk

Watching this election has been amazing! LIKE WOAH what a fucking obviously self destructive end to delusion. Can I be optimistic and hope that with EA leaning explicitly heavier into the hard right Trump position, when it collapses and Harris takes it, maybe some of them will self reflective on what the hell they think “Effective” means anyways.

The Bismarck Analysis crew were sneering at Sagan being a filthy peace activist so I would hazard that the era of ‘survivable nuclear war’ rides again.

friend looked at this and said “ah race science geoguesser guy”

“Inexplicable Cimmerian Vibes” is the name of my next band.

Bonus points if this turns out to be the output of an LLM trained by phrenologists.

omg, next time my wife asks me how she looks, I’m definitely dropping that “legible magyar admixture”

Edit: Didn’t work. She started talking about how in the old country, the Hungarians chased her family out of the village for being religious minorities. I give this approach 0 bags of popcorn and a magen david.

That’s certainly one approach to commenting on someone’s picture. Pretty sure it’s better to stick with the standard “Wow! 😍😍😍” but this certainly sticks out from the crowd?

the original is one of the new approach from the Dimes Square nazis, isn’t it?

Optimizing mating strategies? But I’m terrible at chess!

please tell me the topic was repopulating endangered species of animals

oh who the fuck am I kidding, it’s the orange site

That’s the state of the job market these days: even the pick-up artists have STEM degrees.

‘TESCREAL’ refers to a nonsense conspiracy theory that disparages people such as Nick Bostrom without citing any sources that are credible on the question of whether Nick Bostrom is an ‘evil eugenicist’ or whatever.

WP:LOL. WP:LMAO even.

Surely this is 3 or 4 different anti-gun control tropes all smashed together.

I mean, if you play on the doom to hype yourself, dealing with employees that take that seriously feel like a deserved outcome.

Short story: it’s smoke and mirrors.

Longer story: This is now how software releases work I guess. Alot is running on open ai’s anticipated release of GPT 5. They have to keep promising enormous leaps in capability because everyone else has caught up and there’s no more training data. So the next trick is that for their next batch of models they have “solved” various problems that people say you can’t solve with LLMs, and they are going to be massively better without needing more data.

But, as someone with insider info, it’s all smoke and mirrors.

The model that “solved” structured data is emperically worse at other tasks as a result, and I imagine the solution basically just looks like polling multiple response until the parser validates on the other end (so basically it’s a price optimization afaik).

The next large model launching with the new Q* change tomorrow is “approaching agi because it can now reliably count letters” but actually it’s still just agents (Q* looks to be just a cost optimization of agents on the backend, that’s basically it), because the only way it can count letters is that it invokes agents and tool use to write a python program and feed the text into that. Basically, it is all the things that already exist independently but wrapped up together. Interestingly, they’re so confident in this model that they don’t run the resulting python themselves. It’s still up to you or one of those LLM wrapper companies to execute the likely broken from time to time code to um… checks notes count the number of letters in a sentence.

But, by rearranging what already exists and claiming it solved the fundamental issues, OpenAI can claim exponential progress, terrify investors into blowing more money into the ecosystem, and make true believers lose their mind.

Expect more of this around GPT-5 which they promise “Is so scary they can’t release it until after the elections”. My guess? It’s nothing different, but they have to create a story so that true believers will see it as something different.

This is what happens in the absence of a natural predator.

I used to wonder if they had thought about deadlock/livelock re self driving cars. Thanks to modern technology I no longer have to wonder. Thanks!

Oh this sounds like a dog I used to have as a kid! They needed more enrichment during the day or else she’d bark into the void all night and get super excited when another dog barked back.

Have they tried taking the waymos out for walkies?

saw a video of this yesterday, that “honk” title extremely understates how fucking dumb the problem is

in the video I saw, those dumb-ass things are literally crawling forward and back in the parking lot, because the one in front of it is also doing it, because…

yes, a multi-car movement deadlock, with a visually clear solution (which any human driver would be able to implement in seconds) that nonetheless still doesn’t happen because….? I guess waymo didn’t code in inter-car communication or something

seriously, find a copy and watch. it’ll give a lovely kicker to your day :>

it going co-evolution on the same path as cybercoins did is chefskiss.bmp

“help artists with tasks such as animating a custom character or using the character as a model for clothing etc”

The “deepfake” and “(uncensored)” in the repo description have me questioning that ever so slightly

jesus, that’s telling. and I can 100% see that sentence forming in the heads of the types of people who fall over themselves to create something like these tools. so caught up in the math and the technical cool, they can’t appreciate other beauty

Can AI companies legally ingest copyrighted materials found on the internet to train their models, and use them to pump out commercial products that they then profit from? Or, as the tech companies claim, does generative AI output constitute fair use?

This is kind of the central issue to me honestly. I’m not a lawyer, just a (non-professional) artist, but it seems to me like “using artistic works without permission of the original creators in order to create commercial content that directly competes with and destroys the market for the original work” is extremely not fair use. In fact it’s kind of a prototypically unfair use.

Meanwhile Midjourney and OpenAI are over here like “uhh, no copyright infringement intended!!!” as though “fair use” is a magic word you say that makes the thing you’re doing suddenly okay. They don’t seem to have very solid arguments justifying them other than “AI learns like a person!” (false) and “well google books did something that’s not really the same at all that one time”.

I dunno, I know that legally we don’t know which way this is going to go, because the ai people presumably have very good lawyers, but something about the way everyone seems to frame this as “oh, both sides have good points! who will turn out to be right in the end!” really bugs me for some reason. Like, it seems to me that there’s a notable asymmetry here!

The link seems b0rked, do you have another one?

Jimmy Buffet fans in shambles.

People out there acting like “research” using LLMs is ethical

literally why would you do this. you can research anything you stupid bastards why would you make this

we propose the STORM paradigm for the Synthesis of Topic Outlines through Retrieval and Multi-perspective Question Asking

oh come the fuck on

The authors hail from Monica S. Lam’s group at Stanford, which has also published several other papers involving LLMs and Wikimedia projects since 2023 (see our previous coverage: WikiChat, “the first few-shot LLM-based chatbot that almost never hallucinates” – a paper that received the Wikimedia Foundation’s “Research Award of the Year” some weeks ago).

from the same minds as STOTRMPQA comes: we constructed this LLM so it won’t generate a response unless similar text appears in the Wikipedia corpus and now it almost never entirely fucks up. award-winning!

Yesterday I saw a link to some podcast/post float by, of an interview with some genml company “discussing people falling in love with, having relations with, and even wanting to marry”, where the ceo is “okay with it”. didn’t click because ugh, but will see if I can find it

and ofc all these weird fucking things will pop the moment their vc runs out or openai raises prices or whatever. bet you they don’t have any therapy contingency for helping people with their ai partners suddenly getting vc-raptured

It’s really funny that this was probably the closest thing to a killer app powered by genAI to exist.

Wonder if they’re getting rid of this stuff because they realized it’s actually a liability to mine these ERP convos for data and they’re burning money on every conversation as it is.

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it can guess their age and weight! It can even guess their socioeconomic group, and if they dye their hair.

But can it detect Inexplicable Cimmerian Vibes? Can it guess the haplogroup?