

Either theyāre lying and the number is greatly exaggerated (very possible), or this will eventually destroy the company.
Iām thinking the latter - Silicon Valley is full of true believers, after all.
Either theyāre lying and the number is greatly exaggerated (very possible), or this will eventually destroy the company.
Iām thinking the latter - Silicon Valley is full of true believers, after all.
Update on the University of Zurichās AI experiment: Redditās considering legal action against the researchers behind it.
In terms of actually being useful, an AI data center is also worse than a boat.
Consider humans your competitive advantage.
Words to live by.
Less a standard piece and more āEd Zitron goes completely fucking apeshit for 26 minutesā this time around
Stumbled across a piece from history YTer The Pharaoh Nerd publicly ripping into AI slop, specifically focusing on AI-generated pseudohistory found on YouTube Shorts.
Most data centre electrical equipment is only made outside the US. President Trumpās tariffs exempt electronics ā but that expires 9 July. If it isnāt extended, then US data centres are screwed ā no new buildouts, and huge maintenance problems for existing data centres. [Verdict]
Trump had the opportunity to do the funniest thing by setting them for the 4th of July.
At least the data centres are paid for by private companies and not bank loans. This means the bubble pop wonāt cause a banking crisis too.
Thatās waiting until rampant deregulation puts everything in place for another 2008 style crisis
"How can I trust that youāre not lying about not being conscious?ā
Its a silicon-based insult to life, it canāt be conscious
New piece from the Wall Street Journal: We Now Know How AI āThinksāāand Itās Barely Thinking at All (archive link)
The piece falls back into the standard āAI Is Inevitableā¢ā at the end, but its still a surprisingly strong sneer IMO.
And sadly, it wasnāt somebodyās porn alt.
Wow Trannyporno really put that depraved woman in her place
That canāt be a real username. That fucking canāt.
New thread from Dan Olson about chatbots:
I want to interview Sam Altman so I can get his opinion on the fact that a lot of his power users are incredibly gullible, spending millions of tokens per day on āare you conscious? Would you tell me if you were? How can I trust that youāre not lying about not being conscious?ā
For the kinds of personalities that get really into Indigo Children, reality shifting, simulation theory, and the like chatbots are uncut Colombian cocaine. Itās the monkey orgasm button, and theyāre just hammering it; an infinite supply of material for their apophenia to absorb.
Chatbots are basically adding a strain of techno-animism to every already cultic woo community with an internet presence, not a Jehovah that issues scripture, but more something akin to a Kami, Saint, or Lwa to appeal to, flatter, and appease in a much more transactional way.
Wellness, already mounting the line of the mystical like a pommel horse, is proving particularly vulnerable to seeing chatbots as an agent of secret knowledge, insisting that This One Prompt with your blood panel results will get ChatGPT to tell you the perfect diet to Fix Your Life
r/changemyview recently announced the University of Zurich had performed an unauthorised AI experiment on the subreddit. Unsurprisingly, there were a litany of ethical violations.
(Found the whole thing through a r/subredditdrama thread, for the record)
Drakeās a culture vulture, he doesnāt understand taste
Drake used AI to duo with Tupac in one of his songs
this is something different from what the articleās talking about, but also that sounds tacky as fuck
Also he did it in his dumbshit feud with Kendrick Lamar - you know, the one which ended with Drake getting the ass-whooping of a fucking lifetime
Programming and supporting fascism - name a more iconic duo
Against my better judgement I typed steve.ai into my browser and yep. Itās an AI product.
But is chickenjockey.ai domain parked
This sounds like the setup for a deeply fucked up comedy skit, or a Filthy Frank episode, or some shit like that, but nope, its real, its actually happened, the tech industry has invented a new and interesting form of racism.
I imagine a lotta people will be doing the same now, if not dismissing any further stuff from SciShow/Crash Course altogether.
Active distrust is a difficult thing to exorcise, after all.
The same goes with DuckDuckGo, because the venn diagram of programmers and AI bros is apparently a circle.