V0ldek @ V0ldek @awful.systems Posts 6Comments 623Joined 1 yr. ago
A popular meme on social media makes a series of allegations about the musical tune pitch A=432Hz and A=440Hz, including that the latter was a standard imposed by the Nazis to manipulate their enemies.
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Multiple experts told Reuters these allegations are unfounded.
NO WAY
Thanks Reuters.
Neural nets are much better at processing language than anything produced by the Chomsky school of linguistics.
Hey mate, did you get your PhD or a fucking Nobel in linguistics by any chance? No? Just talking about shit you apparently have no idea about?
I didn't even know you could be a crank about linguistics, that's pretty amazing. What other otherwise really boring fields are you going to tackle, geodesy?
You're were hired for a backend team. They started learning React as you joined.
Ye that is when you strike. Build a guillotine if necessary. The fuck.
Every AI spring brings an even harsher AI winter.
Winter is coming.
Well the main problem is that a datacenter is running much more than just AI. You'd need to somehow subtract "normal" cloud usage from just the promptfondling.
Typical OpenAI Practices And Behaviours are going to inform what becomes anathema
Thou shalt not make a grift machine in the likeness of OpenAI
Does this mean the big money people are planning to dump their shit on the rest of us so that when genAI goes down its our savings that go “pop”?
You know how crypto is about me selling you a useless and worthless token before anyone realises and the price collapses? Ye, that but with companies.
That's the fucking problem, it's impossible to tell since MSFT won't tell you directly, and only the people who run the datacenters could.
The only relatively reliable numbers I was able to find were in this research paper by Luccioni and Strubell from ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency 2024. Now, that's an obscure conference (not even ranked by CORE), by Dr. Luccioni appears to be right on the money about dangers of AI (https://www.sashaluccioni.com/).
Where's that person who was arguing with me last time that AI doesn't actually use that much energy and the corps missing their climate goals was not AI related
I got this AMAZING OPPORTUNITY in my inbox, because once your email appears on a single published paper you're forever doomed to garbage like this (transcript at the end):
Highlights:
- Addresses me as Dr. I'm not a doctor. I checked, and apparently Dr. Muhhamad Imran Qureshi indeed has a PhD and is a lecturer at Teesside University International Business School (link to profile). His recent papers include a bunch of blockchain bullshit. Tesside University appears to be a legit UK university, although I'm not sure how legit the Business School is (or how legit any Business School can be, really).
- Tells us their research is so shit that using wisdom woodchippers actually increases their accuracy.
- One of the features is "publication support", so this might be one of those scams where you pay an exorbitant fee to get "published" in some sketchy non-peer-reviewed journal.
- One of the covered AI tools is Microsoft Excel. If you were wondering if "AI" had any meaning.
- Also, by god, are there so many different ChatGPT clones now? I haven't heard most of those names. I kinda hope they're as AI as Excel is.
I'm not sure which would be worse, this being a scam, or them legit thinking this brings value to the world and believing they're helping anyone.
I need a dummy's guide to this entire thing, yesterday I didn't know about Mullenweg's existence and today I learn wordpress is suing wordpress for not being legit wordpress or something
Wait, did OpenAI claim somewhere they will "solve language"?
Thank you for the Dasani video, fucking amazing.
What the hell does "spunk" mean in the US??
dipshit who was massively involved in “solving language”
"In the what now?", he said, voice trembling with a mixture of horror and excitement
That has been Apple's model for a long time. Privacy restrictions for thee in my walled garden, but I am the benevolent overlord that sees all.
Still, in the current system Apple is the only thing holding back the floodgates? If there was no Apple in the committee to tell Google to go fuck themselves on their insane browser proposals we'd all be stuck in the all-encompassing Google walled garden. It's better for us to have two monarchs battling it out than one insane absolutist.
I have no idea what could be done to break this walled bullshit altogether, though, much less what any of us individually could do. Like a completely open-source (both software and hardware) smartphone that is actually usable and multiple bank robberies to finance marketing and sales for it?
The only one I'm aware of is the ages old "chess is too simple" and I feel like that one was stupidity distilled in such a high concentration I don't ever need to hear any of his other opinions on chess, or games in general to be honest.
You know that famous Keynes quote, right. To paraphrase: "the tech sector can remain irrational for longer than the planet can remain habitable".
So this is what he meant when he said "funds are SAFe"
AaaaAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaAAAAAAA!
tangible and lasting benefits for billions of people.
call me when I can actually tange them