i do gotta say the fucking old ai art where it was a barely comprehensible representation of whatever was asked for was like an actually interesting art form that seems to have very quickly died off which saddens me because like that shit was so cool. like you ask it for a wizard and it’s just this scary blob of light colours that barely makes a human shape
I still think about secret horses at least once a month.
AIs being able to convincingly pretend to know things isn’t a sign of intelligence. Come back when we have an AI that can convincingly pretend to be unaware of things that are common knowledge for the sake of a bit.
(I’m 100% not joking. A system that a. knows what it knows; b. is able to make educated guesses about what I know; c. is able to use this information to identify what I think I know it knows; and d. proceeds to pretend not to know something I think I know it knows for the express purpose of fucking with me would would require a relatively sophisticated theory of mind, and I’m prepared to grant that anything that could do all that is probably engaging in something like thought.)
The one good thing about Blogger is that a glitch has temporarily opened a portal between the world of the living and the world of skeletons, and I can finally read my old tumblr posts from before I killed all my friends
a remote work site made the brilliant decision to hook their automated ad account — which responds to any tweet that mentions remote work and remote jobs — up to gpt-3
the result is people pioneering new forms of attack in real time
I do like how the threat against the president is also still about remote work.
[Silicon Valley] takes care of its own when it suits people’s individual agendas, not when it doesn’t, as is the case most other places, and when you are on the outs that’s that.
When I die, I hope all of Silicon Valley, every last greedy billionaire toad, gets nothing but rotten food and a miserable, wet death
the NSA or whichever agency has collected all of our private texts and emails and phone calls has way more data than they could ever productively use, at least until some bright spark trains a language model on it and then accidentally leaks that model to the public internet, raising absolute havoc
“And they call themselves the ‘Horny Hippies,’ and they drink this green stuff that they call ‘pea cum,’ and then they go out and they buy little brass rings and they go around and they tell everyone on the subway: 'Did you hear the news? The president, he has a taint problem.’ And then they go to the club where they’re not even wearing clothes, and then they just start playing music from a record that they have in the bottom of their sock drawer. So, you know, that’s how people know about the taint problem,” he said.
I read this sentence and laughed out loud in the middle of the morning, which was nice