Ashton

@fthevenet@mastodon.social @Ashton@hachyderm.io @hipsterelectron@circumstances.run I can see where you’re coming from, but “AI” has been applied to systems far short of AGI for nearly half a century at this point. Words change over time, and most of the people involved in chat GPT weren’t even born when “AI” became a broad umbrella term for this type of technology.

I’m highly disinclined to blame current technologists for this usage when freaking MIT did the same back in the 1970s.

@fthevenet@mastodon.social @Ashton@hachyderm.io @hipsterelectron@circumstances.run I would unironically consider your second sentence equal on the propganda scale as all but the most boosterish of GPT fans, only in the opposite direction.

It’s fair to be cynical about how applicable or capable things like ML and LLMs are, lord knows I am, but the things being hawked as “AI” are more complex than three nested if statements.

(Except when it’s just Mechanical Turk. But that’s fraud, not mere propaganda)

@emilygorcenski@indieweb.social I’m excited for what happens once the hype wave passes and we find actual, useful use cases for this stuff. That’s always how AI hype waves go, we find genuine use cases for the technology, it’s just way short of what the boosters promised.

(Video game AIs and generative dialog strike me as a rich area of opportunity).

It's been a while since I've actually logged into Gmail, holy crap it's slow now.

Was going to go to the gym, right up until I stepped outside and promptly fell on my ass in the snow. I’m stubborn, but fuck that.

@gearhead@fosstodon.org @caseynewton@mastodon.social short sighted too. Becoming known as the go to place for nazis is bad for substack.

@MiriShuli@mstdn.social @Popehat@mastodon.social perhaps the person who doesn’t realize how they’re coming across is you.

@rysiek@mstdn.social @TaliaRinger@mathstodon.xyz Which of course is pretty orthogonal to whether or not someone should get the boot for having interviewed at a three letter as a young adult. “We ban anyone with any connection with the defense industry no matter how tenuous” is one of those things that makes ideologues feel good, but doesn’t do squat to achieve the states purpose. (Also, cynically, I don’t think a world free of defense industries is possible).

@Popehat no clue what’s going on, but the chaos is kinda funny.

@Popehat Ah, but Ken, you’re missing out on the true joy of being an oracle; the ability to give out meaningful sounding but cryptic replies that drive people insane, or that they only finally understand in a final moment of tragic irony.

@bmp @mmasnick it’s also one of the dumbest possible teams to cut during a revenue crunch. It really strains my “stupid rather than malicious” theory of Musk’s behavior.