V0ldek @ V0ldek @awful.systems

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has a plan to profit

You say "plan" but I think what you really mean is that Satya crossed his fingers and hoped for the best

MS is doing the laughing as every company scrambles to adopt AI purely out of fear of being left behind

Hey man, as someone who literally worked at MSFT in Azure Identity a year ago, let me assure you, this is exactly what MSFT is also doing while their devs scratch their heads in bewilderment on how on earth they're going to incorporate genAI into the auth token service.

but they must be making money off X if they’re doing this.

is such a laughable, ridiculous thing to say, like what the fuck dude, where did you get this idea from even

The what in the what now?

What a terrible day to tech.

There's no way this works, right? It's like a 5y.o.'s idea of a gotcha.

This would be like starting a tax-exempt charity to gather up a large amount in donations and then switching to a for-profit before spending it on any charitable work and running away with the money.

the second is characteristically christian and associated with dignity culture.

homeless people bear the imago dei. they are not intrinsic moral superiors but their plight is a shame to us because it denudes them of the dignity that should be theirs by right of their humanity.

Lol yes, that's exactly the way mainstream Christians view homelessness, their lack of Work Ethic :tm: is a "shame to us". Lmao even.

Christian charitable organisations are so well-known for their ethos of inherent human dignity.

Jesus GNU Christ, Live your life so that no one ever produces a systematic classification of your opinions that looks like this

I am so cynical at this point I am fully bought into the idea that these chowderheads don't even interact with reality, just with the PowerPoint and Jira-driven shadows on the wall.

founder mode (derogatory)

Oh I certainly did meet a lot of people employed in auth related stuff that clearly spent only 2 weeks on learning anything about OpenID and I certainly didn't not hate their guts and wished they were replaced by a small shell script

Welcome to the future! Suffering is mandatory!

Aren't touch screens literally everywhere? What was the hype?

It's always so baffling to me to learn about those things because I was way too young to actually experience any of the "hype" around most of those technologies. Touch screens are cool and they penetrated society so much there are at my grocery shop, what the fuck were they supposed to do if that's not living up to the hype?

(Preface: I work in AI)

Are they a serious researcher in ML with insights into some of the most interesting and complicated intersections of computer science and analytical mathematics, or a promptfondler that earns 3x the former's salary for a nebulous AI startup that will never create anything of value to society? Read on to find out!

because it encodes semantics.

Please enlighten me on how? I admit I don't know all the internals of the transformer model, but from what I know it encodes precisely only syntactical information, i.e. what next syntactical token is most likely to follow based on a syntactical context window.

How does it encode semantics? What is the semantics that it encodes? I doubt they have denatotational or operational semantics of natural language, I don't think something like that even exists, so it has to be some smaller model. Actually, it would be enlightening if you could tell me at least what the semantical domain here is, because I don't think there's any naturally obvious choice for that.

This has been said multiple times but I don't think it's possible to internalize because of how fucking bleak it is.

The VC/MBA class thinks all communication can be distilled into saying the precise string of words that triggers the stochastically desired response in the consumer. Conveying ideas or information is not the point. This is why ChatGPT seems like the holy grail to them, it effortlessly¹ generates mountains of corporate slop that carry no actual meaning. It's all form and no substance, because those people -- their entire existence, the essence of their cursed dark souls -- has no substance.

¹ batteries not included

(see this for some others)

This article appears to contain a large number of buzzwords. (July 2011)

WP:LOL. WP:LMAO even

Xml also used to be a tech hype for a bit.

Wha... What?

I'm trying to imagine a news anchor hyping about XM-fucking-L and I'm drawing a complete blank, is this a zen riddle

Only in the philosophical sense of all of physics being a giant stochastic system.

But that's equally useful as saying that we're Turing machines? Yes, if you draw a broad category of "all things that compute in our universe" then you can make a reasonable (but disputable!) argument that both me and a Python interpreter are in the same category of things. That doesn't mean that a Python interpreter is smart/sentient/will solve climate change/whatever Sammy Boi wants to claim this week.

Or, to use a different analogy, it's like saying "we're all just cosmic energy, bro". Yes we are, pass the joint already and stop trying to raise billions of dollars for your energy woodchipper.

Okay but "Elon is not smarter than me" is a universally true statement in the exact same way as "dumb as a rock" is a universally applicable idiom.

Why the fuck is there a gigantic 1000-year-old oak blocking the entire pavement. Also why is that one in autumn colors.