YourNetworkIsHaunted @ YourNetworkIsHaunted @awful.systems

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Note that the image here isn't from the AI project, it's from actual Doom. Their own screenshots have weird glitches including a hit splat that looks like a butt in the image I've seen closest to this one.

And when they say they've "run the game" they do not mean that there was a playable version that was publicly compared to the original. Rather they released short video clips of alleged gameplay and had their evaluators try to identify if they were from the AI recreation or from actual Doom.

Even by the abysmal standards of generative AI projects this is a hell of a grift.

It's not that beauty is skin-deep, it's that the subdermal tissues and structures are the stuff of eldricht nightmares and cronenbergian horror.

Speaking as the father of a 4-year-old girl, there definitely is. Not that I disagree in principle, but it's probably a bad example.

Given the /aiml URL they've got there I suspect that this is actually a picture of one of their real graduates pitching yet another terrible AI service that burns half a rainforest to badly summarize diet advice or something.

I'm always a little bit torn, because there is definitely a specific skill set involved in running a business, and a lot of those skills should be pretty consistent regardless of what the business does. Like, there is a lot of finance, contracting, negotiation, communication, etc. work that has to be done to go from a theoretical model of a light bulb to experimenting to make a working product that can be mass produced. And there's a specific skillet needed to go from there to replacing all the gas lights in New York City with GE electric lights.

But at the same time, the recent trend to prioritize those skills by rewarding absentee shareholders, venture capital, and "founders" has created a situation where if you have those skills you can get impressively far and do a lot of damage to the overall economy and the lives of your customers and workers, even if those business skills are completely separate from an actual concept of what the business should do. You get all the Edison exploitation and bullshit but with no light bulb.

Not gonna lie, I always thought that even the old jokes about boomers searching for "Dear Google, would you please help me find a local veterinarian in my town that can see my cat? Thanks!" to be more endearing than cringe.

I think the suggestion that delegating is the problem is hilarious. Like, from everything I've seen, what happens when successful startups start floundering is less because anything has changed and more because the fundamental problems with the business finally catch up to the amount of money they have to burn. The problem isn't that founders are hiring liars as managers and delegating to them, it's that the founders themselves are primarily bullshit artists rather than people with good plans.

How to fix democracy: remove voting. Brilliant!

I mean, yes. Obviously if all the data from these supposedly competing rental owners was being compiled by Some Guy this would be collusion, price gouging, etc.

But what if instead of Some Guy we used a computer? Eh? Eh? Pretty smart, yeah?

I know what I'm listening to this evening. Knowledge Fight Link

Yeah, mate. This is the most credible source I can find and it's literally about how impossible it is to actually use crypto without tying yourself to the wallet somehow.

The exchange where you traded BTC for USD, which had to comply with AML and KYC laws in order to have access to the US banking system in the first place.

Like, it's theoretically possible to work with perfect operational security and never ever link your Bitcoin address to the real world, but doing so basically precludes you from doing anything in the real world with it, including buying crypto in the first place.

I have a suspicion that this tweet is going to be introduced as an exhibit in several suits

I mean, I have glasses and wear a wristwatch so by the standard definitions I qualify as a cyborg in all aspects but the aesthetic.

Dude, there's nobody judging this round and no tiny trophy to win. Drop the high school debate bullshit.

Whole "conscious" isn't defined in such a way that we can test easily, we can see very clearly that the kinds of errors LLMs make aren't consistent with the way you would be wrong if you actually understood what was being asked the way a person does. They're the kind of mistakes you get from a table of statistical relationships between tokens.

I can't "prove" that an LLM isn't conscious in the same way I can't prove a tree or rock isn't conscious. That's not exactly a compelling reason to think it is as you're implying.

I wonder what the Alexa backend costs relative to user base and data value. Seems like they aren't likely to get much more useful information than they already get from other sources, and even ignoring the forest-burning hell that is LLMs earlier voice recognition technology wasn't free in terms of compute.

They started calling it AI and people immediately started asking the kinds of questions that science fiction had primed us for, whether that's Skynet, Data, or Marvin. Apparently even among the supposedly intelligent folks the fact never quite landed that these stories (or at least the good ones) were ultimately trying to comment on people rather than creating fanciful situations to be dissected for their own sake.

I mean, saying "could be swapped out for a conscious entity at any time" is a hell of an unsupported premise, though I guess I wouldn't be surprised if they started passing particularly tricky prompts off to some poor schmuck doing task work on whatever MTurk equivalent they're using these days.

See, I actually agree with making prompts polite and respectful. Not because the model is going to care, but because that kind of respect should be automatic and habitual and using it unnecessarily is better than being a dick to the checkout guy because you're tired one day.

Okay yeah this is funny.