I thought I was looking into the camera, but phones are annoying
if i stop saying "um" all the time that's half an hour less in post right there
HEY GUYS CHECK THIS OUT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1yHrZR_Sgg
with the awful (systems) assistance of self, fasterandworse and jp of this parish
no idea when i'll do another one, this one was 3 hrs faff for 5 min video lol
things I need: a better mic, a chair that doesn't swivel
Ex-OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever’s new startup Safe Superintelligence just closed another funding round. For $2 billion, Sutskever promises not to release any product at all until SSI has develop…
only from that article lol
J. Oliver Conroy's Ziz piece is out. Not odious at a glance.
I've read Masnick for over 20 years and he's never learnt to write coherently. At least this one isn't blaming Europe.
Elon Musk’s team of weird rationalists at DOGE continues to bring “move fast and break things” to functions that really need not to be broken. Anyone who knows anything about how anything works is …
he started writing about this stuff and it struck a chord with people
we now have a Reliable Source for Cremieux being Lasker, which we were previously only 99.999999% sure of
Los Angeles Times proprietor Patrick Soon-Shiong is convinced his paper is a hotbed of Bolshevik agitators. He blocked the paper making a presidential endorsement in October 2024. But Soon-Shiong h…
Twenty years ago, Google was the hottest company with the smartest people. In 2025, Google is making the products it still has actively worse with AI. Fortunately, co-founder Sergey Brin has the an…
the entire pitch is not having to spend money on employees
Linux Weekly News is the main news site for the programmers who work on the Linux computer kernel and its associated software. LWN editor Jonathan Corbet wrote up how the site deals with the scourg…
Stupendous amounts of venture capital money are still floating around, desperate for a home. The VCs want you to promise magic with technology. They will shower you with cash. Delivering on the mag…
The Information's Dealmaker newsletter is talking today about downrounds in AI venture funding
it's been an ongoing exit scam
OpenAI buys services from a pile of Altman's other portfolio companies
spotted by @jonny@neuromatch.social
good discussion: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/114079771880419501
archive link: https://archive.is/9g3KF
OpenAI has nothing. There are no new tech breakthroughs and the organization is still hemorrhaging cash by the billions. Something they could brand “GPT-5” was due mid-2024. How to placate the inve…
Text removed in Mozilla TOS update:
{ "@type": "Question", "name": "Does Firefox sell your personal data?", "acceptedAnswer": { "@type": "Answer", "text": "Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise. " } },
Haishan Yang was studying at the University of Minnesota for his second Ph. D., in health administration (his first was in economics). Before he could start his thesis, he needed to do a remote ex…
Users of chat app Discord are seeing a disconcerting new button on images: “Edit image with apps.” You can animate! Restyle! Face-swap! You can apply the transforms to anyone’s image accessible to …
looks like tomorrow's Pivot
i am presuming his lawyers, and a special crypto bro pardon
Every new LLM and every new tweak to an old LLM has a press release bragging about how well it tests on some benchmark you’ve never heard of. Every new model is trained heavily to the previous tren…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella went on Dwarkesh Patel’s podcast last week for an hour-long puff piece on Microsoft and AI. [transcript] Nadella says AI will have succeeded if it shows growth in world …
yep that's the stuff. they HINT HINTed what they wanted the LLM to do.
Peer-reviewed scientific journal Time Magazine was chosen as the exclusive outlet to tell us how an AI will cheat at a game if it thinks it might be losing! Wow! This is “concerning” because “scien…
Wired: The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians (archive)
Evan Ratliff has apparently been tracking the Ziz cult since 2022 and when it blew up into mainstream news, he was ready
CN: Fascism, US Politics I just got home from the Election Tech Debrief, meeting with 300 other folks who worked on the intersection of ...
The hype cycle for Google’s fabulous new AI Co-Scientist tool, based on the Gemini LLM, includes a BBC headline about how José Penadés’ team at Imperial College asked the tool about a problem…
EQL runs promotions such as launches of new sneakers. Some of these, like this year’s NBA All-Star Weekend launch of the Michael Jordan AJ 1, are in huge demand! So EQL runs these as a lottery. Rep…
What is an “AI agent,” anyway? We could concoct a reasonable definition — say, you tell it in natural language what you want and it goes out and does it for you. But that doesn’t describe the thing…
David Gerard @awful.systems the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and then Reddit
https://davidgerard.co.uk/