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OpenAI, Google, Anthropic admit they can’t scale up their chatbots any further
  • I am an Ed Zitron reader. Do you think I'm a The New Norm serial villain? Google evaporated in 2019

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th November 2024
  • bluesky corp are literally coiners, rationalists and Vibecamp-attending neoreactionaries

    they tried seeding Bluesky with our very good friends

    then the queer shitposters ran the fash the fuck off lol

  • pivot-to-ai.com OpenAI, Google, Anthropic admit they can’t scale up their chatbots any further

    Once you’ve trained your large language model on the entire written output of humanity, where do you go? Here’s Ilya Sutskever, ex-OpenAI, admitting to Reuters that they’ve plateaued: [Reuters] The…

    OpenAI, Google, Anthropic admit they can’t scale up their chatbots any further
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    pivot-to-ai.com ProQuest is quietly trying to license academic books to feed an AI

    ProQuest is an academic information company that sells access to books, journal articles, and dissertations. We’ve heard from authors that ProQuest has been contacting their publishers seeking deal…

    a bit of completely original journalism based on reader tips, thank you

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    UK Home Office speeds up visa and refugee processing with Copilot AI reject-a-bot
  • you tell people there is literally a racism machine for the purpose of doing racism, and if they know what the Home Office is they say "sounds about right"

  • pivot-to-ai.com Anthropic protects the welfare of possible future AIs. Present-day humans, not so much

    What if large language models are actually the Singularity? What if chatbots are intelligent beings we have moral obligations to — and not just statistical slop to predict the next token in sequenc…

    oh yes, this one is about our very good friends

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    pivot-to-ai.com UK Home Office speeds up visa and refugee processing with Copilot AI reject-a-bot

    Under years of pressure from the right-wing press, the previous and current UK governments have required the Home Office to reduce immigration numbers by any means possible — whether it makes sense…

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    Microsoft adds AI to Notepad — yes, Notepad. And Paint.
  • yes, that's called taking backward compatibility seriously. this is the enterprise

  • pivot-to-ai.com Raw Story, Alternet copyright suit against OpenAI dismissed for failure to show harm

    News sites Raw Story and AlterNet sued OpenAI in February, claiming ChatGPT scraped their stories and that ChatGPT regurgitates their copyrighted material. [Complaint, PDF; Docket] NY District Judg…

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th November 2024
  • and they just added Nvidia to the indexes, replacing Intel in at least one

    nvidia will be fine - they know damn well this is a bubble - but number is going to take a beating

  • Microsoft adds AI to Notepad — yes, Notepad. And Paint.
  • ibm has press-released code complete models via red hat that are license-pure (permissive, GPL, etc) but i haven't heard much about them outside the PR

  • Microsoft adds AI to Notepad — yes, Notepad. And Paint.
  • i think this is a paint.net thing? not clear

  • Microsoft adds AI to Notepad — yes, Notepad. And Paint.
  • now if we had an AI aware enough to say "the fuck is wrong with you"

  • Microsoft adds AI to Notepad — yes, Notepad. And Paint.
  • apparently the win11 version is richedit? i was going by wikipedia

  • Microsoft adds AI to Notepad — yes, Notepad. And Paint.
  • tried to jam its dick in my ear

    spot on

  • pivot-to-ai.com Microsoft adds AI to Notepad — yes, Notepad. And Paint.

    Notepad is the Windows operating system RichEdit widget as an application. The whole point is to be the simplest possible text editor. But what if Notepad had some AI? Wait no longer. Microsoft has…

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th November 2024
  • the writer's room is [open]

    that's dasha the laptop, she used to work in a corporation but is sick of that and retired to be a writer

  • pivot-to-ai.com Tony Blair Institute reports on AI in the labor market — using numbers they made up with GPT-4. Again.

    The Tony Blair Institute has issued another encyclical on the fabulous AI future: “The Impact of AI on the Labour Market.” The headline coverage is that AI will quickly displace three m…

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    There were a ton of insane rumours around Bitcoin in El Salvador in 2021. Here's Monica Taher confirming most of them. (video, in Spanish)
    www.revistafactum.com ¿Por qué el bitcóin nunca le importó a El Salvador?

    ¿Por qué el bitcóin nunca le importó a El Salvador? A tres años de su implementación como moneda de curso legal, el criptoactivo tiene un uso muy limitado en el país. Una plática con Mónica Taher, experta en blockchain y ex directora de Tecnología e Innovación de Negocios en el gobierno de Nayib Buk...

    ¿Por qué el bitcóin nunca le importó a El Salvador?
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    pivot-to-ai.com Nobody wants Copilot Pro AI for Office 365 — so Microsoft will force-bundle it and raise the price

    Copilot Pro is an AI assistant for Microsoft Office 365, introduced in January. Based on nine months of feedback, Microsoft will generously bundle Copilot with all Personal and Family subscriptions…

    Nobody wants Copilot Pro AI for Office 365 — so Microsoft will force-bundle it and raise the price
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    pivot-to-ai.com What the Trump win means for AI: surprisingly little

    Well, that was certainly a choice. The finest minds of the AI bubble have already dived in to congratulate Donald Trump on his election victory in the hope he’ll remember who they are tomorrow. Jef…

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    pivot-to-ai.com UK government chatbot goes into beta — with only a few bizarre hallucinations

    The UK’s new Labour government has gone full-tilt into AI — whether it works or not. Today, the Gov.UK website launched the second beta of its searchbot for business users, which will let them find…

    UK government chatbot goes into beta — with only a few bizarre hallucinations
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    pivot-to-ai.com Silicon Valley and Wall Street invent collateralized GPU obligations. Surely this will work out fine

    The zero-interest era is over. Money isn’t free anymore. How can Silicon Valley venture capital, and the rest of Wall Street, generate lottery-winning yield levels in this economy? Today’s creative…

    Silicon Valley and Wall Street invent collateralized GPU obligations. Surely this will work out fine
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    pivot-to-ai.com Pivot to AI? Get in loser, we’re going quantum

    In the desperate search for a new hype, tech investors have been trying for a while to position quantum computing as the next big bubble after crypto and AI. In today’s example, quantum services st…

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    pivot-to-ai.com SEO spammer behind AI-faked Dublin Halloween parade talks to Wired

    Thousands turned out in Dublin, Ireland, on Thursday night for a huge Halloween parade! Lots of excitement on social media! [My Spirit Halloween, archive] Except there was no parade. The entire eve…

    SEO spammer behind AI-faked Dublin Halloween parade talks to Wired
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    pivot-to-ai.com Whoops! Microsoft leaves alleged AI gender detector running, years after saying they switched it off

    One of the great dreams of AI snake oil is a machine that will violate employment laws in a deniable black-box manner. Whether it works doesn’t actually matter. So AI keeps promising phrenology mac…

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    your Bayesian yacht is an outlier adn should not be counted
    www.nytimes.com What Sank the Tech Tycoon’s ‘Unsinkable’ Yacht?

    A Times investigation has found that an unusually tall mast, and the design changes it required, made a superyacht owned by a British tech mogul vulnerable to capsizing.

    What Sank the Tech Tycoon’s ‘Unsinkable’ Yacht?

    archive: https://archive.ph/wRpVA

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    dgerard David Gerard @awful.systems

    the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and then Reddit

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