Like, "it can have a lot of VLS cells." So do three Arleigh Burkes, but it takes three missiles to kill three Burkes and one missile to kill this thing. I guess it could mount all of the navy's cancelled high-powered systems from two decades ago? But so could a Burke replacement and see above.

We need the ultimate early 21st century tech start up that combines AI, nano bots, 3D Printing, and blockchain to sell B2B software

Going to feature a bunch of techbro stuff and just fall on its side when it launches before immediately catching on fire while informing you that everything is fine

imo, most AI skeptics nowadays actually have tried to use LLMs with some good faith and with the resources and training available to them, and are basing their skepticism on lived experience

Wait 30k years and the salamanders will get on that

My cat’s breed was “moggy” and, as such, she was clearly ruler of all she surveyed. She didn’t need a DNA test to confirm her rightful position as the pinnacle of creation (in her eyes)

Hey, do you want a doctor or someone to look after your elderly mum? Tough, Farage has destroyed even that bit of your life like he destroys everything he touches.

I know it’s very silly, and I do try to be a bit more rational in general, but it really does feel like there’s a little bit of magic in the air at Christmas

Agree with all of this, other than "the right will go 'pro-natalist" - I think what will happen is that much of the right will shift from 'blaming our ills on immigration' to 'blaming our ills on ethnic diversity', which is already happening to an extent.

yes of all the horror stories of AI, I think the use of "synthetic publics" to do research on might be - in a very crowded field - the worst one? *as a novelist* - I can write you fake characters who believe whatever you like. it is just stories. this is a whole culture developing AI psychosis.

Oh cool, now I can “paint” my space marines with AI which is definitely better than actually achieving anything myself

This is my direct experience and it is why I think that many of the attempts to get *students* to use it formally are utterly wrongheaded, in that thus far, it has changed a lot of things to a job where you need to 'verify and edit' as it were.

Saw Elf at Backyard Cinema tonight and the overall experience they’ve put together is incredibly cringe but in a good way - definitely feeling a bit more Christmassy. Worth going if you love a little bit too much Christmas

Kind of amazing that the most effective use of LLMs is to reveal who's bad at their job.

Very much where I sit in conducting cybersecurity assessments but there do seem to be people in my field who are using them heavily and I worry a lot that we’re going to have a lot of systems riddled with basic vulnerabilities that proper analysis would have caught

Something that frustrates me (and judging by some of the big four subreddits) is that a number of organisations are now implementing AI “targets”. The subreddits are full of people going “well the output is regularly wrong so I don’t use it for real work but I query it to pump the numbers”

And so, it begins

I see this all over and have to deal with people providing me outputs from LLMs and arguing that information from an authoritative source must be wrong - people don’t want accurate information they want *quick* information and I dread to think what this will do to society

I would be very upset. More Christmas, More Better

LA Noire then and now. It’s technically not as good as many of the games here (I definitely had more fun with Deus Ex) but it’s bold and has a vision that is undeniable (even if it is beyond the capabilities of the developers to quite match that vision). 6/10 Best. Game. Ever.

Is it bad that back then and now it’d be Bioshock 2? I just will never be able to get enough of the art deco aesthetic and I’m one of those freaks who adored the multiplayer

GLWT

Winter Solstice. Photograph by Bill Brandt.

Coming back to this, I'm still struck by the implication that academics should care if the AI pushers "trust" all our work that's done without AI. I don't know, man, you all seemed to trust our work enough to steal it from us wholesale.

My cat growing up was also cool except she hated us, other humans, cats, animals, anything really and was thus this adorable fluffy ball of impotent rage who was definitely 100% going to kill you just as soon as she’d worked out how to open the cat food. Best. Cat. Ever.

London looking particularly lovely at Christmas time - the south bank is by far my favourite place in the world

Greatest city in the world (in my opinion, obviously). Moved away to Toronto which is wonderful in its own right but came back as there’s something about London, its winding streets, the mix of old and new and, obviously, Londoners.

HS2 could have transformed Britain and the experienced shape of the country itself. Instead the Brits managed to cock it up in the most spectacular fashion imaginable. Whole libraries will be written about this disaster. www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...

3yo: “daddy’s phone is in his pocket!” me: “that’s true!” 3yo: “why isn’t mummy’s phone in her pocket?” me: “… buckle up, kiddo, we’re gonna discuss five hundred years of fashion and misogyny”

I strongly dislike the Greens as I do not feel they are at all sensible and that their current policies would destroy the country as they *are* populists. However, they are *nicer* populists than Reform and I’d crawl over broken glass to vote for them if it was Green v Reform

Now we’re getting back to before I discovered magic the gathering which became my “primary game” for years so it’s difficult. At the time maybe XCom as it helped me stay sane at home finishing my thesis but now it’s probably Mass Effect 3 as I’ve forgiven it the terrible ending and just love Mordin

FT defends London, one of the greatest cities in the world www.ft.com/content/dd79...

If protein folding models, based on supervised learning w/carefully constructed datasets have proven useful to biologists and go under the same name ("AI") as the synthetic text extruding machines that are despoiling our info ecosystem, it is harder to critize the latter with one's full chest. >>

Out of office finally on - time to forget everything I know about cybersecurity for 2 weeks. Pretty sure that means it’s time to click on dodgy links and plug unknown usb devices into my home machine

I’m begging people to understand that there’s quite a large difference between LLMs and AI used for protein folding

Definitely have to call out Papers Please which kept me going when I was living in a hotel working on a client site in the middle of nowhere Monday-Thursday (while continuing to pay London rent). Excellent game

When dealing with this mafia version of Realism, coming from a state whose leadership's survival is now tied to perpetual enmity with the UK, opting out is not possible - it's not something we can do anything to change. All the UK can do is to protect itself, together with allies.

Waoooo, eeee, oooo

The 'betrayal of Brexit' response to rejoining Erasmus is obviously predictable, and stupid (Brexit = leaving EU). But what's more striking is how *dated* it seems, like someone still waving a 'Thatcher out' placard.

"I asked ChatGPT and..." Well I asked the Cryptmaster and he said stop lollygagging you undead oaf and get on with it

"look we're not using AI in the final product we're just using it to speed up the conceptual stage" is what a lot of dopes affecting an enlightened middle position keep saying. I truly do not get that one. You hate imagining stuff? You don't like thinking and conceptualizing? Get a grip

For the love of Bill Mauldin's ghost, stop creating these shitty AI fake editorial cartoons. There are plenty of us still around who could draw something unique. Hire an actual cartoonist. Ask a cartoonist for a reprint. Open a box of crayons and draw something yourself. Don't fucking use AI.

#ai #mozilla #firefox #fuckAI #genAI #fuckGenAI

'Tonight on BBC News, should we fight or capitulate like the worms we are? Joining us in the studio are a former US ambassador and a Nazi'

Okay, when are we going to answer back? Push back? Fight back? Anything? Because our way of life and society-building institutions are under attack from outside. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

Just noticed that the copilot icon is back on my PC after I disabled it in the registry ages ago. I absolutely despise Microsoft’s (and every other company’s) attempts to cram this garbage down my throat

Outer Wilds theb and Outer Wilds now. It’s (probably) my favourite game of all time as it manages to capture a “sense of wonder” that I haven’t been able to find in any other game

1. collapsed cordon sanitaire 2. desperate attempt to boost view counts for struggling YouTube channels (yet way more people are going 'WTF' than have watched it) 3.. misreading X as public opinion possibly you've got to ask what *is* mainstream journalism and whether a show with 8k views is that?

Issue a statement criticising it, obviously. Exercise moral leadership. You know, that thing that all his predecessors have done on precisely this issue, and that the prime minister did last week about protecting a *modernist bus shelter*.