Not generally a kneejerk rag on journalists person, but this is the kind of statement that shows not just complete lack of knowledge but that nobody even bothered to consult an undergraduate in the relevant field.

New phone keybaord. Can't type for shit anymore

"Alignment turns out to be hard because your robot being cute 90% of the time is good but your robot only needs to stab someone like 1% of the time to be really bad." -Ted J. Talk

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Like it's hard for me not to take this as sort-of charmingly old-fashioned 😅

People who are unwell are going to be attracted to quasi-social relationships with LLMs, and deciding not to take reasonable measures to prevent discussions of suicide is irresponsible. The models are reinforced to generally encourage people in whatever their current goal is.

There are no words for how evil this is

You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth, made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?

Computational linguists inventing an extra special way to calculate surprisal with unexpected consequences

Turning 28 and the dating apps pushed me over a day early and I initially noticed not by seeing the new age but by how much older all of the potential matches were

Getting flamed for not thinking an author on the Stochastic Parrots paper is functionally an AI bro crytposhit. The big '26 has so many amazing posts in store for us 🙏🏻

Hello, a PSA. Arxiv is the server that many academics use to discuss their work before it is peer reviewed. It is widely viewed as a blessing.

Looks like I have an erratum but at least it's super funny

She is blocked by at least 1,468 accounts. That is about 5 times more than people I'm seeing with a similar following. I don't know why people are throwing low-ball aggregates around when, like everyone itt has mentioned, it is a number that can just be looked up.

Some people who would like MMitchell's posts even more than I do sure hate the idea of reading her posts lol

I honestly don't know what the underlying controversy is about but I sincerely take heart in that this team is seriously trying to reduce toxicity, improve the user experience in a more expansive sense than just the screen widgets, and is watching what happens.

Blocking hatemongers is one thing but this trend of using mass block lists to avoid hearing from people who might or might not hold points of view you expect to disagree with is unhealthy imo and hurts the platform. Bluesky was better off with folks like Margaret Mitchell and Giada Pistilli on it.

Started a thread in the other place and bringing it over here - I really think we should be more vocal about the opportunities that lay at the intersection of these two options! So I'm starting a live thread of new roles as I become aware of them - feel free to add / extend / share :

Incredible content is being made every day.

Lol the difference between a review paper and a paper under review seems to have confused at least one tech journalist 🫩

"*Review/survey articles* or position papers submitted to arXiv without this documentation will be likely to be rejected and not appear on arXiv." Asteriks mine; not exactly a new policy either.

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It’s real

You can find the craziest shit ever on 503 links from tenured professors. web.archive.org/web/20061030... Aged like milk but was shitty when it was written too

ppl act like elon hasnt earned his recognition as a one of a kind historic intellect but who else could have thought up "truck that looks like shit"

Exactly this. Many many people consider intelligence *the* criterion for moral consideration and consequences follow.

God this article fucking sucks aeon.co/essays/some-...

Screensnapshot of our times. Corporate pressure to use AI creates bad outcomes with real-life consequences; seeking to unpack the problem yields more pressure to indulge in the very thing causing the problem.

you are not going to believe it, but pringles may not even be the best gem in this paper.

"white passing italian"

Product Name Driven Ontology

The way that cursor will be suddenly useless & then you check the settings and they've addes the latest fucking gork model is so funny

this is, by the way, literal fairy tale villain shit. like not even *space* fairy tale, not even manly western, this is just raw fairy tale shit. everyone in the entire world including conservatives learned this was wrong when they were babies

There's apparently some discourse about amazon conveyor robots & it's like... do liberals literally dream of preserving & making more menial and dangerous factory jobs?

working for a company that has this for copy should be disqualifying actually

I try pretty hard to not Post Horrible Vibes lately but seeing people be 100% intellectually dishonest with themselves and everyone else over the Zitron stuff is just not helping. Hard to not engage and impossible to engage constructively when it's so blatant.

Visit their website and tell me you don't feel slimy just looking at it: nomi.ai They are not "using their own data" in any sense -- their image model knows ghibli well. Their language model knows flickr. They are either using pretrained models that use web data, APIs, or their own web data.

Loving The Chair Company. Even if the ending were "there was a gasleak the whole time!", the show is so enjoyable outside of any expectation of figuring out a thrilling bow ending.

There is a lovely little hotel here called the elk mountain hotel which I highly recommend if you’re doing the drive down 80, a lot of famous bands stopped there halfway between Denver and Salt Lake in the 40s/50s and they have a bunch of memorabilia www.elkmountainhotel.com

this youtube commenter understands me on a deep and profound level

does everybody know about my favorite website, the embroidery tips page that forgot to close its <h3> tags

ugh it's good my bones can feel it when there's incorrect loading for a ckpt nowadays

a really easy way to tell that BlueSky's anti-AI circlejerk doesn't have any actual ethical issues with AI is that they're defending Zitron working with DoNotPay.