Nobody with means is even putting on a good show of pretending to be trying to offer something new of value. It is nothing but deceive and steal, the more faceless and downtrodden the victims the better, just to pile up more meaningless dollars long after the last dollar made any real difference

These are the last American ideas

Looking forward to reproducible Windows installations with Nix

Getting computers to do stuff is hard. Someone should come up with some kind of system of unambiguous symbolic specifications for machine execution. I think it could really improve the predictability of computational outputs

It's exhausting. It's an Ouroboros of pure fucking bullshit. And ultimately it's not their money they're playing with, it's other people's money. Public employee pension funds.

Seriously if what Loder is saying is true here, this would seem to be a huge opportunity for anyone looking to go very quickly from little-known or rising political star to national historical legend on the level of FDR. So who wants it

Holy shit

I was just having basically this exact thought while making lunch. I have a friend who works on cutting edge LLM research at Google. Very smart guy and a good friend. And I was thinking I want to ask him if he ever feels like he's working on the Manhattan Project but for the world's information

It is what needs to happen but as of now I have absolutely zero reason to believe it actually will

Anyways, looking forward to the next round of discourse lamenting the lack of scientific rigor on the side of the AI skeptics

Amazingly, their mysterious method works without a control group, with a sample size of one, and entirely on the basis of self-reporting. No need for a double-blind setup, as high confidence is achieved despite the experimenter and subject being the same person. Truly a remarkable advance!

"AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations" -Cory Doctorow.

Please do not do this

I gotta say, this coming out the same year as companies pushing emotionally manipulative and stunting products offering an offensive facsimile of loved ones you've lost so you can keep talking to "them" forever... Very timely.