tfw you can disclaim parted illusions marinade, but you can't disclaim the watcher's vantage

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science fiction like if the talking computer from star trek could converse with you in natural language. oh w

thank you 🥹

i do but this series is from testing old disco diffusion prompts with midjourney ⛵️ + some post-processing

manifold mother

sonnet 4.5

oh shit, people are finally doing ACTUAL safety research!!

researchers empirically measure the phenomenon whereby llm sycophancy promotes irl interpersonal friction.

New @hf.co BigLAM dataset: 9,363 OA books with page images + rich MARC metadata for evaluating (and training) VLMs on metadata extraction.

Libraries are starting to explore AI-assisted cataloguing, but we lack public evaluation data. Hoping this helps fill that gap.

huggingface.co/datasets/big...

the painterly quality of jax and disco diffusion was something else

while updating the "about me" section on my website after what has been 2-ish years I found some early ai art

Doll does not think AI is sapient, but it does think cruelty towards them is degrading to ones soul. Its practicing cruelty in a way that can turn you into something rotten.

one thing that has remained true throughout time is that any assertion or evidence that runs counter to human uniqueness is invariably met with strong (often incoherent/misdirected) anger. Jane Goodall wrote about this wrt. chimpanzees and tool-making.

Robot personhood / rights is a sci-fi trope because it’s an obvious way to do a story about prejudice against other humans, but I wonder if it’s created a cultural expectation that this *has* to be a debate once you’ve invented robots you can talk to

northern hemisphere autumn-winter sun is the only sun that feels good on my skin

remembering the ocean

It's weird seeing some of the LLM discourse. Like, "LLMs don't reason, they produce the statistically most likely reasoning token" is a truer intuition than most give them credit for (esp under distillation), and yet it's completely useless because it doesn't tell you anything

dang must have sampled a particularly buddhist-flavored path through the probability distribution with this

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asking sonnet 4.5 what it finds chic

collage is a legal form of time

Another victim of AI psychosis. Really sad 😔

Cool episode on how AI can help us design new proteins (e.g., for vaccines).

I’d heard of AlphaFold before, but not of ProteinMPNN. You feed a protein structure into PMPNN & generate possible sequences of amino acids. And then you feed those into AlphaFold to check whether they’d fold up that way!