Mike Wilson

[Mike Wilson @Mikey_NZ]

@AC_assettocorsa Career mode??

[Mike Wilson @Mikey_NZ]

@SpeakertoAnimal @bruce_barrett Nope, you have relied on Ai to reinforce your lack of understanding.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

It’s upsetting to watch so many people be led to believe a software feature created from human exhaust is an alien intelligence.

It’s a psyop. LLMs are a clever way to compress and search large databases with patterns. They have now inhaled effectively all of human knowledge. From this point, there will be spikes of improvement in narrow areas, but the big models are already collapsing from inhaling their own exhaust.

The core technology is at least 40 years old. Neural networks are nothing new. We’re just attaching obscene amounts of computing and data to them.

The physical nature of an LLM is literally just a database of tokens (word parts) and weights (relationships) that can be queried. It is not magic. It can be made deterministic by setting the entropy aka temperature to zero. It is a clever way to store an immense amount of data and retrieve it through token predicting.

“Agents” are just LLMs being queried in a loop. They take exponentially more energy and suffer the same problems as chatbots—hallucinations and sycophancy—but exponentially more complicated to solve.

In reality, it’s all a category error. It’s a mirage created by the desire of a small group of elites to build a technological and financial moat around themselves. “AGI” is the McGuffin, the plot device, to serve as the messiah that will deliver people from the toils of everyday life.

The broligarchs are trying to sell us our own replacements. According to them, we won’t have to drive, or work, or think anymore. The robots and AI will all do it for us.

It’s the oldest con there is: magic beans.

Your chatbot is not your Jesus or your girlfriend. Your Claude instance is not intelligent. It’s a search engine for human knowledge stolen from the internet and the destruction of physical books.

So please understand. You are witnessing the biggest financial bubble in all of human history based on deceptive marketing, astroturfing, and cult dynamics. You are not witnessing the birth of a new intelligence. Unfortunately, that’s a battle we’re losing.

[Mike Wilson @Mikey_NZ]

@chrisluxonmp Terrible move. Making ourselves reliant on internet connections and US AI companies while destroying the brain economy as we do it.

[Mike Wilson @Mikey_NZ]

@yunta_tsai It’s replicating human creativity. I don’t actually put it as important as the Industrial Revolution but we will see…

[Mindset Machine  @mindsetmachine]

A brain expert just said what no one wants to hear about screen learning.🤯

[Paul W Bennett @Educhatter]

Phones at School: American psychologist Jean M. Twenge's latest demonstates that mobile phones and screen-based education mean "Less Learning, More Loneliness" for teens. New from @jean_twenge at #AfterBabel Over to @MLInstitute #cdned #edtech
https://t.co/Yfg9TEEZ3V

[KC 🇺🇸 @kevin_corbett]

🚨RT: https://t.co/x6nSQVf7H4

[Mike Wilson @Mikey_NZ]

@ALTIC_DEV @sama More a panic response.

[Mike Wilson @Mikey_NZ]

@sama I’m sick of these “big deal” releases when your bread and butter product is so hit and miss and has lost a lot of my confidence due to hallucinations and just being wrong. Sadly people with limited critical thinking skills take ai prose as gospel.

[Mike Wilson @Mikey_NZ]

@NZNationalParty Excellent. Now if only you could ban the part where things cost more than last week due to this cost being pushed onto purchase price…

[Mike Wilson @Mikey_NZ]

@gumdigger Are teachers vested interest groups? It’s been a shitshow for the last 5 years.

[Mike Wilson @Mikey_NZ]

@radomir_3 @tim_cook 100%, instantly went to this in my mind.

[Mike Wilson @Mikey_NZ]

@tim_cook This feels like windows vista and badly AI produced 3d renders.

[Mike Wilson @Mikey_NZ]

@BambulabGlobal I am disliking everything your company is doing at the moment sadly. Your printers are great, software direction not so much.

[Mike Wilson @Mikey_NZ]

@itsjasonai Is the word WILD in caps sarcasm?

[Procreate @Procreate]

We’re never going there. Creativity is made, not generated.
You can read more at https://t.co/9Fgh460KVu ✨

#procreate #noaiart

[Mike Wilson @Mikey_NZ]

@EricaStanfordMP well done on the press release. Many saw the train detailing years ago. Curriculum first and well constructed assessment with solid Profes. learning for teachers attached is not rocket science. Realistic timelines are important here, I’d argue still too tight.

[Mike Wilson @Mikey_NZ]

@nic_taewa Once you see the timings and workload of 5 subjects all being assessed at similar times (often with inquiry style assessments ) it looks very full on for a L1 student.

[Anna Stokke @rastokke]

"While it seems paradoxical, small doses of anxiety inducing tests actually reduce overall anxiety in the long run” @musingsofadr @rscodding
https://t.co/ktloh2otLE