Payam Mousavi

Physicist/ML researcher, interested in many things!

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@jasondeanlee They don't have similar performance. Benchmarks are no longer reliable.

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@jxnlco Gpt pro is not available through codex

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@ChShersh Null pointers

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@Theonenameddamn The reason is you want to get a lot of engagement without making any effort or providing anything of value!

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@geohotarchive So, what's the alternative?

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@alz_zyd_ Not even remotely true

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@pschofie79 Wittgenstein

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.

$30 per seat per month.

$1.4 million annually.

I called it "digital transformation."

The board loved that phrase.

They approved it in eleven minutes.

No one asked what it would actually do.

Including me.

I told everyone it would "10x productivity."

That's not a real number.

But it sounds like one.

HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.

I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."

They stopped asking.

Three months later I checked the usage reports.

47 people had opened it.

12 had used it more than once.

One of them was me.

I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.

It took 45 seconds.

Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.

But I called it a "pilot success."

Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.

The CFO asked about ROI.

I showed him a graph.

The graph went up and to the right.

It measured "AI enablement."

I made that metric up.

He nodded approvingly.

We're "AI-enabled" now.

I don't know what that means.

But it's in our investor deck.

A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.

I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."

He asked what that meant.

I said "compliance."

He asked which compliance.

I said "all of them."

He looked skeptical.

I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."

He stopped asking questions.

Microsoft sent a case study team.

They wanted to feature us as a success story.

I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."

I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.

They didn't verify it.

They never do.

Now we're on Microsoft's website.

"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."

The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.

He got 3,000 likes.

He's never used Copilot.

None of the executives have.

We have an exemption.

"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."

I wrote that policy.

The licenses renew next month.

I'm requesting an expansion.

5,000 more seats.

We haven't used the first 4,000.

But this time we'll "drive adoption."

Adoption means mandatory training.

Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.

But completion will be tracked.

Completion is a metric.

Metrics go in dashboards.

Dashboards go in board presentations.

Board presentations get me promoted.

I'll be SVP by Q3.

I still don't know what Copilot does.

But I know what it's for.

It's for showing we're "investing in AI."

Investment means spending.

Spending means commitment.

Commitment means we're serious about the future.

The future is whatever I say it is.

As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

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@natesolon Find a poor country, travel there, and pay people to lose to you! With your life on the line, you shouldn't take any chances :)

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@elonmusk Compression is a necessary but insufficient condition for intelligence

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@kenneth0stanley I believe so....at least for the current models. Things could change I suppose.

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@francoisfleuret Those are two separate statements. Can’t answer with yes or no

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It’s great to see physicists once again winning the Nobel Prize in Physics! 😅

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPrize in Physics to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.”

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@DavidDeutschOxf @gerryoliver1 “The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.” -- McCarthy

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@Wasgo @GaryMarcus None of these are reproducing? The answers are correct when I ask them

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@docmilanfar Figuring out how to make cars doesn't require learning about horses. Yet, cars go faster. As long as you have a good measure of performance (e.g., speed) that's all we need?

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@PioneerInPhys yes

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@BahramShakerin It’s lazy to include all those people in the same list. Some are definitely charlatans, but not all

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@yacineMTB It's not possible to learn what a specialist knows in 1-2 days. Or you can't call yourself a specialist if this is possible.