Steve Packard

Cyber security expert, CISSP, generative AI risk analyst and developer. Classic rock fan. Dog lover.

Zero tolerance for AI Doom BS. Tired of that idiocy.

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@StefanFSchubert Why in the hell should anyone listen to you?

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@novaramedia @AaronBastani @_KarenHao Can you imagine being this stupid? Little shit head still pretending machines are going to come eat your babies.

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@GaryMarcus Hinton appears to be suffering from cognitive decline. He's 77. It's very sad, but he has Alzheimer's.

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Imagine being so stupid that you think the "Paperclip Maximizer" is an insightful and intellectually serious scenario.

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Things that have minds: humans, dogs, dolphins, elephants.

Things that don't have minds: AI models.

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Who here can say they have ever...

1. Trained an ML model
2. Run inference on their own model on their own infrastructure.
3. Experimented with what they can find on Hugging Face
4. Read a journal level paper on ML research?
5. Used pytorch at all

And yet everyone has such a strong opinion on ML

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@sd_marlow I was at Google Labs just before he quit. He never brought up his fears to the staff there. Not once. The man is senile, I am afraid. This is a case of late career drift a lot like Linus Pauling.

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People are so ignorant of AI they think it might "Crave the reward signal" and therefore "power seek."

The "reward signal" is a null. It's just a lower change by gradient decent. It does not get a treat or pat on the head.

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Lol speak for yourself, loser

[David Shapiro (L/0) @DaveShapi]

This is but a taste of what humanity will all experience.

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@AdamThierer they say this like it's a good thing or something...

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I really wish there were a better GPU compute provider than Runpod that offered anything like their prices. AWS is so much better but so much costlier.

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@InfiniteReign88 You people are so unhinged. AI never had a "soul"

There is legitimate debate about what the proper tone and tempo chatbots should take is. It's hit or miss, and some people like it better one way or the other.

Stop being so melodramatic. It's software!

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It should, never the less, give us pause, no?

Are we sure this is a thing? It has never happened before

"But this time is different."

I know you keep saying that, and it certainly seems very smart, but is it really? Have you truly looked into this?

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

Those warning of AI-driven mass unemployment are predicting something that has never happened before. That does not mean it can never happen at all https://t.co/W2OqCRq238

Illustration: Katie Martin

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The "Protect Our Games Act" is the Pinnacle of First World Problems https://t.co/MKAtkJ0zfe

This might be the single most first world problem I have ever encountered!

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If there ever was a first world problem...

A number of game publishers have shut down games. This causes a great deal of heartache. Developers fire back that they can't maintain the infrastructure forever and it could be overreach...

https://t.co/02K65yUa2R

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Big Four accounting firm Ernst & Young retracts study after researchers discovered AI hallucinations.

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I have no doubt of this:

https://t.co/gfZk5B4Ewc

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@nvidia Kinda funny to think we once made fun of using GPUs for medicine, but today...

https://t.co/WNbzXwGcsT

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@ubi_works NO NO NO NO NO

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I seriously absolutely would love both. We have a few small data centers in the area, and the nuclear plant, which I strongly support, is about 30 miles from me.