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[Spandex @VTL5C3]

@jonfavs apologies if i screamed that

[Spandex @VTL5C3]

@jonfavs i think you should lead by example and stop screaming first. then when everybody has stopped screaming, we can look at this calmy and sensibly

[Spandex @VTL5C3]

@iD_Mobile_UK great ta!

[Spandex @VTL5C3]

My favourite ever bit of Newsnight was Emily Maitlis describing Anna Soubry as "the real opposition" over the top of Soubry saying the words "i'll be supporting the government". Client journalism in the service of power
https://t.co/r2Xn8X1OTc

[emily m @maitlis]

Hannah’s extraordinary and exceptional journalism is a class example of what will now be lost @BBCNewsnight . The irony is how hard and how often @bbcnewsnight had to fight other parts of the bbc to be alowed to make risk taking , policy changing , award winning journalism.

[Spandex @VTL5C3]

My review of Bob Vylan at Rock Shitty

[Spandex @VTL5C3]

@marvotron @om_unit i don't have serum either.. but do have bitwig, could likely replicate in that. the thing i made that sounded closest was actually a sample of an OB6 :) but i'm sure they did it with additive.

[Spandex @VTL5C3]

@marvotron @om_unit the JS obj in Max? I was thinking of doing exactly that :) my other idea was to use jit matrixes cos obv it can manipulate them v fast.

[Spandex @VTL5C3]

@marvotron @om_unit his recent stuff (gleaned from a few vids) looks like a big custom max patch... but i wonder if he's got lazer loaded as a VST... Reaktor as a VST in Max :) is that what you did for yours? or did you use sineosc~ ??

[Spandex @VTL5C3]

@om_unit @marvotron i'll shit my leg off if neurobiology isn't "additive" rather than "unison" .. obv it's just diff words for different ways of stacking sines ("as are we all") but these are stacked a lot more interestingly than just symmetric detuning

[Flying_Rodent @flying_rodent]

The Times endorsement of Johnson as Tory leader is here https://t.co/1n6OHoUQWK Their election endorsement of him is here https://t.co/Q0UwZkb9SX Their election campaign coverage - deep Johnson page-one suckjobs and an absurd terror campaign against his opponent - is all online.

[Spandex @VTL5C3]

@mysteryplopper @thonk_synth @protopigeon Can confirm

[Spandex @VTL5C3]

@marvotron haha. and "can it draw me an attractive valkyrie wearing extremely impractical armour?"

[Spandex @VTL5C3]

@seanmcarroll started listening to your pod recently. s'good, thanks! something you said has been playing on my mind, that it was "clear that e.g. chatgpt can pass the turing test" (paraphrasing from memory) and was struck by your casual certainty about it

[Spandex @VTL5C3]

so really i'm countering your "clearly it can" with nothing more than "clearly it can't" :) but i think Turing's paper is a bit like that too and actually says "I have no very convincing arguments" :) I still reckon he was right on this

[Spandex @VTL5C3]

assuming we turn off all the "I am an AI Language model" responses - I still can't imagine it fooling either of us in anything other than very constrained interactions (e.g. very short times) or by being inattentive / not engaging (which would become a sign in itself eventually)

[Nigel Shadbot @branedev]

Suddenly singing to her crinkly catkin before my bannisters soften

[Spandex @VTL5C3]

Amazing. You have to “generate” it before you can spend it. By whizzing your arms around really fast I think. I am a large and important money understander

[Spandex @VTL5C3]

@JamesBSumner wish i could remember where it was from :) I know we used to say it (was an RA in an AI group in the 90s) and I know Brooks wrote "Elephants Don't Play Chess" - but I can't find the quote anywhere. maybe it was just someone in the department!

[Spandex @VTL5C3]

Enjoying all these amusing chatgpt confabulations and this reminds me of a phrase (maybe Rodney Brooks??) from 30 years ago re: AI researchers getting excited about a chess engine:- "Making a brilliant chess move isn't a very intelligent thing to do if your house is on fire"

[James Sumner @JamesBSumner]

@stecks Ohhh yes, that is perfect.

(And sets me wondering: if the goal of "good" AI is to achieve what humans can achieve, then is "Stick with door 1" actually a good answer? A more likely human response is "I don't understand how this game show works if the contentant can always win".)

[Spandex @VTL5C3]

@protopigeon @nakedfoul @frozenreeds