Caspar Thomas

Images, writing, music, code… (close up & mentalism? see: @Caspar_Thomas). Systems Architecture, Quantum Computing or AI&ML magic, get in touch...

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@dieworkwear @Kjcoho @CMargaronis Habemus Pawpam

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@annwitbrock @Grady_Booch I agree - it’s very odd, I believe it is because many view art as just the end product and forget that the artist’s creative process, pain, effort, joy, struggle, and plain ‘involvement’ is really what is at the heart of it all.

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@Azikara @DanielPriestley What if they’d asked for a round of ‘Asahi Super Dry’ ?

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@Grady_Booch @ylecun This is just bizarre… and it’s not a good look for ‘open and constructive debate and exchange of ideas’.
Rather it seems to exude a distinct whiff of corporate messaging and marketing strategy more than anything else… but hey what do I know…

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@Grady_Booch @modelsarereal @Microsoft ahh… ‘if youth but knew…’ (and in this case I’m pretty sure old age certainly can)

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@Grady_Booch @Microsoft Sounds a lot like most ‘investment services’ disclaimers and it seems to me there could be a very good reason for the similarities…

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@phillipmerrick Unfortunately this is not exactly a surprise… precedents have been set…

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@Grady_Booch @pbreit …and even a book, ok it wasn’t particularly flattering, but entertaining reading nonetheless…

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@Grady_Booch @pfavr Yes, with LLMs in this context it’s notion of ‘large enough’ and ever more encompassing knowledge corpus, a ‘brute force’ type approach - human consciousness seems to extrapolate & theorise effectively from limited initial information… something is missing.

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@ProfBrianCox Actually, on second thoughts it is about education but education in the sense of educational environment rather than intellectual process learning or knowledge retention.

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@ProfBrianCox It not about intellectual capability unfortunately, nor is it about education. This is more to do with hubris, arrogance and an inbuilt sense of superiority and entitlement. They simply couldn’t be bothered because to them it did not matter.

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@Grady_Booch Maybe he meant Duesenberg…

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@FryRsquared It is a predictive text generator folks. GPT literally stands for ‘generative pre-trained transformer’ There is no kind of ‘moral’ decision making process involved in the model itself.

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@FinancialUAE @WigginsLisa @RhonddaBryant Probably should also avoid getting tattoos and eating lobster or prawns…

[Science News @ScienceNews]

Tin access transformed herders and part-time cultivators into powerful partners of Late Bronze Age states and rulers, researchers say. https://t.co/3epYxhFJcZ

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@unclebobmartin Just wondering - wouldn’t this also apply to redundancy in software architectures and other engineering systems. All seems fine until the proverbial hits the fan.

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@Grady_Booch The ‘Employeneur’ terminology says it all… concatenation as a substitute for actual meaning.

[Anaël seghezzi @anaelseghezzi]

Ok, let's debunk AI diffusion models by removing the AI and replacing it with classical methods. No neural networks, no training, just patch nearest neighbor search on the dataset with collage. This is what we get on the flower and faces dataset:

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@smithlc @Grady_Booch I’d suggest the laws of physics are the interpretation and rationalisation of natural phenomena through sentient reasoning...

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@FryRsquared The huge irony here, considering the nationalist jingoism underpinning Brexit, is the failure to see the obvious return on investment education - and particularly high level education - provides to a nation’s economic and social prospects. It is literally investing in the future.