Chris Bigum

The power of the unaided mind is highly overrated..The real powers come from external aids that enhance cognitive abilities-DN. Hobby: apprentice maverick

[Chris Bigum @cj13]

@DKThomp And the stories about electricity akin to those about AI: Marvin, C. (1988). When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Communications in the Late Nineteenth Century. Oxford University Press.

[Chris Bigum @cj13]

On Being Given Homework by a Statistical Parrot https://t.co/dZBlBF7fIe

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Whispers from the Latent Space https://t.co/vAaJZbF8kd

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So Long, and Thanks for All the Metrics https://t.co/TglcRQOluO

[Tiago Forte @fortelabs]

Wait, so the founder of Anthropic is "Amodei," as in "loves god"?

And he leads Anthropic, meaning "human-centered," which is being used in military strikes?

And the creator of ChatGPT is "Altman," as in "an alternative to humans"?

And he leads OpenAI, which is completely closed?

And then there's "Gemini," meaning "two-faced," from a company that promised to do no evil?

And the whole global AI arms race is being driven by people who claimed to be worried about AGI taking over the world?

Either the universe is an extremely cliché writer, or has a brilliant sense of humor

[Chris Bigum @cj13]

@emollick https://t.co/gMqedWs64p the DeepThink option.

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cj's serendipitous bibs, bobs and the odd musing: Bibs & bobs #18 https://t.co/83BURK3xJs

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A dose of sanity from @zephoria re social media and kids: https://t.co/GO4i8Qm6aD

[Matt Clifford @matthewclifford]

“There are no AI-shaped holes lying around”

-> this is how I reconcile the facts that (a) AI is already powerful and (b) it’s having relatively little impact so far

Making AI work today requires ripping up workflows and rebuilding *for* AI. This is hard and painful to do…

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

X is not a source. At best, it's a relay.
In practice, it's largely a propaganda megaphone for people like you, relayed by
your fanbois and fanbots.
In any case, it reflects the increasingly one-sided bias of its users.

And yes, the press (finally) covers Trump negatively, like it should cover every felonious, lying egomaniac who just ridiculed himself in a debate on national TV.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

Appears @X and @elonmusk aren’t happy with Donald’s performance and are limiting the reach of #KamalaWonBigly

Pls 💙 and share if you see this.

[Chris Bigum @cj13]

Cats the Musical Finally Ends After Immigrants Eat Entire Cast, Trump Claims https://t.co/p0q5x5XvTp

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@AnnaRMills Really neat.

[Eric Weinstein @ericweinstein]

The Kayfabrication of everything is all but complete.

Some of you *still* think that professional wrestling is simply fake.

Best of luck in November.

For the rest of you: an essay on human psychology from 2011.
https://t.co/6lQJqQWitt

[Chris Bigum @cj13]

@gregmiller68 @YouTube A lot of formal ed asleep at the wheel. Those awake will be in horseless carriage land for quite some time.

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@neilmosley5 Wilson's quote probably captured it well: “The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology."

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Australia's media industry is no meritocracy. Instead, the shamelessness of mediocre men is rewarded with untold power https://t.co/l2XXOg0dQY

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@Neil_Selwyn @MertalaPekka zombie ideas "dead and well" in almost every field :)

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@BenPatrickWill Hi-tech swimming pool syndrome.

[Chris Bigum @cj13]

@BenPatrickWill The current school system: massive: tick; , unregulated: no, highly regulated
untested: no it does a lot of testing
possibly deeply harmful experiment: telling 2/3 of each age cohort they are dumb is hardly not harmful.