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[darren @daz0106]

@Holmyverse Could you recommend a decent ML intro course? (Don't have AI psychosis but interested anyways 😅)

[space age country girl @fckingmelodrama]

“We all died in 2020 and this is hell” has never been truer

[Veee @vikktorrrre]

Yann LeCun: we are not going to get human-level intelligence or AGI by just scaling LLMs.

“There’s absolutely no way in hell.”

“The idea that we’re gonna have a country of geniuses in a data center, that’s complete BS.”

“It may feel like you have a PhD sitting next to you.”

“But it’s not a PhD.”

“It’s a system with gigantic memory and retrieval ability, not one that can invent solutions to new problems.”

[@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) @timnitGebru]

Please see what experts in this field are saying about this “discovery” and not these scammers or press stenographers. This hype DDOS from them isn’t going to stop any time soon and we’ve seen how the mainstream media is doing press-release-as-a-service at this point.

[darren @daz0106]

@Thebatmanofbelf Matip 2.0

[darren @daz0106]

@g_grugs @rte HGG

[darren @daz0106]

This is A. complete nonsense being pushed by Amodei to create hype ahead of their IPO and B. a really disappointing case of "CEO said a thing" journalism from @RTE who should hold themselves to higher standards.

[RTÉ News @rtenews]

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has suggested a global pause on building the most powerful AI systems as the latest models are beginning to show signs they could escape human control
https://t.co/0h4WBrZq8T

[darren @daz0106]

@nathan_covey @timwido What about 2fa / authenticator apps?

[Kevin Egan @lonesharkoy]

I don't say this to criticise volunteers looking for cost-effective designs, but GAA clubs, community groups etc, need to stop using AI for their posters/ads etc. Badly done MS paint would be vastly preferable to the shiver people get down their spine at the sight of that font.

[Big Timi @OrevaZSN]

No, I do not want the AI overview.
I want to read a Wikipedia page that leads me to another Wikipedia page, and another, and another, and get lost for hours down a completely unrelated rabbit hole as the gods intended.

[darren @daz0106]

@Toibin1 Maybe the focus should be on building an economy that's not entirely dependent on US tech companies who couldn't give a shit about the local communities around them or the country more broadly.

[Issybeatz @Issybeatz_]

AI is so popular because it gives uncreative people the illusion that they are creative. It lets them skip right to the part where they get validation. It’s not only parasitic, but extremely narcissistic.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

It’s upsetting to watch so many people be led to believe a software feature created from human exhaust is an alien intelligence.

It’s a psyop. LLMs are a clever way to compress and search large databases with patterns. They have now inhaled effectively all of human knowledge. From this point, there will be spikes of improvement in narrow areas, but the big models are already collapsing from inhaling their own exhaust.

The core technology is at least 40 years old. Neural networks are nothing new. We’re just attaching obscene amounts of computing and data to them.

The physical nature of an LLM is literally just a database of tokens (word parts) and weights (relationships) that can be queried. It is not magic. It can be made deterministic by setting the entropy aka temperature to zero. It is a clever way to store an immense amount of data and retrieve it through token predicting.

“Agents” are just LLMs being queried in a loop. They take exponentially more energy and suffer the same problems as chatbots—hallucinations and sycophancy—but exponentially more complicated to solve.

In reality, it’s all a category error. It’s a mirage created by the desire of a small group of elites to build a technological and financial moat around themselves. “AGI” is the McGuffin, the plot device, to serve as the messiah that will deliver people from the toils of everyday life.

The broligarchs are trying to sell us our own replacements. According to them, we won’t have to drive, or work, or think anymore. The robots and AI will all do it for us.

It’s the oldest con there is: magic beans.

Your chatbot is not your Jesus or your girlfriend. Your Claude instance is not intelligent. It’s a search engine for human knowledge stolen from the internet and the destruction of physical books.

So please understand. You are witnessing the biggest financial bubble in all of human history based on deceptive marketing, astroturfing, and cult dynamics. You are not witnessing the birth of a new intelligence. Unfortunately, that’s a battle we’re losing.

[Mo @atmoio]

The real reason they keep saying AI will take your job

[darren @daz0106]

Sam Altman is not a moron, but he does think that you are a moron.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Sam Altman:

“We are two years away from true super intelligence. By the end of 2028 more of the world’s intellectual capacity will reside inside of data centers than outside of them.”

Shutting down these data centers is humanity’s last hope for survival.

[darren @daz0106]

@edzitron Such complete fucking nonsense.

[Amos Murphy @AmosMurphy_]

Hot take but established media outlets absolutely shouldn’t be using AI to depict semi-realistic photos of things that haven’t happened

[Ewan Morrison @MrEwanMorrison]

This is more AI PR disguised as an alarm story.
"Our AI is so smart, it does things we don't ask it to. maybe its....sentient...."
Total woo-woo for the gullible, intended to yet again feed the lie that "AGI is close" - so as the keep the development money flowing.

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

The Telegraph has uncovered yet more about the UK government's 'AI skills hub' that suggests the entire thing was a rushed, vibe-coded hack job (which cost £4.1 million of taxpayers' money).

Their investigation reveals it includes:

- courses that seem to be AI-generated scams
- courses that are more than 20 years old
- 'degrees' that cost thousands of pounds yet offer no meaningful qualifications
- courses that don't exist at all

And so much more. This bit killed me: "One course on 'digital agriculture fundamentals' is provided by a Canadian education company and requires applicants to live in the rural provinces of Alberta, Manitoba or Saskatchewan."

Yet the government is digging in, saying the hub is meant to provide "deep and specialist expertise in AI", and that it intentionally includes "some hybrid international options".

To be clear, if one of the AI companies the government so admires had released this product, the person responsible would have been fired within a day.

https://t.co/OFT35odmZM