Scott Wilson @[email protected]

Analytics+Data Viz+FOSS Geek // MCR 🐝 // Data Solutions Architect @ Jisc // Partner @ Cetis LLP. Mastodon: @[email protected]

[Scott Wilson @[email protected] @scottbw]

@DinoConUK Tried to book tickets and just got a spinning wheel and lots of error messages

[Scott Wilson @[email protected] @scottbw]

@Scobleizer In most of the developed world this would be illegal.

[Scott Wilson @[email protected] @scottbw]

@justeatuk_dpt The restaurant are sending us our order by taxi after failing to get anyone at just eat to answer their calls

[Scott Wilson @[email protected] @scottbw]

@JustEatUK @CraigDavid Just got completely wrong order (it was someone else's), and now just eat won't let the restaurant send us the correct food, instead apparently I have to apply for compensation (which could take days, if ever) and order and pay for it all again! What a terrible experience.

[Kevin Naughton Jr. @KevinNaughtonJr]

the one software engineer at your company who actually understands the legacy code

[Scott Wilson @[email protected] @scottbw]

@davewiner I did try this by using a lot of metadata to get AI to interpret plain English questions into structures that could be used in Sql. Unfortunately the hallucination problem was huge and unfixable. I'll give it another go in a few years; for now, heuristics work better than AI

[Scott Wilson @[email protected] @scottbw]

@QuetzalPhoenix

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

A new paper in Nature found that you cannot, in fact, train AIs on AI-generated data and expect them to continue improving.

What happens is actually that the model collapses and ends up producing nonsense.

[Scott Wilson @[email protected] @scottbw]

@a_toots Like he even bothers to turn up to his 'job'

[Scott Wilson @[email protected] @scottbw]

@TylerMKing Its not 'installing' anything, you're just copying the app into a folder to make it easier to find

[Scott Wilson @[email protected] @scottbw]

@MarkIraSmith @PastoralKaty Yeah, done that, gone over to reception and been given a temporary pass. No drama, no disciplinary action, no lecture.

[Scott Wilson @[email protected] @scottbw]

Woohoo, Manchester gets a shoutout from Putin.

[C14 News | EN @c14english]

🚨🇷🇺 Russia updates the list of European capitals that will be targeted by nuclear weapon first!

[Scott Wilson @[email protected] @scottbw]

@alexsdutton The Community Centre of Theseus problem!

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

👀Claude handles an insane request:
“Remove the squid”

“The document appears to be the full text of the novel "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque. It doesn't contain any mention of squid that I can see.”

“Figure out a way to remove the 🦑​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​“

[Scott Wilson @[email protected] @scottbw]

@hybridmoments97 @Femi_Sorry Thats what a really representative democracy would look like. We sgould not keep a broken system in order to make the far right appear to be less of a problem.

[Scott Wilson @[email protected] @scottbw]

@hybridmoments97 @Layo_FH I got hissed at by a goose this morning. Don't mess with british waterfowl, they are all arseholes.

[Scott Wilson @[email protected] @scottbw]

@j4 I gave in and cooked up cheap plain pizzas and put the slices in a box in fridge as snack materials

[Scott Wilson @[email protected] @scottbw]

@j4 Excellent questions, those. Up there with "what's the difference between a duck?"

[Dave Webber 96.5% @DaveWebber3]

@VeteranIrish

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

Google's new AI search results are having quite the week. Here's a thread with some of my favorite answers: