takes label sticker, writes "agentic" on it, slaps it on the model
look! agentic! that'll be $30b in funding, thx
that, but also I meant specifically that it allows them to "build confidence" inside the company
"look, we've been running ads on mdn for weeks now, and no-one's complained! obvies we can put it on $xyz other places now too!" with a heavy subtext of "why are you being the one that's obstructing this?"
I possess no insider information whatsoever and I'll fairly confidently state that I think it's a fucking strategic choice. guess we get to wait 6~12mo to see how cassandra that statement is
that tracks
it's one of their best places to start boiling the frog
nasb, it warms my cold diamond heart to continue seeing instances of people going "oh, yeah, uh.... actually, no, fuck that shit. we'll do it ourselves" in response to broadcom's attempt to Raise Revenue Through Product Capture
my first thought on hearing the same was "if this is what he's like in public, imagine what it's like at home"
I mean he must know they will come after him next
big piles of money, and all the power bases he's accrued
there's long precedent of collaborators who were instrumental in the projects of harm and suppression still being able to flourish throughout selfsame projects
gonna add a whole new weight to "lying synthesis machines" :|
gather round kids, it's time to sing the monopoly song
eyelid twitching
sure, we barely understand all applicable bio systems, let's have some shitty model dream up answers on how things work! it'll go great
Much as a chatbot can discern style and perhaps even meaning from huge volumes of written language,
going to have to add this author to the List, aren't I
please excuse me while I infinitely recursively scream into the void
Large Generative AI Models in telecommunications
(this shit has been getting airtime at a couple of different networking conferences, and it's all as ridiculous and pointless as you'd blindly guess)
you must click the video link
the video title alone made me flinch, then the video started
also wtf at the custom url, I guess s is their "share domain" under their domain that looks extremely like a spam domain[0]
then searching up around that name, one finds this (warning: linkedin) with "4 followers", and a smattering of vc sauce in all the associated/cluster shit
god these people are just so fucking exhausting
[0] - spammers fuckin love many of the new TLDs
they're all just so fucking ...... smug
it appears they don't think anything can possibly go wrong
is when the blighted thing pretends it’s anything at all like a person and ...
one of the helpful things that I think is worth reminding people of is that the thing described here is entirely the result of overt intent and choice on the part of humans shaping the fucking thing
it isn't an emergent property
from the curation of data going into training to shaping "preferred output" (by tuning whatever properties my apply in xyz llm execution pipeline) this shit is all Super Polite by fucking design
exact same shit applies for the prompts responding "oh yeah I'm totes alive! look, I feel doubted that you even asked! :sad:" - that shit is curated and engineered
but I do hear where you're coming from on the anger. 100%.
Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs (axios.com) 916 points by bsilvereagle 17 hours ago | hide | 1315 comments
orange site is having a moment
haven't tried to look at the comments yet though, those numbers are ominous
the sheer amount and rapidity of times it goes from "fucking wot m8" to moments where you can just see him cackling to himself, "hee heeeeee..... that'll teach 'em!", just constant whiplash
my neck hurts and I should've stretched
the amount of doublethink and newspeak this is attempting to push is remarkable
also afaik thiel isn't one to regularly demean himself to writing tidbits such as this, is he? I don't recall seeing nearly as many words from mr likes-it-private as I have from andreesen et al
we regret to inform you that mullenweg is still posting through it
no matter how unhinged you may expect this to be on starting to read it, you're probably guessing low
holy fuck :|
Multinational corporations can act ethically after all.
I wouldn't go that far
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(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati said Wednesday she is leaving the company after more than six years.
> “stepping away because I want to create the time and space to do my own exploration.”
yeah I completely believe you, weird lady. I too want to vaguely step into the warm embrace of my piles of ill-gotten gold, forgetting about the stressors of how to sell something that doesn’t exist and that you helped claim would be here really soon now. ahhh, bliss..
one’s gotta wonder about the timing of this announcement, right? like come the fuck on
/PRNewswire/ -- K1 Investment Management, LLC ("K1"), one of the largest investors in small-cap enterprise software companies, today announced the completion...
I will say I'm not much of a fan of mysqls but uhhhhh this seems bad
Mainframes still play a vital role in today, providing extremely high uptime and low latency for financial transactions. Telum II is IBM’s latest mainframe processor, and is designed unlike a…
saw this kicking around on the lobsters frontpage
> IBM also includes a DPU for accelerating IO, along with an on-board AI accelerator
ah yes. an AI accelerator. for a chip that goes into a system that'll quite possibly have a lifespan measured in decade-partials. in environments so extremely up to date with the bleeding edge of technology that they are absolutely not losing their programmers to retirement. an AI acceleator for that. makes total sense.
imagine being the poor engineers who had to spec that out, design it, and get it actually existing. nevermind even the awe-inspiringly stunning disregard to reality that it takes for some management fuckhead(s) to have "steered" this
> Funny enough, I asked why IBM had different terminology compared to the rest of the industry. They said IBM came up with the terminology first, and later on the industry adopted different terminology. It was all lighthearted and funny.
ah yes! funny! haha. not at all some weird insular shit from the same company that runs a worlds-apart platform with a control grip so strong it makes larry ellison check if they're infringing on anything actionable...
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People participate in online communities to share experiences and sympathy. AI chatbots that join the conversation can only pretend to offer either.
there are some remarkable instances of bad behaviour in there already, but imagine being the sort of product team that thinks users being gaslit by a chatbot that they couldn’t even consent to choose to use is totes something to deliver without any modification or remark
this time in open letter format! that'll sure do it!
there are "risks", which they are definite about - the risks are not hypothetical, the risks are real! it's totes even had some acknowledgement in other places! totes real defs for sure this time guize
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And perhaps sidestepping its own policy in the process.
It’s been a long couple of years with people going hard on building all their communications on the gamer chat company, disregarding all warnings and concerns because of shiny creature comforts
Soon: “we trusted you! We moved from slack to you! 😭”
Guess it’s only a handful of months before the tortured handwringing starts?
The surge in venture funding and public excitement has DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis thinking about crypto parallels.
Unfortunately I can’t snip from mobile easily now, but maybe someone else can archive it and comment with archive link?
Kara Swisher made a career of dumbing down tech reporting and criticism. She’s a little sorry!
Too tired to sneer at the book myself right now but the article doesn’t pull punches either
Figured it’s worth posting since the book author has featured here more than once recently and has definitely been an enabler to The Shit
how one little joke can get so, so out of hand
Not entirely the usual fare, but i figured some here would appreciate it
I often rag on the js/node/npm ecosystem for being utter garbage, and this post is a quite a full demonstration of many of the shortcomings and outright total design failures present in that space
GitHub is announcing general availability of GitHub Copilot Chat and previews of the new GitHub Copilot Enterprise offering, new AI-powered security features, and the GitHub Copilot Partner Program.
will this sure is gonna go well :sarcmark:
it almost feels like when Google+ got shoved into every google product because someone had a bee in their bonnet
flipside, I guess, is that we'll soon (at scale!) get to start seeing just how far those ideas can and can't scale