https://jensorensen.com/2024/10/03/ai-data-centers-carbon-climate-tech-companies-cartoon/
Neural networks never deal with knowledge in any kind of legitimate fashion. It will always have epistemic issues because that’s their underlying nature. Additionally, it’s a house of cards that’s brittle and collapses if anything is out-of-range of the model’s data. The actual “range” being the entire real world and the entirety of human knowledge. https://davidhsing.substack.com/p/why-neural-networks-is-a-bad-technology
Cursing under his breath at yet another round of inapt debate answers from the vice presidential candidate, venture capitalist Peter Thiel reportedly rushed onstage Tuesday to restart a glitching J.D. Vance during a commercial break. “Seriously? For what I paid for this thing, it should work flawlessly,” https://theonion.com/peter-thiel-rushes-to-restart-glitching-j-d-vance-during-commercial-break/
*THE* reason the AI folks ran to Washington to squeal about the civilization ending capabilities of their tech was because they knew this: ChatGPT Plus has no real moat, little product differentiation (outside of its advanced voice mode, which Meta is already working on a competitor to), and increasing commoditization from other models, open source…
In which the error bands now separate.
Who would have thought that platforming actual Nazis would be bad for business?
This assault on reason itself is at the core of Kanter’s critique. He starts off by listing three cases in which academic economists allowed themselves to be corrupted by the monopolies they studied https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/25/epistemological-chaos/