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The myth of AI is rapidly dying, and the grifting leaders of the industry and their moronic backers have only just realised they have drunk their own Kool-Aid. Only now do they understand that AI is too inaccurate to increase overall productivity and too expensive to replace human workers, and that the vast amount of…
There are just 59 Robotaxis on the road, Bloomberg reports, with at least some of them still requiring physical human supervision. Its efforts to expand past its home base in Austin, Texas are floundering, with the company forced to admit to California state regulators that its self-driving cabs don’t actually drive themselves, according to the reporting. https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/teslas-robotaxis-disaster
“It’s literally the gulag,” one employee told Wired. “You have zero purpose in life all of a sudden, you barely interact with anyone, you just have these tasks every week.” … However, given the well-established reputation of their employer, netizens struggled to conjure up much sympathy for the Applied AI employees. Their argument: the workers knew what…
Ignoring the fact that Hinton lost the plot many moons ago… LLM researchers are NOT creating beings. They are creating interactive fiction that is trained to predict the language of actual beings. Those two are NOT the same. And Hinton should know better. The brainfuck that is ELIZA is amazingly powerful. https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-pope-appears-to-understand-ai
Blairs treatment as some sort of left-wing voice has mystified me. Even the Wicked Witch of the West saw through him: In 2002, twelve years after Margaret Thatcher left office, she was asked at a dinner what was her greatest achievement. Thatcher replied: “Tony Blair and New Labour. We forced our opponents to change their minds.”…
The tool, which was deployed across its North American stores, was designed to automate inventory management with the goal of providing accurate real-time information that could help Starbucks address ingredient shortages at its locations. But according to previous Reuters reporting, the error-prone AI frequently miscounted and mislabeled items, confusing different types of milk and sometimes forgetting to count…
There are many disappointing things about working for an a16z funded start up (which I have done). Near the top of list is the depressing experience of having a breathless all hands just so you get to hear Marc Andreesssen bloviate. Here is a perfect example of his vomitious commitment to his own profundity: Andreessen…
Just adding data and compute and training longer worked miracles for a while, but those days may well be over. https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/an-ai-rumor-you-wont-want-to-miss The thing is, in the long term, science isn’t majority rule. In the end, the truth generally outs. Alchemy had a good run, but it got replaced by chemistry. The truth is that scaling is…
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