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  • *Now* you fuckers are all about IP laws…

    If it wasn’t so sad it would be funny. After spending years indiscriminately ripping off other people’s work — and getting sued for copyright infringement left and right — OpenAI is sobbing that the buzzy Chinese AI startup DeepSeek did the same thing on its AI that it built on all that pilfered content.

  • LLMs will not lead to AGI and the bubble is about to burst

    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…

  • This is a shit onion of schadenfreude – AI tech bros worried about AGI emerging under Trump

    So tech bros, instrumental in voting Trump in, are now worried that they’re wild fantasies will come true under Trump: But if it does, as another user noted in a since-deleted post on r/Singularity, Trump’s second term may well “shift the [artificial superintelligence] future into [a] dystopia, not a utopia.” https://futurism.com/ai-bros-terrified-agi-trump Tell me I should have…

  • I wonder if this is the tech that is generating 25% of the new code at Google

    On the tail of a the preposterous claim by Pichai yesterday: As The New York Times first reported, the family of 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III filed a lawsuit against Character.AI last week alleging that the platform is pushing “dangerous and untested” technology. Google, which earlier this year inked a deal to the tune of $2.7 billion to license Character.AI’s…

  • If you don’t see this critical point about AI systems… you’re the mark

    Put more plainly: things like ChatGPT only appear to be intelligent because they’ve been designed mimic human language to a plausible enough degree. Their creators want to believe they’re creating intelligent machines, so that’s what they choose to see. https://disconnect.blog/geoffrey-hintons-misguided-views-on-ai/

  • A Tesla is an appreciating asset…. ?

    “Buying a car today is an investment into the future. I think the most profound thing is that if you buy a Tesla today, I believe you are buying an appreciating asset – not a depreciating asset.” https://electrek.co/2019/04/12/tesla-vehicles-appreciating-assets-self-driving-elon-musk/ If you fell for that line in 2019 you’re as dumb as bricks… if you fell for…

  • How Virtual Reality Died

    https://www.honest-broker.com/p/how-virtual-reality-died

  • Elon Musk Admits That Teslas With “Self-Driving” Computers May Never Be Able to Actually Self-Drive

    Well *fuck me* what a surprise: “There is some chance that HW3 does not achieve the safety level that allows for unsupervised FSD,” he added. Translation: all the times Tesla has vowed that all of its vehicles would soon be capable of fully driving themselves may have been a convenient act of salesmanship that ultimately turned out…

  • You Can’t Make Friends With The Rockstars

    I wish I could write like Edward Zitron… he fucking nails it. https://www.wheresyoured.at/rockstars/

  • This AI Pioneer Thinks AI Is Dumber Than a Cat

    At the same time, he is convinced that today’s AIs aren’t, in any meaningful sense, intelligent—and that many others in the field, especially at AI startups, are ready to extrapolate its recent development in ways that he finds ridiculous. If LeCun’s views are right, it spells trouble for some of today’s hottest startups, not to…