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  • LLMs don’t do formal reasoning – and that is a HUGE problem

    Take a moment and bang this concept into your heads… “we found no evidence of formal reasoning in language models …. Their behavior is better explained by sophisticated pattern matching—so fragile, in fact, that changing names can alter results by ~10%!” https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/llms-dont-do-formal-reasoning-and STOP WITH THE WISHFUL THINKING.

  • Meat(al) Puppets

    During the event, Musk presented the Optimus robot as little more than your personal slave. “Whatever you can think of, it will do,” he told his adoring followers as they shouted how much they loved the fascist billionaire. Rows of Tesla employees flanked a line of Optimus robots ready to engage with the gullible cult members,…

  • Reading about neuro-symbolic AI has completed my fatalistic outlook regarding hard limitations of machines

    Machines are epistemically landlocked. There is no such thing as “an external world” to them. Machines push around loads INSIDE them. “But-but-but we’re also machines!” some dream-addled kid may scream with teary eyes. Uh, no. Learn what a machine is. https://davidhsing.substack.com/p/reading-about-neuro-symbolic-ai-has

  • Why Tech Won’t Save Us

  • Innovations in Hypocrisy

    https://jensorensen.com/2024/10/03/ai-data-centers-carbon-climate-tech-companies-cartoon/

  • Why Neural Networks is a Bad Technology

    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

  • Elon Musk celebrates winning lawsuit over Tesla self-driving claims with embarrassing defense

    A legally adjudicated bullshitter… Let’s be clear on what Musk is celebrating here: he is celebrating a judge siding with his lawyers, who argued that his misleading statements regarding Tesla’s self-driving effort were simple “corporate puffery” and not “actionable material misrepresentations.” https://electrek.co/2024/10/02/elon-musk-celebrates-winning-lawsuit-tesla-self-driving-claims-embarrassing-defense/

  • OpenAI is a monumentally shit business

    *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…

  • AI Gone MAD

    https://jensorensen.com/2024/09/11/ai-model-collapse-mad-cow-cartoon/

  • Tesla Full Self Driving requires human intervention every 13 miles

    “These failures are the most insidious. But there are also continuous failures of simple programming inadequacy, such as only starting lane changes toward a freeway exit a scant tenth of a mile before the exit itself, that handicaps the system and casts doubt on the overall quality of its base programming,“ https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/09/tesla-full-self-driving-requires-human-intervention-every-13-miles/