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  • Cool story bro

    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…

  • *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/