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  • Godfather of AI Says Elon Musk Is Lying About Self-Driving Teslas

    Yann LeCun, the so-called “Godfather of AI” who currently serves as Meta’s AI czar, accused the billionaire of lying “again and again” about when fully-automated Teslas would arrive. “Elon: ‘I’ve kept lying to you again and again about Tesla’s ‘Full Self Driving’ capabilities for the last 8 years,” the AI aficionado wrote, “‘but you should…

  • No, LLMs still can’t reason like humans. This simple test reveals why.

    So, what explains the shocking failures of basic reasoning that Simple Bench exposes? Let’s return to the vegetables — or fruits and vegetables, if you wish. Here’s my take on the first of my two questions: Why do models fail the question you saw above? … The clue is in their name: language models. They model language.…

  • “Self-Driving” Cars Have a Dirty Secret

    It’d be remiss to fault robotaxi companies for having these kinds of safety fallbacks. The problem is that they’re not upfront about the fact that humans are still in the loop, creating a facade of full autonomy that doesn’t actually exist. https://futurism.com/the-byte/self-driving-dirty-secret

  • The emergent evilness of algorithmic resource allocation

    There are a number of ex-Uber people I really respect. Still, that business model is getting more and more toxic and needs to die in fire.

  • The Tesla Workers Dealing With Autopilot Data Are Treated So Strangely You Won’t Believe It

    With new headlines cropping up all the time showing how poorly a job Tesla Autopilot actually does at piloting cars, it’s not surprising that the people tasked with building that system’s knowledge out are underpaid and heavily surveilled — or that when they tried to fight back against what they felt was unfair treatment, they were summarily cast aside. https://futurism.com/the-byte/tesla-autopilot-workers-treatment

  • Silicon Valley has been huffing it’s own farts for way too long

    The result of these three features is an insular intellectual community, talking increasingly only to itself, and increasingly cut off from the kinds of conversations that would correct its excesses, or, at the very least, give it a more accurate perspective on what the world outside its bubble looks like. Hence their surprise, for example,…

  • Apple’s best days are behind it… OpenAI edition

    It’s a bit surprising to see that relationship strengthening given the ongoing controversy around OpenAI, but what it shows most clearly is how little vision CEO Tim Cook has for Apple and his need to chase short-term hype because of the lack of long-term vision at the company under his leadership.  https://disconnect.blog/roundup-what-the-openai-funding-round-reveals-about-tech/ This backs up my observation from a…

  • Not the Onion: Telsa FSD doesn’t even work in a tunnel

    Even more… it doesn’t even work in a tunnel that Telsa has full environmental control of. Forget open roads. Tesla still hasn’t figured out how to get its vehicles to autonomously drive through Elon Musk’s tunneling venture The Boring Company’s single-lane tunnel. https://futurism.com/the-byte/tesla-full-self-driving-doesnt-work-tunnel So explain to me why this fucker is allowed to put this…

  • Copilot AI calls journalist a child abuser, Microsoft tries to launder responsibility

    Martin Bernklau is a German journalist who reported for decades on criminal trials. He looked himself up on Bing, which suggests you use its Copilot AI. Copilot then listed a string of crimes Bernklau had supposedly committed — saying that he was an abusive undertaker exploiting widows, a child abuser, an escaped criminal mental patient.

  • When someone says “content moderation is hard”…

    … all I hear, these days, is “if I can’t pollute, I can’t make money.”