OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati said Wednesday she is leaving the company after more than six years.
I'm @froztbyte more or less everywhere that matters
some circumstances is still legal in the u.s.
as someone else pointed out, US-wide legal slavery (enshrined in constitution) in the form of prisoners
found while giving my feed a moment of scroll while making coffee after too many 3am worknights, I saw this response to the substack guy giving themselves a pat on the back again for helping the nazis
the product produced by the producer operating in a violently censorious state has complied with censorship in the production of the product? omg, stop the presses!
(nevermind the fact that if you spend half a second thinking through where said state exercises its power and control, the reasons for the things you observed should all but smack you in the face)
neither our posters nor our instance really give a fuck which posts random federated weirdos like or don’t like
although every now and then some of those come by and get a fedifuckton of updoots, but when you look at it it's all very 🤨 and
there are lots of complaints one can level at ccp-run china without having to dip right into this strand of sinophobia, what the utter lazy fuck. bullshit like this that helps the world stay bad and intolerant. fuck off with it.
(sincerely: one of your downvotes from sunny ZA)
no internet points today, only internet cookies (good kind)
gives a hell of a kicker to the numbers I found
this for the specific concept in japanese martial arts (and sometimes applied elsewhere too)
I’ve said it before a few times: this shit is a tunguska-level event on society today
that there’s now even retroactive contamination fallout is sickening :|
I am extremely enamoured with how much effort was spent on the writing, ito cadence and placement. it's glorious :D
(also, I wonder if the virtual riot video is why I've heard that riser pattern in so much stuff lately)
my habits lead to such curious discoveries:
if/when I use youtube, I use it entirely statelessly (and thus also without account)
it's a remarkably good way to see some utter lunacy, but it also precludes that option of dealing with shit
Among other things, probably
also cc @dgerard (for pivot maybe)
re the youtube phenomenon, ran into this as an interesting post recently, although fuck if I can remember where I saw it
so I ran into this fucking garbage earlier, which goes so hard on the constituent parts of "the spam is the point", an ouroborosian self-reinforcing loop of Just More Media Bro Just One More Video Bro You'll See Bro It'll Be The Best Listicle Bro Just Watch Bro, and the insufferably cancerous "the medium is the message" videos-made-for-youtube-because-youtube that if it were a voltron it'd probably have its own unique Special Moment sequence instead of being one of the canned assembly shots
looks that post has been updated and it might not be quite as dire
will still be better when apple finally documents shit and people test to see what really happens
yeah, I posted in previous stubsack I think
pin it on the AI developers or something and not the practice that used it and didn’t double check it’s work
okay so, what, you're saying that all those people who say "don't employ the bullshit machines in any critically important usecase" have a point in their statement?
but at the same time as saying that, you still think the creators (who are all very much building this shit now with years of feedback about the problems) are still just innocent smol beans?
my god, amazing contortions. your brain must be so bendy!
oh are people just training it wrong? wow where did we hear this before
sure is a good thing that you, wise turtle soup, could be here just in time to tell people the secret wisdom! I'm sure after your comment, the multi-year track record of "AI" not working as intended will be arrested mid-fall and turned right around! we're saved!
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Like, there was one dude a while back who insist
fresh money in, and mira’s bouncing
“stepping away because I want to create the time and space to do my own exploration.”
yeah I completely believe you, weird lady. I too want to vaguely step into the warm embrace of my piles of ill-gotten gold, forgetting about the stressors of how to sell something that doesn’t exist and that you helped claim would be here really soon now. ahhh, bliss..
one’s gotta wonder about the timing of this announcement, right? like come the fuck on
good news everyone, mariadb strain is now owned by PE
/PRNewswire/ -- K1 Investment Management, LLC ("K1"), one of the largest investors in small-cap enterprise software companies, today announced the completion...
I will say I'm not much of a fan of mysqls but uhhhhh this seems bad
ibm mainframes: now featuring AI
Mainframes still play a vital role in today, providing extremely high uptime and low latency for financial transactions. Telum II is IBM’s latest mainframe processor, and is designed unlike a…
saw this kicking around on the lobsters frontpage
IBM also includes a DPU for accelerating IO, along with an on-board AI accelerator
ah yes. an AI accelerator. for a chip that goes into a system that'll quite possibly have a lifespan measured in decade-partials. in environments so extremely up to date with the bleeding edge of technology that they are absolutely not losing their programmers to retirement. an AI acceleator for that. makes total sense.
imagine being the poor engineers who had to spec that out, design it, and get it actually existing. nevermind even the awe-inspiringly stunning disregard to reality that it takes for some management fuckhead(s) to have "steered" this
Funny enough, I asked why IBM had different terminology compared to the rest of the industry. They said IBM came up with the terminology first, and later on the industry adopted different terminology. It was all lighthearted and funny.
ah yes! funny! haha. not at all some weird insular shit from the
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Like, there was one dude a while back who insist
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Like, there was one dude a while back who insiste
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Like, there was one dude a while back who
hot off the presses: automatic wrong information without even going to the wrong-information deliveries store
People participate in online communities to share experiences and sympathy. AI chatbots that join the conversation can only pretend to offer either.
there are some remarkable instances of bad behaviour in there already, but imagine being the sort of product team that thinks users being gaslit by a chatbot that they couldn’t even consent to choose to use is totes something to deliver without any modification or remark
the loons are at it again
this time in open letter format! that'll sure do it!
there are "risks", which they are definite about - the risks are not hypothetical, the risks are real! it's totes even had some acknowledgement in other places! totes real defs for sure this time guize
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Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape
In which folks once again don’t learn the same lesson as the last few times
And perhaps sidestepping its own policy in the process.
It’s been a long couple of years with people going hard on building all their communications on the gamer chat company, disregarding all warnings and concerns because of shiny creature comforts
Soon: “we trusted you! We moved from slack to you! 😭”
Guess it’s only a handful of months before the tortured handwringing starts?
Quelle surprise
The surge in venture funding and public excitement has DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis thinking about crypto parallels.
Unfortunately I can’t snip from mobile easily now, but maybe someone else can archive it and comment with archive link?
History of (extremely predictable) failures catching up to you? Quick, write a book!
Kara Swisher made a career of dumbing down tech reporting and criticism. She’s a little sorry!
Too tired to sneer at the book myself right now but the article doesn’t pull punches either
Figured it’s worth posting since the book author has featured here more than once recently and has definitely been an enabler to The Shit
A tale of well-designed systems
how one little joke can get so, so out of hand
Not entirely the usual fare, but i figured some here would appreciate it
I often rag on the js/node/npm ecosystem for being utter garbage, and this post is a quite a full demonstration of many of the shortcomings and outright total design failures present in that space
Github has decided that people aren't copiloting hard enough
GitHub is announcing general availability of GitHub Copilot Chat and previews of the new GitHub Copilot Enterprise offering, new AI-powered security features, and the GitHub Copilot Partner Program.
will this sure is gonna go well :sarcmark:
it almost feels like when Google+ got shoved into every google product because someone had a bee in their bonnet
flipside, I guess, is that we'll soon (at scale!) get to start seeing just how far those ideas can and can't scale