#justdrafts — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #justdrafts, aggregated by home.social.
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#justdrafts | #linkedlist — François Chollet on the Prospects of Developing General Artificial Intelligence
Chollet cuts through all that LLM AGI nonsense in ways that can still leave you excited.
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#justdrafts | #linkedlist — Guillermo del Toro on Generative AI and the Value of Art
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#linkedlist | #justdrafts — The Innovation That Wasn’t: “Burst Damage”
https://betweendrafts.com/justdrafts/2024/08/05/the-innovation-that-wasnt-burst-damage/
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#blogpost | #justdrafts — OpenAI’s Five Stages of Nonsense
https://betweendrafts.com/justdrafts/2024/07/17/openais-five-stages-of-nonsense/
The first cracks appear, and the light that falls through is a mountain of money on fire.
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#blogpost | #justdrafts — LLM Support for “Clarity” in Creative and Scholarly Writing
A brief look at “AI enhanced” spell and grammar checkers that promise to “clarify” your text.
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#blogpost | #justdrafts — AI/LLM/GPT Roundup, February: Some Technical Points of Interest
On scaling, interpolation, and fractal boundaries.
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#blogpost | #justdrafts — AI/LLM/GPT Roundup, June 28: A Whiff of Doom
https://betweendrafts.com/justdrafts/2023/06/28/ai-llm-gpt-roundup-june-28-a-whiff-of-doom/
Spoiler: it’s not about Skynet.
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#blogpost | #justdrafts — Shorter Sam Altman Senate Hearing: “Let Me Bamboozle You Into Handing OpenAI a Monopoly on a Silver Platter”
Welcome to the Magic Show.
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#blogpost | #justdrafts — That Which We Call Autonomous / By Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet
“AI will kill us all” is a marketing proposition, but it’s not aimed at you.
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#blogpost | #justdrafts — Can We Mind-Upload These Tech Bros Into Their Chatbot Trainers and Send Them on Fully Autonomous Rockets to Mars?
If you listen long enough to Hinton, you begin to wish Skynet became a reality.
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#blogpost | #justdrafts — Keep Your Fire Extinguisher Handy for this Interview with Geoffrey Hinton on ChatGPT
Honestly, I didn’t expect Geoffrey Hinton’s interview to be yet another unpleasant surprise.
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#blogpost | #justdrafts — Why Eliezer Yudkowsky’s Time Op-Ed on How Current AI Systems Will Kill Us All Is Even More Unhinged than You Think
Keep a fire-extinguisher handy. Your brain will need it.
(Originally, I didn’t want to waste my time on this nonsense; but after my interest was piqued by @Riedl’s snarky teaser toots [ https://sigmoid.social/@Riedl/110120345071787976 ], I wanted to see how deep that rabbit hole goes.)
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#blogpost | #justdrafts — The German Ethic Council’s Statement on “Humans and Machines”
While essentially reasonable, it’s already being undermined by the council members themselves.
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#justdrafts | #linkedlist — LLM’s True Problem with Misinformation, Job Impact, and Security
This risk matrix comes in handy.
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#justdrafts | #linkedlist — A Response from the “Stochastic Parrots” Authors to the Future of Life Institute’s Open Letter
Gebru, Bender, McMillan-Major, and Mitchell being on fire.
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#justdrafts | #blogpost — Bill Gates Again Manages to Keep AI in Perspective (And Autonomous Driving)
While I’m excited about advances in autonomous driving, I’d be even more excited about advances in sustainable transportation.
#AI #LLM #BillGates #AutonomousDriving #SelfDrivingCars #transportation #publictransport #Singapore
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[Addendum: added a source on longtermism to the post.]
#justdrafts | #linkedlist — Pausing the AI Hype Would Be a Good Start
https://betweendrafts.com/justdrafts/2023/03/30/pausing-the-ai-hype-would-be-a-good-start/
This “Open Letter” wants to slow things down by stepping on the gas.
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#justdrafts | #linkedlist — The Best You Can Say About Bill Gates Is That He Isn’t Carried Away by AGI Nonsense
Everything else, of course, is reassuringly appalling.
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#justdrafts | #linkedlist — Levi’s to Use AI-Generated Models in the Name of “Diversity” and “Sustainability”
Welcome to Minidiv and Minisus.
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#justdrafts | #linkedlist — You Can Run a ChatGPT Clone Locally on Your PC Now
https://betweendrafts.com/justdrafts/2023/03/25/you-can-run-a-chatgpt-clone-locally-on-your-pc-now/
Business model sits on the wall, business model will take a great fall.
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#justdrafts | #linkedlist — Ubisoft’s New AI Dialogue-Writing Tool as a Case in Point
The problem isn’t new technologies. Unfettered capitalism is.
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#justdrafts | #linkedlist — The Word “Arrested” Is Now Banned on Midjourney (Good Luck with That)
The Great Firewall of Midjourney.
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#justdrafts | #linkedlist — John Carmack on What Coding Is About, With or Without ChatGPT
When I became interested in games, John Carmack was among those I looked up to.
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#justdrafts | #linkedlist — Some Nifty Proof-of-Concept Code for Using ChatGPT in Unity
The trick is to jump off of the hype train and make stuff work at smaller scales.
#gamedesign #unity #chatgpt #ai #shaders #commands #LLM #Bloom
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#justdrafts | #linkedlist — The Bleeding Edge of Scam-Powered Technology (Microsoft Leading the Way Pt.II)
This has the potential to become the most fun event since Mentos met Coke.
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#justdrafts | #linkedlist — Elena Esposito on Explainable AI
Transparency, meet explanation. Explanation, meet transparency.
https://betweendrafts.com/justdrafts/2023/03/18/elena-esposito-on-explainable-ai/
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#blogpost | #justdrafts — Following OpenAI Into the Rabbit Hole
Nothing to see here. Everything’s fine.
https://betweendrafts.com/justdrafts/2023/03/15/following-openai-into-the-rabbit-hole/
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#justdrafts | #linkedlist — Following Bing over the Chatbot Cliff, Google Could Actually Be Trying to Be Clever
Sometimes, it’s not easy to differentiate between strategy and pathology.
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#justdrafts | #linkedlist — Late Stage Enshittification: Microsoft & LinkedIn Leading the Way
No lengths these platforms won’t go to on the final leg of their enshittification journey.
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#justdrafts | #linkedlist — The AI-Populated Social Network Is Coming
Welcome to Hell on Earth.
https://betweendrafts.com/justdrafts/2023/03/11/the-ai-populated-social-network-is-coming/