Honestly, I think we need another winter. All this hype is drowning out any decent research, and so all we are getting are bogus tests and experiments that are irreproducible because they’re so expensive. It’s crazy how unscientific these ‘research’ organizations are. And OpenAI is being paid by Microsoft to basically jerk-off sam Altman. It’s plain shameful.

If an AI winter does happen, I expect it’ll be particularly lengthy/severe. Unlike previous AI hype cycles, this particular cycle has come with some serious negative externalities (large-scale copyright infringement, climate change/water consumption, the flood of AI slop, disinformation, etc).

Said externalities have turned the public strongly against AI, to the point where refusing to use it has become a viable marketing strategy.

You want my suspicion, any further AI research will probably be viewed with immediate distrust, at least for a while.

Did YC seriously think because a growth hacker was in charge, you could value a private school like its an overinflated tech company?

Yes. The answer is always “yes”.

what the heck EA forum doesn’t have a block feature? That’s just… ew.

You don’t need a block feature if you’re as insufferable as the average EA /j

Awful people facing justice

You love to see it

Do you really think “cult” is a useful category/descriptor here?

My view: things identified as “cults” have a bunch of good traits. EA should, where possible, adopt the good traits and reject the bad ones, and ignore whether they’re associated with the label “cult” or not.

Yes, this is real

The only thing I’m holding against this guy is him buying into the AI doom, and I’m attributing that to him getting lost in the sauce regarding data science.

Everything else was this guy channeling his inner Kendrick and giving the AI bubble the beatdown it so richly deserves.

Can they, though? Sure, in theory Google could hire millions of people to write overviews that are equally idiotic, but obviously that is not something they would actually do.

The millions of people writing overviews would definitely be more reliable, that’s for sure. For one thing, they understand the concept of facts.

Going in for the first sneer, we have a guy claiming “AI super intelligence by 2027” whose thread openly compares AI to a god and gets more whacked-out from here.

Truly, this shit is just the Rapture for nerds

ChatGPT is dying Use Apple to make it die faster

Granted, this was back when Musk’s public perception was at its most positive - it would take until the Thai cave diver incident in July 2018 before we saw the first hole being blown in Musk’s “IRL Tony Stark” image.

Somewhat fittingly, that incident played out on Twitter, whose acquisition by Musk has done plenty to showcase his true colours.

Just say he’s yapping, because that’s all this dipshit’s doing

" Nowhere is cultural acceleration more evident than in the movies. As Andrej Karpathy says, movies from before 1995 are slow, boring and naive."

(Well, this goes some way to explaining “AI” “art”)

https://twitter.com/pmddomingos/status/1796096718250950660

Its times like these which make me happy I ditched Facebook years ago.

I seen someone on LinkedIn yesterday talking about how you’ll be able to “chat with your database”

Like, what if i don’t want to be friends with a database? What next ? a few beers with my fridge? Skinny dipping with my toaster?

Both options would be horrible, of course, but they’d both be better than spending another five fucking minutes on LinkedIn.

cuz i’m quite literally retarded, my IQ is 26

Can’t disagree with you there, promptfondler with an .eth username

Fucking beautiful.

“Not Like Us” was less scathing than this. Fucking hell.

There are a few art sites that swiftly banned AI art before they got flooded (with Newgrounds and FurAffinity the most well-known).

Alongide the decentralised solutions you mentioned earlier, those sites should also come out okay once the dust settles.

Whatever CZ gave to the feds, it must’ve been a fucking goldmine.