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Microsoft Copilot AI’s official avatar looks like a blob of semen (pivot-to-ai.com)
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https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250728-microsoft-copilot-ai-a-pearly-liquid-blob-on-your-screen - podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3av5g0hAKwE&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video

The video is heavily euphemised and I think I got away with it

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[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

references these two topics. I suspect the phrase itself in this case is a shitpost taking aim at some of the absurd bullshit TESCREALists come up with in their nonsensegabble, but ...... it is also the kind of nonsensegabble that some of them may unironically post

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 3 weeks ago

(related tangent: @cstross' Singularity series is a pretty fun topical dive about this, and he's been following these nutjobs for probably close to 3 decades now)

[–] Seminar2250@awful.systems 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

is it cynical that i find the idea of a "latent space" a bit goofy? may just be because i think data science is kind of a joke and much machine learning is "we threw shit at our model but don't know what a category error is"

like it's just dimensionality reduction with new vocab?