This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
its amazing how tech bros have gone from making tech events must see in the late 00s and early 10s by doing super cool things to ppl not even knowing they're happening because it's all ai slop and boring.
I remember being excited to watch tech events.
Now I try to avoid them unless I know I’m upgrading my phone that year.
Yeah now it's like let's watch how exactly rich people are trying to make the future suck for me and it doesn't even work, and even if it did it wouldn't make our lives any better
I do not understand why they simply don't just copy Zuckerberg's own AI. I know he isn't 100% perfectly like a human, but still closer than this LLM shit. Is it the same problem as with Data in Star Trek and the person who built him died without leaving any notes?
They do. That's why it's called an LLM (Lizard Language Model).
Even if it had gone perfectly, what would it have proved? That with the magic of AI, anyone can make Korean inspired barbecue sauce, as long as they are in a well-appointed kitchen that happens to have the right amount all the ingredients of Korean inspired barbecue sauce all laid out in front of them. I mean, if you know to go get all that stuff, you pretty much know how to make Korean inspired barbecue sauce already.
Also there are zillions of recipes online that you can read or just have text-to-speech if you want them read to you... or you know... a youtube cooking video?
Meta is garbage. Just like Google was garbage when I worked there. The people I know working there are fart sniffers. They have their heads so far up their own asses.
See their hiring process.
Zuckerberg will hail anything if he thinks it'll add to his money and power.
Watching tech bros clumsily hawk their "revolutionary society changing tech!" while they look like fools is hysterical.
They're chasing that one moment in the early aughts when what they had actually blew peoples minds.
Time to quote Dan Olson again. This was originally written about NFTs, but just replace "crypto" with "AI" and it's still 100% relevant:
When you drill down into it, you realize that the core of the crypto ecosystem ... is a turf war between the wealthy and the ultra-wealthy. Techno fetishists who look at people like Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, billionaires that have been minted via tech industry doors that have now been shut by market calcification, and are looking for a do-over, looking to synthesize a new market where they can be the one to ascend from a merely wealthy programmer to a hyper wealthy industrialist.
From the incomparable line goes up
This has been pretty much the way of the Tech Industry since the Internet bubble burst around 2000 - people who didn't ride that bubble up to its peak were almost immediately trying to inflate a new bubble (along with some people who did ride that previous bubble up but wanted to make even more money) hence ideas like "Web 2.0" popping up already in the early 2000s.
It's why the Tech Startup ecosystem has never again been the domain of naive techies trying to do cool stuff that it was in the 90s and now it's all about Pitching and Networking To Find Investors and the Founders are mainly people from salesmanship-heavy backgrounds (Finance, Marketing, MBAs) rather than people from a STEM background.
The entire thing is now a machine to pump up investment bubbles.
Snake oil: sure I can promise you anything
I wanted to comment on another post that had a video show how chatGPT screwed up a basic recipe live...
And now this. You know what this reminds me of? That incident back in the 90s when Bill Gates was presenting Windows 98 to the world and his OS bluescreened on live TV. No one who saw it or heard of it at that time ever forgot about it.
But the flaws of windows 98 were hammered out fairly quickly and it was a decent system (I hung onto it longer than most since it ran many 90s windows games much better than XP for obvious reasons).
With this? Despite far more money poured onto this than any OS ever had they have produced remarkably few decent results.
Funny thing is, it was actually the device they connected that was faulty, the build of Windows they were using just didn't handle that failure condition at the time.
MS at least learnt that lesson (for the most part), actually test things first.
Tesla's entire business model (under Elon) was to use the users as guinea pigs for testing.
Rule #868: As an Evil CEO, I will make a point of holding at least three rehearsals to prevent having egg on my face.
Steve Jobs figured it out, you just have guys parked outside the engineers' homes, ready to kill their kids if the demo fails.
The evil overlord list is eternal!
I can understand why he'd like the concept, he can't think for himself afterall.
Oh a new kind of advanced glasses, does it zoom or auto adjust to your prescription?
Reads article
Wait are they seriously trying google glass again? Why is it always the solution looking for a problem people the same as the supply side people. They don’t understand that demand is the real driver.
Given what happened (it skipping to the next step in the recipe), this was 100% "prerecorded AI" and they started on the wrong track.
Trump will make sure he gets what he needs anyhow, no worries.
Here’s the thing: it IS a superintelligence. It saw what it was going to be used for and the idiots that were presenting it and decided that it was going to sabotage them.
Sitting on some Wintermute level of fuckery.
Maybe be can ask the twins for help since he stole their entire platform anyways lol! What a douche!
AI either stands for abominable intelligence or an indian
