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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 10 points 9 hours ago

It's almost like he and his buddy don know nothing about running a business and fostering human relationships. A couple of small time Napoleons with large time capital can make quite a mess if given half a chance. And currently they are being given a whole chance.

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 5 points 9 hours ago

Rats? Ship? Sinking?

[–] answersplease77@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

Massie 4 President

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 33 points 18 hours ago
[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 32 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

So there's a second person who doesn't want to attach their name to a machine that generates child porn? Good on the guy who left.

[–] fortnitefinn@sh.itjust.works 16 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

I guarantee you, he only did it because he thought it was a bad business deal.

All of these "people" would literally make machines to rape children if they believed it would make them more money.

We need to stop giving them power.

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

Musk has a tendency to be all up in in his people's faces telling them what to do. I wouldn't be surprised if they all went and formed their own company.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 10 points 17 hours ago

and pro-nazi content too.

[–] vegeta@lemmy.world 89 points 23 hours ago (2 children)
[–] tomiant@piefed.social 32 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

NGL that gif is fucking amazing, violin or not. Where do you find such wondrous things?

[–] infeeeee@lemmy.zip 32 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

The GIF was created by James Tyrwhitt-Drake back in 2012, when he captured the images at the University of Victoria’s Advanced Microscopy Facility and posted the final product to his Tumblog, Infinity Imagined.

https://petapixel.com/2014/05/29/gif-made-electron-microscope-zooms-life-life-life/

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 7 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Oh ok. You just randomly found that specific one? As a petapixel browser, would you happen to know where to find more of the same? I think I need a serious electron microscope zoom in fix after this.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 9 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

They're not gifs, but here's a bunch of interesting SEM images from one of the manufacturers of these microscopes.

https://www.thermofisher.com/us/en/home/materials-science/scanning-electron-microscopy-materials-science/sem-image-gallery.html

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[–] infeeeee@lemmy.zip 3 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

Searched only for "electron microscope zoom", it was like the 10th result. It seems like there isn't a lot of gif like this, as you have to create a lot of images one by one.

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[–] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 55 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Most recently, xAI has come under fire after Grok began generating nonconsensual sexual images of real people in response to X user prompts.

That's an understatement...

[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 15 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Tangentism@lemmy.ml 10 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Please don't use the phrase "CP" but instead the correct term 'CSAM'.

'Porn' suggests consent

[–] TechnoCat@piefed.social 5 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

While CSAM might be the word people are using now, how did you determine "porn" means the creation of it involved consent and not that the contents contain sexually explicit material?

[–] fortnitefinn@sh.itjust.works -2 points 9 hours ago

Reddit moment

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 86 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

It's time to recalibrate my gradient on the big picture.

I guess this is AI-insider wit, but I'm so glad not to think or speak like these people do.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

It’s language for people who advertise they know something about “AI,” but couldn’t implement it if their life depended on it.

TBH I’ve never heard that one, but it sounds like they’re trying to use “gradient descent” in a sentence.

[–] Corngood@lemmy.ml 57 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How can I add words to this sentence without adding information?

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 14 hours ago

You just did

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 47 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It is, gradient descent is what you use to find optimal model parameters. 

the algorithm takes a step, computes a gradient (whether any nearby options are better), then moves in that direction to improve the parameters, in a loop. 

[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Adding to the above, one of the challenges of GD is how to know whether the global optimum reported by the function isn’t just one of its many imposters (local optima). That’s the “big picture” he’s talking about. Working with Elon was a dead end.

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 8 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Someone from a brand new account posted a bunch of gibberish like that today about having the keys to the octo-dimension mother universe...

And I immediately thought it was an Elon AI, because that's how they think humans actually talk

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 19 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

It's time to recalibrate my gradient on the big picture.

I threw up in my mouth a bit.

2026 is gonna be insane and likely the busiest (and most consequential) year for the future of our species

[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 7 points 18 hours ago

That's just fuckin sinister.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 11 points 19 hours ago

2026 is gonna be insane and likely the busiest (and most consequential) year for the future of our species,

Yeah, he's right, just not in the way he thinks he is

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 23 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

"It's time to recalibrate my gradient on the big picture."

You absolute fucking loser. The ONLY reason you're not a virgin is because you have money, and it still doesn't make a dent in your complete loserhood!

[–] normanwall@lemmy.world 19 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)
[–] stylusmobilus@aussie.zone 1 points 1 hour ago

May I borrow that?

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 4 points 21 hours ago

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[–] Panthenetrunner@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 19 hours ago

Fucking incomprehensible. The fuck is this dude even saying? Hate it when my gradient gets recalibrated.

[–] sahin@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (13 children)

When the faq will he lose everything? I want him to be homeless, poor.

[–] stylusmobilus@aussie.zone 2 points 1 hour ago

When the country he’s helping hold hostage, move as a unit to do something about these people.

It’s actually possible to go far enough with that, until we have a situation where there’d be nowhere for them to run no matter what country they ran to. The problem is, the only country that could start this process won’t do what they need to.

This, like pretty much every other major issue, is in the hands of US citizens.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 3 points 15 hours ago

That will never happen. For these people "being poor" still means having a shit ton of cash.
All muskyboy's companies could collapse today and he'd still have millions and millions in a bank somewhere.

The only way this person, and billionaires like him, will feel any consequences is if they are dragged to a fucking guillotine and served justice medieval style.

[–] bagsy@lemmy.world 22 points 23 hours ago

I workout, eat healthy, avoid alcohol and drugs all in an effort to live long enough to see these assholes punished somehow, someway.

[–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 6 points 23 hours ago

That is a frequently asked question.

[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago

You will be waiting a long time….

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[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 11 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

It says that xAI lost their second cofounder, but then it turns out that he just left the company.

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[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

It’s okay this just means he got replaced with AI right?!?!

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