Its also one of the authors of "Attention Is All You Need", one of the founding texts of the AI ideology.
BlueMonday1984
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I’m gonna say it: The entire “artificial intelligence”/“machine learning” research field is corrupt. They have institutionally accepted the bullshit fountain as a tool. It doesn’t matter if they’re only using chatbots as a “pilot program”; they’ve bought into the ideology. They’ve granted fashtech a seat at the bar and forced all the other customers to shake its hand.
Abso-fucking-lutely. Oxford's latest "research paper" isn't marketing - its propaganda. Propaganda for bullshit fountains, and for the ideology which endorses them.
What’s a government backstop, and does it happen often? It sounds like they’re asking for a preemptive bail-out.
Zitron's stated multiple times a bailout isn't coming, but I'm not ruling it out myself - AI has proven highly useful as a propaganda tool and an accountability sink, the oligarchs in office have good reason to keep it alive.
I feel slightly better about my Pepsi addiction now.
The Coca-Cola Company is desperately trying to talk up this mediocre demo as the best demo ever. That’s how AI works now — AI companies don’t give you an impressive demo that can’t be turned into a product, they give you a garbage demo and loudly insist it’s actually super cool
Considering AI supporters' are too artistically blind to tell quality work from slop, I'm gonna chalk that up to them genuinely believing its the best thing since sliced bread.
Times are tough, the real economy where people live is way down, the recession is biting, and the normal folk know the ones promoting AI want them out of a job. If you push AI, you are the enemy of ordinary people. And the ordinary people know it.
Damn right, David. Here's to hoping the ordinary people don't forget who the AI pushers were once winter sets in.
i think you need to be a little bit more specific unless sounding a little like an unhinged cleric from memritv is what you’re going for
I'll admit to taking your previous comment too literally here - I tend to assume people are completely serious unless I can clearly tell otherwise.
but yeah nah i don’t think it’s gonna last this way, people want to go back to just doing their jobs like it used to be, and i think it may be that bubble burst wipes out companies that subsidized and provided cheap genai, so that promptfondlers hammering image generators won’t be as much of a problem. propaganda use and scams will remain i guess
Scams and propaganda will absolutely remain a problem going forward - LLMs are tailor-made to flood the zone with shit (good news for propagandists), and AI tools will provide scammers with plenty of useful tools for deception.
Considering we've already got a burgeoning Luddite movement that's been kicked into high gear by the AI bubble, I'd personally like to see an outgrowth of that movement be what ultimately kicks it off.
There were already some signs of this back in August, when anti-AI protesters vandalised cars and left "Butlerian Jihad" leaflets outside a pro-AI business meetup in Portland.
Alternatively, I can see the Jihad kicking off as part of an environmentalist movement - to directly quote Baldur Bjarnason:
[AI has] turned the tech industry from a potential political ally to environmentalism to an outright adversary. Water consumption of individual queries is irrelevant because now companies like Google and Microsoft are explicitly lined up against the fight against climate disaster. For that alone the tech should be burned to the ground.
I wouldn't rule out an artist-led movement being how the Jihad starts, either - between the AI industry "directly promising to destroy their industry, their work, and their communities" (to quote Baldur again), and the open and unrelenting contempt AI boosters have shown for art and artists, artists in general have plenty of reason to see AI as an existential threat to their craft and/or a show of hatred for who they are.
Part of me wants to see Google actually try this and get publicly humiliated by their nonexistent understanding of physics, part of me dreads the fact it'll dump even more fucking junk into space.
Found a high quality sneer of OpenAI from Los Angeles Review of Books: Literature Is Not a Vibe: On ChatGPT and the Humanities
Plus, the authors currently suing OpenAI have gotten their hands on emails and internal Slack messages discussing their deletion of the LibGen dataset - a development which opens the company up to much higher damages and sanctions from the court for destroying evidence.
That’s quite a remarkable claim. Especially when the actual number of attacks by AI-generated ransomware is zero. [Socket]
If even a single case pops up, I'd be surprised - AFAIK, cybercriminals are exclusively using AI as a social engineering tool (e.g. voice cloning scams, AI-extruded phishing emails, etcetera). Humans are the weakest part of any cybersec system, after all.
The paper finishes by recommending “embracing AI in cyber risk management”.
Given AI's track record on security, that sounds like an easy way to become an enticing target.
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The melancholy of history rhyming - Baldur Bjarnason on the fallout of AI
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I also learned Bitwarden bought into AI reading this. They don't appear to have let vulnerability extruders ruin their code as of this writing, but any willingness to entertain the fascism machines is enough for me to consider jumping ship.