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this is also why pivot to AI is mostly 200-250 words, not 1200 or 2000 or 8000
per link, venture capital has been very reluctant to unambiguously realise the losses. a $1b book value is an (imaginary) asset you can hug and hold, a $114m loss is not.
there were counterarguments that the authors anthropomorphised the LLMs inappropriately - which is a valid objection - and therefore these tests shouldn't have been run at all. The answer to that is that the companies are marketing this shit by anthropomorphising the hell out of it and literally claiming these spicy autocompletes are on the path to artificial super intelligence. So of course cognitive tests are gonna be appropriate.
see also: Yudowsky has never consumed fiction targeted above middle school
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@lritter/114001505488538547
master: welcome to my Smart Home
student: wow. how is the light controlled?
master: with this on-off switch
student: i don't see a motor to close the blinds
master: there is none
student: where is the server located?
master: it is not needed
student: excuse me but what is "Smart" about all of this?
master: everything.
in this moment, the student was enlightened
it's getting a bit thin! Here's the Press Gazette page, which they keep up to date, of media outlets that have done AI deals, whether they're adding slop to their output or just taking bribes from OpenAI:
https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/news-publisher-ai-deals-lawsuits-openai-google/
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Guardian does OpenAI deal, New York Times goes AI for newspaper content generation
(pivot-to-ai.com)
i am sorry to say it's the actual AI image the story is about!
Fractals are alive and they hate us
comp.basilisk FAQ
first thought: "she is gowned in old jeans and a Debian t-shirt"
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apparently video is just huuuuge