[-] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

gilding the lily a bit but

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 5 days ago

Does a sealion have bootlicker nature? Ugh.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 14 points 5 days ago

Please, señor software engineer was my father. Call me Bob.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 60 points 1 week ago

NBC/the media really killing it with painting him as a self-radicalised spook.

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original link

“If all of this sounds like a libertarian fever dream, I hear you. But as these markets rise, legacy media will continue to slide into irrelevance.”

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Abstracted abstract:

Frontier models are increasingly trained and deployed as autonomous agents, which significantly increases their potential for risks. One particular safety concern is that AI agents might covertly pursue misaligned goals, hiding their true capabilities and objectives – also known as scheming. We study whether models have the capability to scheme in pursuit of a goal that we provide in-context and instruct the model to strongly follow. We evaluate frontier models on a suite of six agentic evaluations where models are instructed to pursue goals and are placed in environments that incentivize scheming.

I saw this posted here a moment ago and reported it*, and it looks to have been purged. I am reposting it to allow us to sneer at it.

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Didn’t see this news posted but please link previous correspondence if I missed it.

https://archive.is/XwbY0

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 36 points 1 month ago

Men will do anything except go to therapy

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 45 points 2 months ago

This is great.

What I’ve heard from my endless hours of comedy podcasts is that at corporate gigs like this, sometimes some execs start getting the idea that, because comedy is being performed, that they get to make some jokes too. Once they get up on stage, the worst possible mask off shit just pours forth. I kind of want to know if that happened.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 77 points 2 months ago

A wallpaper app? What is this, 2008?

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 45 points 3 months ago

Chinese whisper

Complete tangent but outside of the commonwealth, this game is referred to by the much less racist moniker “telephone”

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 35 points 3 months ago

have they tried writing better prompts? my lived experience says that because it works for me, it should work as long as you write good prompts. prompts prompts prompts. I am very smart. /s

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 39 points 3 months ago

I hate hate hate this so much. This is precisely the kind of smug, reductionist, dunning-kruger, every-problem-is-a-nail-and-programming-is-my-hammer type of shit that fuels my hatred of not only TESCREAL but pretty much everyone I meet in STEM.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 48 points 3 months ago

ATTN: If you're coming into this thread to say, "The output of AI is bad because your prompts suck," I'm just proud that you managed to figure out how to use the internet at all. Good job, you!

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 86 points 3 months ago

LLMs, and everyone who uses them to process information:

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Kind of sharing this because the headline is a little sensationalist and makes it sound like MS is hard right (they are, but not like this) and anti-EU.

I mean, they probably are! Especially if it means MS is barred from monopolies and vertical integration.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by swlabr@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

Uncritically sharing this article with naive hope. Is this just PR for a game? Probably. Indies deserve as much free press as possible though.

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Followup to part 1, which now has a transcript!

As is tradition, I am posting this link without having listened to it. (too many podcasts)

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Discussion on AI starts at about 17mins. The Bas(ilisk) drop happens at 20:30. Sorry if ads mess up my time stamps. I think this is the second time it’s come up on the show.

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Don't expect a good or deep analysis of FTX or any TREACLESy stuff here.

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