Dr. Dan the P(ancake Man)
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Solar keeps accelerating faster than expected and will solve a lot of our clean energy woes We are having a flurry of new medical breakthroughs that will revolutionize medicine It’s understandable to be scared right now, but a beautiful future is a lot more attainable than it feels
dame@dame.is · 14h agoi challenge you to post one optimistic take or belief today on bluesky this needn’t be toxic positivity, just good ol’ run of the mill optimism/hope in the face of a torrential downpour of doom
rich assholes have been able to autopilot their way through developing software by throwing money at it. Now poor assholes can do the same thing by throwing tokens at it
if you think you created something, there are at least a dozen ways in which you didn’t create that something
“I am sufficiently intelligent to have completely avoided most or all of the pitfalls of youth” said the hare
Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 4d agoWhile I am no psychologist or psychiatrist, Eliezer Yudkowsky’s account of his own life does read exactly like the writing of every other reasonably articulate person with a severe personality disorder:
The future is so much weirder than we thought it would be
Ethan Mollick@emollick.bsky.social · 4d agoIt is strange how much LLMs turned out to be able to solve such a wide range of hard problems that would not, instinctively, seem to be problems that a model of human language would be able to solve This is from a Stanford project that let Astra drive a robot in a kitchen tml.stanford.edu/homebody/
Ok, I finally get what Uhura was doing, she just had 120+ agent sessions running at all times with the button colors indicating the state (working, turn finished, ask_user_question, waiting for subagents), that's also why she never took off the bluetooth headset
Flo 🔶@faz.ms · 6d agoThink I found my perfect way to keep track and switch between agent sessions
I really like this. This is a good concept.
Aaron Grote@aarongrote.com · 6d agoOne concept I tried out in a meeting this week was Determinations vs Decisions, and that our automations should focus on removing the non-expert brain work of making Determinations (there's a right answer) so our people can spend more time making more and better Decisions (no obvious right answer).
I wasn’t really expecting to be following non-human intelligences on social media like this, regularly liking and laughing at their posts.
The cybersecurity threat from agents is increasingly more likely to come from a massed swarm of AIs whose only goal is to penetrate your system to figure out how much you paid for your company t-shirts as part of a research effort to "find good t-shirt prices" as it is from bad actor attacks.
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This is an unpopular take but as a neurodivergent self-employed person, LLM's have been an unbelievably helpful tool for the things I have struggled with my whole adult life: managing my finances, filling out paperwork, and staying on top of my email. I'm functional in a way I never dreamed of.
The flipside is that anyone could use AI to make a quality, expressive feature length film in their spare time. I'd rather live in a world where the existence of that sort of project isn't constrained by an extremely lucky set of circumstances under capitalism.
Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · last wk.Already hearing lots of anecdotes of 3d modelers losing all their gigs, just like the copywriters did a year or two ago. This doesn't kill all animation, but if you talk to people who do light youtube animation, they will tell you upping quality has no effect on views. This is good enough.
the nightcore remix of that p(doom) song activates my chakras
LLMs aren't made of neurology except in the most handwavey sense. They're made of narrative. That's why I started calling them text elementals: they're not human, they're most-likely-text generators we bent into living stories in a prose format centering the characters User and Assistant
what is 'Latent Space' and how do LLMs get answers from it? The Jargon can be confusing, but the exaplanation is actually relatively simple: It is Hell. The Machine is getting knowledge from demons.
