Their work has been 🔥🔥🔥 for years now.
@pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 5d agoMarble sculpture by Italian artist Fabio Viale.
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It's been a long, winding journey, cutting a path through uncharted territory.
@pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 5d agoInhouse IT depts getting totally sauce lost bc this. Meanwhile here comes the hand of corp finance abt to choke their throat.
auntie cistamine@laurenancona.bsky.social · 5d agosoftware companies producing LLMs that enable users to vibe code their own flagship offerings is the kind of Schadenfreude that keeps me going rn www.tomshardware.com/software/mic...
Spend $4 to make $1 🙃 But they are polymaths, right?
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5d agoBARCLAYS DESK: “.. let’s face facts; the combined disclosed lab revenues of circa $150bn .. is not going to cut it when the ecosystem needs well in excess of $1trn .. I’ve yet been presented with a credible framework as to where this money is going to come from ..”
No, and no. 1) Effort started before AI 2) Micron machines are only useful to micron humans at scale 3) Car is built by huge machines, parabolically more difficult to erect than 7 microns toys. 4) Per obj tooling is abt max efficiency, building per obj machine is dumdum .
Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 6d agoIF this “matter compiler” invention proves out, we are fully entering sci-fi territory and things that are already moving fast will only begin to move even faster.
Used to go home early in the afternoons occasionally because the big box was taxed and now decades later entire depts are going home cause their chat api is down.
Cocaine & Hollywood and AI & Users share the same functional venn diagram.
We're just gonna stroll by the graveyard of this guy's hopes and dreams which apparently involve mostly running over his neighbors on the sidewalks and robbing/shooting up neighborhood businesses? And.... this guy is why I kept a tire iron underneath my register so long ago.
jess m. ☕🍂@jametc.bsky.social · last wk.I mean why bother with all of this? Why even bother with the pretense of art and media? just hook an electrode up to the dopamine center in your brain and keep pressing the button like you're a rat in a fucking skinner machine. Go sit in a dark box hooked up to hoses forever
Considering tripping on an anal plug on Ventura or stubbing your toe on a hypo in a Valley CVS parking lot are real events, pjs are the least concern.
Micah@rincewind.run · 7d agonobody even glanced twice I love LA
I know the inflation rate of the dollar, but does anyone know the SWE resume inflation rate of the last two decades?
SWE resumes have so many bullets now I'm charging a manned trench trying to read them.
Nothing is more challenging than when you're playing reality and the other party is playing pretend, on the same subject, between their ears.
AI will impress me as soon as it's able to create a tolerable version of Dune as cinema.
They really hate being called birdbrains?
Brian Merchant@bcmerchant.bsky.social · 2w agoNo two words send AI industry advocates into fits of rage more than "stochastic parrots." The question is: Why? Why do they get so worked up over this particular critical framework time and time again? I sat down with @emilymbender.bsky.social, one of the coauthors of the original paper, to discuss
Great 🧵 and knew Cthulhu was gonna make a showing. These twits love love love squid face ( friends have been profiting off that unrequited love forever). Do think they whiffed Barker's writing though. PH was rule follower until they weren't. Opportunistic little shit who got theirs in the end.
Gareth Watkins@garethwatkins.bsky.social · 2w agoSince everyone started talking about Yudkowsky last week, I think we should talk about the other person who created contemporary AI discourse: Nick Land. This will be written for a general audience, and for something more substantial I'd recommend @eruditorumpress.com's Neoreaction: A Basilisk
it’s become so normal for people to disclose their rapes to appeal to people’s humanity around rape cases that we don’t think about how disgusting the need to do that is put the worst moment of your life out for public consumption, so that half the comments can call you a liar.
I'm waiting on @solomonrmissouri.com to tap in from the top turnbuckle. 🍿
Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 2w ago😂😂
Watching society elevate the tantrum throwing kidults from gifted class for what, lulz? Ffs, put them in timeout. Really, really, really not that intellectually hard.
I've been watching them hoover up "markets" like Monty Python for decades now. It's long past time we handed them the wafer.
ae@aelkus.bsky.social · 3w agothe biggest point of leverage right now is to simply let capitalism work, as opposed to digital feudalism. people like Thiel have said over and over again that they do not like competition and see the founder-king as a heroic figure that should have maximum power to do as he sees fit
This is interesting because OpenAI is already in bed in some very large enterprises in the state and I imagine this opens a huge can of liability for them.
Melanie Mitchell@melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 3w ago👀 Florida attorney general to OpenAI: (www.myfloridalegal.com/sites/defaul...)
Co is full of shit. Costs are gonna be around ~$13k to drop a reasonable gn unless burning cash for names or pages. Asked this❓ of a peep, w/numerous curr gn output, when AI image was hyping so I could do a casual pro forma on prod costs to slap someone who insisted it was the future.
Publishers Weekly@publisherswkly.bsky.social · 3w agoThe Singapore-based startup says its AI-powered platform can halve graphic novel production time and cost. “This is not a self-driving car,” notes CEO Anumeha Bisaria. “It’s more like handing a Ferrari to someone who already knows how to drive.” buff.ly/YOXZgZY
💯👇 Superb filleting of the cooked/cracked thinking that permeates the space.
Ian Dunt@iandunt.bsky.social · 3w agoI could quote pretty much this entire article by @mjrobbins.com on the bizarre psychology of the AI apocalypse freaks, but you should just read it instead. Such a relief to see someone express my feelings so eloquently. martinrobbins.substack.com/p/the-ai-apo...
.02 of very discounted language for describing the output. hallucination → actuality variant output - AVO the model shows bias → actuality variant output causing asymmetrically deviant outcomes - 🥑
Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 3w agoFor reasons mysterious to me, Will Stancil is continuing his crash out about language used to describe LLMs, moving on from raning about "stochastic parrots" to picking up on this piece that @nannainie.bsky.social and I published earlier this summer: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch... >>
This article brings up a f'ing lot for moi 🧵. First, amazing 🥾 stomp on a fire 🐜 nest that has taken over tech. Deets I was unaware of, but I knew a cult when I👃 one (did my time, Bane in the Pit -but nicer- long ago). So didn't cross rat pack until rats started crossing mine.
Don't let sex cults capture your industry and government seems like a reasonable set of guardrails.
Always amused how much the preying on youth motif maps from porn->sports->art->ent->SV. Meet the new sins, just like the old sins. Too much money, too little oversight and the same happens over & over & over. Far more get eaten then eat. Why to smash monopolies.
Rothaí@rothaiocht.bsky.social · 3w ago20 years ago, I sometimes played big sister/ cool aunt to small circles of teens coming out to YCombinator etc., as east coast freshmen from MIT etc, or even as overseas high school students as young as 15/17. I wasn’t in tech, and felt truly lucky to know them a little at their formative stage.
🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 of business loan 📞 coming from 🇨🇦 blowing up my📱daily is asymmetric Carney warfare?