I read the judgement quite carefully and it makes no reference at all to the discovery material. the only evidence it demonstrates awareness of is public or is testimony
I read the judgement quite carefully and it makes no reference at all to the discovery material. the only evidence it demonstrates awareness of is public or is testimony
it ought to be named philosopher’s disease
traveling back in time and teaching the rulers of the british empire about a little thing called literature
if only king leopold had been exposed to the humanities bro 😞
I’m so sick of “if only we had more humanities in education the elites wouldn’t be fucking up the world.” that has nothing to do with reality, it never has, it never will
we’re aiming to do 1% more recycling this year 💪💪💪
start of the article is fine I suppose but it gets pretty bad when it tries to evaluate impact
He explains that “cutting-edge AI capabilities” are now available for every company to buy for the price of standard software. But that instead of building a whole AI system, he says many firms are simply popping a chatbot interface on top of a non-AI product.
the implication here that there exists a viable company buying “cutting-edge AI capabilities” “for the price of standard software” and “building a whole AI system” with them is comical but goes unexamined
"If I asked a room of people what their definition of AI is, they would all give a different answer,” he says. “The term is used very broadly and loosely, without any clear point of reference. It is this ambiguity that is allowing AI washing to emerge.
no it isn’t. the article opens with a clear counterexample. if the ambiguity didn’t exist Amazon still could have lied about using ai, easily
“AI washing can have concerning impacts for businesses, from overpaying for technology and services to failing to meet operational objectives the AI was expected to help them achieve.”
ok, businesses can be impacted
Meanwhile, for investors it can make it harder to identify genuinely innovative companies.
ok, investors can be impacted… hard to be sympathetic to them but sure
And, says Mr Ayangar: “If consumers have unmet expectations from products that claim to offer advanced AI-driven solutions, this can erode trust in start-ups that are doing genuinely ground-breaking work.”
and consumers, ok, we’ve gone through all three types of entities that exist.
wait, what about workers? what about people being policed? what about people trying to interact with government programs using these products? why is only the holy trinity of capitalism worth mentioning?
But in the longer term, says Advika Jalan, head of research at MMC Ventures, the problem of AI washing may subside on its own.
“AI is becoming so ubiquitous - even if they’re just ChatGPT wrappers - that ‘AI-powered’ as a branding tool will likely cease to be a differentiator after some time,” she says. “It will be a bit like saying ‘we’re on the internet’.”
exercise: rewrite this passage to be about crypto
if this were running you would be unlikely to know about it. the novel part is not spamming reddit, it’s trying to do so strictly to target ai companies, without humans ever seeing the result
the faster training data gets polluted the faster ai companies get fucked. therefore, I propose the deliberate creation of unmarked ai compost piles on reddit and discord: “communities” managed so as to minimize visibility to humans while generating large quantities of shit data
this is a completely standard silicon valley job title
*throwing a fedora like a shuriken* haha, consider yourself blocked good sir!
thought it was bad enough when the hackers got into my rabbithole, now this
thinking about how I was inoculated against part of ai hype bc a big part of my social circle in undergrad consisted of natural language processing people. they wanted to work at places with names like “OpenAI” and “google deepmind,” their program was more or less a cognitive science program, but I never once heard any of them express even the slightest suspicion that LLMs of all things were progressing toward intelligence. it would have been a nonsequiter.
also from their pov the statistical approach to machine learning was defined by abandoning the attempt to externalize the meaning of text. the cliche they used to refer to this was “the meaning of a word is the context in which it occurs.”
finding out that some prestigious ai researchers are all about being pilled on immanetizating agi was such a swerve for me. it’s like if you were to find out that michio kaku has just won his fourth consecutive nobel prize in physics
I used to hear about it IRL and now I don’t idk
just remembering this perfect video about ironic-not-ironic fascism
not a cult btw
mods can you please ban “david gerard” or whatever his name really is. ai hate is already out of hand without people coming to push their agenda like this
headline is inaccurate and downplays the incredible potential of ai. Google Gemini tried to kill this person AND their entire family
autoincorrect
I’ve never had the full on “let’s be nazis together” invite but I’ve had several people launch unprompted into “now that it’s just us white folks we can talk for real” mode. internally they must have been like “I see white skin, we are clear for takeoff, 54321”
funnily enough it hasn’t happened since I became visibly trans