dgerard

you've got the abyss diving down pat

curser

article updated - apparently Whisper uses a transformer model and is closely related to GPT-2. thus, hallucinations.

I am actually talking book proposals about this one. (I told my agent about the Akon City article and her eyes lit up.) There's a definite strain of compelling crazy to pursue here.

obviously I should write an AI book first. But also, writing isn't fungible, so it'll be what I come out with first.

TIRED: AI generated images
WIRED: obvious 5-minute edits that don't give a shit

well so far it's the whiny little chuds app

though today's was the Nigerian crypto guy who was angry I'd apparently deleted several of his articles

not included: a few hundred words of other ranting about the pervasive race science in AI research and especially from anyone talking about "AGI". Maybe later.

there’s a whole much larger drama around the commander format that i haven’t got the energy to go into here. the most tolerable summary is that they printed a card so ridiculous that the format dissolved and was remade under a wave of death threats when it was banned. i know that doesn’t make sense, just trust me, or write your own summary of it.

now i really wanna know

also, thinking about it, this is shockingly on topic for tech takes

no no, that one i totally did and i'll fuckin do it again

HOW MANY HAVE WE GOT

they're well at the top of the S-curve and now there's only desperate over-engineering and bolting on special cases left

dude. the AGI will simply vanish the evidence wherever they're standing