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bornach

@bornach@masto.ai

I'm an ex-postdoc researcher who was bullied out of academia over a decade ago

I now pursue my interests in
#science #technology #education #art #mathematics

via online content creation that explores ideas in #computer #programming, science #communication, #visualization, #electronics #circuit design, #cardboard #crafts, kinetic sculpture, #synthesizer music, and machine learning

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bornach, to crochet
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Avoid being scammed by fake #crochet that was generated by #AI
https://youtu.be/8W3rfego8Ow
#scam #GenerativeAI #DeepFake

bornach, to ai
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[TLDR Business] looks at both sides of the argument on AI being a bubble
https://youtu.be/Qh7Dqzm8f7Y
#AI #AIbubble #ArtificialIntelligence #AIhype #bubble

misty, to random
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Oh man, this news story. Former MLA from Manitoba asks Meta's own "ask AI" chatbot if a phone number he found on Google is really Meta support. It tells him yes. It isn't, and he's scammed out of $500 and control of his accounts. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/facebook-customer-support-scam-1.7219581

bornach,
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@diazona @misty
An accurate description of Large Language Models if you delete "hyper-intelligent" and replace "everything about everything" with "nothing about anything"

bornach, (edited )
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@diazona @resuna @misty
As a child I would use big words I heard on television because it impressed my parents but I was faking that I knew what they meant. I was just using words such as "deficit" and "negative equity" in roughly similar contexts in which I had first encountered them. It gave the impression I knew a lot when in reality I knew nothing.

Based on the replies I've been getting for my prompts, I believe LLMs Copilot, Perplexity, and Gemini are pulling the same sort of trick.

arstechnica, to random
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OpenAI training its next major AI model, forms new safety committee

GPT-5 might be farther off than we thought, but OpenAI wants to make sure it is safe.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/05/openai-training-its-next-major-ai-model-forms-new-safety-committee/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

bornach,
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@crapaud @r_alb @arstechnica
Would have been safer if OpenAI passed all decisions to steal a celebrity voice as microtasks for a gig worker in India to annotate.

sol2070, to random Portuguese
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#aibubble

bornach,
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@sol2070
What does AGI stand for?
#AIhype #AGI #AI

bornach, to ai
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[Modern MBA] #AI is just the latest pump and dump in the #BigData grift
https://youtu.be/pOuBCk8XMC8
#AIhype #ArtificialIntelligence

bornach, to ai
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[Coffeezilla] exposes #RabbitAI as an overhyped product whose hardcoded architecture cannot possibly deliver the features advertised in their glossy launch video. Its #LAM was not a new #AI but just a bunch of #Playwright scripts
https://youtu.be/zLvFc_24vSM
#AIhype #ArtificialIntelligence #JesseLyu
#ChatGPT #PerplexityAI #LLM #LargeActionModel

baldur, to random
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Ran across this on social media

"I just used ChatGPT to generate a 300 character regex for me, saved me an hour.

TBH if you aren’t using it that seems like a skill issue."

And it’s a perfect example of what I mean when I say that “AI” tools are a fundamentally conservative force

bornach,
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@FaithfullJohn @baldur
"That's what the AI is for!", exclaims the AI-bro

https://marketoonist.com/2023/03/ai-written-ai-read.html

tess, to random
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Amused at how Altman helped himself to a woman who denied him multiple times, because he was fond of her*, and despite the fact that she was literally the only person in recent history to sue Disney and win - and that no one else in his circle tried to dissuade him (or had enough pull or made enough effort to be successful).

Says a lot about the people at the helm of the "AI revolution".

  • or perhaps I should say, "Her"
bornach,
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@edomaur @tess @lzg
A bit of a god-complex with that one.
Yannic Kilcher has strong reservations about putting Altman in charge of AI policy
https://youtu.be/5bPBbQyLI7E?t=26m45s
(Commentary at 26:45)

Kurt, to random
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The Google AI isn’t hallucinating about glue in pizza, it’s just over indexing an 11 year old Reddit post by a dude named fucksmith.

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bornach,
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@engravecavedave @Kurt
That's precisely the problem with the anthropomorphising term "hallucination" to describe the "alternative facts" generated by Large Language Models. It is always generating a remix of its training data -- whether humans interpret that output to be truthful or nonsense is largely down to luck. It is highly dependent on the sparsity of the training examples in the area of the latent space that your prompt got mapped to by the Transformer neural network.

bornach,
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@AthanSpod @Kurt
And yet Google has done nothing to fix the Kenya bug which was also due to scraping Reddit

bornach,
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@Npars01 @Kurt
Well is already telling us incorrect solutions to trivial problems that just end up wasting water.

So it needs no assistance from thinktanks

And is no better
https://masto.ai/@bornach/112201311315573304

bornach,
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@scrutinizer @Kurt
Bring back https://yahoo.com

bornach,
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@scrutinizer @Kurt
Ugh!

I meant bring back the human curated directory - what Yahoo! was originally
https://youtu.be/uyl_G6o7JGI

bornach,
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@Buster @Kurt
Laughing that Gemini considers 8 upvotes to be popular...

bornach,
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@Jerry @Kurt
"That was a different and misguided AI!"

bornach, to ai
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Enrico Tartarotti on the current "frenzy" of putting Large Language Model chatbots into everything and marketing everything as having #AI
https://youtu.be/CY_b8w8u9NY
#AIHype #AIbubble #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #chatbot

yatil, (edited ) to random
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Will we honestly talk about the trickery in the “Be My Eyes Accessibility with GPT-4o“ video? Like the taxi that uses the signal way before the passenger signal and actually basically passed the signalling passenger before the signal and still coming to a stop? Or that we don’t see any real processing time? Or that the voice is clear despite standing in London with speakers on? (1/3)

bornach,
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@yatil
It's impressive given that a decade ago neural networks were barely capable of distinguishing between a dog and a cat. However all those canned responses to recognizing London stuff are not evidence this is anywhere close to the sentient AI depicted in the movie "Her". You are basically conversing with a mutated remix of the cached annotations of thousands of gig workers in India and other countries spread across Africa and the far East.
https://thedailyguardian.com/indias-data-annotation-revolution-gig-workers-fueling-ai-training-boom/

bornach,
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@yatil @Lottie @pixelate
Just check the video yourself. At 0:46 the taxi has already put its left turn signal on to indicate an intention to pull over. A full 3 seconds later at 0:49 the blind man extends his arm signalling to the driver. He cannot see that the taxi was already going to pull over. The voice over of GPT4o doesn't tell the blind man that the taxi was already going to stop next to him so he didn't need to do anything. He is fully convinced that no one else flagged down the taxi

renwillis, to generationx
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I have some coworkers and was telling them about how we used to take our car stereo face plates with us when we left the car back in the days when stereos weren't integrated into the dash and you wanted a nice one.

They were very amazed. So I made this meme.

bornach,
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@renwillis
What do you mean "we used to..." ?

The factory stereo in my 19 year old car was draining the battery flat in less than a day when parked, so I replaced it with this one. Halfords was selling off their removable faceplate stereos cheap and I got this half price

bornach,
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@hub @renwillis
That eventually developed a fault where it eats the tape

Anyone remember 8-track car stereo?
https://youtu.be/MqewX8Ix7-4

bornach, (edited ) to random
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withdrawn because it is no longer needed and not because of side effects. [Back to the Science] explains
https://youtu.be/49DjUSD8aWQ

What I'd like to know is why did SkyNews (Australia) choose to go with the headline: "AstraZeneca withdrawn worldwide over side effects"

bornach, to OpenAI
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Best part of this [AI Explained] video on #OpenAI's #gpt4o is at 5:45
"Even though it failed all my maths prompts it is still a big improvement..."
https://youtu.be/ZJbu3NEPJN0?t=5m45s
That in a nutshell sums up the state of AI news coverage on social media
#AIHype #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #generativeAI #LLM #multimodal

lowqualityfacts, to random
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Even more impressive, he did both the English and Japanese versions.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

bornach,
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@nikatjef @lowqualityfacts
https://youtu.be/Ch5MEJk5ZCQ
"Penguins didn't exist until he made that movie. He's that good"

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