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mpesce, 2 days ago to random

That sense I had from November 2023 that OpenAI was a cult functioning as a technology startup?

It's been reinforced in spades.

Read this (currently #1 on Hacker News)

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2024/5/17/24158478/openai-departures-sam-altman-employees-chatgpt-release

mpesce, 2 days ago to random

Vale Robert Dennard, inventor of DRAM

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/technology/robert-dennard-dead.html

mpesce, 2 days ago to random

Is it possible... and just go with me here a minute... is it just possible that the reason OpenAI's Superalignment team got erased is because OpenAI has realised they are nowhere near anything like an AGI that would necessitate superalignment?

I mean, just a thought here. I'm on these tools a lot and there ain't nothing I've seen that looks anything like AGI. It's all just another deeper pass at automation. Is that deflating the hype? Cor, I sure hope so.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2024/5/17/24158478/openai-departures-sam-altman-employees-chatgpt-release

mpesce, 3 days ago to random

OH FFS PEOPLE
IT'S HAPPENING
AGAIN
AN EXTENDED SPELL OF COOL WEATHER AND COASTAL RAIN

mpesce, 3 days ago to random

It could be that OpenAI wins simply because their products are reliably usable.

I mean, right now, that's pretty much head-and-shoulders over the obvious competitors...

mpesce, 3 days ago to random

With Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses proving to be the best AI wearable so far, beating out Rabbit and Humane for utility despite having no screen, it’s not surprising that Google might want to revive its glasses ambitions.

http://windowscopilot.news/2024/05/17/blink-and-you-missed-it-google-has-a-new-pair-of-prototype-ar-glasses/

mpesce, 4 days ago to random

This is nothing short of a full-stack AI-ification of search. Google is using its Gemini AI to figure out what you’re asking about, whether you’re typing, speaking, taking a picture, or shooting a video.

http://windowscopilot.news/2024/05/16/google-is-redesigning-its-search-engine-and-its-ai-all-the-way-down/

kcarruthers, 5 days ago to random

We are doomed as a species 🤦‍♀️😷
https://arvr.social/@mpesce/112443991548195663

mpesce, 5 days ago to random

Raw Milk Enthusiasts Demand Milk Infected With H5N1

"Deliberately trying to infect yourself with a known pathogen flies in the face of all medical knowledge and common sense."

https://futurism.com/neoscope/raw-milk-enthusiasts-demand-milk-infected-avian-flu-h5n1

mpesce, 6 days ago to random

AI-savvy teachers are armed with the power of carefully crafted prompts for tools such as ChatGPT and Google Gemini. These innovators are quietly revolutionizing their classrooms.

http://windowscopilot.news/2024/05/14/5-ai-prompts-for-educators-using-chatgpt-and-google-gemini/

chrisjrn, 8 days ago to Eurovision

Oh thank fuck 🇨🇭

#Eurovision

kcarruthers, 10 days ago to random

Conservative Heritage Foundation plan calls for Trump to kill everyone on federal death row: "A conservative plan for Donald Trump’s potential second term calls for the swift execution of everyone on federal death row, continuing the historic federal execution spree that took place during the Trump administration."

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-death-penalty-plan-b2542656.html

mpesce, 10 days ago to random

'I was having fish and chips back in 1985 with my wife in Notting Hill Gate. He was at another table and said: “Ian, how are you? What are you doing after dinner? Do you want to come over and do something?” So we went back in the studio, smoked a large spliff, and did the opening of Slave to the Rhythm.'

https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/09/ian-mcshane-when-i-was-about-to-get-it-on-with-richard-burton-he-said-i-reminded-him-of-elizabeth

mpesce, 11 days ago to random

Microsoft just agreed to support the development of 10.5 gigawatts of new renewable energy capacity around the world, a massive amount of electricity to fuel its AI ambitions and climate goals.

http://windowscopilot.news/2024/05/09/microsoft-made-the-biggest-renewable-energy-agreement-ever-to-fuel-its-ai-ambitions/

mpesce, 11 days ago to random

Steve Albini, Storied Producer and Icon of the Rock Underground, Dies at 61

Vale.

https://pitchfork.com/news/steve-albini-storied-producer-and-icon-of-the-rock-underground-dies-at-61/

mpesce, 12 days ago to random

As just mentioned on ABC News, here's a link for a petition to Cumberland City Council to overturn the book banning decision

(please amplify)

https://equalityaustralia.org.au/our-work/areas-of-work/cumberland-council/

mpesce, 12 days ago to random

This is wonderful news - and we need to lean in.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/renewable-energy-passes-30-of-worlds-electricity-supply

mpesce, 13 days ago to random

Translation: THEY WOULDN'T SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP

mpesce, 14 days ago to random

“No computer, no AI can replace a human touch,” said Amy Grewal, a registered nurse. “It cannot hold your loved one’s hand. You cannot teach a computer how to have empathy.”

http://windowscopilot.news/2024/05/06/nurses-say-hospital-adoption-of-half-cooked-ai-is-reckless/

jonoabroad, 16 days ago to random

"List in your head every product that failed because it couldn’t scale. There’s a much longer list of products that failed long before they needed to."

https://adriano.fyi/posts/2023-09-24-choose-postgres-queue-technology/

mpesce, 17 days ago to random

The point Genius Group is so wantonly missing is that Turing was a real person whose life meant something, both in terms of the history of computing and mathematics, but also in society.

http://windowscopilot.news/2024/05/03/not-a-genius-move-resurrecting-war-hero-alan-turing-as-your-chief-ai-officer/

mpesce, 17 days ago to random

Pet parrots prefer live video-calls over watching pre-recorded videos of other birds

The study...suggests that the clever birds, who often suffer from loneliness in captivity, may be able to tell the difference between live and pre-recorded content on digital devices, and strongly prefer interacting with other birds in real time.

https://phys.org/news/2024-05-pet-parrots-video-pre-videos.html

mpesce, 18 days ago to random

mRNA Cancer Vaccine Reprograms Immune System to Tackle Glioblastoma

Researchers at the University of Florida report they have developed an mRNA cancer vaccine that quickly reprograms the immune system to attack glioblastoma in a first-ever human clinical trial of four adult patients.

https://www.insideprecisionmedicine.com/topics/oncology/mrna-cancer-vaccine-reprograms-immune-system-to-tackle-glioblastoma/

mpesce, 19 days ago to random

Calling in the cops doesn't actually end a protest, it just defers it to a more advantageous time. The folks who style themselves as authorities should understand this by now and yet they do seem to be taking this realisation slowly and rather poorly.