Tag: AI point-missing
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Reprint from 2021
After a long dry spell, somebody is reading through this blog with a purpose. The pattern of one read per source seems bot-like but the pieces have a theme, so it’s ambiguous. Bots usually pick my most meaningless clickbaity items. This reminds me of the Las Vegas reader who ran through the best stuff in…
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Thresholds
It’s suddenly fashionable to say that AI now makes all truth impossible. ABSOLUTE RAW STINKING BULLSHIT. Visual “news” has ALWAYS been fake because “NEWS” HAS ALWAYS BEEN FAKE. The whole purpose of adding photos and engravings to “news” was to make fakery more credible. The first movie newsreel by Pathe in 1895 was faked in…
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Tired of the missed point.
A long time ago I got tired of people who miss the point of AI. You simply can’t argue or worry about the qualities and actions of the MACHINE. There’s no line between ChatGPT and the endless history of predictive math. Life is infinitely full of predictive mechanisms. Most plants and animals predict daylight, moons…
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Everything Altman does.
NewScientist is admirably avoiding pure partisanship this year. It’s still continuing the LONG tradition of public science voices, boosting the newest fashion in Share Value, treating the latest tech dystopia as utopia. From an article on Altman’s latest crime: = = = = = START UTOPIA: But ask agentic AI, “What should I eat tonight?”…
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Why licensing is crucial
Recently I wrote a defense of licensing, from medieval practices to modern authorship and occupation licensing. Here’s why licensing is needed. A judge has made a completely unusable and pointless decision on AI theft. Anthropic likely violated copyright law when it pirated authors’ books to create a giant dataset and “forever” library but that training…
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We need a Carney
Carney is trying to rebuild Canada’s PHYSICAL industries including petroleum and mining. We haven’t even thought about changing our ways. Here’s a list of 28 “breakout” startup firms, all growing fast and hiring. NOT ONE is physical or even derived from physical. Nobody is developing a new Cellophane Tape or Facial Tissue or Bun Sandwich,…
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How soon they forget
Newspapers are mad that Google’s new AI has stopped linking to them, because Google links were a main source of subscribers. Before the web, papers didn’t rely on the Yellow Pages to gain subscribers. They CERTAINLY didn’t rely on competing papers! The Bugle didn’t wait for the Gazette to mention it. Newspapers sold their own…
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Pew missed one
Pew is normally the most unbiased and careful pollster. Pew surveyed feelings on AI, comparing AI experts vs general public. They found the experts love AI and the public hates it. Pew defined experts as people who work in the field or attended conferences about AI. They tried to find more “diverse” or “gendered” experts…
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Stop blaming the voters.
Democrats have been smashing their own voters for 40 years. When Trump came along and tried to please and respect the working class, the Democrats blamed the stupid Deplorable Low-Information voters. Poets and artists and composers and journalists have been turning out grotesque horrible SHIT for more than 40 years, and loudly insulting their own…
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Flipping their duties
Trump will appoint an AI and Bitcoin Czar to steer the government toward funding and encouraging those activities. In plain language, the government will now be funding and encouraging massive copyright theft, job destruction, and perpetual motion swindles. For 200 years the copyright and patent offices, the post office, and other regulators, have been trying…
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New pointless thought
Continuing my pointless crusade against using quotes instead of SAYING IT IN YOUR OWN WORDS. New variant on the pointless crusade: If you’re letting Plato or Einstein or Franklin or Hayek or Rothbard or Tolkien do your thinking for you, then you can’t argue against people who let ChatGPT do their thinking for them. Both…
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AI is criminal.
We already knew that, but good old Craig Wright proves it. His latest spewing of bizarre complex objections to his own lying seems to have been written mostly by criminal accomplice ChatGPT. This is DELICIOUS. Via Protos: = = = = = START QUOTE: Additionally, 16 links to various CoinDesk, The Block, Bitmex research, and…
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The real problem and purpose
A long time ago I got tired of reading the philosophical thinkers about AI. They argue about utterly meaningless shit like whether AI can be conscious or creative. Of course meaningless arguing is the JOB DEFINITION of philosophers. Artists and animators understand the ONLY purpose of AI, destroying the skills and lives of artists and…
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Modernizing Rush
Protos gets cute in an article about bitcoin billionaire Justin Sun. Apparently Sun published a picture of his birthday celebration. In the picture he has seven fingers, and the cake is decorated with RAPPY SLBTHDAY. Both of those are classic AI signatures, so everyone assumed it was AI. Later he denied the AI accusation, saying…
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Bad deal
Reading more of the AI criticism at MindMatters. Most of the complaints are about the talents and “consciousness” of LLMs, which are utterly irrelevant. Altman WANTS us to be arguing about the degree of creativity and the “consciousness” and the fake threat of grabbing the nuclear button. (Big Data has been on the nuclear button…
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