Tag: AI point-missing
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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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Missing part of the picture(s)
Nina Power of Compact writes about the triviality of Big Art. There are two sources of money for Big Art. (1) Serving as tradable securities for rich fuckheads. (2) Licking the butts of bureaucrats who provide Arts Grants. I’d argue that the first source is ancient. Big Artists always worked for aristocrats, and always painted…
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Caitch-22
Noted via MindMatters, an article in Wired discusses a growing problem for freelance writers. Publishers are switching to AI for their writing, and at the same time they’re kicking out human writers for “suspicion of using AI.” = = = = = START QUOTE: As a local journalist in Bucyrus, Ohio, Gasuras relies on side…
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Missed his best argument
Eric Barmack writes a smart and practical overview of the current status of AI as a movie production tool. I especially appreciate the fact that he didn’t just discuss how it could be done, he tried to do it. The result is not better or worse than most short Youtube documentaries, but the cost in…
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Pony in Oz
Jeffrey Funk gathers up a long list of fake AI successes. In each case the machine was only doing part of the work, with humans in India doing the rest. There’s a real Turk inside the Mechanical Turk. There’s a little man named Ramesh behind the curtain in Oz. The same illusion was forced on…
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Bandwagon
Luskin at EvoNews points to a new paper by establishment biologists who acknowledge that the standard theory of evolution is flawed. They propose, without actually doing it, that AI might help to sort out the question. Unfortunately they miss the basic problem with LLMs. In current parlance, the term AI means systems like ChatGPT. If…
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All open now
The purpose of venture capitalists, and the stock market in general, is the EXACT OPPOSITE OF PROFIT. The stock market is the RECIPROCAL of real business. When real business prospers, the market goes to zero. When real business collapses, the market goes to infinity. VCs make the goal perfectly transparent. They invest to destroy business…
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AI and fingers
AI famously has trouble with multiples like fingers and headlights. It tends to run wild with a pattern, giving people seven fingers or giving cars six headlights. Just now I got an email from Quantum Fiber, the successor to Pacific Bell and Qwest and CenturyLink. The heading says “there’s an outage in your area”. Here’s…
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Useful pushback
At the Ankler, a producer discusses what AI can and can’t do for producers. He concludes that AI can replace human editors for first-stage filtering to winnow down a huge pile of incoming scripts. He received immediate and knowledgeable pushback from two human editors, who pointed out the fallacies: = = = = = START…
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