TechTakes

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prompt injections get easier and stupider

Edit: I’d like to preemptively clarify I don’t have anything against these specific examples, nor am I trying to invalidate the work that went into creating them or any other examples of anti-AI fonts. This post is meant to critique the idea itself. I’m not trying to put-down anyone here!

get your shiny new DDR-4 motherboards

We are winning :)

all data centre plans halted for audit

how DARE you catch me out

the purpose of a system is what it does

saying the quiet part out loud

Elon still a drag

Trust in Zuck’s vision

“It’s very hard to collect data that trains the model to be better than humans, because there are very few humans who can create that data,” Raj said. “You want to make it better than a Fields Medalist or a Nobel Prize winner. How do you collect that?”

Beyond the fact that “superintelligence” is undefined, he overstates the importance of AI in the scheme of things. Centralization and access may be defining questions for AI policy, but AI policy exists in a global context that invites tougher inquiries.

pivot from AI

I have a lot of respect for Bernie Sanders, but he has a trash take on AI.

“Go to your parents and ask them: hey, like every time I get a chance to talk to my boss, ask me if I can have more days off,” he said, per BI. “Ask your parents what they think of that as a career strategy.”

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“Maybe it’s more important to influence the agent than even the human, because with a human you influence one person,” Mobian cofounder and CEO Jonah Goodhart told Digiday. “When you influence ChatGPT, you’re influencing potentially all of ChatGPT. If ChatGPT changes what it says about [a brand], it’s massive and it’s more than any one campaign could ever do.”

Showcase payments were a response by Google to threat of being forced to pay for news in Australia and the EU, he said. The AI deals are an attempt to “buy some friends” as Google is accused by regulators in the UK and elsewhere of abusing its monopoly power to secure access to content to feed its AI models.

The Chinese modelers, for lack of unlimited venture capital, have had to find better ways to solve the problems. Their use of different algorithms allows them to deliver nearly similar results for much less money.

It is difficult to fathom how pathetic this is and it shows how these companies primarily rely on fear and FOMO to sell crap.

Come to our training camp! Not a cult!*

Shielding Children’s Retinas from Egregious Exposure on the Net (SCREEN)

how to tell if you’re in a bubble economy

everyone’s a genius in a bubble

“the worst kind of tech take” is a superlative crater that drops straight into the maw of hell

The CEO, who famously studied philosophy and earned a PhD in social theory, implied in Palantir’s quarterly shareholder letter that these were the kinds of capitalists who gave rise to Marxist socialism.

this damn country has found their minds and it is a threat to profts

dear Copilot: please send me your stuff. Pass it on

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edit 2 this is the article I meant to share from Nik Suresh who Ed featured https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decision-making/

not SAYING that AlphaFold cures cancer, BUT,

totally not repurposed s*x dolls, how dare you suggest such a thing

That worldview is expressed through science fiction: not as decoration, but as the medium that makes its accumulation strategies feel natural, necessary and inevitable. This is not to say that science fiction precedes or causes these projects – it is part of the cognitive and institutional scaffolding within which certain ambitions become thinkable and certain power grabs feel like common sense.

the end of human history

iBurn

Google knows where you’re going today

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crypto scams too

Strip-mining the world of old books

just in time for the IPO