what would i know?
contrary to my intent and against better knowledge, i have created yet another collection of ressources advocating a critical view on generative AI systems.
i will probably maintain this list for the forseeable future, which for me usually means 6 weeks or so.
if you have something that fits it, please let me know (eg. via a comment there) and i will add it.
https://www.taskcards.de/#/board/aa077e4f-235e-4275-9931-24fd4a356a1b
»it is never possible to please dead people«
laurie anderson 🧡
now reality has troubles with fingers? is this some sort of AI-spillover?
God, this bubble burst is going to be so brutal
I went to a talk lately that was mostly about something else, but the speaker came out with:
“If you only remember one thing from this talk, remember this. Everyone in this room who likes helping people, raise your hand.”
Every hand, or nearly every hand, went up.
“If you like asking other people for help, keep your hand up.”
Almost every hand went back down.
“As you can see, people like helping you. When you ask for help, you’re making them feel good, even if you don’t like asking.”
I’ve genuinely forgotten the rest of the presentation but I won’t forget that.
the problem with LLMs
https://bsky.app/profile/craigshackleton.com/post/3lrnweyuz2c2c
»The use of LLM had a measurable impact on participants, and while the benefits were initially apparent, as we demonstrated over the course of 4 months, the LLM group's participants performed worse than their counterparts in the Brain-only group at all levels: neural, linguistic, scoring.«
Et pour fermer la gueule des pro-AI qui se croient malins:
La console Atari de 1977 bat systématiquement ChatGPT aux échecs niveau débutant.
Cerise sur le gâteau, ChatGPT est mauvais perdant et dit que c'est parce que les icônes de l'Atari sont difficiles à reconnaître. Pov' bichon.🥺
https://futurism.com/atari-beats-chatgpt-chess
#ai #llm #code #programming #tech #ordinateur #chatgpt #techbros #news #science #recherche #IA #game #atari
Another happy story from the world of extractive techno-capitalism.
What's been lost...
Entomologists from Krefeld, Germany, collected flying insects for two weeks in August 1994 (left) and—at the same site, with an identical trap— in August 2016 (right). Similar data from 63 German protected areas overall gave a shocking result: a 76 percent drop in insect biomass between 1989 and 2016.
It has worsened significantly in the past 9 years.
Photographed at Entomological Society of Krefeld
I wrote to the "author", he felt he was not able to use AI and didn't know how this sentence got in there. Right. I got a journalist to publish an article about it in German in the FAZ, in print and online (behind a paywall, unfortunately): https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wissen/forschung-politik/ki-einsatz-bei-springer-nature-buecher-denen-man-nicht-trauen-kann-110426568.html
das fühlt sich falsch an, ganz falsch. fast obszön.
gestern wurde beschlossen, diese servierform »nacktschnitte« zu nennen.
" 'Diese Modelle wurden gebaut, um Wörter vorherzusagen, nicht um die Wahrheit vorherzusagen oder wiederzugeben', erklärt Informatik-Professor Jannik Strötgen von der Hochschule Karlsruhe im Gespräch mit ZDFheute."
Zwei Engländer haben eine Anleitung für ein #Mikroskop aus dem #3DDrucker publiziert. Zunächst fällt es durch seine quietschbunten Plastikteile auf, dann aber mit seiner hohen Präzision und Automatisierbarkeit. Andrea Pitzschke hat sich's genauer angeschaut: https://www.laborjournal.de/editorials/3194.php
the speed with which literally everything is turning into shit is overwhelming. while i accept that there are some legitimate productive uses for genAI systems, the rate with which people are finding horrible uses that ultimately damage every aspect of the internet is fascinating, in a terrible way.
if i had a chance, i would cut the genAI computing infrastructure from the electric grid.
somebody needs to explain to me why so many people are still enthusiastic about AI.
https://www.techspot.com/news/107697-meta-accused-allowing-ai-bots-engage-sexually-explicit.html
i have no idea why i find this funny; it is the kind of cannot-stop-grinning-funny that seems to draw from some strange, old, internal wound.
