Love my documentary "Don't Build The Torment Engine: The Real True Story of the Building of the Torment Engine" because I get to live it and then watch it as a funny show.
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I will be incredibly disappointed if Hannah Fry turns into an AI apologist. Just as long as this stays focused on how fucking dumb it is, she’s on the right path. She is brilliant; hopefully she doesn’t fall prey to the propaganda.
Her hello world book was full of rral life examples of terrible AI uses.
There is a time and place where AI can be useful... but the way it is used today is pointless and wasteful.
Ideally, she can dunk on how shit it is now, but also talk about the super high-tech ways we can hope to see it implemented in the near future.
You're missing the really obvious angle given that this is the BBC. She doesn't need to come down on whether it's good or bad at all. She simply needs to show that it's something interesting to look at and explain how it works which certainly is maths.
Giving today’s AI slop coverage at all provides some bias for AI slop, especially if the coverage ends on any kind of positive note or doesn’t also highlight the extreme damages AI data centers cause. AI theory is all maths; AI practice (at least currently) is the widespread destruction of natural resources to increase the value of a handful of individuals solely on paper. Not explaining that makes it look good because why wouldn’t we improve AI relationships because the math looks solid! (Or whatever other example AI slop would provide if relationships doesn’t reasonate) There are recent videos of Hannah Fry explaining how to get value out of LLMs which doesn’t bode well.
sure, why not
if people want to tune in for over-produced infomercials to tell them what to think of chatbots, whatever
you could publish the actual papers and blogs you'd need to understand LLM in a free magazine and drop it at every door in the English-speaking world and maybe 4 additional people would read it
this is a halloween special for dunces
Hannah Fry is amazing in everything she does.
The movie "Her" went from science fiction to documentary pretty damn fast.