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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

yep that's the stuff. they HINT HINTed what they wanted the LLM to do.

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AI ‘hacks’ system to cheat at chess! — because the researchers told it how to (pivot-to-ai.com)
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

crayon either way

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

Has the study itself shown up?

EDIT: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.13295

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Google Co-Scientist AI cracks superbug problem in two days! — because it had been fed the team’s previous paper with the answer in it (pivot-to-ai.com)
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 2 days ago

that gives me questions about China

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 2 days ago

that's tomorrow's Pivot

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago

Chris Kluwe vs Gamergate is an example of the jocks as the good guys up against the nerds as the bad guys

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

IQ is a farce multiplier. Elon is a High IQ Individual which means he wreaks 1000x the havoc of a regular dumbass. IQ stands for Idiot Quickly

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Yahoo! Mail shows email users fake AI-mangled subject lines (pivot-to-ai.com)
Humane AI finally shuts down, HP pays $116m for the pieces — not including the Ai Pin in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 2 days ago (4 children)

the Laserjet 4M from the 1990s, the incredible unstoppable tank of lasers

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Businesses still don’t know what an ‘AI agent’ is and they don’t really want one (pivot-to-ai.com)
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 4 days ago

apparently video is just huuuuge

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

this is also why pivot to AI is mostly 200-250 words, not 1200 or 2000 or 8000

Humane AI finally shuts down, HP pays $116m for the pieces — not including the Ai Pin in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

per link, venture capital has been very reluctant to unambiguously realise the losses. a $1b book value is an (imaginary) asset you can hug and hold, a $114m loss is not.

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Humane AI finally shuts down, HP pays $116m for the pieces — not including the Ai Pin (pivot-to-ai.com)
AI chatbots test as having cognitive decline in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 5 days ago

there were counterarguments that the authors anthropomorphised the LLMs inappropriately - which is a valid objection - and therefore these tests shouldn't have been run at all. The answer to that is that the companies are marketing this shit by anthropomorphising the hell out of it and literally claiming these spicy autocompletes are on the path to artificial super intelligence. So of course cognitive tests are gonna be appropriate.

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AI chatbots test as having cognitive decline (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Guardian does OpenAI deal, New York Times goes AI for newspaper content generation (pivot-to-ai.com)
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El Salvador finds the use case for AI: handouts to the government’s pals (pivot-to-ai.com)
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How AI slop generators started talking about ‘vegetative electron microscopy’ (pivot-to-ai.com)
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AI image gets a US copyright — or some of a copyright (pivot-to-ai.com)
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The UK’s ‘turbocharged’ AI initiative — bringing data center noise to a village near you (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Thomson Reuters wins AI training copyright case — what this does and doesn’t mean (pivot-to-ai.com)
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