antifuchs

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[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 10 points 5 days ago

Publish and perish!

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think you’re misreading the intent behind “give your virtual coworker OKRs”: this allows you to punish the robot, which it deserves.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 9 points 9 months ago

And thus I was enlightened

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

The last conundrum of our time: of course steel capped work boots would hurt more but barefoot would allow faster (and therefore more) kicks.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 8 points 9 months ago

clanker wanker

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 7 points 9 months ago

Ice cream head of artificial intelligence

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 8 points 9 months ago

lol, lmao: as if any cloud service had any intention at all of actually deleting data instead of tombstoning it for arbitrary lengths of time. (And that’s the least stupid factor in this whole scheme; is this satire? Nobody seems to be able to tell me)

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

JFC this hurt me to read, as a person who enjoys folk songs played on old instruments. They think this is genetic?!

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 8 points 9 months ago

I’m excited that Silicon Valley tech has finally managed to invent thinking. Makes this book obsolete at long last.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 6 points 9 months ago

From the people who brought you performance review season: a way to evaluate code quality of humans and machines

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 7 points 9 months ago

I didn’t see this article here yet, but I just saw it elsewhere and it’s pretty good: Potemkin Understanding in Large Language Models

 

Got the pointer to this from Allison Parrish who says it better than I could:

it's a very compelling paper, with a super clever methodology, and (i'm paraphrasing/extrapolating) shows that "alignment" strategies like RLHF only work to ensure that it never seems like a white person is saying something overtly racist, rather than addressing the actual prejudice baked into the model.

 

School student tells AI to put 20 other students’ faces on nude pictures, shares them in chat; it takes months for anyone including the school administrators to act because of some extremely, uh, dubious loophole.

If someone does that in photoshop, it’s a crime; if they do it in AI pretending to be photoshop, it’s somehow not. Gotta love this legal system’s focus on minor technicalities rather than the harm done.

 

They have Nik Suresh (the author) on, as well as Robert Evans. I haven’t listened to it all yet, but it’s fun so far.

 

They invited that guy back. I do have to admit, I admire his inability to read a room.

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