[-] khalid_salad@awful.systems 9 points 13 hours ago

"I only had this problem because I was very reckless," he continued, "partially because I think it's interesting to explore the potential downsides of this type of automation. If I had given better instructions to my agent, e.g. telling it 'when you've finished the task you were assigned, stop taking actions,' I wouldn't have had this problem.

just instruct it "be sentient" and you're good, why don't these tech CEOs undersand the full potential of this limitless technology?

[-] khalid_salad@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago

This particular bit of news has me so down. :(

[-] khalid_salad@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

https://xcancel.com/karpathy/status/1841848120897912967#m

jfc

Edit: replaced screenshot of tweet + description with link to tweet

[-] khalid_salad@awful.systems 5 points 2 days ago

There’s vanishly little that LLMs are actually being used for that can’t be done far cheaper (computatiomally and cost-wise) with existing tools.

Reminds me of the most recent Adam Conover podcast. He had as guests two computer scientists who were purportedly critical of AI, and one of them still shat out something to the effect of:

It does have a use case where something takes longer to produce than it does to verify. For example, a website ...

[-] khalid_salad@awful.systems 17 points 2 weeks ago

Every few years there is some new CS fad that people try to trick me into doing research in


"algorithms" (my actual area), then quantum, then blockchain, then AI.

Wish this bubble would just fucking pop already.

[-] khalid_salad@awful.systems 16 points 2 weeks ago

go gatekeeper somewhere else

Me, showing up to a chemistry discussion group I wasn't invited to:

Alchemy has valid use cases. If you want to be pedantic about what alchemy means, go gatekeep somewhere else.

[-] khalid_salad@awful.systems 23 points 3 weeks ago

You're absolutely right, unless you actually read it.

The DOJ suspects Nvidia has been:

  • Pressuring customers to buy only Nvidia chips if they want continued supply;
  • Buying up competitors, such as Israeli startup Run:ai, to suppress their technologies;
  • Locking customers in with its software, such as the CUDA libraries.
[-] khalid_salad@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago

Could it be because a statistical relation isn't the same as a semantic one? No, I must be prompting it wrong. I'll just add "engineer" to my title and then everyone will take me seriously.

[-] khalid_salad@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago

If I were unable to write a novel in a month^1^ but really wanted to and some smug little shit came up to me and offered to ghost write it for me, I would not be happy. How is SALAMI generated text any different?

1: I definitely can't.

[-] khalid_salad@awful.systems 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

https://www.404media.co/this-is-doom-running-on-a-diffusion-model/

We can boil the oceans to run a worse version of a game that can run at 60fps on a potato, but the really cool part is that we need the better version of the game to exist in the first place and also the new version only runs at 20fps.

[-] khalid_salad@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago

"we are likely... fact" is just a special kind of stupid

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