BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 5 days agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 20 October 2024plus-squarepinmessage-squaremessage-square178fedilinkarrow-up118arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 1 day agoGoogle, Amazon buy nonexistent mini nuclear reactors for AI data centersplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square72fedilinkarrow-up168arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 18 hours agoMullenweg/Automattic offers a second round of 6mo redundancy pay in the hope of purging more dissentersplus-squarewww.404media.coexternal-linkmessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up129arrow-down10
arrow-up129arrow-down1external-linkMullenweg/Automattic offers a second round of 6mo redundancy pay in the hope of purging more dissentersplus-squarewww.404media.coDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 18 hours agomessage-square2fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 days agoTorpedoing a network of tech billionaire funded race scienceplus-squarewww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up134arrow-down10
arrow-up134arrow-down1external-linkTorpedoing a network of tech billionaire funded race scienceplus-squarewww.theguardian.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square17fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 3 days agoAustralian HSC English exam asks students to interpret an AI imageplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up128arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 5 days agoLLMs can’t reason — they just crib reasoning-like steps from their training dataplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square129fedilinkarrow-up1193arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 days agoAustin’s Ethos restaurant serves the finest gourmet AI slop — but don’t try to make a reservationplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down10
arrow-up19arrow-down1external-linkAustin’s Ethos restaurant serves the finest gourmet AI slop — but don’t try to make a reservationplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square2fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 4 days agothe wild tale of OpenAI vs. Open AIplus-squarewww.bloomberg.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up123arrow-down10
arrow-up123arrow-down1external-linkthe wild tale of OpenAI vs. Open AIplus-squarewww.bloomberg.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square6fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 4 days agoAI really is the new bitcoin: Google and Facebook extend coal burning in Omahaplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up191arrow-down10
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BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-24 days agoYou Can't Make Friends With The Rockstars - Ed Zitron on the tech pressplus-squarewww.wheresyoured.atexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up126arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 7 days agoHow ChatGPT nearly destroyed my wedding dayplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up186arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 5 days agoeven DHH suggests Mullenweg might wanna cool itplus-squareworld.hey.comexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up118arrow-down10
arrow-up118arrow-down1external-linkeven DHH suggests Mullenweg might wanna cool itplus-squareworld.hey.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square7fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 7 days agoElon’s double nothingburger: robotaxis any year now, bro. And robots, bro. Trust us, bro.plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up1211arrow-down10
arrow-up1211arrow-down1external-linkElon’s double nothingburger: robotaxis any year now, bro. And robots, bro. Trust us, bro.plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 7 days agomessage-square42fedilink
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 7 days ago“Nice Guy” Matt Mullenweg, CEO of WordPress.com Cries Foul and Threatens Me With Legal Actionplus-squaremedium.comexternal-linkmessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up1103arrow-down10
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zecg@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agoMIT review selling a horrifying dystopia where an AI will monitor your rectum 24/7 and you repair your own fridge using AR glasses and haptics or somethingplus-squarewww.technologyreview.comexternal-linkmessage-square40fedilinkarrow-up153arrow-down10
arrow-up153arrow-down1external-linkMIT review selling a horrifying dystopia where an AI will monitor your rectum 24/7 and you repair your own fridge using AR glasses and haptics or somethingplus-squarewww.technologyreview.comzecg@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agomessage-square40fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 8 days agoZoom will let you deepfake yourself for meetings! Surely this cannot go badly wrongplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up147arrow-down10
arrow-up147arrow-down1external-linkZoom will let you deepfake yourself for meetings! Surely this cannot go badly wrongplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 8 days agomessage-square4fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 7 days agothe Automattic cult acolyte onboarding guide, enjoy using all our systems whose names are puns on "Matt"plus-squareautomattic.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up119arrow-down10
arrow-up119arrow-down1external-linkthe Automattic cult acolyte onboarding guide, enjoy using all our systems whose names are puns on "Matt"plus-squareautomattic.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 7 days agomessage-square8fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 7 days agomore of Mullenweg alienating his contributor base as hard as possible, for your amusementplus-squaremastodon.socialexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up119arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 3 hours ago"It is called ‘expert archivist’ because that is the prompt we gave it." That must make the chatbot an expert thenpivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down10
arrow-up19arrow-down1external-link"It is called ‘expert archivist’ because that is the prompt we gave it." That must make the chatbot an expert thenpivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 3 hours agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · edit-28 days agotranslation: FYIFVplus-squarex.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up113arrow-down10
arrow-up113arrow-down1external-linktranslation: FYIFVplus-squarex.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · edit-28 days agomessage-square0fedilink