takes label sticker, writes “agentic” on it, slaps it on the model

look! agentic! that’ll be $30b in funding, thx

that, but also I meant specifically that it allows them to “build confidence” inside the company

“look, we’ve been running ads on mdn for weeks now, and no-one’s complained! obvies we can put it on $xyz other places now too!” with a heavy subtext of “why are you being the one that’s obstructing this?”

I possess no insider information whatsoever and I’ll fairly confidently state that I think it’s a fucking strategic choice. guess we get to wait 6~12mo to see how cassandra that statement is

that tracks

it’s one of their best places to start boiling the frog

nasb, it warms my cold diamond heart to continue seeing instances of people going “oh, yeah, uh… actually, no, fuck that shit. we’ll do it ourselves” in response to broadcom’s attempt to Raise Revenue Through Product Capture

my first thought on hearing the same was “if this is what he’s like in public, imagine what it’s like at home”

ow.

I mean he must know they will come after him next

big piles of money, and all the power bases he’s accrued

there’s long precedent of collaborators who were instrumental in the projects of harm and suppression still being able to flourish throughout selfsame projects

gonna add a whole new weight to “lying synthesis machines” :|

gather round kids, it’s time to sing the monopoly song

eyelid twitching

sure, we barely understand all applicable bio systems, let’s have some shitty model dream up answers on how things work! it’ll go great

Much as a chatbot can discern style and perhaps even meaning from huge volumes of written language,

going to have to add this author to the List, aren’t I

please excuse me while I infinitely recursively scream into the void

Large Generative AI Models in telecommunications

(this shit has been getting airtime at a couple of different networking conferences, and it’s all as ridiculous and pointless as you’d blindly guess)

you must click the video link

the video title alone made me flinch, then the video started

also wtf at the custom url, I guess s is their “share domain” under their domain that looks extremely like a spam domain[0]

then searching up around that name, one finds this (warning: linkedin) with “4 followers”, and a smattering of vc sauce in all the associated/cluster shit

god these people are just so fucking exhausting

[0] - spammers fuckin love many of the new TLDs

they’re all just so fucking … smug

it appears they don’t think anything can possibly go wrong

is when the blighted thing pretends it’s anything at all like a person and …

one of the helpful things that I think is worth reminding people of is that the thing described here is entirely the result of overt intent and choice on the part of humans shaping the fucking thing

it isn’t an emergent property

from the curation of data going into training to shaping “preferred output” (by tuning whatever properties my apply in xyz llm execution pipeline) this shit is all Super Polite by fucking design

exact same shit applies for the prompts responding “oh yeah I’m totes alive! look, I feel doubted that you even asked! :sad:” - that shit is curated and engineered

but I do hear where you’re coming from on the anger. 100%.

Meta’s memo to employees rolling back DEI programs (axios.com) 916 points by bsilvereagle 17 hours ago | hide | 1315 comments

orange site is having a moment

haven’t tried to look at the comments yet though, those numbers are ominous

the sheer amount and rapidity of times it goes from “fucking wot m8” to moments where you can just see him cackling to himself, “hee heeeeee… that’ll teach 'em!”, just constant whiplash

my neck hurts and I should’ve stretched

the amount of doublethink and newspeak this is attempting to push is remarkable

also afaik thiel isn’t one to regularly demean himself to writing tidbits such as this, is he? I don’t recall seeing nearly as many words from mr likes-it-private as I have from andreesen et al

we regret to inform you that mullenweg is still posting through it

no matter how unhinged you may expect this to be on starting to read it, you’re probably guessing low

holy fuck :|

Multinational corporations can act ethically after all.

I wouldn’t go that far