Artificial intelligence still has some way to go

I paid $8 for this and it was worth every penny https://t.co/zTzbKEzKGq pic.twitter.com/fHEHtSZR4X

— erin (@ratsnotagain) January 5, 2024

There is more.

Oh my god the chorus pic.twitter.com/0gszuW2gqq

— Carl Beijer (@CarlBeijer) January 5, 2024

Those are terrible imitations of Homer's singing voice. If they weren't labelled as Homer I probably wouldn't recognize the resemblance because it's too 'off'.

pff, Zombie is brilliant

zombie sounds like it was made from the original track but hey ya doesnt

This, uh, doesn't seem great?

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/things-are-about-to-get-a-lot-worse

omg @ hey ya

eh so instead of making shit, all people have to do now is monitor shit AI "makes" to avoid IP infringement. it's a living!

This, uh, doesn't seem great?

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/things-are-about-to-get-a-lot-worse

― Andrew Farrell, Monday, January 8, 2024 3:12 AM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

what that article seems to be saying is ai as an industry is in big legal jeopardy, which does seem great

then on the flip side generated works arent copyrightable

Legal jeopardy only affects entities that are governable by laws.

U.S. law only applies to those entities that operate inside these extremely porous digital borders. "International law" barely exists and has virtually no teeth for enforcement.

Maybe we should have kept hiring people to do stuff. Crazy thought, I know.

And I hate to be a broken record on this topic but my colleagues and friends and I have spent 30ish years putting stuff out there. Mostly with no byline. Either because that was the gig, or because I thought I was serving the public interest by doing so.

Insert DJ Khaled "congratulations, you played yourself" image here.

id personally wait until theres any evidence at all that the stuff im worried about is actually happening before making 500 identical posts about it

It does feel like IP law is a one-way valve to only protect the wicked (e.g. publishers suing archive.org for behaving like a library), but I disagree with DJ Khaled w/r/t you putting stuff out there being a chump move unless it's stuff you didn't want to make in the first place.

i think generative ai of the type thats in all the articles has huge problems with copyright law, server expenses, quality of output, controllability of output, and ick factor

Yeah I guess I should be worried about being laid off and missing my mortgage payment only after I have been laid off and missed my mortgage payment

obvs you can worry about whatever you want thats none of my business

https://openai.com/blog/openai-and-journalism

seems like a milquetoast response

OpenAI lobbying for copyright law revision in the UK ⁦@GaryMarcus⁩ ⁦@jason_kint⁩ pic.twitter.com/kug5rCpINT

— Leighton Andrews🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦 (@LeightonAndrews) January 8, 2024

could we make ai that replaces anxiety, so we never have to feel it again?

hope the ai crash doesnt take as long as crypto did and it would be nice to not replace it with another hypecycle after or at least take a little break in between

If you ask Dall-E for a video game plumber it throws in one Mario you can potentially jerk off to for good measure lol

tbf its prob what a lot of their users are looking for

speedy blue hedgehog character felching cinematic dramatic lighting HDR

this is the true ai application

https://i.imgur.com/9R67Ift.png

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:jcpcmok7n6t3uwg5zyzjmqnp/bafkreichhhtpf5gxxmf5vqqvls7e4uanetewmk4gak4uwroovp357k62bm@jpeg

https://bsky.app/profile/kevinbuist.com/post/3kiimjwdeiq2s

https://www.askamanager.org/2024/01/men-are-hitting-on-my-scheduling-bot-because-it-has-a-womans-name.html

what a world

Best (meaning worst) part of the story is that it didn't just happen once, but involved multiple men.

the bots are talking amongst themselves

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:4u42vwglz35baspkeivbgw3n/bafkreicr6qnka33c2ojxsnemezul3nrtziwea7nkne4z2zzcwio6e2hegm@jpeg

https://bsky.app/profile/bartenderhemry.bsky.social/post/3kikzrj7ssm25

lol

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6/bafkreiejshqrgjgdhnvubzzr56s4tpfa4nf6qrke2pb7x54up5jry54xga@jpeg

Congrats to Elon for tricking all the bots to buy bluechecks I guess...

ai is really controlled by alien

This it the superintelligence that I’m told will kill us all within the next 5 years pic.twitter.com/hPrOLBlU0B

— jolly jim 🎅 (@importancatpete) January 10, 2024

lmfao

The Godfather is a good film tho.

I think this is not only ai generated but all the "comments" are too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH69jVSvo3Q

This is UK specific but this blog covers lots of the failures in the build and design of IT systems.

Note the bit on management's lack of understanding and curiosity on how systems work, even at a high level. A lot of them just want to see cost to be gone. If anything that stuff needs more investment in people, and intelligence at management level, to make systems work with a smaller number of errors.

https://dafyddvaughan.uk/blog/2024/horizon-it-scandal-repeating-patterns/

Can't wait for AI to sort this out.

put it on the blockchain

read this and thought it cant possibly be true

If you read the witness statement from David McDonnell, an engineering manager on one part of the system, you’ll get a sense of why it was so bad: poor software development practices, bad release management, no testing, no support from leadership to do it right etc.

i followed the link no unit testing standards that could mean anything

There were no development standards or methodology, coding practices, peer reviews, unit testing standards, design specifications ni place. In fact this team was like the wild west.

but there it is no unit testing incredible, you can only tip your cap

12. I understood the underlying cause of concerns to be that the bid had been won using a prototype which had then been further developed upon instead of starting afresh properly. Additionally, there had been a lack of formalised, signed-off designs, a lack of discipline, a lack of professional qualifications in key positions, a total disengagement of the chief architect Gareth Jenkins, poor coding standards, no methodology in place and no unit testing. The issues were critical, making the product unstable and were known to everyone in the building.

I think this is not only ai generated but all the "comments" are too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH69jVSvo3Q

― | (Latham Green), Thursday, January 11, 2024 3:30 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

oops what I meant to say was that comment section is incredibly creepy

i hate monkeys theyre so nasty

This is UK specific but this blog covers lots of the failures in the build and design of IT systems.

Note the bit on management's lack of understanding and curiosity on how systems work, even at a high level. A lot of them just want to see cost to be gone. If anything that stuff needs more investment in people, and intelligence at management level, to make systems work with a smaller number of errors.

https://dafyddvaughan.uk/blog/2024/horizon-it-scandal-repeating-patterns/

― xyzzzz__, Sunday, January 14, 2024 10:36 AM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

just to add Dafydd is a genuine authority on this and was responsible for a lot of the best of GOV.UK - I've only directly worked with him a little but ime he's excellent and respected by everyone.

oh yeah bad software engineering is less endemic now but for years people would decide to replace entire important systems by rewriting the entire thing from fresh specs without delving into what the current system did and what was undocumented. I worked parallel to a group doing that at one point, and some contractors I worked with had been on a project at Wells Fargo that did that with their mortgage system

I’m probably overstating it but I heard the new mortgage system, which was probably five years in the works with a zillion contractors on it was shelved after about two weeks and they had no good way to put the mortgages that were originated in the new system back into the old system

The history of this stuff is full of sales-y bullshit and contractors finding gold at the end of the rainbow.

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just to add Dafydd is a genuine authority on this and was responsible for a lot of the best of GOV.UK - I've only directly worked with him a little but ime he's excellent and respected by everyone.

― woof, Sunday, 14 January 2024 bookmarkflaglink

Found him through the bad site. Going to give him a follow.

Dafydd offers unique and excellent perspectives on respected software engineering

I love marketing

Effective accelerationism be like pic.twitter.com/Kj3PLyPhJA

— Mattie Colquhoun (@xenogothic) January 15, 2024

lmao

poor Taosif