Gift article about the collapse of a company that failed to design an AI chatbot for the LA school system. A telling portion intimates that the company’s founder kept referring to work she had done with a lab at Harvard… but which was actually a brief association as an undergraduate and then extension student. AI is just big grift afaichttps://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/01/us/ai-chatbot-los-angeles-schools.html?unlocked_article_code=1.300.J-uf.4ZtU36zvm3Zr&smid=url-share
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Monday, 1 July 2024 10:36 (two days ago) link
Kurzweil seems to be a sober advocate for what's going on at the moment. But then he quotes Musk so that's where it first gets suspicious, even before the immortality stuff..
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/29/ray-kurzweil-google-ai-the-singularity-is-nearer
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 1 July 2024 11:51 (two days ago) link
Kurzweil is a big credulous dickhead.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Monday, 1 July 2024 12:18 (two days ago) link
Hand crib:
If Musk says something is happening now, it won't be seen for a decade or more.
If Musk says something is a year away, it's unlikely to be seen in our lifetimes
If Musk says something is two years away or more, it's a physical impossibility
― Ethinically Ambigaus (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 1 July 2024 12:27 (two days ago) link
Handy, jesus
, your own
― kinder, Monday, 1 July 2024 17:45 (two days ago) link
I just looked up Kurzweil a few days ago to see where he was at on prophecies of the Singularity. Apparently we’ve got ‘til 2040 to enjoy our meat bodies.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 1 July 2024 17:57 (two days ago) link
Cool keyboards tho
Alberto Carvalho, the current head of L.A. Unified, is a piece of shit who was imported from Miami. I’m glad he ended up with egg on his face
― beamish13, Monday, 1 July 2024 18:37 (two days ago) link
Even loveable paranoic Douglas Rushkoff thinks “AI” is snake oil bullshit
― brimstead, Monday, 1 July 2024 19:15 (two days ago) link
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Monday, 1 July 2024 bookmarkflaglink
These guys are really creepy
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 2 July 2024 08:21 (yesterday) link
Kurzweil says some things that seem plausible and some that seem way too optimistic. Its a mix of useful and garbage.
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 2 July 2024 12:49 (yesterday) link
Sora’s current output and its inevitable evolution in the next year makes me very worried for people in the VFX, animation, and gaming fields
― beamish13, Tuesday, 2 July 2024 15:35 (yesterday) link
until you can actually give it notes dont think theres much to worry about except maybe on the extreme low end
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 2 July 2024 15:37 (yesterday) link
I’m not so sure. Based on stuff like this, we’re probably a year away from creating approximations of the original cuts of The Red Badge of Courage and The Magnificent Ambersons
https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/Oyex6mwf9Z
― beamish13, Tuesday, 2 July 2024 17:45 (yesterday) link
naw
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 2 July 2024 17:48 (yesterday) link
AI fans crossing over with people who never read another book after Harry Potter seems appropriate.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 2 July 2024 19:17 (yesterday) link
Gymnastics is the Turing test of video generation models pic.twitter.com/cOhmUJjI2m— Deedy (@deedydas) July 2, 2024
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 2 July 2024 22:14 (yesterday) link
such a beautiful sport
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 2 July 2024 22:17 (yesterday) link