@glyph Did you quote post something?

[snoopj@hachyderm.io]

@glyph I would call it a child's understanding of how technology develops, but this would be insulting to children

it's a billionaire's understanding

[flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange]

@SnoopJ @glyph these are people who have to work hard to become this stupid. If they were born this way they would have refused to breathe

[xgranade@wandering.shop]

@jamesh @glyph Growth Mindset!

[psistarpsiii@tacobelllabs.net]

@jamesh @glyph @xgranade this future sounds punk af and I’m here for it

[xgranade@wandering.shop]

@psistarpsiii @jamesh @glyph That's kinda where the analogy fails, I suppose... really, if the slopbros had their way we'd all have nails for hair, but the nails would be about as stiff as wet noodles.

[bornach@fosstodon.org]

@glyph
Even worse are the number of influencers who parroted the talking point.
https://youtu.be/0Plo-zT8W9w
Inexcusable for those content creators who do actually understand how neural networks are really trained

[bornach@fosstodon.org]

@glyph
Gonna be challenging to improve the "intelligence" of the AI chatbots especially in light of what Meta has been doing to the training data company that used to supply all the AI tech companies with human curated answers to questions that their LLMs would learn to regurgitate
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/inside-the-fallout-from-mark-zuckerbergs-chaotic-14-billion-ai-deal/ar-AA1S3XmA

[adrake@sfba.social]

@jwz @glyph evergreen toot

[bornach@fosstodon.org]

@SnoopJ @glyph
You don't need to have a bridge to sell.

Just a pitch deck that mentions AI a number of times. You can even AI generate it.

You can sell a lifeless rock with just the promise that the real AI software upgrade is in the pipeline
https://youtu.be/j31dmodZ-5c

[amethyst@toots.n7.gg]

@glyph just wait until they ship the ones with screens in them

[bornach@fosstodon.org]

@SnoopJ @glyph
More like a billionaire's self-pleasuring fantasy

https://youtu.be/TMoz3gSXBcY

[bitprophet@social.coop]

@glyph Sir Nigel Haberdash Posting-Thruett III, Esq

[xgranade@wandering.shop]

@glyph I approve of this message.

(Not that you need or asked for my approval. It's just another thing you have.)

[hailey@hails.org]

@glyph I agree with you of course, but we do have an economy where the name of the game is externalising as much of the cost as you can onto some other sucker/the public

[xgranade@wandering.shop]

@glyph Gallows humor isn't as funny if you don't think about the gallows frequently enough to be a point of reference.

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@datarama yeah while this may be (I hope?) amusingly phrased, it is not a joke. this is actually a pretty serious emotional and executive regulation problem for me right now

[genehack@dementedandsadbut.social]

@glyph it’s kinda the 3am of the year, ya know? Hang in there, the light is about to start coming back.

[pythonbynight@hachyderm.io]

@xgranade @glyph I gave a talk a couple months back where I updated "A Modest Proposal" to illustrate the rather alarming state we're in re: AI Industry.

This was within a conference where several talks, including a keynote, were focused on how to implement LLM tools into your workflows.

The response I received was surprising to me. It was overwhelmingly positive from the attendees, a standing ovation if I remember correctly (maybe a couple hundred in the room).

It feels like, inherently, many developers have some pent up/repressed feelings toward the situation we're in ... but also, maybe they feel resistance is futile... I really can't say. I observe a lot of cognitive dissonance.

I really do think that in the end, it'd be great if, regardless of where we stand on the "usefulness" debate, we could at least agree on the need for accountability and consequences. (i.e. as Cassandra noted elsewhere, having any sort of useful regulation that's enforceable and pro-worker)

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@genehack I am cautiously optimistic for the next couple of weeks. kid is on break, we have no travel plans, I have either completed or failed all my various important short-term projects, we have less social contact and will therefore hopefully not be sick with mysterious (not flu/not covid) respiratory illness for the THIRD time, there are no deeply consequential administrative tasks for another 2-3 months…

[pythonbynight@hachyderm.io]

@xgranade @glyph
(this is the talk in question)
https://pythonbynight.com/talks/ai-modest-proposal