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the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and then Reddit

https://davidgerard.co.uk/

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in techtakes@awful.systems•Anthropic and Apollo astounded to find that a chatbot will lie to you if you tell it to lie to you

lol, there has literally never been a gain of function claim that checked out

you’re posting like an evangelist, this way to the egress

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UK government wants to give AI companies free access to train on your creative works(pivot-to-ai.com)

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in techtakes@awful.systems•"Sam Altman is one of the dullest, most incurious and least creative people to walk this earth."

sorry you don’t like anger! we’ll improve your lemmyverse experience

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All Protocols are Not the Same: Joanne McNeil on Bluesky(filmmakermagazine.com)

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Microsoft refuses a documentation fix because AI might not understand text in tables(pivot-to-ai.com)

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in techtakes@awful.systems•"Sam Altman is one of the dullest, most incurious and least creative people to walk this earth."

profound reasoning indeed, this way to the egress so you can contemplate further

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in techtakes@awful.systems•"Sam Altman is one of the dullest, most incurious and least creative people to walk this earth."

GPT-2 was peak LLM because it was bad enough to be interesting, it was all downhill from there

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in techtakes@awful.systems•"Sam Altman is one of the dullest, most incurious and least creative people to walk this earth."

someone sent out the batpromptfondler signal and the mods are in shooting gallery mode

please refrain from commenting unaccordingly

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in techtakes@awful.systems•"Sam Altman is one of the dullest, most incurious and least creative people to walk this earth."

actually you know what? with all the motte and baileying, you can take a month off. bye!

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"Sam Altman is one of the dullest, most incurious and least creative people to walk this earth."(deadsimpletech.com)

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Do knee X-rays show if you drink beer? Medical AI versus algorithmic shortcutting(pivot-to-ai.com)

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Apple Intelligence AI mangles headlines so badly the BBC officially complains(pivot-to-ai.com)

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Kevin Roose is gonna write "A Latecomer's Guide To AI" and the bubble will burst hard two months later(www.nytimes.com)

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Mass resignations at Intelligence as Elsevier actually bothers slightly for once

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UnitedHealthcare Optum leaves internal AI chatbot open to the world(pivot-to-ai.com)

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Mangione "really wanted to meet my other founding members and start a community based on ideas like rationalism, Stoicism, and effective altruism"(www.nbcnews.com)

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