Kagan MacTane (he/him)<p>One thing that makes me very happy about <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/NaNoWriMo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NaNoWriMo</span></a> crashing and burning: It's good evidence that the <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> world is not even remotely buying into the AI hype. (Unlike another industry I'm involved in... 🙄)</p><p>Having poor moderation practices that enabled grooming? That was bad for them. But promoting AI? That *killed* them. Writers are going: "AI? Fuck, no! 🙅👎⛔️🖕</p><p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/AICrap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AICrap</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/AIHype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIHype</span></a></p>
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The shovel store will now sell you the gold itself, or something along those lines, couldn't understand much more from his desperate tone.
Sam Altman asks #Trump to grant #OpenAI blanket permissions to steal everyone's copyrighted works so he can train his #AI. He raises the threat of China AI dominance as the bogeyman.
https://futurism.com/openai-over-copyrighted-work
#copyright #FairUse #AIhype #SamAltman
Futurism · OpenAI Says It’s "Over" If It Can’t Steal All Your Copyrighted Work
Elon Musk’s 2019 prediction: “I feel very confident predicting that there will be autonomous robotaxis from Tesla next year… From our standpoint, if you fast forward a year, maybe a year and three months, but next year for sure, we’ll have over a million robotaxis on the road.”
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/nobel-prizes-and-the-ai-hype-hall
#musk #ai #aihype
Marcus on AI · Nobel Prizes and The AI Hype Hall of Fame
I haven't even used "foundation models" (still refuse) and now that seems out of fashion and we're at "frontier models."
The lack of uncritical uptake of all these terms pushing #AIHype is incredible.
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“…a quarter century has passed without a principled solution to even one of those problems.”
—Gary Marcus, Ezra Klein’s new take on AGI – and why I think it’s probably wrong
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/ezra-kleins-new-take-on-agi-and-why
#agi #ai #aihype
Marcus on AI · Ezra Klein’s new take on AGI – and why I think it’s probably wrong
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“…language models can fundamentally be described as supercharged autocomplete tools, prone to returning incorrect information because they are skilled at creating a facsimile of a human-written sentence—something that looks like an acceptable response—but chatbots are not doing any critical “thinking.”“
—Thomas Maxwell, Microsoft's Satya Nadella Pumps the Brakes on AI Hype
#llm #llms #hallucinations #ai #aihype
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“Klarna…garnered a lot of attention and investor excitement after its CEO said last year it would replace many of its employees with AI… The CEO recently walked that claim back… Klarna had replaced a basic phone tree system with AI, which…may have resulted in customers quitting chats out of frustration.”
—Thomas Maxwell, Microsoft's Satya Nadella Pumps the Brakes on AI Hype
#klarna #aichatbots #ai #aihype
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“Microsoft is the primary backer of OpenAI, whose CEO Sam Altman has long stoked nebulous fears about AI taking over the world. Critics often say Altman’s fear mongering is primarily intended to place himself at the centers of power…”
—Thomas Maxwell, Microsoft's Satya Nadella Pumps the Brakes on AI Hype
#microsoft #openai #altman #ai #aihype
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“…stop spreading hype about a so-called “artificial general intelligence” that could replace humans in most tasks. Nadella said essentially that it will not happen, and either way is an unnecessary distraction when the industry needs to get practical…”
—Thomas Maxwell, Microsoft's Satya Nadella Pumps the Brakes on AI Hype
#ai #agi #aihype
“The world has yet to turn any of today’s AI hype and spending into a meaningful lift in the actual economy…”
—Thomas Maxwell (20250220)
https://gizmodo.com/microsofts-satya-nadella-pumps-the-breaks-on-ai-hype-2000566483
#ai #aihype
Gizmodo · Microsoft's Satya Nadella Pumps the Breaks on AI HypeFears of an artificial superintelligence that could replace humans are just a distraction at a time when ChatGPT still has major shortcomings.
I might watch this debate! https://computerhistory.org/events/great-chatbot-debate/ #AI #AIHype
CHMThe Great Chatbot DebateChatbots based on large language models (LLMs), like ChatGPT, answer sophisticated questions, pass professional exams, analyze texts, generate everything from poems to computer programs, and more. But is there genuine understanding behind what LLMs can do? Do they really understand our world? Or, are they a triumph of mathematics and masses of data and calculations […]