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Bentley. Rainbow Bridge crash. Official statement is that they are looking at a "mechanical failure."

Or, to put it in historical terms, same length and 23" narrower than a Sherman Tank.

Ah, ELIZA. Used to run it through the Automatic Mouth synthesizer for party entertainment. It was like getting therapy from a Conehead.

Trolls searching for dormant accounts with weak passwords.

I have had experience with a close family member who self-medicated for mental issues, ultimately fatally. I see many parallels in Elon, both in his actions and lately in appearance. I am not going to speculate what his issues are or what he may be treating himself with but the downward spiral I...

Deepfakes and their consequences. See: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/11/27/anydream-secretive-ai-platform-broke-stripe-rules-to-rake-in-money-from-nonconsensual-pornographic-deepfakes/

Right now, there are no sources, just speculation. The published speculation by Reuters suggests that he did not inform the board of the so-called Q* "breakthrough" and they were not amused...

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Made an oopsie. My bad.

As a general rule, interpreters enable the running of larger programs at the expense of speed. The Bell Floating-Decimal Interpretive System for the IBM 650 occupied one half of the memory and used the other half to hold 3-address floating point commands (e.g., ADD A B C -> C=A+B). It permitted...

The composition of the new board (check them out on Wikipedia, especially Summers) suggests all-out corporatist exploitation of the existing technology, which has quite likely peaked at the LLM stochastic parrot/spicy autocomplete level. Limited upside, big downside, especially unrestricted...

They fought the law ...

You just reminded me how much I miss Dr. Gene Scott.

(Referencing "heisenbug") Coined by Peter Neumann, moderator of the RISKS Digest.

Not for a cult.

Now I know what it must have been like to witness the Children's Crusade.

So OpenAI was split between the tech bros (Altman +) and the altruists (Sutskever +). The tech bros release ChatGPT prematurely, cut a deal with MS, and the consequence is a developing tsunami of deepfakes, a large percentage of which are harmful to individuals and groups. It's not like this...

Altman's earlier statement at Cambridge, as reported by Greg Marcus: Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAl: There are more breakthroughs required in order to get to AGI Cambridge Student: "To get to AGI, can we just keep min maxing language models, or is there another breakthrough that we haven't really...

Hm. This came out a few days ago: https://venturebeat.com/ai/openais-six-member-board-will-decide-when-weve-attained-agi/ Maybe the Holy Grail was a wee bit further out of reach than Sam has been promising. Or not.

Wrong.