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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago
[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 3 months ago

Different cults, one worries about Acausalrobotgods the other about Lord Xenu.

[–] BigMuffin69@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

It's the weekend B) time to check in on the doomers w/ Dr. Torres...

Oh damn! I missed the irrefutable evidence of LLM reasoning. They must have done a series of replicable experiments that contradicts the overwhelming evidence that LLM reasoning is more or less a series of pattern matching heuristics. Let's take a look together at their data lads, let the scales fall from our eyes.

... this is their confirmation of reasoning? And they say we are the ones who are fucking coping, lmaou.

I'm actively offended by 5. Would you forget Douglas Adams so blithely?

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Look on the bright side - we at least got some potential sci-fi gadgets out of it.

The temporal echo chamber sounds like the seed of a good story - you could really get some character analysis out of it if used well.

[–] rook@awful.systems 5 points 3 months ago

Sounds like the exordium device from the Revelation Space books.

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

wait is that account serious? i thought it was satire

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago

which, aisafety? it's come up a few times here, from context it seems the owner of it has more and more "bought in" as time goes on

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago

it is a completely serious AI doomer

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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In other news, someone caught a former NFT artist using AI. Not shocked in the slightest an NFT grifter jumped on the AI train.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago

The NFT "art" was already terrible procedurally-generated slop, so it fits the use case 100%.

[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Latest from Cyberstuck: Just see for yourself. I... I have no words.

Update: I may have been bamboozled by computer imagery. Someone call Captain Disillusion.

[–] UnseriousAcademic@awful.systems 5 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Oh god it's real? I saw pictures and there was a lot of "it's AI" claims which I kind of hoped were true.

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago
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