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A much better way of thinking about them is as a technology that allows humans to access information from many other humans and use that information to make decisions.

We talk about how they “hallucinate,” but hallucination isn’t really the right word. To hallucinate would mean that you recognize the difference between the truth and just a bunch of things that people have said. LLMs are not designed to make that distinction.

And if we’re going to be able to use it effectively, we’re going to have to develop the kinds of norms and regulations that we developed for other technologies.

No one knows what intelligence is, much less how it’s going to be captured in computers in the future.

the real risks we should pay attention to are not the far-off existential risks of AI agents taking over but rather the more mundane risks of misinformation and other bad stuff showing up on the internet.

But the most effective aspect of the Dems' You're weird strategy is that it is an initiative. For my entire life, the Democrats have been passive campaigners, easily drawn into Republican framing of issues. It has been a mug's gambit to get suckered into arguments over where exactly means testing should begin, rather than rejecting it altogether.

They want to occasionally go entire days without thinking about the President.

The arms race between Microsoft, Amazon and Google is thus game theoretic. Every time Microsoft escalates, Amazon is motivated to escalate to keep up. And vice versa. We are now in a cycle of competitive escalation between three of the biggest companies in the history of the world, collectively worth more than $7T.

characterized the consent crisis as a natural response to the A.I. industry’s aggressive data-gathering practices.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), the only Palestinian American member of Congress, voted against the amendment. “There is so much anti-Palestinian racism in this chamber that my colleagues don’t even want to acknowledge that Palestinians exist at all—not when they’re alive, and now, not even when they’re dead,” Tlaib said on the House floor. “This is genocide denial.”

He suspected we were going to say mean s—t about Elon, and he was right. Elon Musk is a penis.

Another motorist pulled up alongside me and said, “I just had to stop to laugh at you.”

Any problem you have with the truck’s controls is strictly because you’re a n00b. Only our shrewdest, most waterlogged minds can master such a visionary piece of machinery

This is a loud and lonely car for loud and lonely people. And while I enjoyed driving my Cybertruck, I hope I’m never loud and lonely enough to want to buy one.