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"At this point, it doesn’t matter if tech executives and VCs believe their own hype and wild claims about what’s next for AI — though I firmly believe that they genuinely buy into the things they’re preaching and chugging their own kool aid — because they’ve made the grand pronouncements, they started their cults, and they promised a future of AGI-powered wonder. They sold equity to investors who give them billions every year, and those investors now expect steady double-digit percentage returns."

A fun (and hopefully concerning) take on the AIification of everything.

"The recent innovations in the AI space, most notably those such as GPT-4, obviously have far-reaching implications for society, ranging from the utopian eliminating of drudgery, to the dystopian damage to the livelihood of artists in a capitalist society, to existential threats to humanity itself."

A rant that's pretty much about how money-grabbing idiots are slapping AI on any old shit. We all know who they are.

A project that uses "AI" to turn a GitHub repo into a "podcast". It's weird and disturbing and kinda funny and yet, wweirdly, sort of impressive.

In a "thanks I hate it" kind of way.

One of my favourite bands playing one of my favourite albums at one of my favourite places in the UK.

VERY tempting...

In short: an attempt at a mathematical proof as to why humans won't be replaced by LLMs any time soon.

Not sure I have the background to really follow all of this, and I'm not sure this is as reassuring as some might want it to be; but it's an interesting read. Finally I sense the "replacement" won't happen or fail to happen because of facts of the world, but because business will decide it's for the best and will cause things to collapse.

There's folk I know who seem to thnk they're experts on how the immune system works, and who offer terrible unsolicited advice any time someone has a cold, or the flu, or whatever. It almost always relates to crap based off their own health-freak bias founded in ignorance.

This should be a good article to start with to tackle such bollocks.