Zuckerberg Accuses Rivals of Trying to Create AI-Powered God
Title says it all
Honestly, I think we need another winter. All this hype is drowning out any decent research, and so all we are getting are bogus tests and experiments that are irreproducible because they’re so expensive. It’s crazy how unscientific these ‘research’ organizations are. And OpenAI is being paid by Microsoft to basically jerk-off sam Altman. It’s plain shameful.
If an AI winter does happen, I expect it'll be particularly lengthy/severe. Unlike previous AI hype cycles, this particular cycle has come with some serious negative externalities (large-scale copyright infringement, climate change/water consumption, the flood of AI slop, disinformation, etc).
Said externalities have turned the public strongly against AI, to the point where refusing to use it has become a viable marketing strategy.
You want my suspicion, any further AI research will probably be viewed with immediate distrust, at least for a while.
Do you really think "cult" is a useful category/descriptor here?
My view: things identified as "cults" have a bunch of good traits. EA should, where possible, adopt the good traits and reject the bad ones, and ignore whether they're associated with the label "cult" or not.
The only thing I'm holding against this guy is him buying into the AI doom, and I'm attributing that to him getting lost in the sauce regarding data science.
Everything else was this guy channeling his inner Kendrick and giving the AI bubble the beatdown it so richly deserves.
Can they, though? Sure, in theory Google could hire millions of people to write overviews that are equally idiotic, but obviously that is not something they would actually do.
The millions of people writing overviews would definitely be more reliable, that's for sure. For one thing, they understand the concept of facts.
Going in for the first sneer, we have a guy claiming "AI super intelligence by 2027" whose thread openly compares AI to a god and gets more whacked-out from here.
Truly, this shit is just the Rapture for nerds
(Well, this goes some way to explaining "AI" "art")
Its times like these which make me happy I ditched Facebook years ago.
Also Kagi is a glorified Google front end.
The fact a glorified Google front end manages to be less shit than Google is a pretty damning indictment of Google, I'll give Kagi that. Quoting Cory Doctorow, gratuitous italics and all:
The implications of this are stunning. It means that Google's enshittified search-results are a choice. Those ad-strewn, sub-Altavista, spam-drowned search pages are a feature, not a bug. Google prefers those results to Kagi, because Google makes more money out of shit than they would out of delivering a good product: https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24117976/best-printer-2024-home-use-office-use-labels-school-homework
I'd bet good money any judge reading this is gonna go "Yep, this kid does not want to change" and ramp up the sentence as a result.
ah sweet
manmade horrors beyond my comprehension