Post AXlfQSOxyNT7dBvrrE by cowgirlcoder@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AXlYZZEVFDY7kFR2iu by clive@saturation.social
       2023-07-16T22:40:05Z
       
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       “Machines, pretending to be humans, talking to other machines that also pretend to be humans: I had not expected our technological future to be scripted by Samuel Beckett.”My column on the “boring apocalypse” of large-language-model AI: https://clivethompson.medium.com/the-boring-apocalypse-of-todays-ai-6365345444a8A “friend” link in case you’re not a Medium subscriber: https://clivethompson.medium.com/the-boring-apocalypse-of-todays-ai-6365345444a8?sk=d3fc1a0c86c558e0bf22dcfdbdcead52
       
 (DIR) Post #AXlboUguiF0TrhX7yK by PlasticJohnny@mastodon.ie
       2023-07-16T23:16:23Z
       
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       @clive if I’m a subscriber and I click on friend link do you get credit for that or is it better to use the other link?
       
 (DIR) Post #AXlfCzaRnJVgUzskKG by mjgardner@social.sdf.org
       2023-07-16T23:54:22Z
       
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       @clive “#ChatGPT is a blurry JPEG of the web” —Ted Chiang in The New Yorker: https://apple.news/ALPJv_U1mQ9a09zoljvPNBgOperating at both ends, #LLMs are just incredibly wasteful lossy compression toolshttps://markjgardner.medium.com/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web-ted-chiang-in-the-new-yorker-https-apple-news-alpjv-u1mq9a-19887717f6be#LLM “#AI” “#ArtficialIntelligence”
       
 (DIR) Post #AXlfQSOxyNT7dBvrrE by cowgirlcoder@mastodon.social
       2023-07-16T23:56:53Z
       
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       @clive I didn’t think it was possible to make SEO worse (the overseas “content farms” seemed like they were doing fine on their own). But this is scary. And I can definitely see a time very soon when I’ll HAVE to let  an AI parse my email. Sigh.
       
 (DIR) Post #AXlgf0hrKEZU29GyDQ by stoicmike@zirk.us
       2023-07-17T00:10:41Z
       
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       @clive The end result could be like what has happened to twitter, the media tweeting to the media after the audience has vanished.
       
 (DIR) Post #AXm4jovUwrRrqXTkBs by jamessavage@mastodon.ie
       2023-07-17T04:40:03Z
       
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       @clive “I'm all these words, all these strangers, this dust of words, with no ground for their settling, no sky for their dispersing, coming together to say, fleeing one another to say, that I am they, all of them, those that merge, those that part, those that never meet  […]” ~ Beckett, The UnnamableMundane question, but how does the need for corporate confidentiality play into this potentially widespread use of cloud-based tools?
       
 (DIR) Post #AXmJFtiw2uknLlnBmi by tired_angry@mastodonapp.uk
       2023-07-17T07:22:45Z
       
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       @clive If we are lucky they will just talk each other to death. However, a different scenario was predicted in the 1970 movie, “Colossus: The Forbin Project”, and the reality seems to be getting much closer.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
       
 (DIR) Post #AXneufsqhTtOUhfsjQ by clive@saturation.social
       2023-07-17T22:59:38Z
       
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       @Wolven 🤘🏻🤖
       
 (DIR) Post #AXnf1ewMbcz7azeIpE by clive@saturation.social
       2023-07-17T23:00:49Z
       
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       @PlasticJohnny If you’re subscriber, then yep — click on the subscriber link! That way you can clap if you want, and it gets counted as part of the way medium doles out cash to me 🤘🏻💰
       
 (DIR) Post #AXnf7O3OIqXaxafQZ6 by clive@saturation.social
       2023-07-17T23:01:22Z
       
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       @mjgardner That Chiang piece is amazing!