Posts by ianbetteridge@mastodon.me.uk
(DIR) Post #ATm04JH0YaptONm5FQ by ianbetteridge@mastodon.me.uk
2023-03-18T22:40:46Z
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Compass adjuster.
(DIR) Post #ATm4i6Rw3QZj1J7G0e by ianbetteridge@mastodon.me.uk
2023-03-19T13:12:24Z
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@anderspuck Amazing! I may have left it late to change career though
(DIR) Post #AToAxALuoVbbVemmp6 by ianbetteridge@mastodon.me.uk
2023-03-20T13:31:32Z
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@Gartenberg I’m shocked, shocked I tell you, that a terrible leader of Twitter also turns out to be a terrible leader of Tesla.
(DIR) Post #AU0I3f63JeGdHwNmNc by ianbetteridge@mastodon.me.uk
2023-03-26T09:33:27Z
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It’s VERY easy to debunk the idea, prevalent in AI research that to know something is simply to have it retained in some kind of persistent memory. My computer has everything I’ve written in the last ten years in its memory. It knows nothing about any of it. Remember that when people talk about what ChatGPT “knows”. This is what Gilbert Ryle would have called a category mistake, where a thing belonging to a particular category is presented as if it belongs to a different category.
(DIR) Post #AU0I3fyI3zeW09l5v6 by ianbetteridge@mastodon.me.uk
2023-03-26T09:36:01Z
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Honestly lads there are about 2000 years of philosophy of mind, theory of knowledge and philosophy of language that you should have at least a passing acquaintance with before you start talking about a machine “knowing” something because it can make sentences.
(DIR) Post #AUAPdsgwRDTeMju7P6 by ianbetteridge@mastodon.me.uk
2023-03-31T06:36:09Z
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Remember I was saying that brands would look at the traffic #Twitter generates and decline #Musk’s kind offer to let them pay $1000 a month for a worthless blue tick? Well… https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1641460482480504832?s=20
(DIR) Post #AUASmMRG1TaGntIr1k by ianbetteridge@mastodon.me.uk
2023-03-25T11:39:26Z
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“Animal-style intelligence is a set of emergent properties that evolved in parallel, not separately. Our ability to do vision and other sensations, abstract reasoning, and communications – which covers most of what we think of as intelligence – continually interacted with and reinforced each other over millions of years. We didn’t evolve any of those capabilities in isolation.”And that’s why all current machine learning systems will fail to be truly intelligent. https://ianbetteridge.com/2023/03/25/ai-like-jon-snow-knows-nothing/
(DIR) Post #AUCiVEaZwRGz7ORERs by ianbetteridge@mastodon.me.uk
2023-04-01T07:45:52Z
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In hilarious news, it turns out the #Twitter algorithm tracks how well Musk's tweets are doing. That's either because Elon wants to ensure he gets maximal reach or because some poor employee got shouted at some time as Musk *thought* it was limiting him and added code to prove it wasn't true.Either way, #Musk remains a thin-skinned man-baby who should be nowhere near ownership of a large-scale platform which fortunately has an undue influence over our media.https://mashable.com/article/twitter-releases-algorithm-showing-it-tracks-elon-musk-tweets
(DIR) Post #AUCuyH3T3EMOc8Z3YG by ianbetteridge@mastodon.me.uk
2023-04-01T08:59:59Z
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One of the great decisions of male life: at what point is it time to stop trying to cover the bald bit in favour of just shaving the whole damn thing off?(I tried this once, a couple of years ago, and as I still have some decent patches ended up looking like a badger with mange)
(DIR) Post #AUUJG8gHU2jxX70ITY by ianbetteridge@mastodon.me.uk
2023-04-09T20:12:22Z
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This story casts an interesting light on #Musk’s decision to label the likes of NPR and BBC as “government funded”. He seems to want #Twitter to become a publisher in competition with other publishers and publishing platforms (and that also explains his sudden hatred of Substack). Either way, it’s yet another reason for journalists to stop using it. https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-elon-musk-contends-twitter-can-disrupt-the-media-business-9c54b67?mod=djemalertNEWS
(DIR) Post #AUk75HHODSOb2rGGOW by ianbetteridge@mastodon.me.uk
2023-04-17T08:51:07Z
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In the UK, businesses are not required to report pay gaps between ethnic groups. Since mandatory gender pay gap reporting was introduced, pay disparities between men and women have started to decrease – so let’s do the same for ethnicity. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/627173
(DIR) Post #AUwavQC5XvA0JpW7s0 by ianbetteridge@mastodon.me.uk
2023-04-23T12:40:17Z
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More Britons believe the earth is flat than believe Brexit is going very well. https://adambienkov.substack.com/p/more-brits-believe-the-earth-is-flat
(DIR) Post #AUybH7inIO9RiM5DWK by ianbetteridge@mastodon.me.uk
2023-04-24T10:00:18Z
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Looks like a fake “Disney” account has managed to get the gold verified status that’s supposed to be exclusively for big brands…
(DIR) Post #AUzGs40MAoPt1S1ykK by ianbetteridge@mastodon.me.uk
2023-04-24T18:59:31Z
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So Tucker Carlson was fired on Murdoch's personal instruction...https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2023-04-24/tucker-carlson-is-out-at-fox-news
(DIR) Post #AV2VAbBXWuaHyTsFOK by ianbetteridge@mastodon.me.uk
2023-04-26T08:42:00Z
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"My sourdough starter is more sentient than any LLM" is totally going to be a line that I steal in the future.https://mstdn.social/@raphv/110261448344714288
(DIR) Post #AVC5AakUUtF5OU9oiu by ianbetteridge@mastodon.me.uk
2023-04-30T20:39:44Z
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No.
(DIR) Post #AVDkVjm2QcJqkD2hmq by ianbetteridge@mastodon.me.uk
2023-05-01T19:05:01Z
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Worth noting: while Wordpress is removing the ability to post links to Twitter from Wordpress.com automatically, it is planning to add the ability to automatically post to Mastodon. https://mashable.com/article/wordpress-drops-twitter-jetpack-social-sharing
(DIR) Post #AVM5xMuChL5eEJYftg by ianbetteridge@mastodon.me.uk
2023-05-05T18:14:25Z
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Come on Tories, you can do it, the magic 1000
(DIR) Post #AVM6gxDkWdsttIRBi4 by ianbetteridge@mastodon.me.uk
2023-05-05T18:18:05Z
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YESSSSSSS
(DIR) Post #AVaGaMId5YZBxswTCq by ianbetteridge@mastodon.me.uk
2023-05-12T15:58:03Z
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@dcseifert Some right wing commentator is currently writing a piece about how this was the way the fall of the Roman Empire started.