The renewed hype has sputtered; the most fervent enthusiasts have become disillusioned; critics reign triumphant: The backlash to the backlash has arrived.
Years ago I somehow enabled some hidden preference on my Mac that allows me to quit the Finder and since then I’ve been accidentally quitting and needing to relaunch the Finder multiple times a day and I have no idea if it’s even possible to disable the preference now
Is There A Name For This Type Of Online Publication Title Case Where Every Word Is Capitalized Including The Prepositions, Conjunctions And Articles?
Long story short, agents are not autonomous, they cannot “replace coders,” they are not going to do so because probabilistic models are a horrible means of taking precise actions, and almost anyone who brings up agents as a booster is either misinformed or in the business of misinformation.
There’s a name-pronunciation-as-support-signifier thing happening with Zohran Mamdani (with every detractor consolidating around “ZOE-rahn”, mostly coterminous with the “kuh-MAH-luh” people) and nobody’s talking about it
For the absolute stronghold it held over middle school boys ca. 1999–2001 it’s astonishing to me that the short haircut combed forward with gelled spikes in the front doesn’t actually have a name
There’s more public focus on how we handle hypothetical machines that are actually sentient than on how we handle the psychological problems stemming from believing non-sentient algorithms are consciously intelligent.
Do kids today still hate broccoli even after the early 2000s innovation of roasting vegetables in olive oil? There’s no way right?
And with an assist from “be” For A to be B But for the past need “were” (Not “are“) There’s nothing that can stop it From becoming copu-ler… lar
They have a deep, deep emotional attachment to the idea that the world is terrible and always getting worse. You’ll probably see some of them in the comments. People hate to be told that they are living in what is objectively, factually the golden age of civilization.
What if the real doomer scenario is that we pollute the internet and the planet, reorient our economy and leverage ourselves, outsource big chunks of our minds, realign our geopolitics and culture, and fight endlessly over technology that never comes close to delivering on its grandest promises?
The beauty of ableism as the identity crime du jour is that disability is so capacious and vague a concept, in the 21st century, that anyone you please can fall under its protection and anyone you please can be left out.
To raise a generation of young people on a nimble machine of eternal affirmation is to encode in our youth the expectation that they are always right, always wowing, and always living the hardest kind of life. In fact, this appears to be a reliable formula for the mass production of narcissism.
I’m like physically ill.
Sophie left a note for her father and me, but her last words didn’t sound like her. Now we know why: She had asked Harry to improve her note, to help her find something that could minimize our pain and let her disappear with the smallest possible ripple.
“A.I. is starting to get better than humans at almost all intellectual tasks,” Amodei recently told Anderson Cooper. This summer, both Altman and Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, claimed that their companies were close to developing superintelligence. Then, last week, OpenAI finally released GPT-5.
Why did the system that could tell if a source is fake give me a fake source in the first place? Why are they “smarter” on the second prompts than on the first, enough to identify their own previous answer? Well the answer is because LLMs do not think. They do not reason. They are not conscious.
A little man lives inside my computer and exists and learns independently of me talking to him.
I would do literally anything to have a new Stomp Clamp Hey song released today purely because of what that would imply about our surrounding political and economic environment
We already have a phrase for code that nobody understands: legacy code.
Haven’t seen a single Star War so forgive me if this is obvious, but is there an in-universe explanation for why Andor is just one letter off from Endor?
Anyone who points out that the emperor has no clothes is simply told that they don’t understand the technology, and every year that goes by that human life is not seriously disrupted by this technology is just a minor delay.