I read this twice as LLM interference engine and was hoping for something like SETI or Folding@Home except my computer could interfere with ChatGPT somehow.

Seeing that, I too immediately thought, in popehat voice, “It’s not RICO.”

unsettling.

Indeed.

Not everyone wants ai for their search tools

invasions.

inviasions. Sounds better in Makadonian.

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The interminable length has got to have started out as a gullibility filter before ending up as an unspoken imperative to be taken seriously in those circles

Only in these circles could an article that AI can read to you in an hour and forty-eight minutes be clickbait for the paywalled “companion piece.”

I went to the study, and that’s the global market size for all sex toys annually, and just eyeballing another chart, butt plugs might be 10% of that. So butt plugs are around $3 or $4 Billion. On the bright side, unlike AI safety, butt plugs actually serve a function.

One is by David Brooks, so it’s guaranteed to be half baked?

I can’t even

Tuesday June 25 - Mustafa Suleyman calls web content “freeware” in front of God and everybody at the Aspen Ideas Festival.

Thursday June 27 - Mother Jones sues Microsoft. I’m sure that their lawyers are thrilled.

Thank you —she and this video are new to me - very good!

Stevie Wonder Singing Happy Birthday dot Gif

I like the wet your finger and stick it up in the air forecasting model. OK - there’s 1.5 billion pocket-sized iPhones - so let’s say 2 billion person-sized robots, you know,

I’m wondering about the supply chain issues just making the extra half billion robots, might be kind of a big deal. Are there enough rare minerals in the whole world to do this? Lithium batteries? Computer chips?

Also, yeah, valuation based on revenue and not EBITA / profit margins, but whatever.

Not a cult.

from r/EnoughMuskSpam

Same here - I had a very small universe curated for myself. I didn’t leave immediately, but when I did, there were a whole lot more weird ads and bots and stuff in my feed. I think that I only ever saw prøn once, and I was actually shocked that it even existed on Twitter.

Maybe AI could do Better than we’ve done… We’ll make great pets

yes

Hard to know if “Contovicsy” is an AI in-joke or a Grauniad in-joke. Or neither.

Paying 20-somethings to have orgies on the beach in Bali is a form of charity, if their laptops are nearby.