ahahaha holy shit. I knew METR smelled a bit like AI doomsday cultists and took money from OpenPhil, but those “open source” projects and engineers? One of them was LessWrong.

Here’s a LW site dev whining about the study, he was in it and i think he thinks it was unfair to AI

I think if people are citing in another 3 months time, they’ll be making a mistake

dude $NEXT_VERSION will be so cool

so anyway, this study has gone mainstream! It was on CNBC! I urge you not to watch that unless you have a yearning need to know what the normies are hearing about this shit. In summary, they are hearing that AI coding isn’t all that actually and may not do what the captains of industry want.

around 2:30 the two talking heads ran out of information and just started incorrecting each other on the fabulous AI future, like the worst work lunchroom debate ever but it’s about AI becoming superhuman

the key takeaway for the non techie businessmen and investors who take CNBC seriously ever: the bubble starts not going so great

this is not debate club, per the sidebar

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being from programming dot dev is just the turd on top

and n=16 handily beats the usual promptfondler n=1

youtube comment:

Zeppelins are here to stay! After all, we still have the technology for rigid airship full of hydrogen cells, you can’t unring this bell!

(I have pretty good YT commenters actually. Because I moderate all comments, because this is fuckin AI.)

the dream of robot slaves is too powerful to suppress permanently, but it’ll be one heck of an AI winter

It’s a tricky one, because a lot of ML these days is transformer-based, because transformers are unreasonably effective, and many things a transformer can do well, an LLM can do okay at. (e.g. translation, transcription, OCR …)

A lot of people are super convinced by an impressive demo. We have computers you can just talk to now! That’s legit amazing, actually! The whole field of NLP is 80% solved! The other 20% is where it’s a lying fuckin idiot and that’s probably not fixable …

ooh good, i’ll add that generative AI will likely become as radioactive to the public as crypto is.

it’s near as joyous as the tesla subs

if you want to do stream of consciousness creative writing, we have the MoreWrite community for stuff you want opinions on and the WriteFreely at https://gibberish.awful.systems/ - if that second one sounds useful, PM @self for an account

discuss.

per the sidebar: This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.

it was me, I popped AI. I destroyed Twitter (and, in collateral damage, I blew up the United States), and those fuckers are next. You’re welcome.

In past tech bubbles, it was basically the VCs, the media hypesters and the liars in the companies. So the right people.

don’t forget to press the button lots! bet they’re using it as a metric!

“yeah tried it real hard like you said boss. all its ideas were bad and i rejected them, but it’ll get there! stand strong! diamond hands!”

he appears to have started like this - i hear he was like this at uni too

you’re not even scamming them! you’re merely the tax collector for BRUTE MATERIAL REALITY

basically. Nvidia sometimes has off years, where a processor generation doesn’t work out. Unfortunately, this one’s coincided with a stupid bubble. So they’re shoving out number cruncher cards which are at the limits of what you can do with stacking up the previous generation of chips, and the cards are crappy and have a likely lifetime in months - because they correctly estimate their market doesn’t care.

we hope you find a more suitable Lemmy community to post to.

when I put a pull request in my vein and I tell you things aren’t quite the same when I’m rushing on my run and I feel just like Altman’s son

* adderall