Rando on BS tells me I'm behind the times by two years because the LLMs can do math now, so I point him to this well manicured regularly updated demonstration of the opposite, he tells me you have to pay to see it and then "the issues approach zero", no citation for a trivially demonstrable claim, which inevitably leads to my being blocked for joking that the singularity is always just beyond the paywall.
All I see is a hype machine in desperate overdrive.
Leftists whose careers depend on advertising revenue have warned that "people on the left broadly need to start thinking seriously about the possibiltiy of the hype being...true" about AI without offering a single reason.
And for that, Chris Hayes thinks you need to take seriously the idea that vast sectors of the workforce will shortly be replaced by regurgitation engines, as though Andrew Yang wasn't already prepared when he was taking that concern seriously in -- my stars I am so bored -- 2017.
https://bsky.app/profile/chrislhayes.bsky.social/post/3melwx6oxhc2s
I understand why people are exhausted by AI hype, and why those of us squarely in the corner of "human dignity uber alles" see AI doomerism as self-serving hype, but I *really* think people on the left broadly need to start thinking seriously about the possibiltiy of the hype being...true.
I do not think I have seen anybody attempt to put numbers on the size of the externality of handing the internet over to the Epstein class and their incompetent infinitely hackable criminogenic LLM chatbot slop bazookas. You could almost say that nobody is taking it seriously.
An Epstein class op.
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared with those remaining on a chronological feed, whereas switching the feed setting in the opposite direction, from algorithmic to chronological, had no effect.
These researchers try to get some frontier models to greenfield basic algos in languages for which they had little training data and the LLMs cannot regurgitate their way through the puzzles without the prior art.
Quite the headline over the story "there is stilll no evidence that A.I. is disrupting the job market." I am so bored of this shit.
josh buermann
