Mastodawn

Asked 5 different local AIs (not internet based nor connecting to the internet):

What is the average airspeed of a fully laden swallow?

And they attributed it to 3 novels: Alan Sillitoe's "The Lonely Voice"(which does not exist), Douglas Adams's "A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," George Orwell's "Animal Farm" and also the correct answer, the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

So as long as we're good with AI being 75% wrong, we're good! 😆

#llm #ai #hallucinations

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Harold Jarche 5d ago

I have never turned against a Prime Minister so quickly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyQTI-sACQ4

#CdnPoli

Forget the trade war. Mark Carney’s first 100 days have been a rapid-fire class war

YouTube

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Lauren Weinstein 2h ago

So let me be really clear about this. I feel that autonomous vehicle tech, and AI tech generally, are both amazing developments. I know a fair bit about how all this stuff works behind the curtain, so as a technologist my entire life I appreciate technology.

I also feel that the manner in which these technologies are being deployed in society by Big Tech billionaires are more and more dangerous, supportive of fascist goals, and increasingly vastly damaging to society overall.

That about sums it up.

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Lauren Weinstein 2h ago

@n_dimension @mike805 Robocars are a "solution" in search of a problem. They are a quintessential example of Big Tech groupthink -- and believe me, I've been in meetings where I've seen first hand how that works! ANY problem that you can name related to taxis in a city can be solved with human drivers who have VASTLY more flexibility in unusual situations, rather than subject human passengers to face those situations alone in the back seat with no human driver to assist them or get them out situations that a remote center controller can't handle. And this is just the beginning. Wait until people REALLY get angry, and start doing things like jamming the mobile frequencies these vehicles use for contact with central, leaving passengers stranded. The ways that robotaxis can be rendered useless are almost unlimited. And the more that Big Tech pushes this stuff, the more likely you are to see more of those methods deployed by angry residents of these cities.

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Max Leibman 8h ago

Look, I know AI is controversial, but just for a moment, let's set aside our preconceived notions, our biases, the environmental impact, the massive cost to train and run models, the labor exploitation, the intellectual property theft, the inaccuracies, the mania it causes in users, the destruction of search, the deskilling of professionals, the devaluation of creative work, job losses, and lack of economic value from enterprise implementations.

Wait, what were we talking about?

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atomicker 2h ago

The 'last time #Canada raised defence spending so much was 1939 to 1942, when the country mobilized for war in Europe and the Pacific'.

David Perry, president of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute 'doesn’t think there is public support for this magnitude of defence spending'

#ElbowsUp #CDNPoli

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Carolyn Barber, MD 5h ago

Disabled people in wheelchairs are being zip-tied and arrested in the halls of Congress—for demanding the right to live. They came to stop Trump’s brutal Medicaid cuts, and this is the response: cuffs, arrests, silence. This is what cruelty looks like. #press

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Matt Hodgkinson 7h ago

@pa27 @KimSJ

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victorvonvortex 3h ago

"A group of protesters, some in wheelchairs, were arrested and zip-tied on Capitol Hill and dragged out by police officers as they demonstrated against proposed cuts to Medicaid in Republicans' massive spending package."

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/protesters-wheelchairs-cuffed-medicaid-capitol-b2777036.html