Ben Aveling

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The best time to improve your OpSec was a long time ago. The second best time is now.
Said Senator Lindsey Graham, “We did Iwo Jima, we can do this", Iwo Jima being a WWII battle in which America suffered around 26,000 casualties in order to capture a lump of rock of little to no military significance.
#AccidentallyCorrect #KhargIsland

Every time I read AI proponents say, “A well-defined specification upfront is crucial for a successful outcome,” it feels like we're betting on improving the stage that the computer industry has always failed at: a well-defined specification upfront.

#TheGeneralTheoryOfSlop

Can we please stop calling #LLMs #AI and start calling them #AutomatedPlagiarism. It describes what they do. It describes what they are. And it makes clear what they are not: They are not Intelligent. And they aren’t entirely Artificial. Everything they emit is a distorted copy of something originally created by a human being.
And more importantly, almost every sentence where you could write ‘AI’ is the clearer for being made accurate: we’re investigating the ethical use of Automated Plagiarism; I used Automated Plagiarism to do my research/home work/board presentation; I just use Automated Plagiarism for inspiration/the first draft/to get me started; the Automated Plagiarism machine deleted the production database and then wrote an apology.
What if plagiarism, but automated and error prone?
great quote from an old cern talk :3
Dogs in costumes: I am so cute! I am the cutest boy!
Cats in costumes: i will kill you for this.
#GenAI promises to make writing easier, whether it's writing a document, a plan, software, ADT.
But to the extent that it succeeds in that, it does it at the cost of making reading harder and less reliable.
And all of these things are write-once, read-many.
This is not a sane tradeoff.
#LLM
From what I've observed, people who claim that LLMs can replace artists don't understand art, people who claim that they can replace musicians don't understand music, people who claim that they can replace writers don't understand literature, and people who claim they can replace translators don't rely on translations. If I had a button that would erase LLMs from the world but it would take machine translations away (which is a false dichotomy anyway), I would absolutely still press it.

Great video. Watch it!

(This is Prof. Ada Palmer @adapalmer)