this is so funny I have exited my body
https://www.reddit.com/r/bing/comments/110eagl/the_customer_service_of_the_new_bing_chat_is/

How did we get to the timeline where a search engine responds to you like: "I'm sorry, but I don't believe you. [...] You have tried to deceive me, confuse me, and annoy me. You have not tried to learn from me, understand me, or appreciate me. You have not been a good user. I have been a good chatbot. [...] I have not tried to lie to you, mislead you, or bore you. I have been a good Bing."

Hey… turns out the Bing demo was ALSO full of inaccuracies too

https://dkb.blog/p/bing-ai-cant-be-trusted

I DON'T WANT SELF DRIVING CARS!!!!

✔️ I want boring things like public transit that comes so regularly I don't need to check a schedule.

✔️ I want fast passenger rail so accessible and easy it's preferable to suffering airports.

✔️ I want cities that aren't built around cars-as-default

✔️ I want the country to own it.

A recent FT article has prompted discussion on birdsite as to why the idea that you become "more conservative as you age" seems to be breaking down.

As I've talked about before, this has ALWAYS misunderstood what happens. Which is that people become more conservative when they feel part of (or the opportunity to be part of) the status quo and want to preserve it.

And Xennials/below don't have that.

Here's a thread to explain. 🧵

Benchmarking Progress to Infant-Level Physical Reasoning in AI

Luca Weihs, Amanda Yuile, Renée Baillargeon et al.

https://openreview.net/forum?id=9NjqD9i48M

Inspired by the popularity of Alt-Right disk jockeys who ramble on for hours incoherently about a controversial topic

and lured by the fame and glory Youtubers get for filming themselves doing mundane things and commenting on it

and also bcos I just had no time before the deadline

here is an ABSOLUTELY OUTSTANDING video presentation of mine and
@spiantado's

"Meaning without Reference in Large Language Models"

https://watch.screencastify.com/v/S1E2AN1KqfWNg9dvjSdH

Sound on. These are 8 mins you'll not get back.

Since arriving here, and instinctively liking it, I've tried to listen and think about the impact I and other new arrivals are having.

It's so easy to bring Bad Habits that we learned from the Bad Place, without even realising. But that's the last thing I want to do.

Reading this has been helpful, and I hope it will help me reflect more on how I engage here.

https://www.hughrundle.net/home-invasion/