Ok, does anybody have a good alternate mastodon client? I’m not loving the default one.
MrSaver
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@gelidez cool, I’ll check out meta text.
@ericwilliamlin @zalcarik @mmasnick
I work in data science, and while I would not consider myself a machine learning expert, I really roll my eyes at a lot of the nonsense that gets touted as being AI. The way it’s used it’s almost just a buzzword with no real meaning. It’s in like every B2B technology pitch you will see, even when what they are pitching is quite dubious.
I work in data science, and while I would not consider myself a machine learning expert, I really roll my eyes at a lot of the nonsense that gets touted as being AI. The way it’s used it’s almost just a buzzword with no real meaning. It’s in like every B2B technology pitch you will see, even when what they are pitching is quite dubious.
@ericwilliamlin @zalcarik @mmasnick oh yeah, definitely. It’s interesting, and kind of cool, but I don’t think the current approach is really ever going to like “replace most legal work” or “write interesting and accurate news articles” or whatever people think.
Tech journalism in general is always super optimistic imo.
@ericwilliamlin @zalcarik @mmasnick if you understand how those models work, imo, this is exactly what one should expect. Alternative would be to turn up the randomness, and maybe you will get something occasionally interesting, but at the cost of producing a lot more total nonsense
@mmasnick if you get like 1 or 2 more years out of it it’s probably worth it tbh
@mattficke I’ve become aware that this is strangely common amongst congress people.
Ed Bott@rst Well, yes, but there's also this, which suggests he is feeling some extreme personal pain in the wallet right now:
@molly0xfff I’ll toot when I’m dead