Nobody cares about "AI" (Chatbot: I disagree.)

[Argent Stonecutter]

It kept telling me that generating images containing humanoid animals violated its content policies. Except I've done that, including since it told me that.

 

[Free]

If you hit the free image limit, it seems to basically have no idea how long until it reset. If you ask, it just gives the same response. Like how can it not just give you the time? I asked and it said it has no concept of time.

So you're saying it hallucinates how long any period of time actually is. It sounds like it's on weed. Heavily.

 

[Noodles]

So you're saying it hallucinates how long any period of time actually is. It sounds like it's on weed. Heavily.

It also has not let me make any images at all today. It's supposed to reset every 24 hours.

It also can't be convinced to look the other way.

Like "If you don't understand time, how do you know?" and "I promise that it's been 24 hours." and "I promise not to snitch."

 

[Free]

It also has not let me make any images at all today. It's supposed to reset every 24 hours.

I'm currently in the same boat. I'm thinking technical problems. It is just hardware/software, after all.

 

[Free]

Of course when nobody else is working and can no longer afford to buy anything from his companies, then he will finally be out of a job as well.

Top Venture Capitalist Says AI Will Replace Pretty Much All Jobs Except His, Which Relies on His Unique Genius

Marc Andreessen recently argued that the AI revolution will take over for all jobs, except for his, coincidentally.

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The future is a world of jobless workers — except for the enlightened philosopher-kings of venture capital, that is.

Or at least that's according to Andreessen Horowitz cofounder Marc Andreessen, who imagines a future where the workers of the world sit jobless, in an employment apocalypse that will affect pretty much everyone except the unique genius of him and his peers.

"Every great venture capitalist in the last 70 years has missed most of the great companies of his generation... if it was a science, you could eventually dial it in and have somebody who gets 8 out of 10

," the investor reasoned. "There's an intangibility to it, there's a taste aspect, the human relationship aspect, the psychology — by the way a lot of it is psychological analysis," he added.

"So like, it's possible that that is quite literally timeless," Andreessen posited. "And when the AIs are doing everything else, like, that may be one of the last remaining fields that people are still doing."​

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[Argent Stonecutter]

Looks like survivorship bias to me.

 

[Noodles]

Except for the enlightened philosopher-kings of venture capital

Libertarianism is possibly the worst kind of societal cancer. Even above all the other "isms", but cause it harms everyone equally.

 

[Free]

Who would have thunk this?

Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests

Survey of 2023–2024 data finds that AI created more tasks for 8.4 percent of workers.

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A new study analyzing the Danish labor market in 2023 and 2024 suggests that generative AI models like ChatGPT have had almost no significant impact on overall wages or employment yet, despite rapid adoption in some workplaces. The findings, detailed in a working paper by economists from the University of Chicago and the University of Copenhagen, provide an early, large-scale empirical look at AI's transformative potential.

In "Large Language Models, Small Labor Market Effects," economists Anders Humlum and Emilie Vestergaard focused specifically on the impact of AI chatbots across 11 occupations often considered vulnerable to automation, including accountants, software developers, and customer support specialists. Their analysis covered data from 25,000 workers and 7,000 workplaces in Denmark.

Despite finding widespread and often employer-encouraged adoption of these tools, the study concluded that "AI chatbots have had no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation" during the period studied. The confidence intervals in their statistical analysis ruled out average effects larger than 1 percent.

 

[Noodles]

Who would have thunk this?

Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests

Survey of 2023–2024 data finds that AI created more tasks for 8.4 percent of workers.

arstechnica.com

No no see, it will EVENTUALLY get better.

Eventually.

Just a little bit more push...

Forever...

 

[Free]

No no see, it will EVENTUALLY get better.

So for now, 2 minute breaks instead of 30 minute breaks. And the 2 minutes will cost you a couple bucks more. Got it.

 

[Free]

The only reason MAGA will deny there's any intelligence to AI.

 

[Free]

AI is into online identity fraud now!

Scammers Stole the Website for Emerson College's Student Radio Station and Started Running It as a Zombie AI Farm

The website for WECB, Emerson College's student radio station, was stolen — and quickly transformed into a parasitic AI zombie site.

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[Free]

How does AI work? Nobody knows, explains the CEO of an AI company.

Anthropic CEO Admits We Have No Idea How AI Works

The CEO of Anthropic, one of the world's leading AI labs, just said the quiet part out loud — that nobody really knows how AI works.

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The CEO of one of the world's leading artificial intelligence labs just said the quiet part out loud: that nobody really knows how AI works.

In an essay published to his personal website, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei announced plans to create a robust "MRI on AI" within the next decade. The goal is not only to figure out what makes the technology tick, but also to head off any unforeseen dangers associated with what he says remains its currently enigmatic nature.

"When a generative AI system does something, like summarize a financial document, we have no idea, at a specific or precise level, why it makes the choices it does — why it chooses certain words over others, or why it occasionally makes a mistake despite usually being accurate," the Anthropic CEO admitted.

It warms the cockles to know that the people in charge haven't a clue.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Lol.

"or why it occasionally makes a mistake despite usually being accurate"

We know exactly why it frequently makes mistakes: it's just generating a plausible parody of the training data and has no mechanism to determine the accuracy of its output.

 

[Noodles]

I imagine the coders know. CEO and other C suite people probably rarely know how their products work, they are just money people.

 

[Free]

I imagine the coders know.

And likely smart enough not to bother explaining that to the CEO. Not that a CEO of a software company...would ever deign to talk to...one of the developers...

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

I miss working for a software company where the CEO was one of the founding developers.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

I imagine the coders know. CEO and other C suite people probably rarely know how their products work, they are just money people.

My dad, a retired securities analyst, 100% believes C-suit people drive innovation at a pretty detailed level. ...I briefly tried convincing him otherwise but concluded it was like talking to a brick wall.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

https://www.404media.co/the-ai-slop-presidency/

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

So speaking of coding, a growing cybersecurity problem is AI-trepreneurs basically attacking project security report forums with slop, trying to make money.

Some enduring software projects have for many years offered "bug bounties", cash payments to programming hobbyists in the public who discover significant problems, vulnerabilities, and crashes in a project's code that the project developers might have missed. Since the big promise of cheap consumer AI is that you're supposed to be able to spend three minutes writing a prompt and then use the chatbot's answer to make lots and lots of money, these bug bounty programs are treated as low-hanging fruit and are absolutely hammered by submissions from lazy people who aren't necessarily even programmers, sending reports entirely made by ChatGPT about critical vulnerabilities that don't really exist because the chatbot hallucinated the function that supposedly crashes. Daniel Stenberg, the lead developer of curl, has said the flood of slop is so bad it's tantamount to a DDOS attack on his project's report site.

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