Notices by Ken Tindell (kentindell@mastodon.social)

*chef’s kiss*

@matthew_d_green This is the feedstock for LLM models, so one day all code will look like this.

@thewhiterosesocietyau @glynmoody Just in case anyone thought this was fake (yes, the irony of linking to a newspaper that once ran the headline “Hurrah for the blackshirts” is not lost on me).

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12629389/Huge-group-masked-Nazis-allowed-assemble-Melbournes-Flinders-street-station-throw-banned-Hitler-salutes-swarming-train-chilling-question-asked-solo-passenger.html

@badlogic That was an absolutely fascinating thread. In the UK there are complaints about prices, but a quick look at the profitability of supermarkets shows they’re not benefiting from this overall - their profits have gone down. But the suppliers of branded products to supermarkets have been taking the opportunity to increase their margins. Can your data processing observe this retailer/supplier pricing effect?

People are starting to see that LLMs are now a dead end because they’re being fed their own brains. I call it Digital Scrapie (Mad Bot Disease). https://venturebeat.com/ai/the-ai-feedback-loop-researchers-warn-of-model-collapse-as-ai-trains-on-ai-generated-content/

@ottocrat @martincampbell2 I have to say I’m enjoying the anguish of the people who are now at the latter part of FAAFO.

@nixCraft UTC can have 61 seconds in a minute.

@aral @glynmoody Yes. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/tesla-autopilot-crashes-into-stopped-truck-pennsylvania-police-2023-06-26/

@aral @glynmoody Those of us in automotive engineering have long known Musk as grifter playing fast and loose with safety. It’s incredible that even now ostensibly intelligent people can’t see through him.

“I had not realized … that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people” -Joseph Weizenbaum, inventor of ELIZA, talking half a century ago

A while back @mintynet had his car stolen in a keyless theft. He called me in as a #canbus guru to help work out how exactly the car was stolen, and now we know exactly how they did it and also how to stop them. We call it "CAN Injection ??" and I've written the whole story up in a blog post: https://kentindell.github.io/2023/04/03/can-injection/

Paypaltine really is a piece of work. I really hope he gets punished for what he’s doing to people. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-64871183