Notices by Kornel (kornel@mastodon.social), page 2

@thomasfuchs AFAIK that didn't happen, except a news cycle and one MKBHD video.

@thomasfuchs Just like Deep Learning went from being "OMG OMG A.I." hype, through many seemingly useless toys like style transfer, to people naturally expecting to have a working search function in their photo gallery, and not even noticing that "HDR" stopped looking weird at some point.

@thomasfuchs The Sydney with existential crisis will definitely be buried like Tay bot.

However, I expect the tech behind LLMs will be used so widely, it won't even count as anything special any more, and be "just" a text processor.

@thomasfuchs That's quite pessimistic, and a bit unwarranted to bundle outright malicious scam with emerging technologies, just because all of them had some "hype" around them. And NFT didn't even have a hype, it had aggressive astroturfing.

@davatron5000 I've had Gowalla even before signing up for Twitter.

However, the 2.0 immediately raised red flags when it was *MANDATORY* to upload your entire address book during signup. I'm highly suspicious that it's just data harvesting operation under a cheaply acquired name.

"Electronic mail" has been abbreviated all the way to "e-mail", missing the excellent intermediate step:

electro mail

:pensive_party_blob:

For our #cat packing paper is the best toy.

@wingo Mastodon adds a random delay up to a minute to avoid hitting the site in "less than a second".

So this is more like 30 req/s.

#caturday