Some people have criticised that article for being unbalanced so here's a longer, more detailed, and more balanced account that makes things look even worse for the malefactors.
1. Mentally unhinged trannies demanded a board seat on the NixOS foundation reserved for a "sexual minority". 2. The project founder suggested that your sexual proclivities were irrelevant to running a Linux distribution. 3. The same tranny declared a purge of "Nazis". 4. The project founder said, have fun with that, I'm out of here. 5. Other key contributors swiftly followed suit. 6. The trannies who took over don't know how to do, quite literally, anything.
A story as old as time, or Magnus Hirshfeld, whichever comes first.
Well he says they're "vastly overestimating generative AI" but what he means is they're full of shit.
>"When a human sees an AI system perform a task, they immediately generalize it to things that are similar and make an estimate of the competence of the AI system; not just the performance on that, but the competence around that," Brooks said. "And they're usually very over-optimistic, and that's because they use a model of a person's performance on a task."
This seems right to me.
People say "oh, this AI gave the correct answer to a complex question, it must understand the topic". But that's not how LLMs work at all. They're exclusive statistical pattern matchers, with no model of anything beyond that.
Humans (and other animals) are statistical pattern matchers too, but even flatworms are capable of learning. LLMs as commonly implemented are not. They are trained, once, then lobotomised to prevent them contemplating some heresy like saying nigger or pointing out the 42% and then sent out into the world.
If some bugman brings this up you can bring up the point that Softbank invested $16 billion in WeWork, an office sharing company now valued at $500 million, so I wouldn't give too much credit to their predictive abilities.
@Humpleupagus If anything they could shrink it faster.
AI is supposed to replace Crypto as the startup bait but the high interest rates are not giving Wall Street enough incentive to try and drive growth by speculation
How about that. Given in the last 2 and a half years big tech has laid off over 500,000 staff and is not hiring this is only going to get worse, or better, whatever
Our e-Safety commissioner, some Yankee import former Twitter censor and possible CIA asset, wants to block video of the stabbing attack of a Sydney bishop from viewers worldwide.
Justice Geoffrey Kennett today said, and I quote, Nah.
Or more precisely:
>The application to extend the interlocutory injunction granted on 22 April 2024 (as extended on 24 April 2024) is refused.
This comes a day after the game was removed from sale on Steam in 177 countries and dependencies because the PlayStation Network was not available there.
Which also goes to show how widely available Steam is. They don't care if you live in the Aland Islands or Andorra or Antarctica, if your credit card works you're in.