Notices by Keith (keydelk@fosstodon.org)

@Rasp where are you located and what kind of job are you looking for? I have some connections in the Denver area if you’re around here.

@hrefna I’m hesitant to get involved with a community on Bluesky or Threads. Both are owned by the same corporate entities & billionaires that ruined Facebook and Twitter. Mastodon & the Fediverse certainly are not perfect, but at least we’re not under the thumbs of corporate boards or mercurial billionaires.

@Wolven a related trend that worries me is that there are many people who would sooner ascribe consciousness to an LLM than to living animals.

@thomasfuchs my company just laid off a fifth of the dev team because someone in management thinks MS CoPilot is going to make the rest of us so much more productive. Ugly rehash of the “do more with less” corporate delusion.
I’d tell them they’re crazy, but I don’t really want to look for a new job right now 🫤

@raven667 @thomasfuchs @mbrailer it’s not just the complexity that matters, but how the system is structured that gives rise to real intelligence. My biggest frustration with this current wave of AI hype is that it is so divorced from any studies of actual human cognition.
We take “neural networks” (a statistical algorithm for finding trends in large and messy data sets), throw tons of data on it, and pretend it’s “on the verge of becoming AGI.”

@Rasp Denver is always dry as fuck.