 #AI as a topic is a marketer’s dream. Great promise! Great peril! Ban it! No, invest more in it! Everybody will be fired! No, we will all be gods! No, the new gods will exterminate us! The Americans / Chinese / … / but not us will use this to take over the world! Everybody can have an opinion. Headline topic in every governmental meeting and board room and the pub at the corner. Even the pope gets quoted. With almost nobody having any idea what they are actually talking about. What an amazing story about the history of VLSI design. I remember that book on the desk of my professor many years later! https://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/Memoirs/VLSI/Lynn_Conway_VLSI_Reminiscences.pdf In Mastodon, I can create a "private mention" post and accidentially not mention anybody. A new version of the ever-swallowing void, I guess... @J12t lol that cracks me up. Apparently I live in a neighborhood where walking the dog can have you return with a gifted dwarf banana plant. I had meant to replace the one I had in my office and that died 20 years or so ago. And here we are. NEWS: After sustained attacks from House Republicans, the Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled. A huge blow to academic freedom and our ability to understand platforms and influence operations https://www.platformer.news/stanford-internet-observatory-shutdown-stamos-diresta-sio/
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 #stanford endowment can cover the ongoing litigation cost, and they can countersue or request that the acku intercede. they can also ask alumni for grants specifically to protect this vital work. vile things loathe bright lights. don't let them go out! @caseynewton This is typical of fascists. They are enemies of education, science and anything which helps people instead of giving them more power over others. Note to self: do not file a bug against your own code for missing functionality if you just implemented that functionality and it is checked-in and working. If I type "Tell me the history of the Roman empire" into an #AI chat bot like #ChatGPT and hit return, it HTTP POSTs that to one of their web servers, and then ... what? How many computers are involved in producing my response? What are their responsibilities? How is the response assembled from those parts? It's a bit like the old interview question: if I type "cnn.com into a browser, what exactly happens?" I can answer that one, but I'm unclear on the AI chat version. Anybody know? "Some tentative decisions about FediTest". Blogged. Would love your feedback. Does this approach make sense to you? https://feditest.org/blog/2024-06-13-some-tentative-decisions/ #feditest #testing #fediverse #activitypub Interesting post on the future or lack thereof of Generative AI. Microsoft is ""... shifting our focus on GPTs to Commercial and Enterprise scenarios and are stopping GPT efforts in consumer Copilot." Translation: Microsoft isn't making enough money from consumer MS365 subscriptions to pay for the cloud costs of an OpenAI-based service." He continues: "So now they're pushing those sales teams to try and sell these capabilities to gullible and vain CIOs and CEOs. Who are unlikely to move any of this bullsh*t past the "pilot" phase."  Tried out something. Worked exactly as expected / hoped for. What does that ever happen??!? Seeing the job title "Principle Software Engineer", I never know whether they actually meant exactly what they wrote or the mis-spel-checker got in the way. This is such as cool video that explains that Mastodon is not just a Twitter Replacement. Gonna try and show this to people that haven't got into Mastodon before.
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 @sam  @sam But admittedly, it doesn't load as quickly for me 😅 Who is going to #DWebCamp in August under the California redwood trees? I'm registered. Wondering what kind of #Fediverse contigent there will be, and whether anybody is up to doing something together. Reach out if you are! Sounds like the #Apple "personal intelligence" built into the OS will dramatically change the character of computers. One of the big things of UNIX back in the day was that you could chain programs together, with things like pipes. And uniformity with a single "file system" that contains a lot more things than files. This does something similar. You interact with "the intelligence" and it ties together the data and applications on the device in rather tight and novel ways. I'm very impressed by #Apple's "Personal Intelligence" architecture. Not much detail in the keynote, but the hints are tantalizing. A "semantic index!" Ha! And externally audited servers as a core feature of the product! So Apple just coined a new term. Instead of "Personal AI" it's "Personal Intelligence". Interesting. |
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