Aphyr weighing in with an ai position post:
Even if ML stopped improving today, these technologies can already make our lives miserable. Indeed, I think much of the world has not caught up to the implications of modern ML systems—as Gibson put it, “the future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed yet”.
For my own services I’m aiming for .999999% of uptime
You just gotta appreciate that the most deterministic part of the code base is the predatory lootbox system.
Hold on now, the uptime number contains two digits that are nines! The image itself has four nines in total!
This thread by Johnny reading (skimming on a phone, hah) through it is really good.
If only literally any human with context and a small screen to look at the bigger picture was involved with decisions around taking this to production, it would … still be bad but only on a societal level.
Make no mistake: Worm is not a webcomic. It is words. So many fucking words. (I made it about 30% in before realizing I could do literally anything else with my time).
Ah, of course! I come from a corp culture where co-workers were also called customers (“users” actually but you know)
Yeah, almost the entirety of use cases for genai chatbots is contempt for one’s customers.
I’m like 60% sure he will self-incinerate when exposed to sunlight
My heart goes out to my fleeting online acquaintance who’s seemingly but reliably two years too late to hype a trend. 2024 it was blockchain/cryptocurrencies that he tried pushing, now he’s saying AI technology companies are here to stay.
Somebody’s gotta buy the reverse reverse Cramer index I guess.
Is it their next model that tbey swear isn’t vaporware but no! It is too dangerous to release into the world because it’ll find too much insecure code or whatever.