“…and is the AI superintelligence in the room with us right now?” 😆

This is fantastic!

“The End of UX”, as I’ve been calling it, continues apace. 😭

Simulating an existing (or previously existing) actual human being should be illegal. It’s quite literally identity theft.

Poppycock. The reason people watch a movie or TV is because they want to see real people doing real-world things that emotionally move them. And even in the cases where it’s a 3D-animated character or all animation, we can feel the humanity of the artistry and the creative talent behind the artifact.

There’s actually no proof anyone wants to “watch slop.” On the contrary, every time a slop advertisement or short narrative video is posted online, it is roasted into oblivion. The market just isn’t there.

AI doesn’t “use” reason, it uses statistics. Ascribing any sort of meaningful opinion or agency to it is scientifically inaccurate. Getting angry at AI for anything it “says” is like getting angry at your calculator, or alarm clock.

boo fucking hoo. 🤧

Oh good it’s not just me. Every damn time I read any of these nutty announcements for new sparkle buttons…welp it’s the Herlihy Boy. 😆

Stop making “AI can replace humans” happen. It’s not gonna happen!

Good grief. It’s like pretending that progressive enhancement was never a thing. 🙄

Pure evil.

You know, I don’t think people want to watch an “experiment”. They want to watch art. If your “art” looks like hot garbage, go experiment on your own time and leave the rest of us alone! 🫠

yeah, I meant the “old school” doomers who thought the AI would start to replicate and upgrade itself and turn into Skynet basically and humans would be helpless to stop it.

Now the likely doom is just Elon Musk running the planet and turning forests into data centers for 3D waifus. 🙃

That was my concern at first, wondering if they’d been turned into a wild-eyed doomer from drinking too much of the Kool-Aid on the negative side…but my own conclusion is they sound reasonably level-headed and likely had an “Are We the Baddies?” awakening of some kind. I also would agree AI isn’t the only major “problem” facing the world, it’s merely part of a cluster of interconnected issues and I appreciated his acknowledgment of that.

I’m tired of arguing with you about this, and you’re still wrong. It was opt-out, not opt-in, based initially on a GitHub crawl of 137M repos and 52B files before filtering & dedup.

Apertus is most certainly trained on source code hosted on GitHub. It is laid out here in their technical report:

https://github.com/swiss-ai/apertus-tech-report

It uses a large dataset called TheStack, among others.

It is still trained on open source code on GitHub. These code communities seemingly have no way to opt out of their free (libre) contributions being used as training data, nor does the resulting code generation contribute anything back to those communities. It is a form of license stripping. That’s just one issue.

Just because your inference running locally doesn’t use much electricity doesn’t mean you’ve sidestepped all of the other ethical issues surrounding LLMs.

That is slightly less unethical than Claude or whatever, but it is still unethical.

“nobody talks about it” “the paradox nobody warned us about”

Dude, everybody has been talking about it and warning you about it. 🤪

How can people write unironically about how AI is seemly so great yet, wow, gosh, shucks, maybe there are some problems we need to deal with?

The only thing I can think of is MegaCorp social media like X, where all viewpoints other than techofascist maximalism are suppressed and buried.

You know, you’re entitled to your opinions, but you are most certainly not entitled to your facts.

The term “hallucinate” as used by people in AI research: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination_(artificial_intelligence)

P. S. A lay person’s objections to the term’s usage in popular media is entirely warranted as unnecessary anthropomorphizing. In general, this tendency to ascribe the language of human mental states to the outputs of statistical computer models is deeply problematic. See: https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/14366