The photo of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang signing a woman’s chest in Taiwan will be the image of peak AI hype. More on that in the Disconnect Roundup, along with recommended reads, labor updates, and other news you might have missed!
So glad I came across @parismarx podcast Tech Won't Save Us. Highly recommended if you haven't come across it yet. Listened to this yesterday and embaressed myself doing fistpumps out in public - so many good points
What's going on is that Anthropic "prompt engineers" have redefined self-awareness to mean 'has contextual information.' That the system is using language then allows them to delude themselves into universalizing their definition.
Saw a similar problem in AI research in the 80s: researchers might define a "frame" holding contextual info, & when their program produced solutions that referenced the frame, construed that as a form of self-awareness. #AIHype#Claude
A Bitcoin investor was recently scammed out of 9 Bitcoin (worth around $490K) in a fake “Exodus wallet” desktop application for Linux, published in the Canonical Snap Store. This isn’t the first time; if nothing changes, it likely won’t be the last.
This is a rather long blog post to accompany @linuxmatters episode 23.
@popey@linuxmatters
🥥 Eye was convinced that Crypto Currencies would be the Tulip Mania of the 21st century.
(Tulip Mania:1634 to 1637. Destroyed the wealth of huge numbers of Dutch people in a bubble market for tulip bulbs which eventually burst.)
Now I'm rooting for an AI mania to do extensive damage to a large number of deserving tech companies. 🥥 #TechBros, #CryptoMania, #TulipMania, #AIHype, #Ai, #Bubble, #Scam
@pluralistic brilliantly clarifying our modern world for us, as usual:
We’re nowhere near the point where an AI can do your job, but we’re well past the point where your boss can be suckered into firing you and replacing you with a bot that fails at doing your job.
Long before the current wave of #AIHype, we were being groomed for automation panics with misleading stories. Remember this one? "'Truck driver' is the most common job in America. Self-driving trucks are just around the corner. How can we prevent America's army of truckers from turning into a howling mob when the robots steal their jobs?"