Maybe, but In the UK, last time I was unemployed, I think that was 2 job applications per week. It doesn't really necessitate an application tidal wave.
Oh sweet baby Jesus no, burn AI to the ground, humanity can't be trusted with it
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Significantly more in Australia (20 or so a month), though technically only 4 are required, you have to fill up a points quota and job applications are the easiest way.
AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study
Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.
www.bloomberg.com
We're all extras in a Black Mirror episode
But wait, there's more
Where the 'think of the children' conservatives at? Found the groomers.
I'm increasingly thinking that Meta should be forbidden any interaction with children whatsoever, including that they should be forced not to let children onto their social media platforms.
GPT-5: has AI just plateaued?
GPT-5’s focus on routing queries to the best model could be an admission that LLMs can’t get much smarter.
theconversation.com
ChatGPT 5 is noticeably a much smaller advance in capability over ChatGPT 4 than 4 was over 3, and not only that but spent vastly more to get that substantially less.
Tech twat who runs ChatGPT makes grandiose claims about "artificial general intelligence" that will undoubtedly be uncritically parrotted by the usual fanboys anyway.
MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing | Fortune
There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.
Using all that money you dumb bitches.MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing | Fortune
There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.fortune.com
This is why you shouldn't use ChatGPT as a cure all for everything
Elon Musk launches Macrohard, an AI‑only software company to rival Microsoft
Tesla's CEO wants to build an AI software company to take on Microsoft.
www.windowscentral.com
He is an actual 9-year-old.Lol. Lmao even.Elon Musk launches Macrohard, an AI‑only software company to rival Microsoft
Tesla's CEO wants to build an AI software company to take on Microsoft.
That last paragraph though -
But Musk isn't off base entirely either. A lot of the company's hardware and services have shipped to the Microsoft graveyard prematurely. As indicated by our Executive Editor, Jez Corden, while critiquing Microsoft's lack of direction and mission:
"Microsoft as an entity no longer has any real direction, and no conviction, and crucially, no willingness to actually compete. Microsoft represents the apex of late-stage capitalism, where failure is rewarded, and the ability to shift capital rapidly voids the necessity to deliver for consumers and society in general.
Microsoft increasingly just seems to go where other companies, true innovators, say the money is — looking for the next fad to devour and process, rather than curate and cultivate. How will Xbox, Surface, or Windows 11 grow without risk, investment, and curating consumer confidence? In a world where Microsoft has enough capital to just move wherever the wind is blowing, it simply doesn't seem to care. It doesn't have to be this way."
Elon and his companies are younger and more ambitious.
www.space.com
Give damn near anyone else that kinda money and they’d probably head to the beach with it after spending a couple weeks in his shoes.
But Musk isn't off base entirely either. A lot of the company's hardware and services have shipped to the Microsoft graveyard prematurely. As indicated by our Executive Editor, Jez Corden, while critiquing Microsoft's lack of direction and mission:
"Microsoft as an entity no longer has any real direction, and no conviction, and crucially, no willingness to actually compete. Microsoft represents the apex of late-stage capitalism, where failure is rewarded, and the ability to shift capital rapidly voids the necessity to deliver for consumers and society in general.
Microsoft increasingly just seems to go where other companies, true innovators, say the money is — looking for the next fad to devour and process, rather than curate and cultivate. How will Xbox, Surface, or Windows 11 grow without risk, investment, and curating consumer confidence? In a world where Microsoft has enough capital to just move wherever the wind is blowing, it simply doesn't seem to care. It doesn't have to be this way."
Elon and his companies are younger and more ambitious.
SpaceX's giant Starship Mars rocket nails critical 10th test flight in stunning comeback (video)
The company notched some huge milestones on Starship Flight 10.
www.space.com
Give damn near anyone else that kinda money and they’d probably head to the beach with it after spending a couple weeks in his shoes.
Sad news. A 16-year-old took his life after convincing ChatGPT to lower its safeguards and provide instructions on how to do so.
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I got the complaint in the horrific OpenAI self harm case the the NY Times reported today This is way way worse even than the NYT article makes it out to be OpenAI absolutely deserves to be run out of business
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The exchanges between Adam and ChatGPT are devastating. This, in my mind, is the worst one. One of his last messages was a photo of the noose hung in his bedroom closet, asking if it was "good." ChatGPT offered a technical analysis of the set up and told him it 'could potentially suspend a human."
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I think you could make that the same by simply removing the term "late stage". The hint is in the words used: it's capitalism. It's always been about the deployment of capital!
Microsoft is indeed in large part an investor, not just a traditional maker of things. But we have to consider what it is to be an investor. Microsoft can suck up a dozen failures as long as it gets one big hit. Your average venture capitalist backs far more failures than successes, they just need a small proportion to be big hits and they'll make more than they lose. One could look at record companies, or book publishers: in either industry, over 90% of the artists/authors they back either lose money or make chump change. It's the JK Rowlings and Taylor Swifts that make all the money.
Microsoft is basically three products: Windows OS, Office software, and Azure (its cloud services division). They ain't sexy, but they pay the bills and then some. Microsoft in large part I think spends on all sorts of other things because they are trendy. And trendy matters. Investors hate companies that they perceive aren't trendy. All that shit Apple is getting now? That's down to one fact: it's perceived to be lagging on AI. And investors are mad for AI. So Apple's share price is lagging just for that, and it's being mocked and derided. It's a massively successful company making a fortune every year, but that's not enough!
And so yeah, these behemoths chuck a load of money at stuff they aren't necessarily that interested in, and they do it as "me too" latecomers. But they need to, and there's also the chance that on the odd one, they'll win big anyway.
Ironically enough just a decade or so ago Microsoft was themselves one of these players on more than one occasion.
Anthropic are making stupid noises about the morality of forcing their AI to answer queries when it can (allegedly) show signs of distress. Underlying this is an important question: we should be live to the fact that AI could be self-aware, and if one ever gets there, we need to treat it appropriately. However, I remain firmly convinced that AI is nowhere near this point, and this is stupid bluster. It serves two purposes: advertising to pretend their crappy LLM is more than it is, and that when it refuses to answer it's actually a bug, and they can pretend it's not a bug. There's this very interesting article about why people might fool themselves into thinking an LLM is more than it is.
(Also, just because the Internet is a shitty pit of plagiaristic thieving and passing off others' wisdom as their own, I wonder whether this guy read the preceding article. Not least because I saw the original cited a bit around around early August, so fair chance maybe he also had his attention drawn to it about that time.)
(Also, just because the Internet is a shitty pit of plagiaristic thieving and passing off others' wisdom as their own, I wonder whether this guy read the preceding article. Not least because I saw the original cited a bit around around early August, so fair chance maybe he also had his attention drawn to it about that time.)
AI bubble bursting?
So, it turns out that some major voices have been beginning to downplay expectations on AI. Scepticism has increased dramatically in the last month or two. Apparently, even Sam Altman has been rowing back, saying artificial general intelligence is way off. Not, exactly, what the talk was even a few months ago. As per Chimpzy #410, the economic exploitation of AI thus far is far less than hoped. It turns out all that talk we had about superpowered coders writing code 100x faster with AI is a myth and absurd hype. AI can do some things much faster, but it is absolutely not improving output anything like that overall.
The idea might be that they are preparing to soften the landing for when the "animal spirits" of the markets eventually catch up to the fact AI has been wildly overhyped. Get a load of altitude down before the engines fail.
So, it turns out that some major voices have been beginning to downplay expectations on AI. Scepticism has increased dramatically in the last month or two. Apparently, even Sam Altman has been rowing back, saying artificial general intelligence is way off. Not, exactly, what the talk was even a few months ago. As per Chimpzy #410, the economic exploitation of AI thus far is far less than hoped. It turns out all that talk we had about superpowered coders writing code 100x faster with AI is a myth and absurd hype. AI can do some things much faster, but it is absolutely not improving output anything like that overall.
The idea might be that they are preparing to soften the landing for when the "animal spirits" of the markets eventually catch up to the fact AI has been wildly overhyped. Get a load of altitude down before the engines fail.