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So the AI business “model” is:
This is the “Kodak” & “Boeing” business downfall case studies combined.
Having morning coffee and wondering why this consequence to “pillaging the open web” is a revelation to anyone who comprehends human fairness - https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/117306438765477969
A Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said generative AI products have created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” https://www.404media.co/doom-loop-openai-and-microsoft-admits-llms-are-destroying-the-web-and-built-on-theft/“
Related courage or stupidity? 🎶 Non, rien de rien. Non, je ne regrette rien🎶 - Édith Piaf (No, nothing at all. No, I regret nothing)
“55 Percent of Leaders (sic- Managers) Regret AI Layoffs—and a Major Hiring Reversal Has Begun https://www.inc.com/bruce-crumley/55-percent-of-leaders-regret-ai-layoffs-and-a-major-hiring-reversal-has-begun/91380901?ref=labnotes.org”
Related courage or stupidity? - https://hachyderm.io/@mweagle/116898915360905510
“Key takeaways:
@FlipperPA@fosstodon.org ultimately, these narratives are about consequences of balancing short-, mid- & long-term decisions.
The Boeing “set of short-term avarice decisions” was decades in the making & only “grabbed attention” when planes & their components started falling out the sky with paying passengers onboard. Intel & Kodak also avarice-driven. “Avarice” is not a business purpose.
With AI-LLM consequences, do we wait until “humans” are literally falling out of:
Obedience, obsolesce and obsequiousness or “Them who must be obeyed”
“Those who don’t know or learn the lessons from their history, will repeat it” - https://kolektiva.social/@beka_valentine/116846001928358311 “but instead of making languages more useful, there's a non-stop stream of trash i mean, consider Go, a language that came out in 2009, and which ignores around 41 years of language design progress and research, to create a thin reimplementation of Algol 68”
@RuthMalan@mastodon.social a unicellular, microscopic amoeba is “cognitively conscious” & it:
LLMs use statistical computation to predict the next likely word, which is not autonomy, intention or cognitive consciousness.🤦🏾♀️
Another reason (1,000,007) not to allow rent-seeking middlemen into your process. I’ve never liked that Visual Studio code “conveniently” runs a console on your behalf but does not give you full control of it.
No thanks, I’ll use my own console for my code commits!
- @danluu@mastodon.social
@AeonCypher@lgbtqia.space the externalities are not so visible in operational use of local-on-your-laptop open-weight models. It’s the open web being used for “pillage” without consent:
No regard of sustainable use of limited environmental resources consumed during months of model training & operating cloud data centers, etc.
The maths is not “mathing”-@sundogplanets@mastodon.social
“Prof. Sam Lawler’s (@sundogplanets@mastodon.social) estimate from looking at this ridiculous sketch is 8x60x10m solar panels... that's a reflecting area of 4800 m^2. The International Space Station (ISS), the biggest thing in orbit, has a solar panel area of about 3400 m^2.”
BTW ISS was not constructed and then launched into orbit. But these people are going to reinvent earth physics 🤷🏾♀️.
@impactology@mastodon.social Related-https://mastodon.social/@dahukanna/111907380138176284 Feb 2024“Can you recall phase in career when you were struggling with fear of failure/mistakes or fear of starting something new.“ “Absolute novice at some skill you were trying to figure out a way to get good at or rethink”
Still have those moments and overcome/get past them them with 2 main ingredients:
- code - **…** for - bold - *…* for - emphasis/italics -  for image link - [alt text](URL) for link - > for- —— for
horizontal rule How is this the standard for machine readable, structured documentation? I’d have used HTML, XML or JSON instead.
Automate learned helplessness (don’t care) rather than autonomy - @dahukanna@mastodon.social
Emerge(definition) become apparent or prominent (observer bias)
It was always present and has not changed state, just not previously significant to the observer.
What’s emerging is the observer’s mental model perception of their containing environment, not the state of the environment itself.
Transient, ephemeral objects are a different “story”.
@grumpydad@infosec.exchange I said that
“Markdown is a kind of human readable text shorthand for a minuscule subset of HTML. Yes Humans, myself included can write anything they want in this format.
HTML, XMl and JSON have a specification and structure that makes them machine readable and transpilable. I’m not suggesting these are imposed on human writers.
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