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This is just an ad hominem pretending to be civil discourse. The topic is XAI, and you're talking about Musk instead.

kkielhofner 3y ago
> This is just an ad hominem pretending to be civil discourse. The closest I got to an ad hominem was saying he seems to be impacted by a common problem that afflicts the extremely wealthy and powerful. It doesn't take much research to find celebrities, the ultra wealthy, etc talking about how easy, dangerous, and seductive it is to become surrounded by sycophants. I don't know of anything else to attribute his increasingly bizarre and erratic behavior to. Although some people have gone as far as to say he has "friend his brain with drugs", which I think absolutely is an ad hominem. In terms of XAI, my experience with the Twitter algorithm is clearly relevant as it's obviously an AI implementation at X. If you want something more direct, Elon Musk has said XAI is "based" and "loves sarcasm" while implying it was directly modeled after him and his own sense of humor. From[0] citing his direct announcement: '"It's also based & loves sarcasm," he wrote. "I have no idea who could have guided it this way."' Creating an LLM with a "sense of humor" ranges from "interesting choice" to absurd to dangerous. Humor is a matter of subjective and highly individualized tastes, and sarcasm can be (and is often) lost on people, which starts heading towards dangerous. "Based" is meaningless but also implies it has been influenced towards whatever he thinks that is, which I'm guessing is more alignment with him and his own opinions, etc. I have to imagine if Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, etc were to attempt something similar someone around them would tell them it's a bad idea (because it absolutely is). Announcing it, touting it as a positive, and being proud of it is next-level. The world does not need eccentric tech billionaire mini-me AIs and the fact he seems to have created one speaks to an ego run amok. [0] - https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/elon-musk-unveils-grok-a-spicy-and-based-ai-chatbot/464942 https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/elon-musk-unveils...

> This is just an ad hominem pretending to be civil discourse. The closest I got to an ad hominem was saying he seems to be impacted by a common problem that afflicts the extremely wealthy and powerful. It doesn't take much research to find celebrities, the ultra wealthy, etc talking about how easy, dangerous, and seductive it is to become surrounded by sycophants. I don't know of anything else to attribute his increasingly bizarre and erratic behavior to. Although some people have gone as far as to say he has "friend his brain with drugs", which I think absolutely is an ad hominem. In terms of XAI, my experience with the Twitter algorithm is clearly relevant as it's obviously an AI implementation at X. If you want something more direct, Elon Musk has said XAI is "based" and "loves sarcasm" while implying it was directly modeled after him and his own sense of humor. From[0] citing his direct announcement: '"It's also based & loves sarcasm," he wrote. "I have no idea who could have guided it this way."' Creating an LLM with a "sense of humor" ranges from "interesting choice" to absurd to dangerous. Humor is a matter of subjective and highly individualized tastes, and sarcasm can be (and is often) lost on people, which starts heading towards dangerous. "Based" is meaningless but also implies it has been influenced towards whatever he thinks that is, which I'm guessing is more alignment with him and his own opinions, etc. I have to imagine if Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, etc were to attempt something similar someone around them would tell them it's a bad idea (because it absolutely is). Announcing it, touting it as a positive, and being proud of it is next-level. The world does not need eccentric tech billionaire mini-me AIs and the fact he seems to have created one speaks to an ego run amok. [0] - https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/elon-musk-unveils-grok-a-spicy-and-based-ai-chatbot/464942 https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/elon-musk-unveils...