unleashhale

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by unleashhale 18d ago
Right, they’re MAGIC! Not being built out of conditional branches or loops does not mean they’re somehow outside algorithms or computation. Learned parameters don’t confer exemption from computing. Did the engineered system behave as intend
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by unleashhale 21d ago
Accumulated cruft is the CF cost for an API.
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by unleashhale 21d ago
Correct. AI doesn’t magically smuggle in a totally different species of human. Scarcity is merely one layer of the human clusterfuck.
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by unleashhale 21d ago
> What do the people who own robots need money for? For the same reason they currently “need” more money than they require. This is straight-up Mr. Rogers political economy. This whole thing assumes primates aren’t gonna primate.
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by unleashhale 22d ago
“OneNote wiped the floor with Evernote” sure says a lot about how stagnant Evernote got.
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by unleashhale 22d ago
Anything in particular? My experience has been like seeing the addition of retractable cupholders, but maybe different domains.
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by unleashhale 22d ago
I like some of this. That said, if the system takes previous states containing information about a car’s location and motion, transforms that information through a giant learned mathematical function, and produces a later state with the car
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by unleashhale 28d ago
Just like how the car gave us back so many more hours to spend actually living instead of working. And the washing machine. And the computer. And the Internet.
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by unleashhale 28d ago
Excel absolutely contains autonomous behavior. And current AI systems still require humans all over the place.
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by unleashhale 28d ago
Precisely. Unlike all those other occasions when Jensen’s pronouncements descended from Mount Sinai.
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by unleashhale 1mo ago
This somehow has less personality than plain enterprise software. How IBM.
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by unleashhale 3mo ago
Over my long career, this may take the cake when it comes to all time software turds. This reeks of desperation.
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by unleashhale 3mo ago
Nobody in product development saw the need to leave behind a "Classic" version as a clue that this new bloated abomination is subpar?
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by unleashhale 5mo ago
It’s hostile trash. Cloudflare can eat me.