The Stupid Thread 2 (Part 1)

I’m not sure about ChatGPT, but I’ve played with some advanced ones (offered as pre-built APIs). They are pretty damn scary.

For ppl who aren’t bothered to find out about this nerdy shit we’re talking about, AIs are NOT MACHINES. An AI is supposed to make autonomous decisions. If an AI memorizes steps to solve solutions instead of exercising autonomy, it’s USELESS lol. Let this sink in.

They are literally what the Terminator is described as.

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Yeah, and AI is pushed aggressively by autistic, undereducated cryptofascist techbros who believe they’re special and are so mind bogglingly delusional that they believe they are deciding the future of humanity until the end of the universe (I’m not kidding, that’s what Thiel, Musk and SBF subscribe to)

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I seriously didn’t know this lol. All I know is from a BI perspective and stuff like recommendation systems for clients. The thing is we have very efficient data mining and collection methods. But < 5% is able to be leveraged for insights without AI to process them. Prior to cloud resource pooling, model training would have taken a year. Now you take your model created with pytorch or something and utilize cloud computing resources and it gets done in a day lol. I think this is why more AI stuff is emerging so rapidly.

A friend with some mag actually requested that I write something about these but I just went and wrote a series of brainfarts because I’m a Zettelkastern fanboy and I have NO SHORTAGE of nonsense that I can spew when I want to but the fucker actually published it. It’s about Skynet being dumb as fuck because it started Judgement Day before the invention of TPUs.

*Honestly, this is what I do when I don’t really want to do shit. One client doing political stuff asked for a song I didn’t want to have anything to do with them, much less engage musicians and production so I gave him a bloody 80s rap rip-off lol. This one didn’t want it.

Do you mean they believe in pushing AI like this, or that AI is being pushed in this fashion?

Check out longtermism and AI, it’s part rabid fantasies of a fourteen year old nerd that’s being bullied too much, part apocalyptic ramblings of a bitter middle aged racist* incel.

*I’m using the old school definition of a racist, not the modern woke “everyone and everything is racist”

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@loppar @Andrewgen_Receptors
Look what Google is doing with the codeless stuff:

Introducing Simple ML for Sheets: A No-code Machine Learning Add-on for Google Sheets — The TensorFlow Blog

TensorFlow Decision Forests

EDIT: Actually, this falls under “low code”. But this is just the beginning dudes…

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IDK if I’d classify this as “codeless”, as it still runs on a basis of code. It’s neat, sure, but this stuff is taught at the very beginning of Machine Learning and likely already available in Excel Data Analysis extensions.
moving image showing user predicting missing penguin species with Simple ML for Sheets

I had a class or two about data manipulation for ML that got into this stuff via Azure Labs (which I think is a Microsoft thing?).

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While tons of valuable stuff can be created and exist virtually, everyone needs and wants a lot of goods and services in the real world. Real world goods and services can’t be created by virtual nomads and chatbots.

clearly you’ve never seen McFlippy
Miso Robotics Flippy Robot flips burgers like it's its job ...

Industrial automation is actually not closely related to machine learning, AI, or virtual nomads. I’m not saying that there isn’t lots of value created all the way along the chain. I’m just saying that the last link of the chain that actually makes the thing in the real world is not going away. Even if it can be automated to a degree, you still need people to make and maintain the automation equipment. And put burgers on the grill, apparently.

No one ever talks about Perl…

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I doubt that’s true as tuition continues to go up. Someone is making money though. Also, how many programs don’t make money but in order for sports to exist, you need many colleges to participate.

Uhhh try again.

Chart: The Most Valuable NCAA Teams | Statista

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Why should I, or anyone else, subsidize a farm team for professional sports?

A. How do they spend the money?

B. How many schools are losing money?

Because collegiate sports at public universities is beneficial to the public.

Removing sports from public universities would be highly detrimental to students of all ages. Even unathletic, resentful people who lack the wisdom to see the benefit of athletics for students at the college level.

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I’m sure Joe Paterno helped the public out.

I’m honestly completely on the fence as to whether or not you are being sarcastic.

He’s not sarcastic, he’s old.

If we’re gonna have big time college athletics we need plenty of easy majors for the athletes.

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