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Alex Hanna
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"I read out of strict obedience to curiosity, the desire to know what these words in this sequence might hold."
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/how-i-lear...
Pogroms.
1. I am not an AI researcher
2. "Doesn't just repeat back to you what you said" ... isn't what any chatbots do, nor what that metaphor was about.
3. For the millionth time, that paper was about LLMs, not "AI" and definitely not "AI agents"
medium.com/@emilymenonb...
I had to rethink my relationship to attentionjohnpaulbrammer.substack.com
Masked men burned families out of their homes in Belfast and torched a number of vehicles in a wave of anti-immigrant violence that followed a knife attack for which a Sudanese man appeared in court ...
Lynx dropping Dallas 100-76 was not on my bingo card for this year #wnba
people will make any excuse to stay and there isn’t a single good one left.
Emily Bender described #AI agents as “stochastic parrots” that can only repeat patterns they find in training data. The folks at @medialab.bsky.social were inspired to create a robotic parrot companion. This AI parrot keeps you on track, reminding you of tasks and challenging you.
Why Bernie why?? @nathaliemarechal.net joins me and @alexhanna.bsky.social to observe and contextualize Sen Sanders’ descent into AI Doomerism:
www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...
Video
Big week for Elon Musk, instigating a racist anti-immigrant pogrom on Tuesday, set to become a trillionaire with the backing of all the biggest banks on Friday.
Wow. 📚❤️
"But the present is a riptide. You’re only human; the spirit of the age will ragdoll you. You will suffer. Become tired. The absolute present exhausts your curiosity first, then the rest of you. No wonder you can’t open a book. Your curiosity is out like a light before noon."
Remember when I said this? I was fresh off recording an episode of MAIHT3K with @emilymbender.bsky.social & @alexhanna.bsky.social, during which we analyzed (and mocked!) Bernie's descent into AI doomerism.
peertube.dair-institute.org/w/jV5u1DVL4b... or wherever your get your podcasts.