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Should I step down as head of twitter
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kazil
Jul 24, 2005

Derpmph trial star reporter!

An insane mind posted:

What's Gary's Mod?
Is that for Skyrim?

it's a mario64 hack

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Jelly
Feb 11, 2004

Ask me about my STD collection!

An insane mind posted:

What's Gary's Mod?
Is that for Skyrim?

Half-Life

Which is approximately 7/8th more of a life than Musk has.

An insane mind
Aug 11, 2018

Oh ok! Thanks for informing me. Is it one of those, spawn whatever the gently caress you want mods?

Turbinosamente
May 29, 2013

Lights on, Lights off
Wait someone legit didn't know what Gary's Mod was? Excuse me while I dry up and crumble away into dust.

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









So this telephone thing, it's, what, a machine to talk to people from a distance? Interesting

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

An insane mind posted:

Oh ok! Thanks for informing me. Is it one of those, spawn whatever the gently caress you want mods?

yea iirc it started as a toy to spawn stuff and gently caress around with half life physics modeling, and then it turned into one of those "games within a game" things like there were a bunch of weird multiplayer minigames made entirely within gary's mod

An insane mind
Aug 11, 2018

Turbinosamente posted:

Wait someone legit didn't know what Gary's Mod was? Excuse me while I dry up and crumble away into dust.

I guess I never caught it. It is apparently on my steam list so someone may have gifted it to me, but I never played a second of it. I was too busy playing Baldur's Gate for the nth time I guess.

Steadiman
Jan 31, 2006

Hey...what kind of party is this? there's no booze and only one hooker!

silly sevens

sebmojo posted:

So this telephone thing, it's, what, a machine to talk to people from a distance? Interesting

That sounds ridiculous. It’ll never catch on.

Kingo Ligma
Aug 24, 2019

Ask me about calling people racist because I failed geography.

Steadiman posted:

That sounds ridiculous. It’ll never catch on.

Better to talk to people than communicate via telephone

...!
Oct 5, 2003

I SHOULD KEEP MY DUMB MOUTH SHUT INSTEAD OF SPEWING HORSESHIT ABOUT THE ORBITAL MECHANICS OF THE JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE.

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT A LAGRANGE POINT IS?

TheOneAndOnlyT posted:

they're deeply stupid, OP

You have to remember that for 95% of people, "AI" means "perfectly logical and always correct mind that is smarter than any human", not "impressive but imperfect computer program that is just as fallible as the humans who designed it."

It doesn't help that the people creating these things keep calling them AI when they're actually just bots. Extremely sophisticated bots but still just bots. Impressive, yes. Actual intelligence, no. These people know very well that they haven't created AIs but they've decided that buzzwords are much more important than accuracy.

Concerning!

Strong Sauce posted:

i think the original person posting the meme is trying to imply that the next door down killed the previous thing... which is just a very general thing you can say about those technologies. porn is in there for some reason.. because the dude he stole it from is horny.

The person making a meme out of it can imply whatever they want but that's not at all what that image means. That meme makes zero sense. So naturally Elon glommed onto it and tried to make his idiot fanboys think he came up with it himself.

mdxi
Mar 13, 2006

to JERK OFF is to be close to GOD... only with SPURTING

...! posted:

It doesn't help that the people creating these things keep calling them AI when they're actually just bots. Extremely sophisticated bots but still just bots. Impressive, yes. Actual intelligence, no. These people know very well that they haven't created AIs but they've decided that buzzwords are much more important than accuracy.

This has been true since IBM rolled out Watson and decided to PR it as AI.

ChatGPT and its ilk are MegaHAL + 20 years of NLP research + big data techniques as a corpus instead of 150kb of Xanga copypasta + some good creative programming work for the "...as song lyrics" results.

But it's still, at the core, a travesty generator, and like any other system that is bounded by its dataset, garbage in means garbage out.

Cable Guy
Jul 18, 2005

I don't expect any trouble, but we'll be handing these out later...




Slippery Tilde

toggle posted:

What vegetable would elong be?
ProTate-oh



:dadjoke:

Midnight Voyager
Jul 2, 2008

Lipstick Apathy

An insane mind posted:

I guess I never caught it. It is apparently on my steam list so someone may have gifted it to me, but I never played a second of it. I was too busy playing Baldur's Gate for the nth time I guess.

It's free, I suspect everyone just has it.

kazil
Jul 24, 2005

Derpmph trial star reporter!

Midnight Voyager posted:

It's free, I suspect everyone just has it.

Garry's mod hasn't been free in a very, very long time

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

sebmojo posted:

So this telephone thing, it's, what, a machine to talk to people from a distance? Interesting

"The future is now, old man"

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

...! posted:

It doesn't help that the people creating these things keep calling them AI when they're actually just bots. Extremely sophisticated bots but still just bots. Impressive, yes. Actual intelligence, no. These people know very well that they haven't created AIs but they've decided that buzzwords are much more important than accuracy.

it's almost like some words mean different things in a technical realm vs. among laypeople. there are all kinds of things people call "ai" that are not actual intelligences at all, just like people use the word "insane" to describe behavior not necessarily caused by mental illness, "freezing" to describe the feeling of temperatures higher than any actual freezing point, etc.

mdxi posted:

This has been true since IBM rolled out Watson and decided to PR it as AI.

its been true for longer than that. people use the term to describe poo poo like the ghosts in pacman.

The Saddest Rhino
Apr 29, 2009

Put it all together.
Solve the world.
One conversation at a time.



sebmojo posted:

So this telephone thing, it's, what, a machine to talk to people from a distance? Interesting


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huEkA5kFQhY

The Saddest Rhino
Apr 29, 2009

Put it all together.
Solve the world.
One conversation at a time.



It can't sell if you call it Artificial Dumbassery

Cool Kids Club Soda
Aug 20, 2010
😎❄️🌃🥤🧋🍹👌💯

...! posted:

It doesn't help that the people creating these things keep calling them AI when they're actually just bots. Extremely sophisticated bots but still just bots. Impressive, yes. Actual intelligence, no. These people know very well that they haven't created AIs but they've decided that buzzwords are much more important than accuracy.

Concerning!

The person making a meme out of it can imply whatever they want but that's not at all what that image means. That meme makes zero sense. So naturally Elon glommed onto it and tried to make his idiot fanboys think he came up with it himself.

N. Senada
May 17, 2011

My kidneys are busted

An insane mind posted:

I guess I never caught it. It is apparently on my steam list so someone may have gifted it to me, but I never played a second of it. I was too busy playing Baldur's Gate for the nth time I guess.

It’s called Roblox now I think

Zulily Zoetrope
Jun 1, 2011

Muldoon
People like to treat that thing as one would a human intelligence, because it is in our nature to anthropomorphize anything with which we would communicate, but it really isn't. It just replicates words and patterns it comes across with no capacity to understand them as a person would, with a bias towards replicating actions that result in positive feedback.

Asking questions like "what did Elon mean by posting that meme" is absolutely pointless. If one becomes a billionaire and purported tech genius entirely off the back of taking credit for other people's work, stealing becomes second nature, even cases where an even mildly reflective person might realize that this meme is too stupid for even nazi clout.

Kingo Ligma
Aug 24, 2019

Ask me about calling people racist because I failed geography.

The Saddest Rhino posted:

It can't sell if you call it Artificial Dumbassery

gently caress AI is coming for my posting

Cool Kids Club Soda
Aug 20, 2010
😎❄️🌃🥤🧋🍹👌💯

Kingo Ligma posted:

gently caress AI

No that's Bad Dragon that's working on that

zedprime
Jun 9, 2007

yospos

Earwicker posted:

it's almost like some words mean different things in a technical realm vs. among laypeople. there are all kinds of things people call "ai" that are not actual intelligences at all, just like people use the word "insane" to describe behavior not necessarily caused by mental illness, "freezing" to describe the feeling of temperatures higher than any actual freezing point, etc.

its been true for longer than that. people use the term to describe poo poo like the ghosts in pacman.
I'd like to see the so called AI deniers manage to catch pacman better than a ghost.

Teratrain
Aug 23, 2007
Waiting for Godot

sebmojo posted:

So this telephone thing, it's, what, a machine to talk to people from a distance? Interesting

Concerning

We'll see how society feels about that when the porn reaper reaches the "telephone" door.

Midnight Voyager
Jul 2, 2008

Lipstick Apathy

kazil posted:

Garry's mod hasn't been free in a very, very long time

well that should tell you how long ago I probably got it...

Radio Paranoia
Jun 27, 2010

It is now safe to turn off your computer.

Teratrain posted:

Concerning

We'll see how society feels about that when the porn reaper reaches the "telephone" door.

I have terrible news...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hYtUYiuzkw

junan_paalla
Dec 29, 2009

Seriously, do drugs

mdxi posted:

This has been true since IBM rolled out Watson and decided to PR it as AI.

ChatGPT and its ilk are MegaHAL + 20 years of NLP research + big data techniques as a corpus instead of 150kb of Xanga copypasta + some good creative programming work for the "...as song lyrics" results.

But it's still, at the core, a travesty generator, and like any other system that is bounded by its dataset, garbage in means garbage out.

Yeah it's advanced text generation with some heavy-handed guardrails to stop it from generating offensive garbage, nobody programmed a 'woke AI', they just have some safeguards in place so that the model doesn't start printing out the racist and anti-Semitic stuff that ended up being in its massive training dataset, giving the company bad press. And why is making the text generator print out the n-word such a big deal anyway, do these people know they can just type it themselves if they really need to?

Sentient Data
Aug 31, 2011

My molecule scrambler ray will disintegrate your armor with one blow!
But you see if the god-machine writes it, that means it's scientifically proven to be ok to say!!!!

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

When I want to relax, I read an essay by Engels. When I want something more serious, I read Corto Maltese.

Dabir posted:

Courgette is a foul vegetable unfit for human consumption in its raw form, but it works amazingly mixed into chocolate cake

They make for a better pickle than cucumbers.

Also, that one comment of Musk beginning to sound more and more like an chat program makes sense... Maybe he's so concerned about these programs not being like him because he thinks they are the only things that would WANT to talk to him.

kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.

mdxi posted:

But it's still, at the core, a travesty generator, and like any other system that is bounded by its dataset, garbage in means garbage out.

I'd rather trust Eliza or Dr Sbaitso

davidspackage
May 16, 2007

Nap Ghost
It's sad and funny that Msuk now only cares about engagement. He could tell his remaining software guys to cheat, like they already tried, and artificially boost his numbers, but doing so he would have to admit to himself he's a fraud and not funny or smart or interesting. In turn, his software guys could do it outside his knowledge to keep him happy, but they probably don't have the time due to the workload and stress he dumps on them, and because he has to pass every stupid whim he has on them immediately.

Shaman Tank Spec
Dec 26, 2003

*blep*



Cthulu Carl posted:

Grassy rear end for this post.

De nada -- rhymes with Grenada.

YF-23
Feb 17, 2011

My god, it's full of cat!


Tweets from blocked accounts have been showing up in my search results now. Unsure if that's twitter breaking or musk having made some change to keep promised eyeballs on his paying users by having block only remove them from your feed or whatever.

armpit_enjoyer
Jan 25, 2023

my god. it's full of posts

YF-23 posted:

Tweets from blocked accounts have been showing up in my search results now. Unsure if that's twitter breaking or musk having made some change to keep promised eyeballs on his paying users by having block only remove them from your feed or whatever.

That's been a thing on Twitter for at least over a year, definitely pre-Musk.

YF-23
Feb 17, 2011

My god, it's full of cat!


Ah fair enough then, I guess I only noticed now because I've been blocking every twitter blue account I see.

raifield
Feb 21, 2005

kirbysuperstar posted:

I'd rather trust Eliza or Dr Sbaitso

At least Dr.Sbaitso maintains patient confidentiality.

kazil
Jul 24, 2005

Derpmph trial star reporter!

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1636253162423083009

a rare miss from the E

syntaxfunction
Oct 27, 2010
He's 100% gonna do the RDJ blackface and argue that the movie got away with it. I really want it to happen.

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...!
Oct 5, 2003

I SHOULD KEEP MY DUMB MOUTH SHUT INSTEAD OF SPEWING HORSESHIT ABOUT THE ORBITAL MECHANICS OF THE JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE.

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT A LAGRANGE POINT IS?

The gently caress does that even mean

Has his brain finally broke

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