Had to post this, gives me the giggles every time. Ryan George gets it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQpxAvjD_30

https://obviousplant.com/collections/all

This makes sense at first glance but I have never heard anyone do this ever, and it seems like it might make the situation feel even more awkward.

Living in Quebec this is my own private little social anxiety nightmare when meeting new people. You want to talk about pronouns? This is the real pronouns issue. Do I go with tu and seem overly familiar? Do I go with vous and seem standoffish? Does it depend on age? Degrees of separation? Station in life? Nnnnnnnnnngggggghhhh

There’s also the weird line spacing change in the last paragraph

No contest.

That was a new one for me, thank you kindly. It’s Bradbury through and through, felt like a companion work to Fahrenheit 451. Can’t decide whether to think of it as a prequel or a sequel…

Sounds quite similar to Nick Cave’s letter on the topic, read here by Stephen Fry. (anyone feel free to reply with a piped link, for some reason it’s never worked for me)

Well fuck that

Where is the MIT study in question? The link in the article, apparently to a PDF, redirects elsewhere

aka enshittification

You know, I think I’m overdue for a donation to Wikipedia. They honestly might end up being the last bastion of sanity

It pains me to argue this point, but are you sure there isn’t a legitimate use case just this once? The text says that this was aimed at making Wikipedia more accessible to less advanced readers, like (I assume) people whose first language is not English. Judging by the screenshot they’re also being fully transparent about it. I don’t know if this is actually a good idea but it seems the least objectionable use of generative AI I’ve seen so far.

I’m going to search for the beached Lookfar. If memory serves, it was abandoned on Selidor, just past the Dragons’ Run

It’s actually kind of worrisome that they have to guess it was his code based on the function/method name. Do these people not use version control? I guess not, they sure as hell don’t do code reviews if this guy managed to get this code into production

Yeah I see what you mean. There’s a decent argument to be made that something like reasoning appears as an emergent property in this kind of system, I’ll admit. Still, the fact that fundamentally the code works as a prediction engine rules out any sort of real cognition, even if it makes an impressive simulacrum. There’s just no ability to invent, no true novelty, which – to my mind at least – is the hallmark of actual reasoning.

It’s real. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XAI_(company)

an open source reasoning AI

It’s still an LLM right? I’m going to have to take issue with your use of the word ‘reasoning’ here

To paraphrase Gordon Ramsay, “a skilled vet could still save it”

Best read with a British accent, naturally:

There was a young girl from Nic’ragua
Who smiled as she rode on a jaguar
They returned from the ride
With the young girl inside
And the smile on the face of the jaguar