because if we’ve learned one thing about Bezos and his pals is that they will be sooo happy to share any additional profits with their employees!

Yes, that’s called a “marketing budget”

I don’t get it. Ok, so you are willing to do away with safety, legality and basic human decency to attract capitals to your country. Fair enough.

But then why not drugs? Drugs are almost as addictive as AI and create less damage to the environment. But above all, unlike AI, drugs are very profitable, even if they face a harsh regulatory environment.

Give it some thought, Milei. True, you like theatrics and the Sinaloa cartel are not as cartoonishly evil as Thiel (they are probably more standard business-like evil) but I’m sure you can work out some effective PR stunt with them too.

…eeeverything is fuck when you’re part of a dreeam…

I think they stopped telling workers anything a while back. They have LLMs for that. Exec messages have always been full of corporate lingo, canned legal language and artificial energy, so to be fair they have always been prime use cases for LLMs, but at least before you could still catch hints of their personality or a glimpse of humanity sometimes. Now that’s all gone. They have become at least 10x more efficient with layoffs though.

but even so, the total including the house is still very negative, here. It would be like… I don’t know, I can’t think of anyone in their right mind who could bankrupt a casino 😜

well, not in the sense of “layoffs because AI can do those jobs”, but still AI-driven in the sense of “AI did most of the actual grunt work of laying off those people”.

If there is a repetitive and predictable activity that can be automated at this point it’s layoffs. Announcements and internal talking points are already clearly LLM-generated.

but it will absolutely learn a lot about everyone who wanted to talk about it

Might be useful for spam/robocalls. Not sure if having a personal AI use my phone to answer to another AI (and maybe accidentally giving up my personal data or signing my up for some scam service) is the right solution but if it worked really well and could be set to only answer unknown callers, I could potentially see the appeal

He didn’t die particularly young, but I think this world desperately needs Mr Rogers

Yeah, I can’t imagine how the people who named it POS would do it unironically!

POS=Point Of Sale…

Metric or imperial byte?

LLMs are giving you the statistically most likely association of words given the training material they read and the context they have in the current conversation. Their answers are, in a way, mathematically correct by definition. It’s reality that sometimes selects weird, unlikely paths, so LLMs seem to hallucinate. But it’s reality that we have to fix! Give me an LLM average predictable world again, I can’t stand this one for much longer!

/s (but not conpletely…)

I like this take from smbc

It’s not like Altman and Amodei telling everyone how AI is perennially 6 months away from taking everyone’s job is helping create that warm and fuzzy feeling for the technology either

I was personally shot once and the AI wearable I always have next to my heart stopped the bullet! Thanks AI!

Because we have to import most of our wind from China? I mean, where does wind come from, really?

no, but you see… all the apps are going to be vibe-coded on the fly every time you want to open one! Want to browse lemmy? “The user wants to browse a website, let’s build a browser…” [a few days later] “you reached your token limit, do you want to move to the Pro $1500 per month subscription and continue building your browser?”

they want to create urgency and FOMO. That way:

1. investors throw all their money to the new incredibly fast-growing shiny tech before they can stop and think to trivial things like how much it costs or whether it’s actually doing useful things

2. AI companies can continuously flood the zone with announcements of incredible new feats of intelligence by their LLMs. By the time studies come out, showing that these feats were not so impressive after all, they have released two newer, more powerful models, capable of even more impressive (real or invented) feats.

3. AI companies can try positioning themselves as the “good, ethical guys” that you have to root for (and give all your money to), because the alternative is for the bad, unethical guys to create this AGI with no guardrails that will destroy the world. It’s “we can’t stop because if we stop someone else will do it”

4. this kind of pressure works for governments too. We can’t let China/the US/Iran/Russia (pick your specific adversary) control this potentially destructive technology first!

5. things that scare us, regular humans, make the rich and powerful salivate. We are scared of losing our jobs, they are happy to cut people costs (see… well, just about everyone in Tech). We are scared AI can create a surveillance state, they want to sell surveillance tech to companies and governments (see Palantir). “This tech makes regular people afraid” is music to the ears of the 0.1%.