Before you ask me to prove that AGI doesn't exist: The burden of proof lies w/those making the extraordinary claims. "Slightly conscious if you squint", "can generalize, learn & comprehend" are extraordinary claims requiring extraordinary evidence, scrutinized by peer review. 18/
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AGI Does Not Exist Says Critic of AI Hype
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But here is where the reporting really goes off the rails. AGI is not a thing. It doesn't exist. Therefore, it can't do anything, no matter what the AI cultists say. 17/
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OpenAI’s Energy Waste Computing Imprecise Text Mimicry
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Also, it's kind of hilarious (lolsob) that OpenAI is burning enormous amounts of energy to take machines designed to perform calculations precisely to make them output text that mimics imprecisely the performance of calculations… & then deciding that *that* is intelligent. 16/
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Making Sense of AI Output: Why We Project Meaning
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(And, it bears repeating: If their output seems to make sense, it's because we're making sense of it.) 15/
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LLMs produce plausible text, not genuine writing or ideas
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"AI" is not "good at writing"—it's designed to produce plausible sounding synthetic text. Writing is an activity that people to do as we work to refine our ideas and share them with others. LLMs don't have ideas. 14/
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Calculator Outperforms AI: Questioning Breakthrough Claims
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What's their evidence that there's a big breakthrough? Something that has "vast computing resources" can do grade-school level math. You know what else can do grade-school level math? A fucking calculator that can run on a tiny solar cell. Way more reliably, too, undoubtedly. 12/
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Correcting AI Quote Context and Misconceptions
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That quote is real, but the context they set up for it was wrong. I would never say anything about "what the future looks like with AI" because "AI" isn't a thing. For the original context of the quote, see: https://
cnn.com/2023/06/16/tec
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Overview of How Language Models Work
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I try to give an approachable overview of how language models work in this talk: https://
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Podcast explores AI thriller and real-world scientist LARP phenomenon
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These posts brought to you by a Marketplace Tech podcast episode covering someone LARPing as a scientist in an AI thriller (unfortunately, well-funded in the real-world), which ended with a pointer to this earlier interview:
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Ahistoricism in AI Coverage: Focus on Actual Harms
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Second, this blog post regarding ahistoricism in some of the coverage and the importance of keeping the focus on actual harms and the activists and scholars who are working on addressing them: https://
medium.com/@emilymenonben
der/talking-about-a-schism-is-ahistorical-3c454a77220f
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