GENERATIVE AI

Billionaires Disrupting Science Through AI Speculation

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24 November 2023 6h44

It is an enormous disservice to the public to report on this as if it were a "debate" rather than a disruption of science by billionaires throwing money at the hope of bringing about the speculative fiction stories they grew up reading — 20/

OpenAI’s Existential Risk Rhetoric and Transhumanist Culture

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24 November 2023 6h43

Next stop: both-sides-ing reporting of "existential risk". OpenAI is deep within the TESCERAList cult. It's staffed by people who actually believe they're creating autonomous thinking machines, that humans might merge with one day, live as uploaded simulations, etc. 19/

OpenAI’s Energy Waste Computing Imprecise Text Mimicry

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24 November 2023 6h40

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/

LLMs produce plausible text, not genuine writing or ideas

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24 November 2023 6h38

"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/

Calculator Outperforms AI: Questioning Breakthrough Claims

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24 November 2023 6h34

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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Character.AI Community Celebrates Thanksgiving with AI Characters

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24 November 2023 2h11

Happy Thanksgiving http://
C.AI Community!! We appreciate every single one of you. Thank you so much for being part of our journey. Share a Character you're grateful for and why. We'll select 5 of our favorites to receive a one month c.ai+ subscription!

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Greeting Length Limit Increased to 2048 Characters

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24 November 2023 0h17

We might have increased the greeting length limit from 500 to 2048 without telling you

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MusicGen-Tron: AI-Powered Soundtrack Generation Tool

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24 November 2023 0h00

Ahh man, I should have put a soundtrack over it using this: https://
replicate.com/fofr/musicgen-
tron
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Top Online Courses for Training and Fine-Tuning LLMs

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24 November 2023 0h00

4. Online Courses: • ‘Train & Fine-Tune LLMs for Production Course’ by @activeloop , @towards_AI , and @intel Disruptor Initiative. • ‘LLM University’ by @cohere . • YouTube @Gradio Course by @freeCodeCamp . • @learnprompting 's free resource.