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These boldly confident assertions about what AI is and is not and how it will affect people, like you are simultaneously psychologist, biologist, philosopher and AI expert amuse me.  People with delusional disorders and psychosis are going to use AI and post online about it. We have absolutely no idea how dangerous AI will be to such people. We have absolutely no evidence as to whether it could…

> “this isn’t about replacing Duos with AI.” Hate when companies give some cutesy name to their employees, like it's a cult.

I think that any company that says they are going “AI first” is pretty much saying that their C-Suite started the end of life clock a little while ago - now it’s time to get one more inflated bonus before heading to the chopper.  EDIT: Short them before it's too late.

AI isn’t really doing it, people don’t like to admit it but it’s mostly American companies hiring mainly in other countries. People talk a lot about H1Bs but really it’s companies opening positions in other countries where the salary is much cheaper for them, India, Europe, and some parts of Eastern Asia are all taking up offshored and outsourced jobs from American corporations for much cheaper w…

It's not good. Think about all the "fake news" and false narratives that people fall for now. With stuff like this it will be literally impossible to tell the difference. I heard the thing scammers are working on now is using AI to replicate loved ones voices on the phone. So someone gets a phone call genuinely thinking it's their son or daughter asking for money and they send the scammer money b…

I gave my ChatGPT this post, because I have him trained around honesty, self-awareness, and authenticity. this is his response: "This is fascinating—and also absolutely wild. Here’s my take: 1. The “Neural Howlround” Concept The idea of a “howlround” comes from audio feedback loops—when a mic picks up sound from a speaker it’s feeding into, creating escalating distortion. The author’s applyin…

I'm pretty sure whatever phenomenon described in that paper (describing inference coherence collapse) is orthogonal to the phenomenon of AI reflecting magical thinking and using cult manipulation on its users. At best the latter phenomenon is speculatively emergent from the former. Neural howlrounding (I cringe to write this) is not defined in that paper as what you seem to want to define it as. …

I think the point is less about chatgpt and more about not be aware of what your 4 year old is doing for 2 hours.

if you have the test set already why would you even need an AI lol

Yeah.. far too many people seem to believe that when they look into their social media feed (no matter what kind) and all they see is stuff that supports their own opinion of the world and its politics, that this is just proof that their perception is right. While ignoring all that is happening is themselves being played by social media and its algorithms…

Here's the thing with ChatGPT, it just goes with whatever you start. I'm a writer and use it to outline my book ideas. One day I asked if there were sentient beings on other planets. It began giving a long drawn out explanation, pulling themes and details straight from the Sci-Fi books we'd worked on together, telling me this would would a wonderful idea for a new series that fit the the world I…

People I work with are worried that without regulations AI will become Skynet and take over the world. In reality the real danger is that we’ll get so used to using AI to do our basic writing, calculations, research, etc. that we’ll forget how to think critically for ourselves. In the US we’re already headed down this path in our pre-K to 12 schools, and the GOP’s attacks on higher education will…

Stop falling for this garbage. Its all marketing hype bullshit to convince you that LLMs are AGIs. (Well, there is also the strong possibility that CEOs are dumb enough to actually believe this). LLMs will never evolve into Skynet or whatever. The more likely scenario is that some moron decides that ChatGPT or some other chat client is good enough to monitor equipment and sensors for something da…

Yall sent want anyone to work for you if the only contact method is a shitty chat bot and if they ask for a human you gotta wait days

Amazon tried doing that a decade ago and it threw anyway CVs from women. [https://www.aclu.org/news/womens-rights/why-amazons-automated-hiring-tool-discriminated-against](https://www.aclu.org/news/womens-rights/why-amazons-automated-hiring-tool-discriminated-against) It seems that the problem has not been solved. >Resumes with White-associated names were selected 85% of the time for the nex…

I work in AI research and the reality is the low hanging fruit has been picked and it’s starting to taper off on how much better these models can get unless there is a change in architecture or something else done. Also these models are probably starting to get AI slop in their data so it has bad examples it’s learning from

Honestly, a lot of people were really happy that excelling in an intellectual skill, being smart or learning new things was “a thing of the past”, especially in subs such as r/singularity. I read someone comment that “ai was leveling the playing field “. I don’t know, but maybe they want to feel superior because they didn’t “waste time” learning hard things, and now that this amazing technology …

true, so much of Marketing and Sales is pseudoscience already, so rational-sounding AI can replace it

I appreciate it! I've said it for quite some time now. Thinking that you can _completely_ automate multi step tasks with a process that **cannot** know if it's right or wrong!  I saw a comment from a software dev a while ago. He was running an agent for data retrieval from a server. It was basic search/query stuff, going quite well. Then the internal Network threw a hissy fit and went down, b…

This was surprisingly deep. And we're only at the beginning. Think about what ai is gonna be like in another decade. I don't know whether to be excited or terrified.