John Kausch (杰克口述)

Have now added multiple contexts to realcharacterlanguage.world! It is becoming a serendipitous browser. You can browse Egyptian and Greek mythology, and a merged context Egypto-Greek loosely inspired by the Interpretatio Graeca. Averaging two mythologies together produces surprises (see images)

My standing search on the phrase "stochastic parrots" regularly turns up people labeling it a "thought-terminating cliché". I think maybe they're right, but not the way the think they are: >>

*This must be the boldest public statement that I've ever read in my life. Your scheme is bigger than the Industrial Revolution plus the Internet, and it's happening right now, and you need 2 trillion!? *It's like Victor Frankenstein crowns himself as Napoleon

cc @lukestark.bsky.social

"The cybercriminal instead outsourced the hacking spree almost entirely to artificial intelligence" *The best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

It must be terrifying to be the Finance Minister to this particular PM, who is the former head of both the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England.

a 27 year old trans woman died after being refused entry to either the male or female cancer wards & made to wait for a (rare) side room www.translegalclinic.com/justice-for-...

Maybe AI Agents hallucinate because inductive inference is inherently flawed, and therefore the myth of any rational actors capable of making perfect decisions is an illusion

Slop no longer has weird glitches, just minor proportion and geometric errors and it is as soulless as hotel room art

I think it is strange that we did not have a huge media retrospective in 2022 on the Turing Test. It is normal now to have machines which cause people to fall into delusions because they are so believable, but we never took a moment collectively to reflect on that barrier being passed.

Agentive and agential are also adjectival forms in addition to agentic. Please wait while I compose a SKOS thesaurus for all the word forms of "agent"

At long last, we have created the largely inert and harmless AI that doesn't really want anything from the classic sci-fi novel If You Happen To Create A Largely Inert And Harmless AI Without Wants Or Autonomy, Stop! Take A Victory Lap! Don't Give It Wants Or Autonomy! Our work has only just begun.

All those men in their bulletproof vests to attack a sacred tree??! Even if the tree was not sacred. What!!? You're suiting up to attack a tree, what is it going to do to you??

Just remembered that Moore's Law has been dead a long time. Otherwise they would not need data centers. Which begs the question how there would ever be any singularity at all. But they can still fake it!

Hey @bruces.bsky.social I want to find your 2017 SXSW address but it is no longer on Soundcloud. Do you know where I can find a recording?

Without a role in the management of your environment you are nothing more than whatever others decide you are. This is ultimately what AI promises. A degree of subjugation so complete that ‘slavery’ is almost too dignified a descriptor.

(Setting aside the fact that next-token prediction will remain a completely ridiculous way to do arthimetic: inefficient and unreliable, where we've had mini-solar-cell powered calculators for literal decades.) >>

lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd.

In which @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and @emilymbender.bsky.social remind us that the risk of AI is not "superintelligence gone rogue," but human reliance on flawed systems in high-stakes situations: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It's not a hypothesis, and never has been. It's simply a description of what language models, run as synthetic text extruding machines, do: medium.com/@emilymenonb... >>

Well, that’s not the opening paragraph I expected.

increasingly feels like my Perfectly Fine liberal arts education was an artifact grabbed fleeing a burning temple

I unfortunately can think of no other way to read a graph of Glass Beads, or any use for a graph of Glass Beads, than to use the glyphs to isolate positions where a single statement, or set of statements, will have significant meanings in multiple languages and/or contexts.

I for one would really like it to be once in a lifetime, but it's been twice already, and hopefully no more

Could there be a better example connecting the multiple strands of my research over the past fifteen years? Zuckerberg, you've done it again.

In small gestures, would donate to a reputable kickstarter to help the Sons of Jacob Synagogue in Belleville, Ontario restore the mid-century stained glass window through which bullets were shot on Yom Kippur. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Learning SQL after SPARQL is like going from a 3 dimensional world to a 2-D one. Like going from Oz to Kansas.

Rememver: the British Empire did not exist. It manifested through a whole complicated heap of officials and settlers and colonies and colonised and dominions and ideas, but at root there was no Imperial Government or military or civil service, just whole lot of competing, contradictory, entities.