And it’s also clear that what we have now - LLMs - has no path to becoming general Artificial Intelligence. I see analogies along the lines of, “these guys are claiming that if they make their car go fast, it’ll eventually turn into a horse.”
Also a good bit of AI doomsday prophesying is coming from the very people selling “AI” (e.g. Altman). In that case it’s incredibly cynical marketing - because if “AI” is potentially dangerous enough to take over the world, then it must be a really powerful technology that people need to invest in (or get left behind).
Jimmy Dore was a second rate stand up comic who started an online talk show/YouTube channel. He did join TYT for awhile. He originally branded himself a progressive, but he was one of the original Bernie Bros, as in the worst kind of Bernie Bro: a misogynist who blamed Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren for Sanders’s failed campaign in 2016. He even said Trump would be better for progressives than Clinton. Then, when the pandemic hit, he went full conspiracy theory, promoting ivermectin as a cure and all that bullshit, and then went full right wing grifter. He’s basically a Joe Rogan wannabe.
So anyway, Travis; are you, in fact, a quantum physicist? Can you tell me what a Feynman diagram is? What does ħ mean? Do you, in fact, know know physics from a hole in the ground?
How would you know if the AI is making breakthroughs or just making physics noises at you? How would you know? HOW WOULD YOU KNOW, TRAVIS? HOW WOULD YOU KNOW?
Yeah, this wins the award for the day. Wow. I have to assume that the folks in charge know this is bullshit, but are pandering to the idiot MAGAt worm-eaten brains. But what do I know? Maybe they are also idiot MAGAt worm-eaten brain havers.
So this story should sit comfortably in the “oops, my bad” category. But then he decided to write his apology straight out of the deleted scenes from Dead Poets Society :
My professional practice has always been guided by the principle that legal advocacy is not mere mechanical execution, but a craft that demands the gardener’s touch—a careful, lasting engagement that leaves something of oneself behind. Each citation, each argument, each procedural decision is a mark upon the clay, an indelible impression that may one day be studied, critiqued, or serve as a cautionary tale.
Your Honor, in the ancient libraries of Ashurbanipal, scribes carried their stylus as both tool and sacred trust—understanding that every mark upon clay would endure long beyond their mortal span. As the role the mark (x) in Ezekiel Chapter 9, that marked the foreheads with a tav (x) of blood and ink, bear the same solemn recognition: that the written word carries power to preserve or condemn, to build or destroy, and leaves an indelible mark which cannot be erased but should be withdrawn, let it lead other to think these citations were correct.
I was able to read the article by choosing Reader View. FTA:
We’re not exaggerating. SB 2972 would require public universities in Texas to adopt policies prohibiting “engaging in expressive activities on campus between the hours of 10 p.m. and 8 a.m.” Expressive activity includes “any speech or expressive conduct” protected by the First Amendment or Texas Constitution.
Like, speaking? Singing? At a stretch, “expressive activities” could include writing or reading, those being 1A protected activities. Who wrote this drek?
Initially I was trying to give him the benefit of the doubt and attempted to read it as if he was talking to whoever runs the social media account, but he’s clearly talking to “Elmo,” the character, as if it was a real person who held some sort of position and was somehow responsible for what was posted in the (hacked) account. There’s multiple layers of derangement at play here.
