Will they listen? probably not.
8 Likes
Not unless somebody pays them to, no.
9 Likes
Well, let’s be fair here. 2010 was far back in the ancient past. Mankind had not yet discovered Snapchat’s face swapping.
7 Likes
To be fair, when I think about me in the past, I was pretty stupid.
You might think that the way I phrased that implies that I am no longer stupid, and I am happy to let you think that.
13 Likes
I mean, I have genuinely decided some of my opinions on AI were nonsense in the last ten years. I really didn’t think you could build a Chinese room that could convincingly hold a conversation without some kind of variables that would represent an internal model of meaning. Obviously, that’s been demonstrated to be total garbage.
10 Likes
2 Likes
Are AI ‘hallucinations” a growing problem for the legal profession? Some say yes. See, e.g., Michael Hiltzik, “AI ‘hallucinations’ are a growing problem for the legal profession,” Los Angeles Times (May 22, 2025). Those people are right.
How right are they? At least this much. Because that’s a link to the “AI Hallucination Database” webpage administered by Damien Charlotin, a lawyer, lecturer, and researcher in Paris who focuses on “AI, the law, and the multiple ways these coexist.” And one of the ways these coexist is not very well, as illustrated by the ever-increasing number of cases in which lawyers, many of whom are quite intelligent themselves, have gotten in trouble for submitting the legal work of certain alleged artificial intelligences to courts around the world.
149 cases in the database so far, and it’s only counting cases where the hallucinations were found and a decision was made based on that discovery…
10 Likes
I didn’t watch this, but of course crypto and AI are closely related: the same bullshitters and fad surfers that had latched onto crypto have now fully pivoted to AI.
8 Likes
This is, bizarrely, one of the most accurate and informative videos of AI I’ve seen. It’s also really funny.
5 Likes
It’s hard to tell. He has some stuff in there that’s made to look like bad AI but isn’t actually AI. But he probably did use some AI, but to show how bad it is.
6 Likes
Yeah, he’s not making a bad argument, but I wonder about using AI to be critical of AI, too… He makes some good points in the video, though, and he’s not wrong about how AI is going wrong…
Also… LOL…
I don’t know. I’m a bit tired of not knowing what’s real and what’s AI?
6 Likes
All Ken’s posts are worth reading… one of the few bright spots on the cursed hellscape called LinkedIn.
9 Likes
Cool!
8 Likes
I only applied for that warehouse job because I heard they have strawberry mango forklifts.
Action cudgel french fry aerospace!
9 Likes
10 Likes
To be fair it didn’t really, meaningfully, trounce it at chess. ChatGPT failed at recognising chess pieces and all that other stuff. It didn’t play chess badly, it couldn’t play at all. Sometimes.
9 Likes
Not just that though.
But even after changing to standard chess notation, the chatbot “made enough blunders to get laughed out of a 3rd grade chess club.”
9 Likes
It also forgot how to play mid game repeatedly, because it doesn’t know. It’s not even chess that LLMs aren’t good at, it’s logic games in general because they are, still, spicy autocorrect. And, still, the only intelligence there and the only meaning there is that which we create and which we use to create the meaning.
Intelligence is still not an emergent quality from throwing all the personal data you can, all the art you can, all the CO2 emissions, all the water, all the compute, all the capital, all the eggs in your basket, at making markov chains with transformers.
12 Likes