Yeah, this stuff is getting pretty convincing, sadly. I saw a punk video pop up from like a french band I had never heard… I’m still not sure it wasn’t AI… 
It doesn’t help that some youtubers are using AI in their visuals. Hank Green has done it now and again, a sci-fi channel I sort of like, but stopped watching because he’s getting a little huffy about “liberals” lately… I feel like I’m drowning in stupid.
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I think what they’re saying is that they’re trying to implement this part of the Torment Engine:
Computer, if you don’t open that exit hatch pretty damn pronto, I shall go straight to your major data banks with a very large axe and give you a reprogramming you will never forget, capisce?
[Pause]
Okay. Get the axe.
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I can see this relationship is something we’re all going to have to work at.
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They didn’t, it turns out - it was a third-party insert for the newspaper, produced and printed by someone else. An arrangement the Sun-Times is (very wisely) reevaluating…
The massive, massive security issues alone raise all sorts of problems, but especially when working with legally sensitive information. Apparently copilot ignores permissions and protections, but then saves the file data in forms where anyone can access it, for instance.
We already have chatbots creating and feeding people’s delusions - I can’t even begin to imagine the kind of damage to mental health “having a friendship” with a chatbot would do to even otherwise healthy people. It can’t ever give anything real back - it’s just superficially human enough that people project onto it, but it ends up the worst kind of solipsism (the accurate kind).
It’s amazing to me that we’ve got an ascendant fascist government, yet people living in this country are still thinking, “you know what would be cool is a device that records everything you do and say to create an online record!”
Pffft, that’s old-school. Now you learn history from AI-generated Youtube videos that were trained on Hollywood movies!
Not to mention that the LLMs were trained on massive quantities of human writings (and couldn’t exist without them), so surely the original human carbon costs of writing something equivalent are (somewhat recursively) part of the “AI” carbon cost as well?
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Designing a website to advertise to AI agents sounds like it would make Sisyphus’s task feel meaningful.
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But Sísyphos was happy, wasn’t he?
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Having to ask you permission to use your property will kill my plans to put in a toll road.
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They didn’t die after the last failure???
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We are a small, fast-moving team based in Los Angeles. We are well-funded and backed by Khosla Ventures, led by Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems.
Other stuff on on Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu:
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No.
Get your own r1 for the low, low price of $199:
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Reading that they’re trying to lean into the tamagotchi-like elements made me nostalgic for the Chumby. Not sure if anyone here remembers it from TOP, i bought one way back and i did love it. Used it primarily as a clock and music player, but it had other interesting functionality that had a lot of potential but just never quite got enough traction. Honestly i have a lot of love for it, and when i donated my old Chumby to Goodwill i was pretty sad about it.
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Josh Johnson discusses Duolingo and AI:
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I was also surprised to learn that the company still exists, and even more surprised to read this line from the article’s author:
I’ve never seen one of these silly things in person, but basically every review article I read said “This is pointless. Why isn’t it just an app?” So I’m amazed to see that there’s at least one person out there who uses it regularly.
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