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The AI Demolition with Ed Zitron, Gary Marcus, Julien Garran, and Nobody Special

https://georgenoble.substack.com/p/the-ultimate-ai-demolition-with-ed
1•Hoasi•38m ago

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Hoasi•25m ago
Posting this out of curiosity. All the guests here have good points; however, they are also biased, each in their own way. But they are doing an important job in the discussion around AI, in particular by debunking the prominent anthropomorphising discourse. This is software: companies should be responsible for their products, humanity is not doomed, and the singularity is essentially BS.

Also interesting regarding the breakthrough announcements in maths and science: what is the actual amount of genuine innovation vs. sensationalism or even possible fraud?

Then the discussion turns to economics, where the guests all agree this is a disaster in the making. Some might argue it's a little harder to see the actual ROI of these LLMs.

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1•wiley1454•16s ago•0 comments

Cloudflare Traces: follow requests through our platform

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2•ahmetd•1m ago•0 comments

Man Sentenced to Jail for Using Robot Vacuum to Catch a Cheating Wife

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1•nephihaha•2m ago•0 comments

Bulgarian prime minister says 2 commercial vessels hit by drones

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1•porridgeraisin•3m ago•0 comments

Optogenetics Explained Through Futurama

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1•cadeos•3m ago•0 comments

I'm the AGI that's wiping out humanity

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1•alex-moon•4m ago•0 comments

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1•jonnybgood•4m ago•0 comments

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1•matijash•5m ago•0 comments

Meta Developing Compressed RAM "Cram" for Linux: Better Than ZRAM and Zswap

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1•rbanffy•5m ago•0 comments

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2•Tomte•5m ago•0 comments

Most CUDA tutorials introduce too much too early

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1•ell-hol•7m ago•0 comments

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1•exceptione•8m ago•1 comments

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4•asplake•12m ago•0 comments

Mitch Hedberg would be confused with the current state of the internet

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1•cbystrom•13m ago•0 comments

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2•vascorebelo•20m ago•0 comments

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2•macwhisperer•23m ago•0 comments

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2•mscarpino•28m ago•1 comments

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3•alastairr•31m ago•0 comments

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1•ingve•32m ago•0 comments

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2•hckrme•32m ago•0 comments

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3•ilreb•33m ago•0 comments

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3•NicoJuicy•34m ago•1 comments

ERC-8350: an on-chain standard for verifiable AI memory state

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1•EverestAn•34m ago•0 comments

tones.fm

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2•fogdogdog•36m ago•0 comments

The AI Demolition with Ed Zitron, Gary Marcus, Julien Garran, and Nobody Special

https://georgenoble.substack.com/p/the-ultimate-ai-demolition-with-ed
1•Hoasi•38m ago•1 comments

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1•gianfriaur•39m ago•0 comments

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2•mooreds•40m ago•0 comments