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AI mania. It happened before. In 1895.

About 130 years ago, a scientist made a discovery that he could expose photographic paper to emissions from a glass tube and it went straight through human flesh and formed an image. It was astonishing, interesting, and he reported it and the entire world went batshit crazy, completely bananas. We …

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Emergent behaviour? Or stolen IP?

The Attention is All You Need paper started the LLM gold rush, but it initially came from Google scientists who only expected it to do language translation. As more data was used in training sets, and the number of parameters grew orders of magnitude it was less easy to understand what the model wa…
Chris Lehane is making our Governments Work for creepy AI companies This screenshot from a recent Karen Hao / A More Perfect Union video shows unintentionally what is going on: Lehane is like a disinformation grenade lobbed out of OpenAI at government. His job is not to make better AI. He is a PR g…
Anthropomorphising generative AI is wrong: we know that. But making the ChatGPT product successful includes hooking folks on its sycophantic charms and confident - but often wrong - pronouncements. So OpenAI and other vendors keep packing anthropomorphic language & features into its product. T…
Why do investors think AI companies are like Uber or AWS (big spend for years, big profits in the end) when the truth is they’re more like WeWork, FTX and Theranos? If you are not an investor, but someone who uses AI — please, for the love of all that is holy — divest now. Delete the app going into…
I worked on Google’s ads serving infrastructure as a software engineer at their Mountain View, California HQ from 2007-2009. The system was complex, and included two AI clusters involved in predicting the best ads to show against a given search result. Google also had a very innovative market for a…
Data centres for AI use huge amounts of electricity and cooling water. But there’s folks that want to muddy the waters about these facts, and so they are using AI to generate junk science. As I say in the video quibbling over water that is “consumed” versus “withdrawn” is pointless argumentation us…
Hey all, I’ve looked better and felt better! But after getting out of hospital I just wanted to show that I am on the mend, and will be back writing in the coming days. Hospital stays are not fun, and for 7 days involving rigors and being on a drip was awful. But I’m back, and getting healthy again…

Having Way too much Fun with Unreal

Working through a series by Lesser Dog Tutorials on how to make a LucasArts style point and click adventure in Blueprints, I have instead of using Blueprints I have been translating everything into C++, and it’s so much fun. Totally a Thing is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts a…

AI and the Great Pirate Book Ripoff

I have been struggling to write this article, and figure out what to do with this cartoon / diagram I made about the alleged use of stolen books by AI companies for weeks now. The sheer scale and brazen bullying greed of these guys just astonishes me. I believe startups and technology have the abil…
ข้อสงวนสิทธิ์: พอดแคสต์และอาร์ตเวิร์คที่ฝังอยู่ในหน้านี้มาจาก Sarah Smith ซึ่งเป็นทรัพย์สินของเจ้าของและไม่มีส่วนเกี่ยวข้องหรือรับรองโดย Listen Notes, Inc.