▲ 129 ▼ Microsoft Copilot AI’s official avatar looks like a blob of semen (pivot-to-ai.com) submitted 1 year ago by dgerard@awful.systems [M] to c/techtakes@awful.systems 38 comments fedilink hide all child comments https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250728-microsoft-copilot-ai-a-pearly-liquid-blob-on-your-screen - podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3av5g0hAKwE&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video The video is heavily euphemised and I think I got away with it
[–] Seminar2250@awful.systems 3 points 1 year ago (3 children) colonise the light cone by exploring latent space Can someone explain what this is referring to? I don't understand it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children) references these two topics. I suspect the phrase itself in this case is a shitpost taking aim at some of the absurd bullshit TESCREALists come up with in their nonsensegabble, but ...... it is also the kind of nonsensegabble that some of them may unironically post permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago (related tangent: @cstross' Singularity series is a pretty fun topical dive about this, and he's been following these nutjobs for probably close to 3 decades now) permalink fedilink source parent [–] Seminar2250@awful.systems 2 points 1 year ago* is it cynical that i find the idea of a "latent space" a bit goofy? may just be because i think data science is kind of a joke and much machine learning is "we threw shit at our model but don't know what a category error is" like it's just dimensionality reduction with new vocab? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children) references these two topics. I suspect the phrase itself in this case is a shitpost taking aim at some of the absurd bullshit TESCREALists come up with in their nonsensegabble, but ...... it is also the kind of nonsensegabble that some of them may unironically post permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago (related tangent: @cstross' Singularity series is a pretty fun topical dive about this, and he's been following these nutjobs for probably close to 3 decades now) permalink fedilink source parent [–] Seminar2250@awful.systems 2 points 1 year ago* is it cynical that i find the idea of a "latent space" a bit goofy? may just be because i think data science is kind of a joke and much machine learning is "we threw shit at our model but don't know what a category error is" like it's just dimensionality reduction with new vocab? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago (related tangent: @cstross' Singularity series is a pretty fun topical dive about this, and he's been following these nutjobs for probably close to 3 decades now) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Seminar2250@awful.systems 2 points 1 year ago* is it cynical that i find the idea of a "latent space" a bit goofy? may just be because i think data science is kind of a joke and much machine learning is "we threw shit at our model but don't know what a category error is" like it's just dimensionality reduction with new vocab? permalink fedilink source parent