Idea for a horror short film: pilots interacting with FAA AI after an MCAS failure.

They have not called their elected representatives to inform them that this is what they believe

“Hello, Ms Congresswoman? The computers! They’re going to kill us all! The only way to save humanity is to spend a trillion dollars on killer computers! I work for a soon-to-be publicly listed company making maybe-killer computers.”

Took one look at the post, “this is all slop isn’t it”, and sure enough the authors couldn’t even do the traditional academic’s single-commit dump without “co-authored by: Claude”.

The “recursive self-improvement” nonsense really baffles me. Excluding those who have a financial motive to talk about it, I don’t understand why anyone would think this would ever be possible for LLMs.

Here’s the relevant WHATWG issue, and it’s not just Google. Leaving aside the merits of “don’t break the web” vs “it’s barely used”, I think largely we’ve ended up here because browser vendors depended on a library (libxml2) to which they gave ~zero time or money.

Oh and, of course, in that issue the most recent comments are from a Mozilla employee saying “I asked Claude…”.

Yes that’s fair, I apologise.

I really hope so, but tbh my immediate thought was that they’d all be on “r/myboyfriendisai”

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Wonder how many of their users have transitioned to beating off to artisanal probabilistic LLM smut.

Oracle’s competitive advantage is (and has been since at least the 1990s) legions of lawyers to ensure you’re not underpaying them per the fine print of some contract your CTO didn’t read. I’m sure they can apply this to LLMs just as well as any other line of business Larry’s decided to enter.

There is an entire ecosystem of academics whose purpose, in the Stafford Beer sense, is to launder security service nonsense about the hottest technology du jour.

“Oh my god we’re all going to die!”

Now playing: Now That’s What I Call Drivetime, 2016, by Various Artists

The military’s been looking for the holy grail of natural language command and control since the 1950s (Noam Chomsky’s linguistics work was funded by the DoD for exactly this reason). Hasn’t happened yet, but maybe we’re finally onto something with “Don’t besiege Moscow, take it immediately, make no mistakes.”