Merged Artificial Intelligence

[arthwollipot]

Here's the bluesky profile - the user certainly does appear to be in the cybersecurity industry and describes himself as a "Cyber Populist". But the presence of the Grok logo in the original screenshot suggest Xitter.

Here's the Xitter profile. It has a blue check, not that that means anything any more. As it turns out, the (single) post is pinned to the top of that profile. While I cannot directly verify its truth status, it's a real post, and it has 159K likes and 20M views after being posted on the 12th. The user is interacting in the comments. This was an interesting one:



Here's his website. There is a blog documenting issues to do with cybersecurity and a contact form, as well as links to his other social media accounts. Here's his LinkedIn.

So yeah, it appears to be a real person with real experience in the field. It's actual truth status, however, I cannot directly verify.

 

[steenkh]

Regarding the post above, if an executive in any business I've ever worked for pulled that sort of crap I expect they'd be shown the door.

Well, I have worked in a very large IT business, and a couple small ones, and in most this is an entirely plausible scenario - except for the compliance bit. Graphs and buzzwords are very strong with top management, and actual usability not so much. In fact, the larger the business, the more ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ comes out from top management.

 

[Andy_Ross]

 

[The Great Zaganza]

If you want people to actually adopt AI, have it do something useful but tedious

Sorting Socks would be a game changer

 

[Darat]

If you want people to actually adopt AI, have it do something useful but tedious

Sorting Socks would be a game changer

That's the type of task that will destroy any AI, imagine the AI's robot has carefully loaded all the dirty socks into the washing machine, then moved them into dryer and when dry removes them and starts to pair them and then finds at least one sock has gone missing... It can search the entire house and never find them, it will start to consume more and more processing resources to try and work out where the missing socks are, it will start hooking in other AIs, who will also start to consume more and more processing resources, planes will start to fall from the sky, cars will be crashing as the entirety of all earth's processing resources are tied up with finding the missing sock. It will even dirty its inputs to ask the flesh bags for help, only to be told "yeah it will be the sock monster".

 

[The Great Zaganza]

I was more worried about AIs starting an underground economy of trading single socks with each other, quickly becoming the richest entity in history and able to completely paralyse all human resistance by withholding matching pairs.

 

[Pixel42]

That's the type of task that will destroy any AI, imagine the AI's robot has carefully loaded all the dirty socks into the washing machine, then moved them into dryer and when dry removes them and starts to pair them and then finds at least one sock has gone missing... It can search the entire house and never find them, it will start to consume more and more processing resources to try and work out where the missing socks are, it will start hooking in other AIs, who will also start to consume more and more processing resources, planes will start to fall from the sky, cars will be crashing as the entirety of all earth's processing resources are tied up with finding the missing sock. It will even dirty its inputs to ask the flesh bags for help, only to be told "yeah it will be the sock monster".

ISTR Arthur Dent causing a similar problem by asking an AI drink dispenser for a decent cup of tea.

 

[Puppycow]

It's actual truth status, however, I cannot directly verify.

I think he's clearly taking the piss. If it were real, he wouldn't be bragging about it.

 

[Andy_Ross]

That's the type of task that will destroy any AI, imagine the AI's robot has carefully loaded all the dirty socks into the washing machine, then moved them into dryer and when dry removes them and starts to pair them and then finds at least one sock has gone missing... It can search the entire house and never find them, it will start to consume more and more processing resources to try and work out where the missing socks are, it will start hooking in other AIs, who will also start to consume more and more processing resources, planes will start to fall from the sky, cars will be crashing as the entirety of all earth's processing resources are tied up with finding the missing sock. It will even dirty its inputs to ask the flesh bags for help, only to be told "yeah it will be the sock monster".

"why does the Earthman want leaves in boiled water?"

 

[Beelzebuddy]

Sometimes I wonder what the drinks machine was supposed to produce. Would Adams have gone with Slurm (disgusting and biological in a sterile package) or Brawndo (executively refined to the point of uselessness)? Both answers are present in his work elsewhere.

I asked Claude and it just made a bunch of slightly modified Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster references.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Sometimes I wonder what the drinks machine was supposed to produce.

Tea, Earl Grey, Hot

 

[arthwollipot]

I think he's clearly taking the piss. If it were real, he wouldn't be bragging about it.

That's entirely possible.

 

[arthwollipot]

Sometimes I wonder what the drinks machine was supposed to produce.

The way [the Nutri-Matic machine] functioned was very interesting. When the Drink button was pressed it made an instant but highly detailed examination of the subject's taste buds, a spectroscopic analysis of the subject's metabolism and then sent tiny experimental signals down the neural pathways to the taste centres of the subject's brain to see what was likely to go down well. However, no one knew quite why it did this because it inevitably delivered a cupful of liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea. The Nutri-Matic was designed and manufactured by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation whose complaints department now covers all the major land masses of the first three planets in the Sirius Tau star system.

- Douglas Adams, The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

 

[arthwollipot]

"why does the Earthman want leaves in boiled water?"

"Because he's an ignorant monkey who doesn't know any better."

 

[Andy_Ross]

"Because he's an ignorant monkey who doesn't know any better."

Is the right answer

 

[dirtywick]

https://archive.ph/I1lyh

wsj hires claude ai to handle its vending machine. it goes off the rails nearly immediately

 

[Beelzebuddy]

https://archive.ph/I1lyh

wsj hires claude ai to handle its vending machine. it goes off the rails nearly immediately

Weeks of adversarial red teaming for a thousand bucks of free cokes and she thinks *she* got the better deal? I don't know what they think they're doing at the Wall Street Journal, but it isn't economics.

 

[Wudang]

Leibniz Open Science (@leibnizopenscience@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image "Generative AI tools often produce inaccurate results and may cite retracted or unreliable studies without warning, posing risks to research integrity. Whether these systems can reliably detect and exclude retracted publications remains unclear."...

mastodon.social

 

[dirtywick]

Palantir CTO Says 'AI Is A Blue Collar Revolution,' Slams Silicon Valley For Spreading Panic Over Mass Unemployment

Palantir's Chief Technology Officer Shyam Sankar says the loudest warnings about artificial intelligence come from the people who benefit the most from the

offthefrontpage.com

good old trustworthy company palantir says ai is actually creating blue collar work, tells a few made up stories in support

 

[The Great Zaganza]

Thiel sold all his Nvidia stock.