Cauchy @Cauchy@qoto.org

What the?

haven’t told anyone to “just fucking google it” in a while

i haven’t suddenly become a better person, it’s just google doesn’t really work any more

@prachisrivas @academicchatter hells yes. It gets worse and I have two to deal with.

"Can I get a search result?"

Accurate.

I was the victim of an extremely clever card fraud/social engineering hack.

Well, partly a victim since I managed to stop it.

I was called by my bank, as they wanted to “verify some suspect transactions on my account”.

Then things got weird…

🧵

Another great changelog @Gargron

🥃

Having a large orange cat in your lap while you try to work:

Pros:
- Having a large orange cat in your lap while you try to work

Cons:
- Having a large orange cat in your lap while you try to work

How did pirates work together before computers?

Pier to pier networking

a thing of beauty

Happy federal indictment day to all who celebrate! And we should all celebrate.

It is heartbreaking that the UK government mistreated Alan Turing. Many AI tech enthusiasts may not be aware of his contributions to the field. In 1950, Turing developed a test for artificial intelligence that is still used today, making him a valuable asset in computer science. Everyone should honor his legacy and memory. RIP, Alan.

Pi Day is a fake holiday made up by Big Math to sell more math.

Pi Day is a fake holiday that exploits a universal beloved mathematical constant to promote US-style date formats.

Meanwhile companies are selling the names and home addresses of people with depression or bipolar disorder to pretty much anyone who wants them and it's completely legal, has been for years, with no indication Congress cares all that much

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/13/mental-health-data-brokers/

Whew, this ChatGPT shit is just a great big security exploit against human theory of mind innit?

I'm being continually astonished by folks attributing confidence, intent, and lying to this thing that's just a clever algorithm recombining source material.

It's not a confident actor lying with intent, it's a system serving up confident lies sourced from human actors

The stages of playing with GPT-3:

- OMG this can do anything
- There goes my job
- I should start a business around this
- Some of the responses aren’t too good
- Actually, some of these responses are just awful
- This isn’t really intelligence
- This is just spicy autocomplete

(as was forwarded to me w/no attribution)