Daniel Dvorkin @medigoth@qoto.org

Some #Tories are starting to approach the beginning of a shred of self-awareness. Let's see if it lasts. I know which way I'm betting.

The call is coming from inside the store.

Or to avoid copyright trouble: Nosfercatu.

I have the feeling this image is going to be getting quite a workout, again. Feel free to use as you see fit.

BOOM.

They've cracked the case! Someone needs to fry for this. Better scramble to get it done.

Golly, this map looks familiar. Used to see it with a different color scheme, though.

Sturgeon's Gun and Sturgeon's Razor are "90% of guns are crud" and "90% of razors are crud," respectively. But 100% of cats are the best cat in the whole wide world. I'm not sure exactly how this works; it must be some obscure result in quantum physics. I'll ask Schrödinger.

I don't have any predictions about when the messy collection of #algorithms we currently call "#AI" will be able to write good #research papers. Could be tomorrow, could be next year, could be a decade, could be never.

But I do know what it will take for me to take the idea seriously: show me an AI that can write a good #literature #review. No hallucinatory references, no "on one hand X, but on the other hand not-X," no repetitive sentence and paragraph structures that make me want to scrub my eyesockets with bleach and a wire brush. It doesn't even have to be publication quality. Just something that would get a decent grade as a term paper in an upper division undergraduate course.

This is the kind of application where AI should be really useful, and right now it's crap. So I'm not holding my breath.

From the latest #CPAC: #Republicans portraying their leader as the guy who's best known for destroying a #republic. Points for accidental honesty, I guess.

Had me in the first half, not gonna lie.

I have nothing to add to this.

This. This right here. This all day, every day. THIS.

Every day I'm doomin'.

I have to admit, I did not have “energy drinks are manly and coffee is for girls” on my batshit manosphere bingo card.

The ultimate #mashup. "Dammit, Jim, I'm a doctor, not an exterminator!"

Not reposting because I don't want to give it a boost. All I will say is ... HOW THE FUCK DO YOU THINK WE GOT HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE?

I'm totally hearing this sung to the tune of This Corrosion.