Michael Piotrowski @true_mxp@qoto.org

Sloth is a native Mac app by fellow Icelander Sveinbjörn Þórðarson that shows all open files and sockets in use by all running processes on your system. This makes it easy to inspect which apps are using which files and sockets.

It's lsof for people like me. Very useful.

brew install --cask sloth


According to MS, Bing AI goes crazy because “[the team] didn’t ‘fully envision’ people using its chat interface for ‘social entertainment’ or as a tool for more ‘general discovery of the world.’” Which demonstrates either a colossal lack of vision or a colossal ignorance of people. Which, now that I think about it, is kind of on brand for most AI systems.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/16/23602335/microsoft-bing-ai-testing-learnings-response

An example of how far we've come in processing power: These are the three workstations I used in the 1990s, a #CommodoreAmiga 4000, a SUN #Sparc 5, and a white boxed #Pentium running #NeXTSTEP 3.3, all running at the same time, at full speed, and I still can do other things. #retrocomputing

I wish people would understand that using a microphone for questions in a conference room is also a question of inclusivity.
Always some (mostly men) to say "it's OK I'll speak up" without waiting for the mike.

The really remarkable thing isn't just that #Microsoft has decided that the future of #search isn't links to relevant materials, but instead lengthy, florid paragraphs written by a #chatbot who happens to be a habitual liar - even more remarkable is that #Google agrees.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/16/tweedledumber/#easily-spooked

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Sure #AI can write a poem or park a car but there are mathematical problems that current computers will never solve.

“Even if a computer’s speed could reach the physical limit, computational hurdles remain due to the limits of algorithms.”

https://theconversation.com/limits-to-computing-a-computer-scientist-explains-why-even-in-the-age-of-ai-some-problems-are-just-too-difficult-191930

I wanted to write something like, "oh you don't say" but this is *actually* a brutal read

#science #metrics #evaluation

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/05390184221142218

Lacking in all the (vast) discussion of ChatGPT, Bing, et al: transparency about the degree of ad hoc human intervention in creating answers to frequently asked questions. How much is being hard-coded, in other words?

I suspect it’s much more than we know. https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/16/23602335/microsoft-bing-ai-testing-learnings-response

#DH​ers (and beyond)! We want to talk about #operationalisation, and invite submissions to a specific #workshop on the topic. The full #cfp can be found here: https://cretaverein.de/mmcc/cfp.html, abstracts need to be submitted by May 1st, workshop will be in September.