Joe @twitskeptic@qoto.org

@cfiesler Critical thinking is a rare skill in many institutions. https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2023/06/03/junk-science-its-not-just-for-ted-talks-npr-features-and-airport-bestsellers-it-can-also-ruin-peoples-lives/

@ct_bergstrom Went down the rabbit hole on this after I saw the answer and found this article with a nice photo of Venus that really illustrates the effect. https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/astrophotography/atmospheric-dispersion-corrector/

@jeffjarvis Kind of ironic that ChatGPT is advertising a $200K paralegal job - one of the jobs allegedly threatened by LLMs. https://openai.com/careers/litigation-paralegal

@glennf Pretty clear that Manjoo, who apparently was a hobbyist coder many years ago, doesn't really understand what a professional software developer does for a living. Hint: there's a lot more to it than spitting out syntactically correct code snippets that are functionally correct perhaps 70-80% of the time.

@ct_bergstrom How is this different than *any* kind of programming error that might kill people like, you know, software on a 737 Max?

This looks like a badly programmed RL reward function. WTF?

@ct_bergstrom I guess "AI-Controlled Drone Goes Rogue, Kills Human Operator in USAF video game" didn't get enough clicks in the A/B test.

NY Times has unabashedly converted to full tabloid mode now.

@ct_bergstrom Give me chastity and continence, but not yet!

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet! https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/30/technology/ai-threat-warning.html?smid=tw-share

Just tried to find the formula for a rotation matrix in n-dimensional space and ChatGPT, Bard, and Bing all gave me the wrong answer.

Another home run for the NYTimes.

Emily Bender takes down NPR's fawning interview with Geoffrey Hinton. https://twitter.com/emilymbender/status/1662520108621901824?s=20

@inthehands @kendraserra Such an old theme in technology. COBOL, "visual programming" etc. all marketed as programming for non-technical folks..

@paulgowder And wondering what the law might have to say about possible OpenAI liability despite their TOS.

@paulgowder Waiting for the inevitable first personal injury lawsuit against OpenAI caused by a credulous interpretation of a ChatGPT hallucination.