I’m incredibly bummed out about @TexasObserver shutting down.
They were incredible innovators with the Fediverse, and blazed a path forward for journalism here. They were among the first publications to host their own Mastodon server.
Sadly, their arrival here wasn’t enough to sustain them.
I don’t know why there isn’t a single pharmacy in the Istanbul airport but a random British tourist just saved my life with two aspirin. That was one of the worst international flights I have ever been on.
@hacks4pancakes@typingloudly can I just point out how refreshing it is to see two people I follow have a disagreement that did not involve name calling or low blow attacks. This is a #ThingsYouDontSeeOnTwitter moment 🤣
Somebody noticed that the term "AI" became tarnished by overuse and diluted to a point of being useless in boiler-room-style peddling that is now happening.
But they can't outright claim GPT is Artificial General Intelligence because AGI happens to be somewhat well defined.
So they went with completely meaningless, but very much suggestive, "sparks of AGI."
"Can't believe it's not AGI" just means "it's not AGI," though.
whenever i see a take about LLMs being sentient, it makes me think of when my dog hears someone talking to me on the phone and seemingly gets worried i'm trapped inside the little rectangle
@molly0xfff as long as we don't even have a basic model of language, i too wouldn't be too worried about LLMs being sentience. BTW, i think people would get less confused if we would just call those things "LFM"s instead, for "Large Frequency Model". Or if the second "L" would stand for "Lexicon" instead of "Language".
Update, all five meatballs eventually made it to the porch, and are playing with everything now.
I may just make cocktails and watch kittens for the rest of the day.
IMAGE: Center is a yellow pumpkin with black dots. There is a window with a girl looking out. In the background, bright pink fields, several pumpkins. The sky is black. To the left, a colorful sun with clock hands set to three o'clock.
Parts of Twitter's source code are now confirmed to be leaked by Twitter. This along with the 235,000,000 Twitter users database leak I reported on in January practically means you can build your own Twitter 😂
"Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me - choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothing."
Uptycs researchers Shilpesh Trivedi & Pratik Jeware analyse a macOS stealer that also controls its operations over Telegram. The stealer can extract documents, cookies from a victim's browser, & login information. https://www.uptycs.com/blog/macstealer-command-and-control-c2-malware
“"Don't tell me it can't be done. If we can put a man on the moon, we can verify age," Richard Blumenthal, a current Senator from Connecticut, said in Congressional testimony back in 2006 when he was the State’s attorney general.
“The last time America put someone on the moon was 1972. No one has been there in fifty years. It will likely be another 50 before someone invents a method of verifying the age of internet uses without an unpalatable invasion of privacy.”
