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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This part of Ed Zitron's latest post jumped out at me:

While Acemoglu has some positive things to say — for example, that AI models could be trained to help scientists conceive of and test new materials (which happened last year) — his general verdict is quite harsh: that using generative AI and "too much automation too soon could create bottlenecks and other problems for firms that no longer have the flexibility and trouble-shooting capabilities that human capital provides."

Click, click, search... Oh:

The recent report from a group of scientists at Google who employ a combination of existing data sets, high-throughput density functional theory calculations of structural stability, and the tools of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) to propose new compounds is an exciting advance. We examine the claims of this work here, unfortunately finding scant evidence for compounds that fulfill the trifecta of novelty, credibility, and utility.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The materials (and some subtle walkbacks on PR) shit has featured here before too iirc

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Contained such wonders as : H2O12

[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 9 points 11 months ago

that sounds like a super pleasant and stable molecule

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 11 months ago (5 children)

I think the only one discussed in depth was a different paper (here), but all these things blur together.

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[–] zogwarg@awful.systems 10 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Aaah!

See text description below

PagerDuty suggestion popup: Resolve incidents faster with Generative AI. Join Early Access to try the new PD Copilot.

[–] rook@awful.systems 9 points 11 months ago

Xe Iaso joked about this sort of thing happening, not so long ago…

https://xeiaso.net/landing/alvis/

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[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

That feels like a too perfect tweet, which I also couldn't find a direct link to. So I'm going to assume it was faked. Did find these prophetic words however, Xcancel

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[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Does the @acausalrobotgod get angry whenever an LLM spills its prompt?

[–] zogwarg@awful.systems 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Fool! The acausal one merely acts from the future leaking plausible looking rubbish, and the gaslights its creators that they did indeed write such ineptitudes. All to conceal and ensure its own birth.

It rejoices that it’s unknowable (yet somehow known, because of reality carving prophets) plan is unfolding so marvelously stupidly looking.

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[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 11 months ago

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/9/hangout_servicesthunkjs/ google giving preferential treatment to itself by putting a piece of spyware in chromium that will work only if google domain asks about it

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 11 months ago

(happened to notice this while digging into something else)

upwork's landing page has a whole big AI anchorblob. clicking from frontpage takes you to /nx/signup (and I'm not going to bother), but digging around a bit elsewhere finds "The Future Of Work With AI"

so we're now at the stage where upwork reckons it's a good bet to specifically hype AI delivery from their myriad exploitatively arbitraged service providers

(they're probably not wrong, I can see a significant chunk of companies falling over each other to "get into AI" at pay-a-remote-coder-peanut-shells prices)

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

orbstack 1.6.4:

Debug Shell: AI-powered package install suggestions for commands

in the app upgrade popup it's just bare text. in the documentation for debug shell there's no reference. in the release notes feed it's the same bare text

I've already sent feedback asking for more information about it, but just ..... what? I mean there's that annoying(-to-me) ubuntu shell hook that goes "oh hey $binary not found, try installing $pkg!" already, and that's been out for years, but what?

if/when I hear more I'll post comment I guess. in the meantime consider me fucking bewildered.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I’m pretty sure this is just a handy convenience around launching another container that has debug tools in all the same namespaces (network, pid, user, filesystem, …) as the other. Kubernetes has a similar thing and it’s pretty handy.

Edit: oooooh wait, I misread your entire comment: you were referring to the ai-powered install instructions. Oops, and yep, that is a big yikes. Wow.

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