tweety fish

well, lo, people have built a benchmark using a task called multi-armed bandit, where success depends on iteratively grasping the relative odds of payouts from different choices, and LLMs are (generally) shit at it arxiv.org/pdf/2403.15371 /

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lol I mean come the fuck on man. Of course it fucking is. If you hate AI enough to avoid any software coded using it—fine! supportable! go with god!—then at least use a fucking modicum of critical thinking? “Oh hey somebody made a cool new extremely elaborate free thing just for fun I” cmon

in computer science the "halting problem" refers to the inability to know in advance how many times you'll have to tell an LLM "no, that's not good enough, keep trying" before it gets the right answer and you can stop yelling at it.

Last night it occured to me to wond er if LLMs were any good at gambling tasks. This is important not because it'd be funny for LLMs to gamble but because gambling tasks get used to measure human decision-making under risk /

my new opinion is we should ban the sale of anything that currently gets called 'AI' and also ban use of the term specifically so I shut up about it

All the "will 'AI' replace the humanities" shit is so boring, why aren't we trying to supplant random academic fields with other useful coding tools? Metasploit is going to replace comp lit. We'll be doing historical musicology with linters. Let's go

the pace of change in the world of "AI"--which makes it hard to understand what new capabilities are legit and which are hype and also makes it super hard to get a coherent handle on the lacunae (of which there are many) is itself pretty anti-humane and let's see AGI do that shit ok hold up

the story about data center investment vastly outstripping investment in public transportation is a story about capital markets and government and doesn't actually have anything to do with 'AI' as such, people get that, yeah?

You know what would be a fun thing to look at is the correlation between “AI will take all the jobs GET READY”-style marketing and “TAKE jobs no no it’s a great productivity tool” as it became clear to all that it was hopeless at female-coded empathetic/creative work and good at male-coded sw eng

listen, I try not to prejudge this stuff too hard because I think it's important for me, at least, to have my skepticism rooted in up-to-date knowledge but "Robinhood offers in-app agentic trading to its users" is one hell of an alarming sentence

smoking a lamb shoulder today using some leftover tomatillo/chipotle mixture from when I tried to make chili verde and VASTLY overadded chipotles to it and let's see AGI do that