Tuesday, January 28
Daily News Stuff 28 January 2025
Forever Now Edition
Forever Now Edition
Top Story
- You can't predict how AI will behave. (Scientific American)
You can't predict how people will behave either, except in general terms. Toddlers are going to do toddler things. Malignant dirtbags are going to do malignant dirtbag things.
AIs are going to do AI things. Stop acting surprised.
Tech News
- PebbleOS, the operating system for the Pebble smartwatch, which was acquired by Fitbit, which was acquired by Google, is now open source. (Google)
RePebble (name subject to change) is a company formed by the created of the Pebble to, uh, recreate the Pebble.
- AMD says its new Strix Halo chips can beat - by margins ranging from a little to a lot - an RTX 4070. (Tom's Hardware)
An RTX 4070 running at the same TDP, though, which means a laptop 4070.
Still pretty good.
- After four days working with an AI assistant, I'm now keeping notes with pen and paper. (Nemo)
Sounds about right.
- Anthropic has built RAG into Claude as the Citations module. (Ars Technica)
Now it will lie about the contents of the links it provides you, instead of lying about the existence of the links it provides you.
Musical Interlude
Song is Everything Now by Canadian band Arcade Fire. Anime is Ano Natsu de Matteru - Waiting in the Summer - which is sort of but not exactly a retelling of the older Onegai Teacher only better.
I like this video more than the original one released by Arcade Fire themselves. The anime is bittersweet, where the music video looks like Nebraska after the zombie apocalypse burned itself out.
Disclaimer: Zombies are going to do zombie things.
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The elephant in the room of the wider AI discussions is the cult or cults which want something from fancy magic computers that they do not get behavior wise from other humans. Some want other humans to do what they want. Some want something like a human, but instead does what they want. And some are mad that few Christians are bowing to their stone or wood idols, and think that a silicon idol means that the culture's magical thinking around silicon will result in the bowing by Christians.
And the AI safety folks going 'but what if you can ask the AI how to make a bomb' are both ignorant and stupid. Proof in full is long, but bombs don't work perfectly the first time unless you are trained very well, and have a great recipe, so randos with averaged recipes are gonna have trial and error, and are not super likely to be invisible.
And the AI safety folks going 'but what if you can ask the AI how to make a bomb' are both ignorant and stupid. Proof in full is long, but bombs don't work perfectly the first time unless you are trained very well, and have a great recipe, so randos with averaged recipes are gonna have trial and error, and are not super likely to be invisible.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Wednesday, January 29 2025 02:27 AM (rcPLc)
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As we learned with The Anarchist Cookbook.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, January 29 2025 05:07 PM (PiXy!)
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