David Gerard
the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•So, what are the new datacenters even for?English
5·2 days agotante thinks come the bubble pop, surveillance bureaucracy will buy the now cheap rigs, cos they have a use for that much ML compute
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TechTakes@awful.systems•AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer, says Palantir CTOEnglish
4·4 days agomacro-microdosing
Silicon Valley makes a lot more sense if you first assume everyone rich is off their fucking tree
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TechTakes@awful.systems•AI game demo is going broke on just 430 playersEnglish
4·4 days agoNot convinced that makes any substantive difference.
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TechTakes@awful.systems•AI game demo is going broke on just 430 playersEnglish
2·4 days agowhaaat? I’m not seeing that in my channel interface and it’s not showing as such in a private window. What are you seeing?
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TechTakes@awful.systems•US nearly attacks Chinese ship based on AI hallucinationEnglish
4·24 days agoposting before lifting a finger is not welcome here
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TechTakes@awful.systems•US nearly attacks Chinese ship based on AI hallucinationEnglish
6·24 days agowhat were the other two?
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TechTakes@awful.systems•ChatGPT ads: media agencies are ‘underwhelmed’English
0·29 days agoOpenAI were originally selling the ads at premium prices, this is the ad guys saying “these perform like trash mate”
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Ghost in the Machine is on PBS YouTube for the US! (and Korea for some reason)English
1·1 month agopsst you can see it on an Invidious instance that’s set to a US backend
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•What would it take? A lovable, sovereign, AI-native KDEEnglish
1·1 month agospecifically, me
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•What would it take? A lovable, sovereign, AI-native KDEEnglish
2·1 month agothis is an attempt at the camel’s nose, in the standard AI playbook
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•What would it take? A lovable, sovereign, AI-native KDEEnglish
2·1 month agoit really does
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Ghost in the Machine is on PBS YouTube for the US! (and Korea for some reason)English
3·1 month agoif you’re in the US and have too much time on your hands, the comments on this one need attention, cos PBS leave comments on then just don’t moderate them.
please do stop by in “new comments” mode and upvote the good top-level comments, downvote the bad, and report the racists and straight up Nazis.
the upvotes/downvotes determine the default “Top comments” view, and it takes multiple reports for any given racist
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Microsoft Vibe Gaming: an AI to play your games for youEnglish
8·1 month agoexcuse me sir, you cannot defame VolksBot1488 with these outrageous claims it was not just stretching its arm due to a cramp
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Anthropic Researcher Quits, Citing Internal Fears That AI 'Could Kill Us All' This Decade | Common DreamsEnglish
4·1 month agoJacob Coxon turns out to be solid EA all the way down, since his student days at Cambridge
his Goodreads is a fucking delight. You can tell he’s a rationalist because his top books are E. T. Jaynes and Scott Aaronson. He tried Mishima and couldn’t hack the distance, and I’m going to go so far as to say he didn’t read Mishima because he was looking for a good writer, but because he heard Mishima was a reactionary.
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Students who don’t use AI are ahead on every measureEnglish
2·1 month agoand the right situation is work that should not be done
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Students who don’t use AI are ahead on every measureEnglish
3·1 month agotooled and died
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Students who don’t use AI are ahead on every measureEnglish
7·1 month agoyor mums a tool
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Students who don’t use AI are ahead on every measureEnglish
6·1 month agoyeah “I didn’t look at the thing but I must post about it anyway” doesn’t play here
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Students who don’t use AI are ahead on every measureEnglish
41·1 month agothey tried so hard to fluff the AI



















the video push reeks of paid promotion