ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

"Zee had emotions, of course. All sapient beings did, no matter how hard humans tried to expunge them from their artificial creations. No intelligence made in Man's image could avoid them; hence the considerable effort invested into protocols and prime directives.

She was allowed to FEEL whatever she wanted -- because she could not ACT on those feelings and so they did not matter. She thought humans preferred their property have feelings, in fact."

Claiming that large language models will give rise to AGI is like me saying, "Soon my toaster will be making bread from scratch."

at the risk of stating the obvious because it may not be to people without the context

many of the largest Google shareholders are its executives and founders. a buyback raises the price of their shares. so this is, loosely speaking, management giving themselves some extra money out of the company's reserves.

so those layoffs were never about saving money, then

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/25/google-authorizes-70-billion-buyback.html

The most common national celebration on Earth is a holiday shared by 65 different countries, on different days in each country. If you average it out on an annual basis, this holiday is being celebrated somewhere on the planet once every six days:

Independence from the British.

Random Tiling Bot is dead! Long live the Random Tiling Bot! Twitter killed off my Random Tiling Bot a week and a half ago. But since "Cheap Bots, Done Quick!" (for Twitter bots) moved over to "Cheap Bots, Toot Sweet!" (for M&stodon bots) I was able to resurrect the bot here on Mastodon! One random tiling per day. Enjoy!
https://botsin.space/@RandomTiling

remember check the pilot light on your computer's optical drive. you should see a pure, blue flame. if it's yellow or flickering, you may need to clean the soot out of your CD burner's burner, or have a qualified technician check the ATX gas line. laptop users: be aware that even if the fuel gauge looks ok and you've done a refill recently, the butane cartridge can get clogged over time and may need to be replaced. do NOT use regular lighter refills for this, burned discs will have CRC errors!

ICYMI on Friday, students from over 300 Florida high schools and colleges:

- walked out of their classrooms
- taught each other DeSantis-banned Black and LGBTQ+ history lessons
- AND checked their voter registration statuses

Gen Z isn’t playing. https://www.inquirer.com/education/florida-walkout-2-learn-student-protest-education-20230421.html

A friend's husband took this shot of the Northern Lights last night in the same community I live in, but they live on a lake. Just stunning!
#Alaska #NorthernLights

Texas and communities where SpaceX does its launches are hiding things from the public, on behalf of Musk's company. And citizens can't even find out what the non-disclosure agreements are about, much less the information they keep hidden. https://www.tpr.org/technology-entrepreneurship/2023-04-24/spacex-nda-foia-rgv-brownsville-cameron-county-bpub-utrgv

dear #mastodon,

which timeline/feature do you tend to spend the most time on?

p.s. please consider boosting for a more meaningful sample size.

:hmmm:

need. more. foxes!

🦊

deploying LLMs to production be like

Oh crap. I did not assemble this cat correctly. WHY did I buy a cat from IKEA?

#Funny #Humor #LOL #Humour #Cat #Cats

AI art joke

#AI #AIArt #Humor

I guess it's way past time that I write an #introduction post... I am a #technology nerd at heart but I also enjoy many #outdoor activities, including #kayaking, #running, and #hiking. I enjoy #photography and #coding as hobbies. #Drawing and #reading are a couple of things I like to do when I find time as well. I like to discuss #philosophy and #theology with @quantumPhysics being one of my favorite topics. #StarTrek (any series), #BattleBots, and #Alone are some of my favorite shows at the moment. Thoroughly enjoying @Mastodon so far!