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Niklas Pivic

OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry wheresyoured.at/openai-is-a-sy

'It's also important to note that absolutely nobody other than NVIDIA is making any money from generative AI. CoreWeave loses billions of dollars, OpenAI loses billions of dollars, Anthropic loses billions of dollars, and I can't find a single company providing generative AI-powered software that's making a profit. The only companies even close to doing so are consultancies providing services to train and create data for models like Turing and Scale AI — and Scale isn't even profitable.'

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#ArtificialIntelligence#EdZitron#AI
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Marcus Green

I have a personal rule that any text that includes the idea “They don’t want you to know about this …”, e.g. doctors don’t want you to know about this (insert thing here) should be treated with the greatest caution.

However the promoters of #AI via #LLM systems such as #ChatGPT, don’t want you to know how unreliable they are .

#scam#grift
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@yoginho

Rule of thumb: if a company operating in a highly technical scientific space chooses to release its progress reports or results in an "exclusive" with a mainstream media outlet, rather than via a scientific journal, it's not a scientific company. It's a financial grift.

#grift#science#technical
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Wokebloke for Democracy

"...not everybody got the idea. Eric Trump tweeted, 'I wouldn’t want to be the last country that tries to negotiate a trade deal with @realDonaldTrump. The first to negotiate will win - the last will absolutely lose.
Eric’s father apparently didn’t get the memo either. Asked by reporters whether he planned to negotiate the tariff rates, the president said, 'The tariffs give us great power to negotiate. They always have.' ”

yahoo.com/news/trump-already-b
#Grift #Tariffs #Donald #Eric #Donald,Jr

Yahoo News · Trump Has Already Botched His Own Bad Tariff PlanBy Jonathan Chait
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Mx Verda

Aha! THIS is ideal science:
CURIOSITY, clear communication,
respect (actual) corrections from anywhere,
honest effort to test and learn, and
share what you know with anyone interested.

youtube.com/watch?v=nJjPH3TQif

It's not easy, but these are each necessary. I'm using 'science' here like STEM or STEAM.
So I broadly refer to a scientific method but also engineering expertise, mathematical review, and humanities' impact on supporting any of this to happen at all.

Ignoring currency hoarding by money addicts, the rest of us are here to enjoy contentment.
We can make real discoveries, inventions, and connect ideas to find useful applications.

(Also petition to call Dark Matter instead Clear Matter.)

YouTubeSabine Hossenfelder Can’t Stop Acting Like a Complete FraudBy Professor Dave Explains
#Curiosity#Integrity#Testable
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Mx Verda

@rozeboosje (I just assumed it was German? aaaa I am terrible at placing accents tho.) Frustrating af part is she clearly has an axe to grind with physics / academia and so do I.

It's possible I might have *more* reason to feel spurned unjustly, since mine is "systemic ableism led to late diagnosis, but I didn't get even the minimal support I was offered and accepted".

But I still stick to my vision of a better life for everyone I can help because that's... the only thing worth doing?

beep.

Semi-related: I need to do a basic layperson's guide to science set of videos. A bit like Minute Physics or CGP Grey, but about 'null hypothesis' (which I still need to learn, tbh) and 'a control group'.

Also petition to call Dark Matter instead Clear Matter.

#Curiosity#Integrity#Testable
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Mx Verda

It sounds like Sabine Hossenfelder is inaccurately diagnosing (some) real problems (and some false ones) as being scientists' fault directly.
The problems are a capitalist (profit-focused) failure of resource allocation. This includes a structure of education that incentivises "work-ready" skills over critical analysis.
You don't need to be an expert! Literally just encouraged to try, fail, learn, and try again.
THAT is 'science' -- not the scientific method (precisely) nor the institution of scientific research on a given scale of human organisation.

youtube.com/watch?v=nJjPH3TQif

YouTubeSabine Hossenfelder Can’t Stop Acting Like a Complete FraudBy Professor Dave Explains
#Curiosity#Integrity#Testable
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