@tante@tldr.nettime.org avatar

tante

@[email protected]

Sociotechnologist, writer and speaker working on tech and its social impact. Communist. Feminist. Antifascist. Luddite. He/him. Email: [email protected] | License CC BY-SA-4.0 tfr

"Ein-Mann-Gegenkultur" (SPIEGEL)

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

tante, to random
@tante@tldr.nettime.org avatar

A match made in hell.

(For my international followers: Axel Springer is Germany's Fox News.)

tante, to random
@tante@tldr.nettime.org avatar

Sam Altman is back as OpenAI CEO with a new board.

And of course the new board was hand picked to no longer restrict Altman so he can run OpenAI as a business as he sees fit (until he jumps to one of his own things he's been preparing for months now).

The interesting aspect of this: The new board no longer has any women, the only woman on the old board was replaced by Larry Summers who's known to think that women just have less "intrinsic aptitude" for "science and engineering". So Yeah. Says a lot about what OpenAI considers important.

tante, to random
@tante@tldr.nettime.org avatar

I like ActivityPub and the decentralized social Web as much as the next person but we all know that scalability is a massive problem and I haven't seen too many convincing approaches to fix that. So let's not pretend this is just a magic silver bullet.

Blogs and the web didn't scale to actual web traffic (which admittedly many blogs never needed), centralized caches and services were necessary for this stuff to work. Which is exactly why we got so much centralization.

Solving that for decentralized social networks is the core issue.

tante, to random
@tante@tldr.nettime.org avatar

Today in "LLMs can't do even simple reasoning":

Prompt: Sally (a girl) has 3 brothers. Each brother has 2 sisters. How many sisters does Sally have?

See a whole bunch of LLMs fail: https://benchmarks.llmonitor.com/sally

tante,
@tante@tldr.nettime.org avatar

Many LLMs answer "6", mostly because "each" triggers a lot of programming/math wording.

Embeddings can be very finicky and LLms don't handle extra information well.

jollyorc, to random
@jollyorc@social.5f9.de avatar

I wonder: is there GAIA-X discourse happening the fediverse?

tante,
@tante@tldr.nettime.org avatar

@jollyorc is that still a thing with funding running out?

tante, to random
@tante@tldr.nettime.org avatar

Carbon Credits are a scam. Not just because a lot of the projects are literal scams but because the fundamental idea is fucked. The market will not solve this. Quite the opposite.
(Title: Study: Carbon offsets aren’t doing their job, overstate impact) https://arstechnica.com/?p=1963543

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • random
  • uselessserver093
  • Food
  • aaaaaaacccccccce
  • test
  • CafeMeta
  • testmag
  • MUD
  • RhythmGameZone
  • RSS
  • dabs
  • KamenRider
  • TheResearchGuardian
  • KbinCafe
  • Socialism
  • oklahoma
  • SuperSentai
  • feritale
  • All magazines
    •