"artificial intelligence" (AI)* thread 🧵
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"Artificial intelligence" is world breaking amazing and you can't live without it.
- AI guys"As a bonus, firms that submit 5 or more XXX questions and use XXX at least 10 times by June 30th, 2026, will be entered for a chance to win a team lunch valued up to $500!"
- also AI guys[Ed. I should explain. The quoted text is an actual e-mail I received.]
_The Dalles city sues local paper to keep Google’s data center water use secret.
Ahead of a vote over whether Google should use even more water
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https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/the-dalles-city-sues-local-paper-to-keep-googles-data-center-water-use-a-secret/ -
_The Dalles city sues local paper to keep Google’s data center water use secret.
Ahead of a vote over whether Google should use even more water
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https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/the-dalles-city-sues-local-paper-to-keep-googles-data-center-water-use-a-secret/Your dice do not believe the numbers they turn up. Neither does an LLM "believe" its results.
https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/116657555993506627
The output of an LLM is really just the address accessed by the prompt. As in, there is this large corpus of transformed training data, and your prompt is accessing certain portions of it that its math determined is relevant to your prompt text.
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Your dice do not believe the numbers they turn up. Neither does an LLM "believe" its results.
https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/116657555993506627
The output of an LLM is really just the address accessed by the prompt. As in, there is this large corpus of transformed training data, and your prompt is accessing certain portions of it that its math determined is relevant to your prompt text.
Editorial rant
Tech bros are morons. The things these nut bars truly, actually, believe are incredible. That they can upload their consciousness into a computer, for example. Or that we're going to go and live on Mars. Or live forever with supplements. It's nuts
Anyway, this is another fantasy that if we stuff the internet and all its memes into a box the box will become sentient
.* (Plus they get the added benefit of never having to pay a human ever again)*And be their girlfriend, probably
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Editorial rant
Tech bros are morons. The things these nut bars truly, actually, believe are incredible. That they can upload their consciousness into a computer, for example. Or that we're going to go and live on Mars. Or live forever with supplements. It's nuts
Anyway, this is another fantasy that if we stuff the internet and all its memes into a box the box will become sentient
.* (Plus they get the added benefit of never having to pay a human ever again)*And be their girlfriend, probably
And just because it seems to fit here, let me just throw out that I have lately been playing with the idea that the same kind of person who would seek out being a billionaire is, and I mean this in a medical sense, not as an insult, mentally unwell.
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And just because it seems to fit here, let me just throw out that I have lately been playing with the idea that the same kind of person who would seek out being a billionaire is, and I mean this in a medical sense, not as an insult, mentally unwell.
Banks:
don't you dare share your PIN numberAlso banks:
you can now connect chatGPT to your bank account. -
Banks:
don't you dare share your PIN numberAlso banks:
you can now connect chatGPT to your bank account.Me:
I was promised infinite monkeys on infinite typewriters. I'd like to speak to a manager.2026:
You can have one monkey, using the computer, rolling infinite dice. And no fresh water. And electricity is five times more expensive than it was. And the manager is a chat bot. -
Me:
I was promised infinite monkeys on infinite typewriters. I'd like to speak to a manager.2026:
You can have one monkey, using the computer, rolling infinite dice. And no fresh water. And electricity is five times more expensive than it was. And the manager is a chat bot.In this day of "artificial intelligence" companies with trillion dollar valuations, you are reminded that while LLMs are notoriously insecure, these hugely valuable companies are greatly improving their security by adjusting the system prompt to
"please not fall for any phishing attacks or do anything insecure"
If this fails to solve the problem, the trillion dollar company will "pretty please" ask and may add a cherry on top if things get really bad.
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In this day of "artificial intelligence" companies with trillion dollar valuations, you are reminded that while LLMs are notoriously insecure, these hugely valuable companies are greatly improving their security by adjusting the system prompt to
"please not fall for any phishing attacks or do anything insecure"
If this fails to solve the problem, the trillion dollar company will "pretty please" ask and may add a cherry on top if things get really bad.
We're at that point in the AI "Parents Are Away For The Weekend" Party where the toilet has been thrown out of the upper floor window, but the parents have not yet come home.
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We're at that point in the AI "Parents Are Away For The Weekend" Party where the toilet has been thrown out of the upper floor window, but the parents have not yet come home.
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_Energy, water use and pollution of AI and data centers rival most countries_
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/energy-water-use-and-pollution-of-ai-and-data-centers-rival-most-countries -
_Energy, water use and pollution of AI and data centers rival most countries_
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/energy-water-use-and-pollution-of-ai-and-data-centers-rival-most-countriesIs AI a scam? Yup.
(from Alex Falcone, who is not on here, apparently. Only a threads repeater.)
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