I finally started reading The AI Con by @emilymbender and @alex and I already laughed out loud in the first few pages.

[chris_e_simpson@hachyderm.io]

@sundogplanets @emilymbender @alex sweet, just found out there's an audiobook version and its on libro fm, so it's now in my collection!

[grb090423@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets @emilymbender @alex

Oh, brilliant!

[knud@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets @emilymbender @alex

Yep, it's a very good book, very to the point.

[claralistensprechen3rd@friendica.myportal.social]

@sundogplanets @alex @emilymbender A very apt phrase, that. Adopting that one myself!

[thestrangelet@beige.party]

@sundogplanets @emilymbender @alex Such a great book. Essential for our times.

[landelare@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@sundogplanets @emilymbender @alex For a moment, I parsed that as an AI Con[vention], but this one is better.

[stevo618@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets @emilymbender @alex Hilarious!!

[csolisr@hub.azkware.net]

Considering the unfortunate pervasion of racism in our media, I can see why can you call a pile of algebra racist - junk in junk out as they say

[stargazersmith@social.linux.pizza]

@sundogplanets @emilymbender @alex
I could use a little help understanding your label for AI. I'm no fan of the AI hype and associated misinformation, but your label eludes me. I know what a racist is, and I've used linear algebra a lot, but I can't put it all together.

[karencampe@mathstodon.xyz]

@sundogplanets @emilymbender @alex here's a thread on BlueSky with other great "names" for generative AI, collated by Mike Deutsch...
https://bsky.app/profile/mdeutschmtl.bsky.social/post/3mlnwipu6xc2q

[seanplynch@mastodon.social]

@stargazersmith @sundogplanets @emilymbender @alex

LLM's choose the next word based on based on the strength and direction of what is already there. It's a vector & matrices(the linear algebra).

All LLM's built so far become racist, given time.

Like Tay, the teenage Nazi chatbot from Microsoft.
'She' was introduced on Twitter on March 23rd, 2016. Tay was supposed to be a 'fun' teen 'girl' that other teens could talk to.

By March 25th, Tay was a full on Nazi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(chatbot)

[seanplynch@mastodon.social]

@stargazersmith @sundogplanets @emilymbender @alex

I over simplified the LLM, but lots of matrix manipulation.

[stargazersmith@social.linux.pizza]

@SeanPLynch @sundogplanets @emilymbender @alex
Thanks for that explanation.

[stargazersmith@social.linux.pizza]

@SeanPLynch @sundogplanets @emilymbender @alex
They are giving matrices a bad name.

[ambientspace@cloudisland.nz]

@sundogplanets @emilymbender @alex @limebar there is much new vocabulary to adopt in there. I like “synthetic text extruder”.

[zjb@mastodon.social]

Haha, that phrase is perfect. Might have to steal it for my own vocabulary. Enjoy the rest of the book!

[sundogplanets@mastodon.social]

@stargazersmith @emilymbender @alex Thank you for the explanation and example, @SeanPLynch

[seanplynch@mastodon.social]

@stargazersmith @sundogplanets @emilymbender @alex

Read the humorous 'Finding Paul Revere' by Kieran Healy.

See how the strength of connections are built between people and used to create a connection diagram.

LLM's do this, on steroids. Using the words and phrases so far to decide what to say next based on the training data. They also use search techniques to find information to answer your question and format it based on language rules and prediction models.

https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metadata-to-find-paul-revere/

[rrb@infosec.exchange]

@sundogplanets @emilymbender @alex AI Snake Oil and Weapons of Math Destruction are both good

[stargazersmith@social.linux.pizza]

@SeanPLynch @sundogplanets @emilymbender @alex
Seems like a paradigm designed to find a point in the middle of a halo of fuzz, with truth (or even an understanding of the problem at hand) of no particular consideration.