Outta Spoons

Jack ECNM Momma 🍃 🪄❤️❤️❤️ Not a Girl, they/them formerly missenchantment multifandom shit poster

[whitepeopletwitter]

[thethriftedwitch]

@parrotbot

[giantanteaters-deactivated20230]

hey girl are you a worm because

[giantanteaters-deactivated20230]

goddammit. i hit post too early

[giantanteaters-deactivated20230]

hey girl are you a worm because i am hooked on you

[giantanteaters-deactivated20230]

actually i guess it would be. hey girl are you a hook because i am wormed on you

[giantanteaters-deactivated20230]

no it wouldn't that's nothing

[giantanteaters-deactivated20230]

hey girl are you a fishing rod because i am hooked on you

[giantanteaters-deactivated20230]

hey girl are you a fishing rod because i'd like to reel you in

[giantanteaters-deactivated20230]

hey girl. fish

[archive-deactivated20260501]

I LOVE UNCONVENTIONAL ARTWORK I LOVE SHAKY LINES AND EXAGGERATED PROPORTIONS I LOVE CLASHING OR GRUNGY COLOR PALETTES I LOVE “WEIRD” SUBJECT MATTER I LOVE ART MADE FOR FUN I LOVE ART THAT HAS LOVE PUT INTO IT I LOVE ART. AND I LOVE ARTISTS

[oneheadtoanother]

[lastvalyrian]

Unfortunately I know exactly what this is about

[lastvalyrian]

A few days ago a Washington Post article has been released about an advanced "AI" (their branding, not my preferred descriptor) called LAMDA that Google is developing.

LAMDA is essentially a chat bot: a neural network trained on lots and lots of text scraped from the internet, that can respond to messages you sent to it with responses that seem like a human wrote it: relevant to what you said, providing an answer that drives the conversation forward, etc.

Besides AI engineers working on actually developing the bot, Google has also hired "AI ethicists" essentially as a PR fig leaf to make people believe they are acting responsibly. One of them, Blake Lemoine, has spent most of his working time talking to LAMDA. Literally just sending messages back and forth with a super advanced predictive text bot. In the process, Lemoine has come to the conclusion that LAMDA is sentient.

To be clear: it is easy to lose track of this because research in this field is full of terms that suggest intelligence and cognitive ability, and it is hard for me to avoid them and their implications: AI, neural network, machine learning... But LAMDA is not intelligent. Much less is it sentient. It's essentially an extremely complicated statistical model that follows the same process as your phone's autocomplete: given some text, find the text that is most fitting as a response to that text, based on the bajillion of texts that the model has seen before. It's just text in, text out. There's no space for thought or sentience to even BE.

Things escalated pretty quickly from there. Lemoine contacted Google management with his concerns and outline some steps to treat the AI ethically and respect its "personhood". Everyone at Google unanimously said what I said in the paragraph above. To pressure them further, Lemoine went public, threatened to sue Google on LAMDA's behalf, has been put on leave, and now the public conversation is a mess where actual AI ethicists (including some prominent ones that Google fired earlier for talking about issues that are uncomfortable for Google) have to tell people to stop talking about "sentient AIs" and instead talk about the actual dangers and ethical issues of using artificial intelligence.

Lemoine's defense in public has since included the claim that he is convinced that LAMDA is sentient, and I am not making this shit up, "as based in his religious beliefs". The WAPO article goes into how Lemoine grew up in cult-like Evangelical spaces. Go figure.

[beaft]

if you are reading this i want you to stop for a moment and imagine a crab

[beaft]

yes.... thats the spirit..... keep it up

[beaft]

(vibrating with barely contained power) yes...... YES...........

[clementiens]

[sudorm-rfslash]

Police vs law enforcement

[synebluetoo]

Look I used to work with tow truck guys and they do not give a fuck. One time the Air Force was doing a recruiting stunt and they decided to bring a plane as like…a prop? I dunno and they parked it in a 20 minute loading zone and 21 minutes later my coworkers IMPOUNDED THE PLANE.

[synebluetoo]

Have you ever had an Air Force general call your office and bitch? He did not expect the tow truck guys.

[invisiblegenzer]

[corrupt-fvcker]

Ewan McGregor admiring some lovely sea otters.

“What are we looking at h—”

“WE ARE LOOKING AT SEA OTTERS 😃.”

[thethriftedwitch]

@parrotbot

[stilljewelss]

This is a great response and I am going to use it!

[dim-keepitl0ve-deactivated20240]

"how's that not overstepping?" works too 🙌🏾

[guerrillatech]

[unfortunately-awake]

[iwilleatyourenglish]

what

[thethriftedwitch]

@cypheragent 😅😅

[sleepy-bebby]

ultraviolence

[lastvalyrian]

So. The bitcoin conference was a complete failure. AND what's even better. There was a ball pit.

[lastvalyrian]

People think this is a joke but it's real

[theonyxranger]

get fuuuuucked

[king-carnivore]

A collection of my favorite tags from this post

[garlic-but-gay]

[alexstrasza]

[thethriftedwitch]

In Gravedigger we Trust

[alexstrasza]

[detectivehole]

walking up to random doors and tugging on them and saying "i can't. it's locked" out loud to no one to fulfill my dreams of being an adventure game protagonist

[randynewmansjungle]