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I’m honestly a bit concerned at the idea that programmers don’t completely understand how LLMs work and that they can get into recursive...

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/

No, third I think. His mum did it in 1957 and 1977.

Given that it’s the third time a British monarch has done so in a century, it probably won’t come up again for a while.

Same. That's already 100% more than my usual quotient of royal content.

He already delivered the Throne Speech, in Canadian Parliament, so I'm done with him for this year ;)

Re-reading Anima Prime now. The main thing it’s got is the “build power to smack the bad guys next round” mechanic, which I think it...

Yes, that’s quite true. The question as ever isn’t whether they know but whether they can pretend to know if instructed in a consistent...

With respect, we do - LLMs don't "know" anything in the sense you or I do. A LLM is pretty much predictive text writ large. Your...

“I would not blackmail my colleague because I am Niccolo Machiavelli and don’t know what email is. Also, I have no reason to believe...

I think the RPG analogy is good in that just because a player says they would commit blackmail in a specific limited fictional scenario...

Having read a couple of books related to this topic (Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams, who worked for Facebook 2012-8, and How to...

Yes, I was based in the UK and moved to Canada in 2023, and since then I haven’t been able to see any news content posted on Facebook by...

Article from the Atlantic today detailing just how extensive Meta’s piracy of copyrighted works was to train their “AI” LLM. The article...

If you tried to make the DS9 version of Picard… well, you could, with Ezri, Garak, Julian, Kira, Quark, Worf, and maybe Miles. Brooks...