Well fuck that

Where is the MIT study in question? The link in the article, apparently to a PDF, redirects elsewhere

aka enshittification

You know, I think I’m overdue for a donation to Wikipedia. They honestly might end up being the last bastion of sanity

Gentlemen, this is plutocracy manifest!

unload a glittering cargo of stars, entrepreneurs, supermodels, influencers and tycoons into the lagoon

If only that were literally true

Bear baiting is legal in Michigan, but the hole on a barrel lid typically must be large enough to avoid what happened to this bear.

What the almighty fuck, Michigan?

It pains me to argue this point, but are you sure there isn’t a legitimate use case just this once? The text says that this was aimed at making Wikipedia more accessible to less advanced readers, like (I assume) people whose first language is not English. Judging by the screenshot they’re also being fully transparent about it. I don’t know if this is actually a good idea but it seems the least objectionable use of generative AI I’ve seen so far.

To be clear. It’s not just “the law” it’s the goddamn constitution

I’m going to search for the beached Lookfar. If memory serves, it was abandoned on Selidor, just past the Dragons’ Run

It’s actually kind of worrisome that they have to guess it was his code based on the function/method name. Do these people not use version control? I guess not, they sure as hell don’t do code reviews if this guy managed to get this code into production

Yeah I see what you mean. There’s a decent argument to be made that something like reasoning appears as an emergent property in this kind of system, I’ll admit. Still, the fact that fundamentally the code works as a prediction engine rules out any sort of real cognition, even if it makes an impressive simulacrum. There’s just no ability to invent, no true novelty, which – to my mind at least – is the hallmark of actual reasoning.

It’s real. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XAI_(company)

an open source reasoning AI

It’s still an LLM right? I’m going to have to take issue with your use of the word ‘reasoning’ here

To paraphrase Gordon Ramsay, “a skilled vet could still save it”

I’m certainly not a veterinarian and I’m quite prepared to be proven wrong, but yeah your explanation seems much more likely

Yeah, about the FAQ.

He’s just a huge fat cat. He diets, he works out, but never really loses any weight. We’re not too worried about it. His actual licensed vet says he’s fine, so we’ll just listen to her because she went to cat medical school or whatever.

How is this possible? That cat is way beyond the “healthy at any size” range.

Best read with a British accent, naturally:

There was a young girl from Nic’ragua
Who smiled as she rode on a jaguar
They returned from the ride
With the young girl inside
And the smile on the face of the jaguar

Cartoon GI Joe or live action GI Joe? I’m inclined to cut cartoons in general a lot of slack in terms of physics abuse