Microsoft Copilot has an avatar now! It’s a viscous pearly blob of liquid. That wobbles. And has facial expressions. I had to euphemise furiously on the YouTube version of this post — but for the b…
  • BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Baldur Bjarnason has given his thoughts:

    I mean… yeah.

    Also, between this and seeing tech types link glowingly to a crazypants “colonise the light cone by exploring latent space” type of delusional bullshit and I’m staring to worry that computers, as a concept, might not be salvageable after these clowns have run the show into the ground

    • Seminar2250@awful.systemsEnglish
      2·
      23 hours ago

      colonise the light cone by exploring latent space

      Can someone explain what this is referring to? I don’t understand it.

      • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
        4·
        23 hours ago

        references these two topics. I suspect the phrase itself in this case is a shitpost taking aim at some of the absurd bullshit TESCREALists come up with in their nonsensegabble, but … it is also the kind of nonsensegabble that some of them may unironically post

        • Seminar2250@awful.systemsEnglish
          2·
          19 hours ago

          is it cynical that i find the idea of a “latent space” a bit goofy? may just be because i think data science is kind of a joke and much machine learning is “we threw shit at our model but don’t know what a category error is”

          like it’s just dimensionality reduction with new vocab?

        • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
          4·
          23 hours ago

          (related tangent: @cstross’ Singularity series is a pretty fun topical dive about this, and he’s been following these nutjobs for probably close to 3 decades now)