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…
  • Seminar2250@awful.systemsEnglish
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    1 day 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
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      1 day 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

      • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
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        1 day 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)

      • Seminar2250@awful.systemsEnglish
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        1 day 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?