Today I learned that:
Despite the outrage about (2), I think that the scary part is (1).
To me, #2 is worse because their personal information could be compromised potentially resulting in targeted advertisement, home invasions, fraud, identify theft and insurance premiums, among other issues. #1 simply tells me people are gullible or weird.
Sorry to those who subscribed. Being betrayed is not a good experience.
That whole website is wild. So much pseudo science…
I wonder what is the use case, vs looking at it and reporting it to their gastroenterologist if they have issues. I mean, it clearly has market, but it’s still weird. And I say this as someone with a disease where I have to monitor such things and symptoms.
I remember reading in a book, “Worm at the Core”, which discusses Terror Management Theory and IIRC there was a study which showed that when people looked consciously at their output, to use your words, along with other bodily fluids (blood), their death anxiety was increased. Maybe this is the use-case? Far fetched but wouldn’t surprise me
Separating gullible and anxious people from their money.
wow
I don’t know if everyone has seen this already as I’m not on the ex-bird app but this illustration of AI sycophancy had me snorting.
“feels like a fragment or an interlude” 
“Something that could play over a city montage or end credits” had me
After all these years, it turns out that I’m a musician. Who knew? 
I think I’ll just listen online. Live and in person doesn’t excite me too much… maybe if it’s a REALLY big venue and a really small band!
Seen on a truck in Toronto: “We’re #1 in the #2 business!”
“AI capabilities have crossed a threshold that fundamentally changes the urgency required to protect critical infrastructure from cyber threats, and there is no going back. Our foundational work with these models has shown we can identify and fix security vulnerabilities across hardware and software at a pace and scale previously impossible. That is a profound shift, and a clear signal that the old ways of hardening systems are no longer sufficient.
Providers of technology must aggressively adopt new approaches now, and customers need to be ready to deploy. That is why Cisco joined Project Glasswing—this work is too important and too urgent to do alone.”
We spent $100s of billions of investors’ money to build something that can blow up critical infrastructure and that we can’t control so now your governments have to pay us trillions to try to fix it. Is that the gist?
(Caveat: I don’t understand any of this stuff)
Funny how a vendor of AI tech found a reason why everyone needs to buy what they’re selling right now. Doubly funny that they claim they can not only find, but fix problems. I’d love to see how they’re intending to do that in, say, Windows.
That Rollei projector is beautiful, such a well designed product
I read an article this morning stating that the banks are scared to death of the new AI capabilities to break their security.
Seems like small models can also find those vulnerabilities. Seems like a lot of the mythos thing is just marketing
To be fair, the small models were given a somewhat different task of “there’s a known vulnerability in this function, find it”, instead of the original more open ended task. At least that’s what it looks like to me, without having looked too deeply into it. (But we don’t exactly know the original methodology either, for all I know they might have prompted Mythos similarly).
I don’t think my dad had exactly that Rollei, not even sure if it was a Rollei, or maybe something like an Agfa, but anyway, yeah, he had a very similar projector to that one.
Good times.
Next slide please… I remember it well. Wrong way round, upside down… haha Good times!
