Nefarious Celt

@toddalio@mstdn.ca @snap2grid@mastodon.social nope. But living next to an AI data centre. Highly likely.

@ThePowerNap@mefi.social @dragonfrog@mastodon.sdf.org @cstross@wandering.shop @ViennaMike@mastodon.social I suspect I am coming from a very risk averse standpoint. The “summarise this” is what scares me with LLM marketing. I have been burned by poor software requirement specifications. Language simplification can do that in multiple sectors. But yeah mapping natural language to a fixed set of goals, that’s fine. Trust AI with my life, no. Sudden random steering inputs WTAF stelantis.

@ThePowerNap@mefi.social @dragonfrog@mastodon.sdf.org @cstross@wandering.shop @ViennaMike@mastodon.social The best purpose of a LLM system is to provide a natural language interface to a complex but not mission critical system such as home automation, media libraries and switchboards. Machine learning on the other hand should lean into seeing without eyes (is a dramatic jump in intensity cancer?) Both of these cases should be powered through a single IEC C13 socket and not some gW data centre.

@cstross@wandering.shop I disagree with you there. I still believe the perfect use case for AI in content creation is to generate a virtual fan boy to tell an author that they are canonically wrong. Self hosted self doubt as it were and less public than Usenet.

@soph@grrl.me @hazelweakly@hachyderm.io dev’s of my generation were raised in the ethical debates in sf literature. The problem is with Management, who think ethics has a border with Suffolk.

@WedaleBooks you need to get some great/terrible book jokes. And post pictures of your big concrete balls.

@cstross@wandering.shop I have used text to speech as a useful tool to break out of the author mind and realise what I meant to write was not what I wrote. A Noob tool to fix noob behaviours.