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W.L.Weller wrote: Thu Sep 18, 2025 2:41 pm You're welcome, it's a good reminder that it's worth talking about the good stuff (even if it's good stuff about bad stuff) one comes across, since everyone's feeds/algorithms/apps are so balkanized.

Did I already post about Ed Zitron's newsletter Where's Your Ed At? I'm lazy so instead of looking up-thread I'll post it (again): https://www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argu ... i-booster/

Dang I need a raise so I can subscribe to more stuff.

That video was the perfect antidote to the video I posted. Initially I was sort of going along with them, but it got increasingly unhinged as it went. I read The Future of the Professions a few years ago because I'm an architect, well I now am the technology manager at a firm after a career pivot, and its a job that is definitely ripe for AI disruption. We're seeing it already with automated apartment layout tools and in visualization tools like Mid Jounery. But so far the deep tools are far from "there" or ever close. A friend of mine is a lawyer that worked at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, they have been using LLM for paralegal work for a long time. Lawyers are definitely in line for some disruption. But like Angela says in the video you posted... you can't have an economy based on bots talking to each other.

As I said earlier, I don't really see LLMs as "AI"... there's not really any intelligence in there, or even in pattern recognition "AI"... Great tools, but "intelligent" only in so far as they seem that way. But that doesn't mean they are.

jfv wrote: Thu Sep 18, 2025 11:04 am

jfv wrote: Thu Sep 18, 2025 9:42 am The video used to be posted on our web site; looks like the page is still there but the video was taken down.

https://www.ul.com/resources/industry-a ... ous-robots

Weird. The video is there when I visit the link on my phone, but not on my laptop.

Watching a 5-year old video of yourself hosting a panel on AI: CRINGE

Fun video. I skim watched it for some context on Roman. Glad he didn't go into a "we are living in the matrix" by the end.

AI Cringe should definitely move into the lexicon.

Gramsci wrote: Wed Sep 17, 2025 2:21 pm https://youtu.be/UclrVWafRAI?si=GWh2XYQrqIua10iL

An interesting watch. I have no idea if the interviewee is right. I normally avoid the host. But worth watching.

I watched the first 25 minutes. I said previously I should withhold my comments but I’m now +2 beers.

It alternates between hard-hitting truths, weird analogies (guessing intentional, knowing there will be many people watching who don’t know AI from a hole in the ground), and bombastic predictions that are WAY TOO SOON in the future (though will probably eventually happen).

I might watch more later, but I anticipate more of the same, and I know how it ends..

It’s pretty crazy that I interviewed this guy 5 years ago.

https://youtube.com/shorts/HHgapyWpgCA? ... SgovrVy1se

FFS

Gramsci wrote: Fri Sep 19, 2025 8:33 am FFS

Seems like a *really* good time to invest in a solar installation on my house.

Gramsci wrote: Fri Sep 19, 2025 8:33 am https://youtube.com/shorts/HHgapyWpgCA? ... SgovrVy1se

FFS

It's so fucked.

this is the guy that won the nobel prize
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoslHKmSfnc
designing proteins, lots of weird and exciting stuff coming in the next few years.

hbiden@onlyfans.com wrote: Sun Sep 21, 2025 9:22 pm this is the guy that won the nobel prize
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoslHKmSfnc
designing proteins, lots of weird and exciting stuff coming in the next few years.

Excellent use of the technology.

jfv wrote: Thu Sep 18, 2025 8:55 pm

Gramsci wrote: Wed Sep 17, 2025 2:21 pm https://youtu.be/UclrVWafRAI?si=GWh2XYQrqIua10iL

An interesting watch. I have no idea if the interviewee is right. I normally avoid the host. But worth watching.

I watched the first 25 minutes. I said previously I should withhold my comments but I’m now +2 beers.

It alternates between hard-hitting truths, weird analogies (guessing intentional, knowing there will be many people watching who don’t know AI from a hole in the ground), and bombastic predictions that are WAY TOO SOON in the future (though will probably eventually happen).

I might watch more later, but I anticipate more of the same, and I know how it ends..

It’s pretty crazy that I interviewed this guy 5 years ago.

"Ooh, look at me! I have 6.4M views!" barf

Tech CEOs willingness to sink hundreds of billions into the possibility of technology replacing labor, while cutting human labor is really something. "One day AI is going to do some things we haven't thought of," that's good enough for a trillion dollar bet and a hive of power guzzling tech centers.

Hearing Mark Zuckerberg frothing over a near future where none of the new coding on the web is done by people is pretty gross.