That’s SpaSex. Porn in natural spas on Mars. Very short videos because they usually die after a few seconds but good enough for me (I don’t last that long either).

I want to believe this is true, so they won my click, but “I heard that some executives and even one unnamed CEO…” is a really low quality article

I hadn’t thought about this, thanks. Personally, if the messaging had been “play with this new thing, see where it helps, report where it doesn’t or where it’s actively harmful”, I would have had a much better time with it. The fact that it was “use AI for everything or else you’ll lose your job to someone else who does” created all sort of perverse incentives to use it for the sake of using it (even where it doesn’t make sense), to lie about the results and to generate more anxiety in others to keep up with your made-up achievements. I think at least some of the wasteful or even harmful ways you describe of using LLMs come from this push to use it and “be more productive” with it.

But you’re right that there are people who became overly reliant and even ruined their lives with LLMs without the tech being forced on them.

I am not a CEO and I hope this AI bubble bursts already.

That said, if I were a CEO using all possible tokens while they are heavily subsidized and tightening the purse when they get more expensive does not sound like the worst strategy to me. You get all your teams to build some expertise and (hopefully) get a sense of where the technology might have some ROI.

If only they had presented it this way (and not “AI therefore layoffs”) probably a lot of us would hate it much less now.

To be fair, the prompt was “what shade of gold should the curtains be in my new ballroom?”

[ Reasoning… The user wants me to initiate a war with Iran… Firing 2000 missiles on random objectives… Done. Back to undressing kids on X… ]

Hey Nasdaq, how much can I get for my compulsive gambler uncle?

I’ve seen it happen! She… lives in Canada, you wouldn’t know her

because if we’ve learned one thing about Bezos and his pals is that they will be sooo happy to share any additional profits with their employees!

Yes, that’s called a “marketing budget”

I don’t get it. Ok, so you are willing to do away with safety, legality and basic human decency to attract capitals to your country. Fair enough.

But then why not drugs? Drugs are almost as addictive as AI and create less damage to the environment. But above all, unlike AI, drugs are very profitable, even if they face a harsh regulatory environment.

Give it some thought, Milei. True, you like theatrics and the Sinaloa cartel are not as cartoonishly evil as Thiel (they are probably more standard business-like evil) but I’m sure you can work out some effective PR stunt with them too.

I think they stopped telling workers anything a while back. They have LLMs for that. Exec messages have always been full of corporate lingo, canned legal language and artificial energy, so to be fair they have always been prime use cases for LLMs, but at least before you could still catch hints of their personality or a glimpse of humanity sometimes. Now that’s all gone. They have become at least 10x more efficient with layoffs though.

but even so, the total including the house is still very negative, here. It would be like… I don’t know, I can’t think of anyone in their right mind who could bankrupt a casino 😜

well, not in the sense of “layoffs because AI can do those jobs”, but still AI-driven in the sense of “AI did most of the actual grunt work of laying off those people”.

If there is a repetitive and predictable activity that can be automated at this point it’s layoffs. Announcements and internal talking points are already clearly LLM-generated.

but it will absolutely learn a lot about everyone who wanted to talk about it

Might be useful for spam/robocalls. Not sure if having a personal AI use my phone to answer to another AI (and maybe accidentally giving up my personal data or signing my up for some scam service) is the right solution but if it worked really well and could be set to only answer unknown callers, I could potentially see the appeal

I mean, that guy Farage does have a great track record of solid decision-making!

Metric or imperial byte?

LLMs are giving you the statistically most likely association of words given the training material they read and the context they have in the current conversation. Their answers are, in a way, mathematically correct by definition. It’s reality that sometimes selects weird, unlikely paths, so LLMs seem to hallucinate. But it’s reality that we have to fix! Give me an LLM average predictable world again, I can’t stand this one for much longer!

/s (but not conpletely…)

It’s not like Altman and Amodei telling everyone how AI is perennially 6 months away from taking everyone’s job is helping create that warm and fuzzy feeling for the technology either

Because we have to import most of our wind from China? I mean, where does wind come from, really?