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Timnit Gebru (she/her)I haven't even used "foundation models" (still refuse) and now that seems out of fashion and we're at "frontier models." The lack of uncritical uptake of all these terms pushing <a href="https://dair-community.social/tags/AIHype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AIHype</a> is incredible.

janhoglund“Eventually, push will come to shove and the tech industry will have to prove that the world is willing to put down real money to use all these [AI] tools they are building. Right now, the use cases…are marginal.” —Thomas Maxwell, Microsoft's Satya Nadella Pumps the Brakes on AI Hype <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/aihype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aihype</a>

janhoglund“AI safety is somewhat of a concern—the models can be abused to create deepfakes or mass spam—but it exaggerates how powerful these systems are.” —Thomas Maxwell, Microsoft's Satya Nadella Pumps the Brakes on AI Hype <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/aisafety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aisafety</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/aihype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aihype</a>

janhoglund“…language models can fundamentally be described as supercharged autocomplete tools, prone to returning incorrect information because they are skilled at creating a facsimile of a human-written sentence—something that looks like an acceptable response—but chatbots are not doing any critical “thinking.”“ —Thomas Maxwell, Microsoft's Satya Nadella Pumps the Brakes on AI Hype <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#llm</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/llms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#llms</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/hallucinations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hallucinations</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/aihype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aihype</a>

janhoglund“Klarna…garnered a lot of attention and investor excitement after its CEO said last year it would replace many of its employees with AI… The CEO recently walked that claim back… Klarna had replaced a basic phone tree system with AI, which…may have resulted in customers quitting chats out of frustration.” —Thomas Maxwell, Microsoft's Satya Nadella Pumps the Brakes on AI Hype <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/klarna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#klarna</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/aichatbots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aichatbots</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/aihype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aihype</a>

janhoglund“…eventually there needs to be actual demand on the other side for the products being built or else these companies will crash and burn.” —Thomas Maxwell, Microsoft's Satya Nadella Pumps the Brakes on AI Hype <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/aihype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aihype</a>

janhoglund“Microsoft is the primary backer of OpenAI, whose CEO Sam Altman has long stoked nebulous fears about AI taking over the world. Critics often say Altman’s fear mongering is primarily intended to place himself at the centers of power…” —Thomas Maxwell, Microsoft's Satya Nadella Pumps the Brakes on AI Hype <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#microsoft</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/openai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#openai</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/altman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#altman</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/aihype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aihype</a>

janhoglund“…stop spreading hype about a so-called “artificial general intelligence” that could replace humans in most tasks. Nadella said essentially that it will not happen, and either way is an unnecessary distraction when the industry needs to get practical…” —Thomas Maxwell, Microsoft's Satya Nadella Pumps the Brakes on AI Hype <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/agi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#agi</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/aihype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aihype</a>

janhoglund“The world has yet to turn any of today’s AI hype and spending into a meaningful lift in the actual economy…” —Thomas Maxwell (20250220) <a href="https://gizmodo.com/microsofts-satya-nadella-pumps-the-breaks-on-ai-hype-2000566483" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://gizmodo.com/microsofts-satya-nadella-pumps-the-breaks-on-ai-hype-2000566483</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/aihype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aihype</a>

Robert KingettI might watch this debate! <a href="https://computerhistory.org/events/great-chatbot-debate/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://computerhistory.org/events/great-chatbot-debate/</a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/AIHype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AIHype</a>

Robert KingettGot the below link from an offline friend, thought it was a scam, so I opened it on my enemies computer instead of mine. Not sure why someone would make this, but it tells them to basically Google me and some other stuff about me. It actually pokes fun at people that use <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> instead of search engines.<a href="https://letmegptthatforyou.com/a/TY0ir" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://letmegptthatforyou.com/a/TY0ir</a><a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/AIHype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AIHype</a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChatGPT</a>

AnthonyIt's amazing there are still people who believe that AI models that can't count how many times the letter 'r' appears in the word "strawberry", or that advise people to use glue to keep the cheese on a pizza--despite being trained on a sizable fraction of English-language knowledge--are going to "do science" or "solve physics" or "figure out climate change". I'm all for challenging received wisdom and assumptions, and I think magical thinking can be quite good if practiced well. But this is something else. To me this feels like the celebration of a dangerous kind of induced ignorance. <a href="https://buc.ci?t=ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=genai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GenAI</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=generativeai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=aihype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AIHype</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=delusions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#delusions</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=magicalthinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MagicalThinking</a>

AnthonyYou are not doing science research if you stuff an LLM into the critical path of your experiments. You are, instead, producing science-shaped artifacts with the same peripheral relationship to science that LLM text output has to truth. The reason for this shouldn't be hard to see but apparently is. Simplistically, science is about hypothesis-driven investigation of research questions. You formulate the question first, you derive hypotheses from it, and then you make observations designed to tell you something about the hypotheses. (1)(2) If you stuff an LLM in what should be the observations part, you are not performing observations relevant to your hypothesis, you are filtering what might have been observations through a black box. If you knew how to de-convolve the LLM's response function from the signal that matters to your question, maybe you'd be OK, but nobody knows how to do that. (3) If you stick an LLM in the question-generating part, or the hypothesis-generating part, then forget it, at that point you're playing a scientistic video game. The possibility of a scientific discovery coming out of it is the same as the possibility of getting physically wet while watching a computer simulation of rain. (4) If you stick an LLM in the communication part, then you're putting yourself on the <a href="https://retractionwatch.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Retraction Watch</a> list, not communicating. <a href="https://buc.ci?t=science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LLM</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=genai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GenAI</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=generativeai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=aihype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AIHype</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=hype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hype</a> (1) I know this is a cartoonishly simple view of science, but I do firmly believe that something along these lines is the backbone of it, however real-world messy it becomes in practice. (2) A large number of computer scientists are very sloppy about this process--and I have been in the past too--but that does not mean it should be condoned. (3) Things are so dire that very few even seem to have the thought that this is something you should try to do. (4) Yes, you might discover something while watching the LLM glop, but that's you, the human being, making the discovery, not the AI, in a chance manner despite the process, not in a systematic manner enhanced by the process. You could likewise accidentally spill a glass of water on yourself while watching RainSim.

Robert KingettAfter reading these medium term goals, I'm honestly glad I stopped donating because I know some corporate thing will sponsor them now they will/want to add AI, even an AI Chat bot, to NVDA.The below are just 2, but there's more AI stuff they have planned.• Integrated AI image description: Free, secure, performant, private and VI-focussed on-device AI image description available out of the box. • Help chatbot prototype: Exploring the development of an AI-powered chatbot to provide instant support and answer frequently asked questions about NVDA.The second one is particularly nonsensical.<a href="https://www.empyreanriders.com/feed/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.empyreanriders.com/feed/</a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/NVDA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NVDA</a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/AIHype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AIHype</a>

Robert KingettTech continues to be political | Miriam Eric Suzanne <a href="https://www.miriamsuzanne.com/2025/02/12/tech-ai-wtf/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.miriamsuzanne.com/2025/02/12/tech-ai-wtf/</a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/AIHype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AIHype</a>

Robert KingettWatching this *AFTER* Humane shut down gives a new meaning to the phrase, we told you so <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TitZV6k8zfA" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TitZV6k8zfA</a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/AIHype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AIHype</a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/Humane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Humane</a>

Robert KingettHey, remember when other blind people said this pin would revolutionize adaptive tech? Whoops! Looks like it won't be doing that any time soon! I'm telling you, folks, blind people always promote <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/AIHype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AIHype</a> so take everything the community says with extreme skepticism. <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-18/hp-116-million-deal-for-humane-includes-ip-but-no-ai-pin-device" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-18/hp-116-million-deal-for-humane-includes-ip-but-no-ai-pin-device</a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a>

Robert Kingett🤦‍♂️. Another blindness agency wanting me to come and speak about AI and how it will be revolutionary for the blind before they learn I hate tech culture and by extension anything generative LLM, not useful LLM mind you, and then they suddenly have a spot open for another guest. Y'all, my website, nor social media, isn't hard to find. Now if you want to have me speak about how tech culture and tech capitalism exploits disabled people daily, I can do that! <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/AIHype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AIHype</a>

axleyjc<a href="https://dair-community.social/@trochee" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@trochee</a> Gotta give props to the quality oversight from Elsevier and Springer Nature. Well worth paywalls, <a href="https://federate.social/tags/amirite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#amirite</a>!?Took until 2024 to retract something known to be problematic since 2022? Elsevier doubling down on allowing the phrase as legitimate.Slop-as-a-service <a href="https://federate.social/tags/aihype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aihype</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/lol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lol</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/fail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fail</a>

axleyjc<a href="https://glammr.us/@overholt" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@overholt</a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/@researchbuzz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@researchbuzz</a> <a href="https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@davidgerard</a> 😂 <a href="https://federate.social/tags/aihype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aihype</a>

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