• self@awful.systems
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    4 months ago

    FAR AI tries to imply that the Go bots are still not merely superhuman, but far superhuman: “this result demonstrates that even far superhuman AI systems can fail catastrophically in surprising ways.” Uh huh. [FAR AI]

    fuck it’s so disappointing that everything in this space has to be communicated through the cracked lens of critihype — that even the utterly normal failings of a misengineered system must be misrepresented, in true techfash style, as further proof that the system is powerful and is only one more breakthrough away from perfection

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      4 months ago

      Anyone working deep in this kind of tech is basically doing a dream job. Despite heavy stress, you get to push the boundaries of your field and work with exciting new tech, and you get paid so well too! … Until the money stops, which it will at any moment when the investors get scared. So, without really even trying to you become dishonest, you start to stretch truth a little, get a little too optimistic in your estimates. “No no please, just one more year of funding, 6 months, and we’ll have world changing results” and then you just need to get an impressive demo together and try to keep kicking that can down the road.