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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

  • jax@awful.systemsEnglish
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    5 months ago

    In the land down under, the ABC continues to feed us with golden tech takes: Australia might be snoozing through the AI ‘gold rush’

    “This is the largest gold rush in the history of capitalism and Australia is missing out,” said Artificial Intelligence professor Toby Walsh, from the University of New South Wales.

    It’s even bigger than the actual gold rush! Buy your pans now folks!

    One option Professor Van Den Hengel suggests is building our own Large Language Model like OpenAI’s ChatGPT from the ground up, rather than being content to import the tech for decades to come.

    lol, but also please god no

    “The only way to have a say in what happens globally in this critical space is to be an active participant,” he said.

    mate, I think that ship might have already sailed

      • Architeuthis@awful.systemsEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        I mean, that was definitely a thing when I was at school, only it was mostly about teaching undergrads graph search algorithms and the least math possible in order to understand backpropagation.

        As an aside, weird that we don’t hear much about genetic algorithms anymore, but it’s probably just me.

      • blakestacey@awful.systemsEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        Artificial Intelligence professor Toby Walsh

        Asking for a professor of genuine intelligence is just too much.

    • maol@awful.systemsEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      As the saying goes, the only people who make money in a gold rush are the people selling shovels. I guess this bloke is one of the people selling shovels.

    • o7___o7@awful.systemsEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      It’s my impression that Australia has also produced a disproportionate share of best takes on the subject. How come they are so far ahead of the rest of the world when it comes to dodging this grift?