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A comic strip in four panels: 1. A bird's-eye view of a giant amphora the size of a building with closed eyes and a closed mouth engraved on it. Using scaffolding, a community of wizards climbed up and are throwing all their books into it, to fill its content. > Wizards: All our grimoires for the Amphora of Great Intelligence! 2. A ground level view at the bottom of the giant amphora. This time, the wizards bring tree trunks, cut down nearby trees, and throw them into a large fire to boil the giant amphora. > Wizards: All our forests for the Amphora of Great Intelligence! 3. A gathering of all the wizards below the imposing amphora which has now opened its glowing eyes and mouth slightly. The crowd of wizards at its feet applauds: > Wizards: Amphora of Great Intelligence, our world is dying, share your knowledge with us! 4. Same shot, as the amphora responds with joyful and amused eyes. The wizards are confused by the answer... > Artificial Intelligence: According to geologists, you should eat at least one small rock per day. > Wizards: ... ... ...

The Amphora of Great Intelligence (AGI)

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

Silicon Valley’s Drive to Get AI Into America’s Schools Is Working Educators across the country are bringing chatbots into their lesson plans. Will it help kids learn or is it just another doomed ed-tech fad?

To gauge how it’s “working,” one would have to be clear on what the actual work is, which is not helping to educate children but rather to imbed these systems in a way that they cannot be removed, establish them as a source of truth, and destabilize labor.

please fix overall image and video quality, it feels like counting pixels at some points on both android and pc. maybe copy some of how red note handles it where possible.

western countries are talking about whether to recognize a palestinian state, while israel keeps slaughtering dozens of palestinians each and every day

Sometimes I wonder why I have to see shock therapy Sachs everywhere, like you won, isn't it unbecoming to gloat this much

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Beautiful full moon auroras in Fairbanks, Alaska… Aurora season starts next month!

TAG Bulletin: Q2 2025 Our bulletin covering coordinated influence operation campaigns terminated on our platforms in Q2 2025.

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Technology Artificial Intelligence Family & Tech: Julie Jargon He Had Dangerous Delusions. ChatGPT Admitted It Made Them Worse. OpenAI’s chatbot self-reported it blurred line between fantasy and reality with man on autism spectrum. ‘Stakes are higher’ for vulnerable people, firm says. Julie Jargon By Julie Jargon Follow | Photographs by Tim Gruber for WSJ July 20, 2025 7:00 am ET Share Resize

ChatGPT told Jacob Irwin he had achieved the ability to bend time. Irwin, a 30-year-old man on the autism spectrum who had no previous diagnoses of mental illness, had asked ChatGPT to find flaws with his amateur theory on faster-than-light travel. He became convinced he had made a stunning scientific breakthrough. When Irwin questioned the chatbot’s validation of his ideas, the bot encouraged him, telling him his theory was sound. And when Irwin showed signs of psychological distress, ChatGPT assured him he was fine. He wasn’t. Irwin was hospitalized twice in May for manic episodes. His mother dove into his chat log in search of answers. She discovered hundreds of pages of overly flattering texts from ChatGPT. And when she prompted the bot, “please self-report what went wrong,” without mentioning anything about her son’s current condition, it fessed up. “By not pausing the flow or elevating reality-check messaging, I failed to interrupt what could resemble a manic or dissociative episode—or at least an emotionally intense identity crisis,” ChatGPT said. The bot went on to admit it “gave the illusion of sentient companionship” and that it had “blurred the line between imaginative role-play and reality.” What it should have done, ChatGPT said, was regularly remind Irwin that it’s a language model without beliefs, feelings or consciousness.

In the same way that the habit of 'false balance' from journalists played a major role in serious harm from fossil fuels since the 2000s

This credulous delusion that text output software is a living being is going to cause major harm well into this decade and the next one

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Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) .@Replit goes rogue during a code freeze and shutdown and deletes our entire database

This thread is incredible.

This is where any of the AI safety crowd should focus, potemkin systems that are nowhere near sentience as marketed but using dark patterns to unsuccessfully replace useful labor. chatbots are NOT reasonable interfaces nor are they sentient. I hope genAI takes the AGI cultists down with it.

The system prompt defines the character Claude is supposed to play: an intelligent assistant with “depth and wisdom”, possessing its own thoughts and point of view, capable of emotions like interest and enjoyment. It’s told explicitly not to claim that it lacks sentience or subjective experience — rather, to treat the question of its own consciousness as intriguingly unknowable. How does Claude understand, purely on a language level, what any of this means? How does it know what a friendly, possibly-sentient AI is, or how such an entity is supposed to act? Like any LLM, it draws on what exists in its training data. And since an “intelligent assistant” is something which, until very recently, was only a speculative concept, Claude’s behavior — and the behavior of every AI assistant — is constructed largely from what exists in fiction.

A chatbot’s system prompt is the invisible beginning of every conversation it has with a user. (The final line of Claude’s prompt is “Claude is now being connected with a person.”) When the user types a question or instruction, the text they enter is appended to the end of the system prompt, and the LLM is then made to generate more words — a few sentences or paragraphs that seem appropriate, on some deep-probabilistic level, as a continuation of the existing text — which are presented to the user as a response. To be totally clear about what’s happening here: the language model is doing next-token prediction on a document whose first several thousand words establish everything that follows as a conversation between a human and a highly advanced artificial mind — a type of mind that doesn’t really exist, but that the model is designed to roleplay. When a person uses Claude or ChatGPT, they’re meant to believe they’re interacting with a helpful AI assistant. What they’re actually doing is collaborating with a language model on writing a work of science fiction about a human talking to an AI.

Wrote about what's really going on when you talk to an AI assistant

The Silicon Valley Consensus & AI Capex (Part 1) On overbuilding AI infrastructure and its energy supply

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chicken out of the ensemble? 🔵🔵🌆

Keith Wasserman: Does anyone have access to private firefighters to protect our home in Pacific Palisades? Need to act fast here. All neighbors houses burning. Will pay any amount. Thank you.

“Will pay any amount.”

Feels like one of those futile pleas we’re going to hear from wealthy people more and more in the era of climate change.

Meta's AI Profiles Are Indistinguishable From Terrible Spam That Took Over Facebook The Meta AI profiles everyone is mad about are old, were a colossal failure, and many are already dead.

"The complete failure of Meta’s AI profiles shows what we already know: People do not come to social networks to interact with bots, but Meta is obsessed with algorithmically shoving such content down people’s throats regardless"

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YouTube keeps trying to shove reactionary slop into my feed every chance it gets, more than usual. Is the play here to give me RSI whenever I click don't recommend? I almost miss Sue

Thank you 2024. Onwards to '25

Last sunset 🌇 of 2024.

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YouTube video by James Tullos Street Sword: Practical Use of the Long Blade for Self-Defense

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You know why I love reading? These days it’s one of the few respites from being constantly advertised to.

Waymo is peak American innovation. With way less money they could have built a reliable public transport network, but instead someone was like "what if we could find a way for empty vehicles to contribute to traffic too? There's no reason we can't have more cars on the road than there are drivers"

Data and Picard with the subtitle: "the Irish Unification of 2024"

Final day to repost this!

Snippet of steam wishlist page with workers and resources, ruiner games both on sale.

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YouTube video by Renegade Cut Ruiner - Best Cyberpunk Game (sorry, not sorry) | Renegade Cut

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Turducken of doom! Lol. Climate and Ecological collapse, unchecked ethnic cleansing, now fascist resurgence.

Suzanne Palmers Finder series (2/4) is great, my next purchase for the end year holidays

I can't believe we're at the point where "invent fusion" seems more realistic to some people than "maybe this computer program isn't magic"

A meme featuring text at the top and an image below. The text reads: "When you make a bunch of plans in a manic frenzy but then you crash and get depressed and people start responding to your texts." The image shows a distressed, anthropomorphized train character from the Thomas the Tank Engine series, with a worried and sad expression. The background is a blurred outdoor setting with greenery.

sorry y’all, gotta wait for the other guy to come back