Paul Payne

My Career is a Historical Artifact I’m calling it. My entire 30 year career in technology is a historical artifact. My current work with AI has convinced me that, in a few short years, humanity will look back and think how funny it was...

I’m calling it. My entire 30+ year career in technology will soon be an odd historical artifact. My current work has convinced me that, in a few short years, humanity will look back and think how funny it was that people once actually programmed machines.

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#ai #programming

Are there any recordings or resources on this?

Oh. Just found out #SeaGL is a thing! Totally going to get some ideas and hoping to meet people who may be interested in mywildcloud.org.

I am! Did you pull anything together?

This is the final installment of the "Investigations in Mind" newsletter as I shift my focus to empowering civil society with open technologies.

The Artificiality of "Intelligent" LLMs For now, the intelligence in our systems remains distinctly human. Eighteen months ago, I wrote about building thinking machines using LLMs, driven by curiosity about whether these systems could help ...

What I've learned over the past two years about the nature of LLMs that is most often buried by advocates. While groundbreaking, they are fundamentally limited. For now, the intelligence in our systems remains distinctly human.

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Who wants to make a 'git blame' for U.S. federal law with me?

Why is it legal to walk outside without a driver's license pasted to your forehead? Maybe mandated visible license plates are the problem?

Any plans for continuing as a consulting company or CSO, @alt18f.bsky.social ? Now more than ever it feels important to use our technology talents to make society better. #18f #cso

You don't seem to understand his point while dismissing him as trying to "seem smart". And then you belittle someone who takes the time to try to help you clear it up. This working for you, Paul?

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Please come back @joscha.bsky.social. :D

It's the position he's been working from for decades. I think he does a great service in his attempt to update religious beliefs with current knowledge.

You all need to loosen up. He said "a kind of". He did not mean brains are literally transformer models. He's just saying we keep wondering if our created tech is like our spirits and might ask whether our spirits are like our created tech.

Transformer models don't just work with language. They work with any stream of data.