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In an embarrassing display, the manager over my arm of the company got told off by his manager for spamming him (and clients) with AI slop emails. And then was told by one of the regional managers for using Copilot generating a bunch of client-facing posters and images with phrasing that had not passed any sort of legal or basic fact checking.

The people going all in on it don't realize the downsides, limitations, or understand how they come off to other people with it all.


It's really never been the worst thing. From MKUltra to Operation Sea-Spray and many, many more.

The Palmer Raids involved mass detention and deportation without trial. These raids were significant because they happened under Federal authority. US repression certainly involved torture and mass murder previously but mostly done locally (and sure, respond, "that was 'just' done to slaves and indians").

"The individuals captured during the Palmer raids were held in abysmal conditions: at Deer Island, six hundred prisoners were placed in barracks intended to house three hundred, with no heat and dwindling food; many were marched through Boston in chains and handcuffs, showered with the spit and trash of bystanders. In Detroit, eight hundred prisoners were crammed into a windowless corridor with only one working bathroom and no beds. At Ellis Island, hundreds of men were forced to sleep on steel slabs without mattresses."

Edit: Down voted without comment after being upvoted. I seldom reply but this is an exception - cowards!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_raids


Two dead and few dozen ill doesn't quite sound like the worst thing. Random street cops do that to more people for no good reason in any given year.

The level of desensitisation…

Not really? It's just trying to make an honest ranking.

Those are all conspiracy theories. ;)

Neither of those are theories. Both are well documented and have had public hearings and governmental disclosure.

What? MKUlta is absolutely not a conspiracy theory.

I'm assuming the winking emoji was used to indicate sarcasm.

doh!

They are saying it tongue-in-cheek, and even added an emoji for additional emphasis of that point.

I haven't seen any statements from them on that topic. Have they actually made some?

From the open letter signed by Terry Tao and other top mathematicians:

> These models are now operating at the level of the top human mathematicians in many parts of the subject and we must assume there is a significant chance of them developing superhuman abilities within a similarly short timeframe.

https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1N6ThWhupvmH0ofSnaxqn...


Superhuman abilities are not "intelligence." 8bit microprocessors exhibit superhuman abilities in different, smaller ways.

The blog post makes no mention. If the rate isn't 0% it should be mentioned for a field like this.

Agreed. Hallucinations and reliability are the main hurdles to anything being 'agi' in my book

The definition of AGI is whatever a frontier lab wrote a blog about doing in the last week.

why this maximalism? There's nothing that has 0% hallucination including humans. lets use reasonable baselines.

Humans can be sanctioned and fined, and eventually disbarred if they continue to lie in court filings.

presumably that will remain true for the lawyers using the product

So those lawyers will likely want to know about the likeliness of it, strategies to work around it, and overall mitigations.

It might be helpful if the company launching this product included such information in their blog post instead of ignoring it in a field with such a high cost of getting it wrong.


agreed, but i dont think there are many (any?) product launch blogs that cover all the fine details and legal minutia of the product.

that all typically comes in pages of terms of service, purchase contracts, SLAs, conversations with your rep, knowledge base articles, and that sort of thing. not in the initial marketing post.

probably available by the "contact legal sales" link at the top of the post https://openai.com/business/contact-sales-legal/


Much advice is meaningless, baseless post-mortem correlations from people trying to justify their own success.

"Buy more lottery tickets!"

no, it's "buy lottery tickets to exclusive lotteries".

the ability to enter such lotteries is where success lies. either through connections or ability.


If you need connections and ability then you are back to luck.

those can be cultivated.

To a degree maybe but the degree differs dramatically for different people. To give an extreme, someone with a significant disability growing up in an impoverished family in the middle of nowhere is generally going to have very little opportunity to cultivate connections and ability.

In my metaphor, "lottery winners" is already representing exclusivity.

Nah, they're fine making that small leap. RSI is the new marketing term for the sci fi singularity.

>> because the rate of improvement is fairly stalled?

> Do you have anything that proves this one way or another that isn't based on vibes or shoddy benchmarks?

They clearly aren’t talking about RSI here, but that model development has stalled in general.


This introduces other incentives to cut corners and over-quantize.

They're saying it as if it were contrary to what's being claimed. The tagline says "for architecture and product design." The supported file formats are not video game formats.

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