news writer at PC Gamer. older stuff at Polygon, Fanbyte, Waypoint, etc. artist formerly known as an imaginary baseball team. horse conspiracist.
between criminally negligent self-driving cars and boneheaded machine learning being called "artificial intelligence", all the promises of science fiction are being realized as shams and mockeries. and I'm terrified that this is just the beginning
there was always going to come a day when we'd have to confront that jetpacks would probably be environmentally irresponsible
Man this is the thing that really bothers me about all the "AI" news lately. Chat-GPT4 didn't pass the bar exam, it just spat out responses that correlated to the questions statistically, and that happened to be right. But people are ignorant and cheap enough that it's going to be put in critical positions. "You don't need a human defense attorney, this chat robot is good enough." "We can't afford enough nurses, but here's a chat robot that can answer our telehealth questions."
There's nothing worse than someone who is confidently wrong, and we made a machine that is confidently wrong all the time.
I think one of my favorite ways this was all put was with Tim Rogers saying "we live in a crayon drawing of a cyberpunk novel"
