I'm not an anything-ist, because as soon as I have an -ist then someone else decides what I believe. Engineer and jogger, I ride an MTB and a motorbike.
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Clifford Dive retweeted
It’s the same story every time:
cut funding until the service performs badly,
say the public sector has failed,
hand assets over to the private sector.
Fiona Bruce: "…we don't have Reform on the panel…"
That must be a first!
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We are seeing the same thing happening to humans who spend their time on social media.
ChatGPT has now a big problem.
Researchers at Oxford exposed a massive threat to large language models.”
It’s called "Model Collapse."
And it explains why the internet is about to become a toxic waste dump for Large Language Models.
Right now, AI companies are scraping the entire web to train their next-generation models.
But there’s a massive problem.
The internet is no longer just human data. It is rapidly filling up with AI-generated text, images, and code.
What happens when an AI trains on data generated by another AI?
A new paper in Nature just gave us the answer. And it is terrifying.
When AI models are recursively trained on AI-generated data, they suffer from irreversible brain damage.
The researchers found that the model starts forgetting the "tails" of the original data distribution. The rare, weird, unique, and complex human nuances completely disappear.
It's like making a photocopy of a photocopy.
Every generation loses resolution. The output gets flatter, blander, and more generic, until the model completely collapses in on itself.
For years, we thought the biggest bottleneck for AI was compute, getting enough H100 GPUs from Nvidia.
This paper proves the real bottleneck is us.
If we keep flooding the internet with synthetic AI slop, we will poison the very data pool required to build smarter models.
The ultimate irony? We thought AI was going to make human creators obsolete.
Instead, this research proves that verified, genuine human data is about to become the most valuable commodity in the tech industry.
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Is this the one they were warning us about? Starting life today with no internet and no electricity.
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The NHS is finished. It's already largely dysfunctional and we're seeing the transition towards to a private system.
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Clifford Dive retweeted
I cannot believe this. The 2024 NHS pandemic plan states the following generic assumptions:
“it will not be possible to halt the spread of a new pandemic virus, and it would be a waste of public health resources and capacity to attempt to do so.”
england.nhs.uk/long-read/fra…
I was working on this 20 years ago—process is so slow. I guess the right billionaires don't get rich with demand control.
newscientist.com/article/259…
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Grok captures it nicely:
Measured, well-informed and largely bollocks-free posting is unusual on X.The platform’s incentives tend to reward speed, confrontation, slogans and emotional intensity more than careful reasoning or restraint.
Clifford Dive retweeted
This is a rare photo of Donald Trump from 1934, helping Albert Einstein finish the theory of relativity. According to Trump, Einstein had been stuck for weeks.
“Very smart guy. Terrible with numbers. I looked at the board and said, Albert, put a little 2 up there. He loved it."
#Parkrun hasn't been the same for me since the day I was gang raped at the barcode scanner by a crowd of excited women who discovered I was the only male categorised runner there.
Was I panting at the end.
But they said I was best in category 😀🤣😂
Responses to this show that it's a waste of one's life trying to have a meaningful conversation on here about real issues, and their implications, as opposed to ignorant shouting and vacuous ad hominems.
X is the home of the stupid. If only you knew what they're doing to you 🤔
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#Parkrun workflow at the event has no internet connectivity. They simply correlate a barcode number with a finish-token number — a list of number pairs. No names, no categories, no feasible enforcement mechanism.
That's the point I was making in the original post — reality.
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Briefly came back here after a long break. It's full of idiots. Full-on insane crazy people. We're doomed.
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My son runs a campsite in Snowdonia, from which he was recently watching terrifyingly huge wildfires.
Some of his guests thought he was impolite for calling them f-ing stupid for lighting an open fire on the grass of the campsite.
Are social media eating our brains?
43. I'm a "cyclist in my dotage". Actually I don't see the problem with that, so why did the twat who posted it feel the need to do a hit and run, blocking me before I'd read it.
Perhaps it's because I understand statistics and he doesn't. Old people can ride bikes and count.
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