DK_en 3x02 - Agentification

LLMs don't even qualify as autotune. Autotune, at least, still has some connection to work (not necessarily talent).

You give them fair use, and they stick it up their ass.

Do not heed Sam Altman and his ilk, it's not tech innovation. It's storytelling.

The "Microsoft vs. International Criminal Court" scandal means that all US-owned companies in the EU are foreign agents. Something MUST be done if EU sovereignity as to make any sense.

AI is making huge progress: idolatry is now officially a thing again.

Among the many prophecies around AI, there is the creation of "intelligent agents" that will just go around doing intelligent stuff for us.  It's an old dream, and nowhere nearer today than 30 years ago.

When Sam Altman recently tried to explain why AI works, he managed to show he's talking by hearsay,  of stuff he hardly grasps.

As an end-of season treat, a bunch of questions that we'll meet again, as good as new, after the break.Good summer from Dataknightmare!

TL; DR: there is no "AI", only bullshit generators, and therein lies the rub. what the Italian Garante really decided (no, it did NOT block chatGPT, that was openAI's strong-arming choice), refutation of the most common objections and a few opinions as a bonus.

Generative AI may be all the rage right now, but it's just a marketing name. A more appropriate name? Bullshit generators.