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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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    In the land down under, the ABC continues to feed us with golden tech takes: Australia might be snoozing through the AI ā€˜gold rushā€™

    ā€œThis is the largest gold rush in the history of capitalism and Australia is missing out,ā€ said Artificial Intelligence professor Toby Walsh, from the University of New South Wales.

    Itā€™s even bigger than the actual gold rush! Buy your pans now folks!

    One option Professor Van Den Hengel suggests is building our own Large Language Model like OpenAIā€™s ChatGPT from the ground up, rather than being content to import the tech for decades to come.

    lol, but also please god no

    ā€œThe only way to have a say in what happens globally in this critical space is to be an active participant,ā€ he said.

    mate, I think that ship might have already sailed

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        Artificial Intelligence professor Toby Walsh

        Asking for a professor of genuine intelligence is just too much.

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        I mean, that was definitely a thing when I was at school, only it was mostly about teaching undergrads graph search algorithms and the least math possible in order to understand backpropagation.

        As an aside, weird that we donā€™t hear much about genetic algorithms anymore, but itā€™s probably just me.

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      As the saying goes, the only people who make money in a gold rush are the people selling shovels. I guess this bloke is one of the people selling shovels.

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      Itā€™s my impression that Australia has also produced a disproportionate share of best takes on the subject. How come they are so far ahead of the rest of the world when it comes to dodging this grift?