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@billbennett's 2021 piece on AI hype references a paper by Ragnar Fjelland entitled Why general artificial intelligence will not be realized. Here's a permanent link to it;
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I find it amazing how unwilling people are to accept that current "#AI" tech (including the "LLM" tech that I call #MOLE Training) is not intelligent, by any meaningful definition of the word. The nonsense arguments they use to wriggle out of this conclusion are nothing if not creative.
Most common is the consensus reality wriggle; more people talk as if they think Trained MOLEs are intelligent, therefore they are. So if most people think perpetual energy is possible, then it is? Nope.
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"... the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT launched an international conversation about how generative artificial intelligence—i.e., AI capable of producing text, images, video, and more—could transform our lives."
#ZeveSanderson, #SolomonMessing,
#JoshuaATucker, 2024
The lie that this artificial paint-by-numbers involves "intelligence" has been repeated constantly by the industry hype machine. It's worrying when even academics uncritically parrot this lie.
Brookings · Misunderstood mechanics: How AI, TikTok, and the liar’s dividend might affect the 2024 elections
Joshua Yuvaraj, co-director of the New Zealand Centre for Intellectual Property, was interviewed on RNZ yesterday, about the degree to which copyright law might be used to prevent scraping of the open web by #MOLE Trainers;
As Cory Doctorow noted back in 2023;
"In privacy and labor fights, copyright is a clumsy tool at best."
https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/17/how-to-think-about-scraping/
RNZ · What can writers do about their work being used to train AI models?Joshua Yuvaraj is the co-director of the New Zealand Centre for Intellectual Property, and a senior lecturer in law at the University of Auckland specialising in copyright and artificial intelligence.
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However, until such time as we can compile and run our own #MOLE on our own hardware, completely independent of the entities that developed the code and weights for them, they remain toys. Just like Free Code Linux and *BSD kernels were until they could be independently compiled on commodity hardware and OS.
Unless and until we get to that place, increased use of Trained MOLEs just hands over more of our power to whoever controls the hardware they're "trained" and run on.
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"We analyzed every instance of AI use in elections collected by the WIRED AI Elections Project, which tracked known uses of AI for creating political content during elections taking place in 2024 worldwide. In each case, we identified what AI was used for and estimated the cost of creating similar content without AI."
#SayashKapoor, #ArvindNarayanan, Dec 2024
https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/we-looked-at-78-election-deepfakes
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AI Snake Oil · We Looked at 78 Election Deepfakes. Political Misinformation is not an AI Problem.
1/ #ThePembrokePapers #Distribution #Saturday #pemboke #politics Pounding the streets, lol. Interesting reactions. 
Lot's of local gossip for the next issue. Rumours of 'misappropriation of funds' a hot topic. As is the 'too close' relationship between erstwhile 'labour' councillors, m.p. 'arry Tufnell Lab. Esq. Rt.Hon and private contractors. Did some #moley #mole on my own last night which has been confirmed by others.
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With their velvety fur, tiny eyes, squat builds, and overlarge shovel-like hands, bestial human moles are inoffensive, but this belies the fact that they are aggressive, constantly hungry omnivores who prefer a diet of meat.
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Yes, instead of the work of developers and scientists, which can be documented and repeatable, you want to depend on the work of a Trained #MOLE 
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Outsourcing to consultants might be cheaper when they know you could get the work done in-house, and price their time accordingly. But what if you can't? What if your organisation has become totally dependent on outside consultants to even understand the job, let alone carry it out? Then they can charge what they want.
The same is true whether the consultant is a human specialist, or a Trained MOLE marketed as an "AI" specialist.
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"If they [online platforms] can do [recognising and flagging of] trademarks so quickly, why can't they do bad footage? But I guess the quick answer ... is how does AI distinguish between a lot of the gaming footage that's put up, and real footage?"
#PaulSpain, 2025
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@lhgmk2 aye. Thinking #fascist #farage a prime example. Knocking on the door and f'ing #LINO #Starmer too dumb to notice, or, more paranoically, does that eejit think #farage will help him hang on. As usual, can't tell till #conference season starts and we'll be informed then. I'll try to stay ahead via #moley #mole but very quiet down there at the moment.
Not so sleepy #Cymru after all. #Fishguard just down the road from me.
A story I will write one day is the role #PembrokeDock plays in circumventing #UK #Trade & #Tarrif barriers. #EU 
& #Eire 
I have #Photographs 
#moley #mole (old timer) 
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"Remedies already being discussed in New Zealand include extending prohibitions in the Harmful Digital Communications Act to cover digital replicas that do not depict a victim's actual body.
Using (or amending) the Crimes Act, the Fair Trading Act and the Electoral Act would also be helpful.
At the same time, there will be political pressure to ensure regulation does not stymie investment in AI technologies ..."
#GraemeAustin, #JaneCGinsburg, 2025
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RNZ · Deepfakes can ruin lives and livelihoods - would owning the 'rights' to our own faces and voices help?
"DeepSeek used a 'mixture of experts' model. Which means rather than training one large model, they trained tens of smaller ones, on more specific data, that then gets switched on and off as needed."
#PatrickBoyle, 2025
To the degree that #MOLE Training will be a useful technology in the long term, I think this is how it will be used. Models that are intensively trained on narrow areas to create niche expert systems. The AGI talk is pure sales hype.
Spotify for CreatorsDeepSeek - How a Chinese AI Startup Shook Silicon Valley by Patrick Boyle On FinanceOn Monday, over a trillion dollars was wiped off the US stock market due to the appearance of a Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek.
The release of a new reasoning model, known as R1, led investors to question US dominance in tech, their expectations around future AI capex while also raising the prospect that China might beat Silicon Valley at its own game.
The new DeepSeek model can “reason” to solve complex problems and performs as well as the AI software from US tech giants like Google and OpenAI, but was apparently developed at a fraction of the price of those models.
DeepSeek quickly overtook OpenAI’s ChatGPT as the most-downloaded free app on the US iOS App store.
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Almost 4 months ago I had a rant about GovGPT, a Trained #MOLE being hyped up by Callaghan Innovation. I predicted that;
> the useless critter will eventually be canned. But not before millions of dollars of public money vanish into the pockets of MOLE trainers
What I didn't predict was that Callaghan Innovation itself would be canned;
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RNZ · Callaghan Innovation shutdown: 'Trying to build a plane as we're falling off a cliff'
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Ukraine Uncovers High-Ranking FSB Mole in Spy Agency
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/47012
#kyivpost.com
#WarOfAggression #European #Mole #spy #Uncovers #Ukraine #Armee #Weapons #war #Russia #Ukraine #MilitaryLogistics #SBU
#перемогаYкраїни
Kyiv Post · Ukraine Uncovers High-Ranking FSB Mole in Spy Agency
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Great thread @fasterandworse. Both blockchains and Trained #MOLE are notable examples.
I'd add, as a corollary, that there is a knee-jerk tendency to dismiss an elegant mechanism as useless, once it's exposed as *not* being universally useful. Forgetting the niche uses for which it was designed, and for which it may still be the best solution.
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@cestfleuve
> a computer can never be held accountable so a computer must never make decisions
Agreed. The only reason to hand over decision-making to a Trained #MOLE is to dodge responsibility for the consequences of decisions made.
Also, no existing computer system can make actual decisions. A Trained #MOLE just simulates them, by making statistical guesses. Not the same thing, at all.