The irony being that Musk doesn’t seem to grok the meaning of the word grok.

I don’t know who he is, I don’t know who she is, I don’t know why his meat would be on the jumbotron.

Plus. if someone asks you for help with Windows, just insist on your favourite distro no matter the use case.

I dunno, man, a black coffee and a cigarette is pretty good.

They’d vote Trump in for a third term.

You’re welcome!

Yeah, poor choice of word on my part.

Perhaps truism was the wrong choice of word. Cliché, perhaps.

Yeah, truism wasn’t the right word.

Besides, all sweeping generalisms are wrong.

I used to work for a small digital strategy consultancy. All the senior consultants up were expert in pretty much everything digital marketing and did their own data manipulation and analysis. SEO, technical SEO, link building, paid search, paid ads, Facebork ads, Youtube ads, social listening, search research… you name it. New consultants sat with experts, learned from people who genuinely knew their shit. We were expensive compared to, eg. Accenture’s off-shore teams, but our results were far stronger, and offered genuinely actionable insights (relevant to our clients’ business strategies and goals), compared to Accenture’s off-shore teams.

Then we got bought up. Quite apart from the devastation that wreaked upon our ops staff as we were ‘integrated’ into the larger company, we were instructed to start using AI for all data analysis. For efficiency. So, our junior consultants no longer did any of their own data aggregation, cleaning, manipulation, or analysis. They didn’t understand the data. They just spewed out whatever the AI told them the data said. Which, admittedly, was quicker. But there was no insight beyond the fucking obvious.

And, one by one, all the experienced people left the company.

Including me.

What had been a company of experts became a small department of AI users who didn’t understand what they were doing, or why, or what it meant.

That spelling is unconcstitutional ;-)

Not to mention being anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctious.

Goddammit, you beautiful genius!

There’s a truism cliche that, when asked a question to which they don’t know the answer, women will say"I don’t know" while men will confidently guess.

LLMs are like men on steroids. From time to time they will (by chance) stumble on a correct answer, but mostly they just confidently guess with far less comprehension than even the most stupid man. And yes, I do mean the most stupid man.

Edit: ‘truism’ was a poor choice of word. I’ve changed it to cliché.

None. Can’t do it. If there are voices some FOMO bit of my brain has to listen to what they’re saying and I can’t sleep.

I do listen to music sometimes, for some reason lyrics don’t have the same effect on me as speech.

I’m on my late 50s but there’s the Spanish Grand Prix this coming weekend so I’ll cling on to life for at least that long.

Er, no.

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Grrr. Why isn’t Morse Code one of the language dropdown options?

“Which word is confusing you, Brainstein?”

Reminds me of this.

In an unrelated though, this guy has such an American hair style.

Well, fuck you, I’m three shits in before I even saw this post. Fuck you. Shit on you, in fact. Shit on all of you.