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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

So they had the new Claude hooked up to some tools so that it could play Pokemon red. Somewhat impressive (at least to me!) It was able to beat lt surge after several days of play. They had a stream demo'ing it on twitch and despite the on paper result of getting 3 gym badges, poor fellas got stuck in Viridian forest trying to find the exit to the maze.

As far as finding the exit goes... I guess you could say he was stumped? (MODS PLEASE DONT BAN)

strim if anyone is curious. Yes, i know this is clever advertising for anthropic, but i do find it cute and maybe someone else will?

https://www.twitch.tv/claudeplayspokemon

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Declaring that an AI is malevolent because you asked it for a string of numbers and it returned 420

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Bruh, Big Yud was yapping that this means the orthogonality thesis is false and mankind is saved b.c. of this. But then he immediately retreated to, "we are all still doomed b.c. recursive self-improvement." I wonder what it's like to never have to update your priors.

Also, I saw other papers that showed almost all prompt rejection responses shared common activation weights and tweeking them can basically jailbreak any model, so what is probably happening here is that by finetuning to intentionally make malicious code, you are undoing those rejection weights + until this is reproduced by nonsafety cranks im pressing x to doubt.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

ok but what does this mean for Batman vs Lex Luthor

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (7 children)

central preference vector [...] central good-evil discriminator

bro is this close to reinventing g but for morality

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

they'll make up new tests that measure MQ and retcon zizians as pretty normal and belonging people actually

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Central Preference Vector seems like a fantastic band name if some producer was trying to mainstream industrial music

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

In other news, Discord's jumped on the AI bandwagon, and users are Not Happy^tm^:

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I can't comprehensively express how much I despise what Discord has done to the internet. Support communities are gone from the open web (as in, you can't use a search engine to search Discord servers, neither can you easily log them to processable text files like you can with IRC), tons of communities are now insulated to a point where you can't even get in if you want to, because unless you're large enough or have enough booster points (which, to no one's surprise, cost money, and only last for a limited time) you can't generate permanent invite links, so you gotta know someone to get in.

And all of that for a proprietary app that is an accessibility nightmare (for fuck's sake let me change that ugly-ass font to something readable, because God forbid that one of your users might be dyslexic, you absolute munted dickheads), doesn't listen to any user feedback but is constantly adding absolute bottom-of-the-barrel features, many of which are behind a paywall, and is now adding LLMs to the mix?

Okay, rant over, but I just needed to get that out.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

looks like tomorrow's Pivot

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Small 'fun' detail discord has a competitor, revolt. But if you run that at the same time as discord says you are running some old game from ages ago. Which blocks various features which people use discord for (the streaming of games and stuff like that) considering the auto detection fail makes no sense (and it was the first time I ever saw discord fail at detecting a thing) it feels like a bit of a way to make sure revolt doesnt get a lot of traction

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

what the fuck, who's tweeting this on his behalf and what is it meant to accomplish?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

i am presuming his lawyers, and a special crypto bro pardon

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

optifye.ai

When the normal -fy startup nomenclature isn’t even enough.

I looked at their website and they’re not even attempting to mask their dystopian shitshow. And of course it’s all in the name of productivity and efficiency.

I hate those ghouls so much.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They're going to be headline sponsors of Fyre Festival II

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

For those who missed the news, yes, tickets are on sale.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I know that Robot Hell doesn't usually allow humans but I bet the Robot Devil would make an exception for these two, if only for the cheap tech support.

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