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my colleague’s finger appears to have missed the button that makes you fuck off

holy fuck it’s so much stupider than I was expecting too, and I was expecting some real stupid shit from one of the big e/a guys given their usual output

and of course my three least favorite guys know Brian well:

Chau also frequently platforms controversial figures on his podcast, including Curtis Yarvin, who has said neo-Nazis’ hearts are “in the right place”, and Richard Hanania, who recently referred to black people as “animals”. Chau called Hanania a “brilliant analyst and policy thinker” and Yarvin’s episode “among the best”.

Chau's Alliance for the Future is closely linked to the “effective accelerationism”, or e/acc, movement, a group which opposes attempts at regulating AI. The organisation counts e/acc founder Guillaume Verdon as a board member; Verdon, who regularly tweets about being a conduit for a “thermodynamic god”, has said that he is indifferent to the idea of human extinction.

this is what it looks like when you say stupid inaccurate shit online? you seriously just keep digging until someone calls you out then the best you can do is “lmao k?” fuck off

they’ve been high on my list to check out! last I checked I don’t think they have a pure kit version, but if the quality’s good then I don’t mind paying for a built version as long as I can replace most of its parts when the time comes

Kevin Beaumont got access to Copilot+ and hoo boy it’s even stupider than it sounds:

I got ahold of the Copilot+ software.

Recall uses a bunch of services themed CAP - Core AI Platform. Enabled by default.

It spits constant screenshots (the product brands then “snapshots”, but they’re hooked screenshots) into the current user’s AppData as part of image storage.

The NPU processes them and extracts text, into a database file.

The database is SQLite, and you can access it as the user including programmatically. It 100% does not need physical access and can be stolen.

nah he’s right, time for you to fuck off

coming soon: mousegpt?

unfortunately, logitech’s ahead of you on that one, and of course it’s the type of lazy shit you could design in an afternoon, so that means they’re gonna sell you a $50 AI Edition mouse:

Logitech Signature AI Edition mouse: $49 @ Logitech

This is a new version of the Logitech M750 wireless mouse that comes with a new teal button on top specifically intended to be used for the AI Prompt Builder. Of course, you could likely remap it using Logitech's software to do whatever you want.

and I realize the article I linked is essentially a paid undisclosed advertisement, but holy fuck:

I just tested Logitech's new shortcut to ChatGPT — and it's a big time-saver

Get ready to summon ChatGPT with the press of a button

it’s a fucking macro key that opens a popover that pastes text into ChatGPT running in a browser get the fuck over yourself

fuck me this is why I make peripherals from components these days instead of buying keyboards and mice fucking laden with this bullshit. when my current (no-name) vertical mouse kicks the bucket I’m gonna have to see what repairable mouse kits are available to replace it

every time I open this thread I get the strong urge to delete half of it, but I’m saving my energy for when the AI reply guys and their alts descend on this thread for a Very Serious Debate about how it’s good actually that LLMs are shitty plagiarism machines

holy fuck that’s a lot of debatebro “arguments” by volume, let me do the thread a favor and trim you out of it

it’s always funny when posters we’ve never seen here before blow through to try and enforce norms from the orange site and other shitty tech communities, as if a post that could be summed up as “stop having tech takes in TechTakes” would ever be of any value to anyone

oh yeah doing embedded dev that was always the worst. my RISC-V SoC has an AI accelerator on it! cool, what does the datasheet say it does? TensorFlow lite and nothing else. ok maybe I can use that silicon for something else at least? nope, there’s no documentation on its capabilities or how it works at all, it just does TensorFlow lite. shit well ok, what can I do with TensorFlow lite? you can load the example model we’ve provided and make a shitty voice activation trigger or try to train a model but there’s no docs. well fuck me then.

given how fucking embarrassing this has been for OpenAI, I’m expecting a lot of variants of the current “uhh I listened to the voice and it didn’t sound like her to me” shit take from the peanut gallery, which really falls apart given there’s enough of a resemblance that OpenAI had to take down the voice and refuses to give a straight answer on the sources used to create it

also both altman and a fuckton of breathless journalists compared the fucking thing with one of Johansson’s performances? like I said, fucking embarrassing shit for OpenAI