TechTakes

YouTube recommended me this hot garbage where we judge humanities like it's a STEM field. I want my time back or at least some quality sneers: https://youtu.be/v0eWDScWSXY?si=wgJ60AfT0YYn_4-M

Behold

Motion capture, but worse - brought to you by AI

(seriously, I saw random Youtubers do better shit than this eight years ago and that is not hyperbole)

some numbers on recent hypewave investments in here (via techmeme)

Last year, Tom Loverro, an investor at IVP, predicted a “mass extinction event” for start-ups and encouraged them to cut costs. Last week, he declared that era over and christened this time the “Great Reawakening,” encouraging companies to “pour gas” on growth, particularly around artificial intelligence

jesus fucking christ these people would love to call it the enlightenment or something, wouldn’t they?

“Sam Altman canceled the recession,” joked Siqi Chen, founder of the start-up Runway Financial

one day soon I’m going to get to my project of building up a graph database of every crank and issuer of batshit statements like these, so that in times to come I can easily follow up on ‘em and see how their shit aged. but all hail sammy, the saviour! no, forget about that musk fool, no-one ever liked him! sammy is where it’s at!

Posted the Ray Kurzweil thing on Pivot To AI. Let's see how many comments we get that won't be posted.

Tweet (Xcancel) from Ed Zitron: "This report is damning. Goldman Sachs's Head of Global Equity Research doesn't believe that generative AI is capable of solving complex problems, and says the tech industry "is too complacent in its assumptions that costs will decline substantially"", more in the quote tweet.