Lab to Slab

@ihtesham2005 Blame the RL kitchen sink "science", it's full on inbreeding at this point. Future generations will be foraging for old documents like we do for low background steel.

🚨 Stanford researchers just exposed a weird side effect of AI that almost nobody is talking about. The paper is called “Artificial Hivemind.” And the core finding is unsettling. As language models get better, they also start sounding more and more the same. Not just within a single model. Across different models. Researchers built a dataset called INFINITY-CHAT with 26,000 real open-ended questions things like creative writing, brainstorming, opinions, and advice. Questions where there isn’t a single correct answer. In theory, these prompts should produce huge diversity. But the opposite happened. Two patterns showed up: 1) Intra-model repetition The same model keeps producing very similar answers across runs. 2) Inter-model homogeneity Completely different models generate strikingly similar responses. In other words: Instead of thousands of unique perspectives… We’re getting the same few ideas recycled over and over. The authors call this the “Artificial Hivemind.” It happens because most frontier models are trained on similar data, optimized with similar reward models, and aligned using similar human feedback. So even when you ask something open-ended like: • “Write a poem about time” • “Suggest creative startup ideas” • “Give life advice” Many models converge toward the same phrasing, metaphors, and reasoning patterns. The scary implication isn’t about AI quality. It’s about culture. If billions of people rely on the same systems for ideas, writing, brainstorming, and thinking… AI might slowly compress the diversity of human thought. Not because it’s trying to. But because the models themselves are drifting toward the same answers. That’s the real risk the paper highlights. Not that AI becomes smarter than humans. But that everyone starts thinking like the same machine.

@GeoffreyHuntley LikendIn'd be like: "We don't even write the prompts anymore"

mastodon vs twitter

@doffcocker The difference between dedicated painters and overworked CGI artists isn't the tool in their hands.

They made better alien worlds with paint than modern sci-fi does with computers

@AdrianP_doc Thiel is a good contender

I left religion behind when I reached the age of reason. But if i was still a believer, there wouldn't be a more obvious living embodiment of the antichrist than Donald Trump.

@DidierMaisto Vous ne pouvez pas vous cacher derrière votre ignorance

Mais putain, qui sont ces gens ???

@SpockResists Reckoning must come before dementia ⏰

I want these people to suffer once this administration is done. I want them all dragged in front of hearings on live TV in front of America about their lies. Lies that cause huge damage. I fucking hate this woman. She is demonic. She is despicable.

🇺🇸🇪🇺 The U.S. doesn’t like EU tech sovereignty, I’ve said it many times here. Every time Europe talks of sovereignty, the U.S. enters panic mode and threatens the EU or its officials (Breton, Lalucq, Bothorel..) EU tech sovereignty means less market share for 🇺🇸 Big Tech, and Europe represents 25+% of their revenue. They can’t afford to lose it or their valuation goes down a lot. That’s also strategic leverage for the U.S. over Europe. Literally a chain. ⛓️‍💥

The willingness of major European states such as Britain and France to send their military forces to actively defend counties in the Middle East but not to defend Ukraine shows how Europe has a distorted sense of its own interests.

@luciascarlet In France I heard a surgeon boasting about the DICOM monitors costing more than their fancy car parked in the underground parking lot. That was 8y ago, when true HDR display technology was very expensive. The bar is high because film preserves extremely tiny luma variations.

why *do* monitors need special calibration for radiology anyway can someone In The Field explain

@AberrantCurse That's 🇵🇾 90°

They turned French which is objectively gayer

@CartesDuMonde Docile? C'est peut être l'intention, mais le résultat risque d'être tout autre.

Iran 🇮🇷 Pete Hegseth, Secrétaire à la Guerre, déclare que les USA ne mèneront aucune action pour promouvoir la construction d'une démocratie en Iran. Traduction : Pas de volonté de changement de régime, juste d'un Iran plus docile face aux intérêts Américains.

@mweinbach The traces are still longer, no dielectric can cheat the speed of light

What's nice about the Intel version of the ThinkPad T14 coming this year is the LPDDR5 CAMM2 memory All the benefits of soldered memory but repairable and upgradable! One of the first laptops I've actually seen with it Oh and the ThinkPad comes in blue now!

@PietaPotato COBOL, Arabic, French

is there a language where the native speakers actively discourage you from learning it

@AntiToxicPeople Yeah, birds eating rock pebbles definitively is a plot for enriching uranium

My cat

@escapefrommelos I might eventually watch youtubers from Dubai. I like contemplative urbex

one if the most comforting things about the “existence” of places like Dubai is that in a generation or two they will likely be ruins half covered by desert

@LikeableLobster I question your capacity to feel oxygen getting suck out of your hemolymph

The Lobster believes that surely tomorrow will be better than today this time.

@alifarhat79 🫡

The stock market waiting to open on Monday

@intspg @cqcqcqdx The modern solution is to use an active bridge

@cqcqcqdx Doesn’t look good but I like these points for potential mitigations:

High Current Parallel Diode Array: Bridge rectifier circuit constructed from several diodes soldered together. The circuit utilizes multiple diodes soldered in parallel pairs to increase current handling capacity.

@ThatEricAlper This is why I only listen to exponential sweeps and white noise.

@talhagin @Stinky915846091 Tinfoil hat: could it be a test of cover and deception in the new reporting environment?

This image is currently being reported as visual "proof" that a misfired AD system was responsible for the strike on a building reportedly housing a girls’ elementary school in Minab. It's not. That image was taken in Zanjan, over 1.3k kilometers from the school in Minab. A 🧵