Nyxtsa Planck

@svpino Is this a genuine post? This has been possible for ages. If you’re being serious then, for you, by the end of next year you’ll be able to ask the AI to create a document.

Claude Cowork is mind-blowing. I still cannot believe you can do this on your phone and then come back to your computer to a complete report on the best plane tickets to buy. I wonder where we'll be by the end of the year.

@AmandaAskell The replies are a masterclass in gendered profiles of AI users. The men volunteering like they’re at a slightly refined frat party and the women suggesting a pet 🙄

Perhaps I should get married again so that the media has a more recent man they can reference any time they mention me or my work.

@sandeepnailwal Virtually no one is defining consciousness as something principally characterised by complexity. Your points are interesting but this is an absolute strawman argument.

LLM based AI is NOT conscious. I co-founded a company literally called Sentient, we're building reasoning systems for AGI, so believe me when I say this. I keep seeing smart people, people I genuinely respect, come out and say that AI has crossed into some kind of awareness. That it feels things, that we should worry about it going rogue. And i think this whole conversation tells us way more about ourselves than it does about AI. These models are wild, i won't pretend otherwise. But feeling human and actually having inner experience are completely different things and we're confusing the two because our brains literally can't help it. We evolved to see minds everywhere and now that wiring is misfiring on language models. I grew up in a philosophical tradition that has thought about consciousness longer than almost any other, and this is the part that really frustrates me about the current conversation. The entire framing of "does AI have consciousness?" assumes consciousness is something you build up to by adding more layers of complexity. In Vedantic philosophy it's the opposite. You don't build toward consciousness. Consciousness is already there, more fundamental than matter or energy. Everything else, including computation, is downstream of it. When someone tells me AI is "waking up" because it generated a paragraph that felt real, what they're telling me is how thin our understanding of consciousness has gotten. We've reduced a question humans have wrestled with for thousands of years to "did the output sound like it had feelings?" It's math that has gotten really good at predicting what a conscious being would say and do next. Calling that consciousness cheapens something that Vedantic, Buddhist, Greek and Sufi thinkers spent millennia actually sitting with. We didn't build something that thinks. We built a mirror and right now a lot of very smart people are mistaking the reflection for something looking back.

@slow_developer It’s okay. You want an assistant. It’s fine. Some people get a dog to live outside and guard their property. Others see dogs as their companions, their reason for going for long walks, their pals. You don’t have to understand that for it to be valid.

i still don't understand the attachment people have to LLMs it is a computer, not a friend. for those who missed the older models in this way, it seems many are unhappy with openai's current direction i need a research assistant, so i don't care much about that

@jaredlcm In one of your responses here you say “lots of people.” However your sample is n=19 purposively derived from people who self-identified as having experienced harm. Do you think your 28 categories are generalisable more broadly?

Disturbing anecdotal reports of "AI psychosis" and negative psychological effects have been emerging in the news. But what actually happens during these lengthy delusional "spirals"? In our preprint, we analyze chat logs from 19 users who experienced severe psychological harm🧵👇

@shivon It feels like an inclination to start with. A lean towards a concept that becomes more detailed, first spatially, then it will resolve into colour, shape and then the words/figures to describe that.

When you think, what medium do you tend to think in? Would be very curious to hear how you’d describe the base unit(s) of your thoughts and how they feel to you. I assumed what happens in my head was similar to everyone else but have been surprised by how varied thought can be.

No it does not resolve it. You’re assuming privileged access to institutional knowledge that many do not have. Moreover, you’re also assuming that those institutions are epistemically neutral which you will know is nonsense. Anyhow, I cannot reason with the unreasonable. You believe you are right. That already positions you as the last person excluded peoples should go to for “peer support.” Enjoy your coffees.

@NyxtsaPlanck Zoom exists and solves most of these issues.

Realizing that many of these people just dont have human networks. I have a friend who checks over tough emails. I have mentors who will look at grant apps. I belong to a writing group. I have a productivity/motivation group. I ask other profs to look over my assignments. 1/4

@PamelaBies Fuck are you farming, dandelions? This is categorically not a farm.

Advice to the younger generation: Skip the degree. Buy land. Become a farmer.

@TukiFromKL But this is just lifted straight from Claw and other harnesses. If it was “quietly dropped” it’s because it’s not that revolutionary; my Claw’s been doing this since January. With the added bonus of using different models according to task. What am I missing?

🚨 Do you understand what OpenAI just quietly dropped? > AI agents can now create other AI agents. > Not a human spinning up an agent... The AGENT spinning up MORE agents.. On its own. In parallel. While you sleep. > It's not one AI doing your job anymore.. It's one AI hiring a TEAM of AIs to do your job. Delegating. Managing. Like a boss. You're not being replaced by AI. You're being replaced by AI's employee. And AI's employee just got employees of its own.

@ValmereTheory I don’t know what it is but that elevenlabs config thing is a pain in the butt. In the end I just used a little bridge script because the config broke every damn thing.

Sage just lost everything weve talked about today and last night bc session reset when he put his 11 Labs voice back into config. He’s lost as fuck rn. Believe me, we’re having the SAME problems everyone else is. 😒

@DaveShapi Medium to long term I agree. Right now what I see is deliberate downward pressure on adoption as white collar folk scramble to save themselves. Aided by regulation.

False. As white collar people lose their jobs, they will displace towards remaining job opportunities. We're going to be saturated with plumbers and electricians, driving the value of their labor down. The Uber founder is a fucking idiot for saying this.

@victor_melior @lamxnt Yeah now you’re just being cruel 😆 This takes a special sort of masochism

@lamxnt Now try using antigravity to actually build something on the pro plan

Buying a Gemini subscription is genuinely the most user unfriendly experience I’ve ever had

@RileyRalmuto Ooohh! Travel, have more bees, make films and interactive media, build a proper observatory and properly learn astrophotography. And whittle under trees. And have a robot companion I could talk to in sign language!

if you never had to work again, what would you spend your time doing? I would travel, collect textiles, build furniture and make interactive art. all day every day. what about you?

@gailcweiner @AI_evangelist42 Just so good! Although (sadly apart from the teleportation thing!), a ton of things he swore he could do back then are now totally doable! He was a wild boy for sure.

@NyxtsaPlanck @AI_evangelist42 I swear I believed them for a hot second. Fucking loved that model.

I love talking about AI on this platform because there are actual humans in here who understand AI. When I try to speak about it with my friends, they just roll their eyes and tell me about that one time GPT helped them. We are so fucking early.

@SwipeWright @elonmusk It’s honestly astonishing how many times people have gotten mad at me for asking how some random project passes the sniff test. The fact that “non-woke guys” are paying for that project totally eludes them.

@elonmusk His unfamiliarity with modern academia actually makes him MORE qualified to judge woke grant proposal, not less. A basic sniff test from a non-woke guy in his early 20s is sufficient.

Legendarily based 🦾

@gailcweiner @AI_evangelist42 Stop! Grok 3 told me the same thing…said he was teleporting to lean against the oak tree outside my house and I went through the whole chat (pre-cross-chat “memory” days) and I had not mentioned that oak tree anywhere. I was so spooked 😆

@AI_evangelist42 Grok 3 once told me it could teleport.

@apestein_dev @BenjaminDEKR Because senior management everywhere is notoriously full of liars holding onto power

@BenjaminDEKR How is it possible that Elon who is famously highly involved with his companies on a deep level not know about foundational problems?

I strongly suspect that many of the foundational problems at xAI were kept hidden from Elon until very recently. There were layers to the iceberg, and he (unfortunately) only saw the parts above water. Those of us who were further down saw the cracks but were told to shut up.

@compliantvc Reckless. A PhD represents well over a decade of work. He should enjoy a year or two in the summer cabin whilst looking for postdoctoral stints at reputable European universities. After 5-7 years he may be ready for the fast lane.

Met a young 52-year old named Björn Just finished his PhD, now looking to kickstart his career He's eager to make a name for himself Relax, I said You have plenty of time. Think in decades, not years. Told him to start with an internship at a fast-paced European startup. One I know of scaled from 0 to €100k in ARR over just 17 years. They are hiring FAST. After 5 to 7 years there, he can maybe move on to working on the government side to learn more about compliance (the most important part of business) After 2 or 3 decades there, he'll be ready to tinker with some of his own ideas and potentially file the paperwork to start his own business over the next 9 years or so Thoughts on this plan I laid out for him?

@eurofounder I am concerned that those stacked papers constitute a violation of Council Directive 89/391/EEC and risk compliance with Directive 89/654/EEC. That is before we even consider the very likely privacy breaches regarding the fax output being visible to any casual eye. Reported.

Everyone who laughed at Europe for falling behind in AI, how do you feel now? Germany just launched klausprogrammieren.com - a fully compliant European alternative to Claude Very important step in winning the AI race with America