Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

FYI to anyone interested in impersonating a bank employee.

Next week I'm traveling for work for the first time since before the Pandemic, and I'm headed to the UK!

Farthest i've travelled for work so far, and it's for a pretty exciting project too.

It's just past midnight on a Wednesday morning, and I just got ChatGPT to say the funniest thing I've ever heard it say.

Customer to IT: "They asked us to set this thing up, but we're stumped. Can we get some advice?"

Somebody accidentally a 'T'.

I refuse to believe that anyone has actually typed "How much coffee can a cat drink before it dies?" into a search bar. This is some sort of silly GPT extrapolation.

I just wanted to know if coffee posed a risk to cats (it does). Not how much I needed to give my cat to kill her...

Doing some important research.

Went on a pilgrimage to a holy site today. #ripkurt

So it turns out if you follow an extremely restrictive keto diet for three weeks, and then try to take a break by drinking beer, and eating pasta and candy, it won't work if you also walk 15 miles that day... Still in ketosis.

Deepfakes are an ethical disaster, their harm ranging from humiliating individuals, to spreading disinformation.

Generative language models are blurring human communication in uncomfortable ways.

AI "art" is threatening the livelihood of human artists.

It's a lot to take in.

Despite rumors, AGI/ASI is not on the horizon, but you aren't putting this cat back in the bag either. There is FOSS code out there and it's never going away.

Focus on ethical advocacy over things like panic or fantasy.

I'm pretty skeptical of the current hype around "AI" and Generative ML Models. I feel that some people are putting too much trust into them, people are misusing them in unethical ways. We need to be proceeding with cautious optimism for this stuff, and staying educated about it to minimize harm.

But a lot of y'all need to calm down. For every Sci-Fi fan convinced that the Singularity is upon us, there's a scared Luddite demanding that technological development be regulated out of existence...