Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. Also, happy April Fool's in advance.)
New(ish) piece from Gary Marcus: AI has (sort of) passed the Turing Test; here’s why that hardly matters
Ended up reading it a couple times, thinking of turning my thoughts into a full-length post.
The fact that the turing test is still the go-to example of a machine intelligence test goes to show that the AI field needs more haters in it.
Sorry you are wrong, it is very important that the AI field has a 'can it imitate a woman' test. They should base their field on this idea.
(For the people who do not know, the OG Turing test involves faking being a woman).
These fuckin nerds don’t care about the imitation game, they only want the imitation gams