Quotations in Jun, 2023
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Every year, some generation of engineers have to learn the concepts of “there is no silver bullet”, “use the right tech for the right problem”, “your are not google”, “rewriting a codebase every 2 years is not a good business decision”, “things cost money”.
— sametmax # 23rd June 2023, 11:59 pm
Back then [in 2012], no one was thinking about AI. You just keep uploading your images [to Adobe Stock] and you get your residuals every month and life goes on — then all of a sudden, you find out that they trained their AI on your images and on everybody’s images that they don’t own. And they’re calling it ‘ethical’ AI.
— Eric Urquhart # 22nd June 2023, 11:13 am
Cellphones are the worst thing that’s ever happened to movies. It’s awful. [...] I think you could talk to a hundred storytellers and they would all tell you the same thing. It’s so hard to manufacture drama when everybody can get a hold of everybody all the time. It’s just not as fun as in the old days when the phone would ring and you didn’t know who was calling.
— Steven Soderbergh # 12th June 2023, 6:13 pm
If you give feedback that isn’t constructive your feedback is worthless. I know that sounds harsh but it is. If you give unconstructive feedback you might as well not be saying anything. If you just look at something and go “That’s stupid” or “I don’t like that”—that’s worthless feedback, nobody can do anything with that. They’re not going to start throwing darts against the wall until you say “Oh OK, I like that”. You have to say something more.
— Timothy Cain # 5th June 2023, 4:58 pm
There was an exchange on Twitter a while back where someone said, ‘What is artificial intelligence?’ And someone else said, ‘A poor choice of words in 1954’. And, you know, they’re right. I think that if we had chosen a different phrase for it, back in the ’50s, we might have avoided a lot of the confusion that we’re having now.
— Ted Chiang # 4th June 2023, 2:59 pm
He notes that one simulated test saw an AI-enabled drone tasked with a SEAD mission to identify and destroy SAM sites, with the final go/no go given by the human. However, having been ‘reinforced’ in training that destruction of the SAM was the preferred option, the AI then decided that ‘no-go’ decisions from the human were interfering with its higher mission – killing SAMs – and then attacked the operator in the simulation.
[UPDATE: This turned out to be a “thought experiment” intentionally designed to illustrate how these things could go wrong.]
— Highlights from the RAeS Future Combat Air & Space Capabilities Summit # 1st June 2023, 11:07 pm