Librarian, technologist, Special Circumstances Branch. Amateur collector of difficult truths. “Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.” @jmbroad@mastodon.xyz

Joined April 2011
Modern version of Genesis: "I made you an Internet! It's all good, just don't read the comments." ... "You read the comments didn't you."
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Curious Jon retweeted
The ‘h’ in ‘ghost‘ is a historical hiccup. William Caxton, having first practised his trade in Flanders, brought Flemish typesetters back to England to help set up his printing press - they lobbed an ‘h’ into English ‘gost’ because their own native word was ‘gheest’.
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Curious Jon retweeted
This ongoing series of experiments has profound implications for AI Safety. Basically they tried to teach GPT-3/GPTChat to not talk about certain topics before releasing it, but it's become pretty clear you can tell it to "pretend" and it's a big loophole.
Replying to @haus_cole
ChatGPT jailbreaking itself
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Curious Jon retweeted
There is a famous, funny 1965 book by Polish author Stanislaw Lem about two rival constructors of robots. One creates a robotic poet & the other challenges it to write an impossible poem, which it does (the English translator did a great job) 👀I gave AI the same challenge 👀
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Spending more time on Mastodon than Twitter lately (@[email protected]). Protip: you can use a tool like fedifinder-backup.glitch.me/ to find people you follow who have already made the leap and seed your timeline with familiar faces. Hope to see you there!
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Thoughts on Twitter, Musk, and the destruction of the virtual public square.   The end may be near. No amount of snark or schadenfreude will change the fact that this situation is a disaster. Twitter has always been a mess – but also a crucial instrument to democratize America.
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