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Artificial Intelligence Current Events Humor

Claude’s Super Bowl ads are so funny that Sam Altman’s crashing out over them

How upset is Sam Altman about Anthropic’s Super Bowl ads for Claude, which poke fun at ChatGPT and their inclusion of ads? Upset enough to call them “authoritarian,” in the same way a tween would call their parents “fascist” because they wouldn’t give them permission to go to a slumber party.

But daaaaamn, are they memorable and funny.

There are four such ads, each one featuring two actors, with one playing the part of the user, and the other playing the part of ChatGPT. The acting is perfect, with the user clearly in need of answers, and ChatGPT with slightly delayed responses delivered in a saccharine tone and a creepy smile at the end (“Give me your creepiest fake smile!” must’ve been part of the audition process). All the ads end with a snippet of the rap version of Blu Cantrell’s 2003 number, Breathe, which features Sean Paul and one of the best beats from that era.

I’ve posted the four ads below, from my least to most favorite. Each one features a common LLM use case.

Here’s Treachery, where a student is asking ChatGPT to evaluate her essay:

Deception features ChatGPT providing advice on the user’s business idea:

Violation’s user wants a six-pack — the muscle kind, not the beard kind — and is about to regret telling ChatGPT his height:

And my favorite, Betrayal, starts with the user trying to get closer to his mom, and ends on a cougar-riffic note:

OpenAI CEO and owner of the world’s most punchable voice Sam Altman is, as the kids say, crashing out over these ads, calling them “dishonest” (they’re more hyperbolic) and “authoritarian” (which is Altman himself being hyperbolic):

…and the most blunt headline of the bunch:

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Artificial Intelligence Humor Programming

“Star Trek: Voyager” predicted vibe coding…and it’s cringe!

I remember cringing at this one line from an episode of the 1990s TV series, Star Trek: Voyager:

Computer, install a recursive algorithm!

I always thought that you would never program a computer that way…until now.

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Hardware Humor

A valid hypothesis

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Artificial Intelligence Humor What I’m Up To

The “Nick Fury” method for refusing LLM answers

Here’s your start-of-the-year reminder that you don’t have to accept your LLM’s answers as gospel. In fact, you do what I do — talk back to them Samuel L. Jackson / Nick Fury from The Avengers-style.

The screenshot above comes from an exchange I had with Gemini earlier today. I like using LLMs as a sounding board for ideas — as I like to say “the one thing you can’t do, no matter how creative or clever you are, is come up with ideas you’d never think of.”

Gemini suggested a course of action that I completely disagreed with, so I decided to respond with one of my favorite lines from the first Avengers film, and it responded with “touché.” Keep thinking, and don’t completely outsource your brain to AI!

And just as a treat, here’s that scene from The Avengers:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NPXjPWIj31g

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Artificial Intelligence Humor

AI advice for the “KPop Demon Hunters” generation

This meme’s going in an upcoming video on the Global Nerdy YouTube channel.

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Current Events Humor Mobile

Inside you, there are two owls

I don’t understand the mobile app business anymore: Duolingo, the app famous for learning not-so-useful phrases in other languages, has put “coming soon” banners over four shuttered Hooters locations in the U.S..

The Hooters in St. Louis, Missouri. Photo by Duolingo.

The locations are:

  • St. Louis, Missouri
  • Charlotte, North Carolina
  • Beaumont, Texas
  • Galveston, Texas
The Hooters in Charlotte, North Carolina. Photo by Duolingo.

Earlier this year, Hooters announced that it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and closed a number of its locations.

The door of the Hooters in St. Louis, Missouri. Photo by Duolingo.

Duolingo, who’ve always been a little bit odd with their self-promotion, have responded to queries as you might expect:

  • They told USA Today that the “installations” (referring to the Hotters branches with Duolingo banners) will be open for a “limited time.”
  • When contacted by the Houston Chronicle, a spokesperson for Duolingo replied “Duo [the Duolingo owl mascot] has always had a flair for drama. When he spotted an empty nest in Galveston, he did what an overly ambitious owl might do: leave a few feathers and see who noticed.”
The Hooters in Beaumont, Texas. Photo by Duolingo.

 

 

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Artificial Intelligence Humor

Meme of the moment (RAM prices and AI)

This one’s going in Saturday’s picdump:

Since there are precious few RAM manufacturers and that consumer RAM isn’t where the big money’s at (Micron is closing Crucial, their consumer RAM branch, from whom I bought my most recent RAM stick), most of the production is now being aimed at AI and enterprise data centers, meaning RAM shortages for us ordinary folk.

Long story short: If you think prices are bad today, wait a few months. If you can, buy RAM now, but Consumer RAM Winter is coming.

In case you need some context for the meme above, here’s the scene it came from — probably the best scene in Iron Man 2, apart from “Sir, I’m gonna have to ask you to exit the donut.”