Elon Musk suggested A.I. should shorten books to their ‘salient points’ and got volumes of clapback – 19 favourites
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This is the most incomprehensibly stupid goddamn tweet. LLMs can’t think? With no data as to what the “salient” points are, any LLM will just regurgitate random dogcrap because they’re not trained on why a point is “salient” to begin with pic.twitter.com/1s00napvsf
— the information pimp (@BirdRespecter) March 29, 2024
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Hyper genius futurist Elon Musk just looked at AI and thought to invent Wikipedia summaries. https://t.co/C3sVsF35Ly
— A.R. Moxon (juliusgoat.bsky.social) (@JuliusGoat) March 29, 2024
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Yes, "Things were good and bad" is a much better way to open a book. What was Dickens thinking?
— E Perkins Ceasefire now! (@Epers) March 30, 2024
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He thinks readers digest is a new idea.
— That Shatter guy Ⓥ (@Shatter242) March 29, 2024
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"I am not a dime a dozen, I am Elon Musk! And you are X Æ A-Xii Musk! pic.twitter.com/rejjUnqhd4
— Dean Booth (@BoothDean) March 29, 2024
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Musk fans nodding sagely at the second tweet while going ‘what the fuck is a Gulliver?’ because AI has skipped that part of the book pic.twitter.com/Oz76HF6IGM
— Sorcha Ní Nia (@Luiseach) March 30, 2024
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Most lives could be much shorter, too, if we insisted on measuring their worth against brutal, joyless utilitarian metrics. https://t.co/fSgfAVIdfs
— Meredith Whittaker (@mer__edith) March 31, 2024
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This is an opinion you have when every book you read is called something like "Mind Exploder: The Untapped Potential of Your Unwoke Neurons" pic.twitter.com/Hp5PXRHpxd
— please be nice to patrick (@ruff_bluffs) March 29, 2024
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Remembering when he first bought Twitter and demanded employees send him their "most salient lines of code" https://t.co/qGhPE7uRvo
— GuilloTeen Vogue (@leftistbeard) March 29, 2024
There was a certain irony about Musk’s urge to reduce books to their shortest state.
From a man who lets people pay to have longer Tweets.
— J R Hardy (@architect58) March 31, 2024
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