What if a machine eats itself (or its excretions)?

If large language models generate more and more text, trained on more and more generated text - do we end up in a streamlined linguistic monoculture?

yk our society may be like a serpent constantly consuming it's own tail doomed to create and solve the same problems over and over again

but at least it's OUR-oboros

Visiting a shiny new neighbour today - Lindy Lee’s Ouroboros at the NGA. A wonderful object, mind-bending to photograph

@davidgerard among others, have long been warning that the #GenAI giants are running out of content to consume for “training”, and they're getting desperate for more.

No surprise at all: #SamAltman, being the kind of person who's so contemptuous of human #culture they think an #LLM can do it, proposes the robots will just generate more training data themselves! What could go wrong?

“Prof. Sammut says generative AI systems have big limitations because chatbots lack critical thinking.

““These systems are based on doing pattern matching, they are very good at that, but they can’t do any sort of logical sequential reasoning.”

“A chatbot can only tell you 1+1=2 because someone told it so, not because it learned how to do arithmetic.”

https://newshub.medianet.com.au/2024/11/a-synthetic-solution-for-ai-as-chatbots-run-out-of-road/78949/

If you're wondering why so many trains are late running or cancelled due to lack of train crew it's because the train crew are stuck waiting for late running or cancelled trains.

#PublicTransport
#Trains
#NorthernFail
#ouroboros

Ouroboros O’s: Brings out the eternal snake in you!

Day 12: Reaper
Another little Memento Mori, when I do these they are only 8x8cm so very fiddly and really make me consider what I can achieve in a small space.

#FelineFriday #ouroboros pose on the #CatsOfMastodon

Raccouroboros
#raccoon #ouroboros #illustration #MastoArt #ArtShare

Happy New Year! Stay Curious!

#janus #january #happynewyear #ouroboros #lookingforward #lookingback #vintageillustration #1608 #17thcentury #vincenzocartari

Is there a name for a fictional object created in a time loop, with no beginning or end?

I remember three, what others can you think of?

Somewhere In Time, old lady gives a watch to a young man who travels back in time and gives it to her as a youth.

Dave Lister fathers himself.

Scotty takes transparent aluminium recipe from the future to 1986.

My latest pattern on Patreon is an ouroboros!

Available until 11/15/23
www.patreon.com/badstitch

Our #LokiSeason2 coverage kicks off with Hugh discussing #Loki 2x01 #Ouroboros with returning guest Dan Owen and We Made This network chief, Tony Black. #MakeMineMarvel https://www.spreaker.com/episode/57182388

talking with some @rspec folks the other night about #LLM #ModelCollapse & everyone just going to #ouroboros as a metaphor, but it's really not adequate because ouroboros has a more cosmic connotation - it's not necessarily bad, might even signify achieving a kind of wisdom.

No, the better metaphor for "#AI" model collapse is a kind of #HumanCentipede, except that the centipede is just stitched into a circle. A Human Centipede Ouroboros, if you will.