Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent

• mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My auto correct doesn’t care.

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  • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But your brain should.

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    • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yours didn’t and read it just fine.

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      • elbarto777@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That’s irrelevant. That’s like saying you shouldn’t complain about someone running a red light if you stopped in time before they t-boned you - because you understood the situation.

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  • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So you trust you slm more than your fellow humans?

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    • mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ya of course I do. Humans are the most unreliable slick disgusting diseased morally inept living organisms on the planet.

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      • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        And they made the programs you seem to trust so much.

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• warbond@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Kinda dumb that apostrophe s means possessive in some circumstances and then a contraction in others.

  I wonder how different it’ll be in 500 years.

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  • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s called polymorphism. It always amuses me that engineers, software and hardware, handle complexities far beyond this every day but can’t write for beans.

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    • warbond@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Do you think it’s a matter of choosing a complexity to care about?

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      • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        If you can formulate that sentence, you can handle “it’s means it is”. Come on. Or “common” if you prefer.

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    • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Software engineer here. We often wish we can fix things we view as broken. Why is that surprising ?Also, polymorphism is a concept in computer science as well

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  • elbarto777@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’d agree with you if I saw “hi’s” and “her’s” in the wild, but nope.

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    • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Keep reading…

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  • DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s “its”, not “it’s”, unless you mean “it is”, in which case it is “it’s “.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Would you rather use the same contraction for both? Because “its” for “it is” is an even worse break from proper grammar IMO.

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    • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Proper grammar means shit all in English, unless you’re worrying for a specific style, in which you follow the grammar rules for that style.

      Standard English has such a long list of weird and contradictory roles with nonsensical exceptions, that in every day English, getting your point across in communication is better than trying to follow some more arbitrary rules.

      Which become even more arbitrary as English becomes more and more a melting pot of multicultural idioms and slang. Although I’m saying that as if that’s a new thing, but it does feel like a recent thing to be taught that side of English rather than just “The Queen’s(/King’s) English” as the style to strive for in writing and formal communication.

      I say as long as someone can understand what you’re saying, your English is correct. If it becomes vague due to mishandling of the classic rules of English, then maybe you need to follow them a bit. I don’t have a specific science to this.

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      • elbarto777@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I understand that languages evolve, but for now, writing “it’s” when you meant “its” is a grammatical error.

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      • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Standard English has such a long list of weird and contradictory roles

        rules.

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