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- Comment on A simpler time 14 hours ago:
What do you mean no memes? This was 2004 and there were a bazillion Rick James memes as far as I remember. Image
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 5 days ago:
Wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest, because the MAGA cultists somehow still see themselves as patriots.
Irony just doesn’t seem to be their thing, otherwise they probably wouldn’t have voted for the same rapist twice.
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 5 days ago:
The only problem I have with this is that it’s fiction.
If even Superman is being targeted, I don’t even want to know what Captain America is up to these days. Is he already the poster boy for ICE?
I’m asking because this isn’t fiction.
- Comment on The triumph of AI marks the end of the information age. 2 weeks ago:
But (classic) Google provides links that can be traced. LLMs do not do this consistently - and they are frequently hallucinating. Don’t you want to contribute anything to my core statement?
- Comment on The triumph of AI marks the end of the information age. 2 weeks ago:
Theoretically, yes, just as poor content is still content - but that only applies until someone takes the time to engage with it.
- Comment on The triumph of AI marks the end of the information age. 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think you have any idea how bad it’s going to get in the future - Grok is already giving us a glimpse, but LLMs haven’t replaced search engines like Google yet (has AI already) - but it’s definitely heading in that direction. Then the answers will be given even more strongly and with far less transparency by those who control the LLMs - and they are all multi-billion companies, because only they can afford the necessary computing power.
- Comment on The triumph of AI marks the end of the information age. 2 weeks ago:
Oh, companies will definitely provide content - much more than you could ever read, see, or hear (they already do provide more than you could ever comprehend using AI). And companies have done this in the past.
The difference, however, will be that it will be a sequence of existing content. The reason: AI companies claim that their LLMs would behave like humans - and that’s halfway understandable if you believe this narrative: Imagine a musician - it would be unrealistic to think that they have no influences - every musician will say that they have been inspired by Jimmy Hendrix, Kraftwerk or some other influential artist in their work. And yes, that’s what the narratives about neural networks are aiming for: machines learn just like humans: they take some input (training date) and make something extraordinary of it.
The thing is, though, most of it is just empty marketing. AI or rather LLMs are in fact not capable of producing new things the way humans can - not now, and as things stand, probably never. Nevertheless, the economy is adapting as if it were.
For everyone who actually creates content - musicians, scientists, writers, journalists, graphic designers, painters, even civil servants and many others - this means that in the future, they will no longer be able to make a living from their profession. Their valuable content can’t compete with AI because it is too expensive.
For employers, this may be absolute fulfillment - for everyone else, it means the end of the information age, because AI is not capable of producing anything new. And when there is no one able to make a living from their intellectual work, nothing of any worth new will be produced - just variants of thing that were already there.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 28 comments
- Comment on YSK: US Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem publically bragged about killing her puppy 2 weeks ago:
I’ve seen this news story so many times – months ago. And considering the inhumanity of this administration, the blatant violations of the law it commits, the blatant racism, and how it tramples on constitutional democracy, I am constantly amazed that it seems to be this stirring up American sentiment. That’s probably how it is in the age of social media. No reason but a emotional story with a puppy dog is what it takes to reach people.
- Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off 3 weeks ago:
The thinker pose thumbnail …
- Comment on Trump to build huge $200mn ballroom at White House 3 weeks ago:
So, already in full dictator mode. Well, with his 75 billion secret police, there’s not much that can go wrong.
- Comment on Your Lemmy Weather Forecast 3 weeks ago:
I’m glad you like that. Stevie Ray Vaughn is one of my all time favorite blues musicians and he is probably one of the best guitarists of all time. He belongs on every playlist, at least from time to time, but that’s just my opinion.
- Comment on Your Lemmy Weather Forecast 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Yes, that’s right: LLMs are definitely sold that way: “Save on employees because you can do it with our AI”, which sounds attractive to naive employers because personnel costs are the largest expense in almost every company.
And that’s also true: it obscures what LLMs can actually do and where their value lies: this technology is merely a tool that workers in almost any industry can use to work even more effectively - but that’s apparently not enough of an USP: people are so brainwashed that they eat out of the marketing people’s hands because they hear exactly what they want to hear: I don’t need employees anymore because now there are much cheaper robot slaves.
In my opinion, all of this will lead to a step backward for humanity because it will mean that lots and lots of artists, scientists, journalists, writers, even Administrative staff and many other essential elements of society will no longer be able to make a living from their profession.
In the longer term, it will lead to the death of innovation and creativity because it will no longer be possible to make a living from such traits - AI can’t do any of that.
In other words, AI is the wet dream of all those who do not contribute to value creation but (strangely enough) are paid handsomely to manage the wonderful work of those who actually do contribute to value creation.
Unfortunately, it was to be expected how this technology would be used, because sadly, in most societies, the focus is not on contributing to society, but on who has made the most money from these contributions, which in the vast majority of cases is not the person who made the contribution. The use of AI is also based on this logic – how could it be otherwise?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Indeed. A major problem with LLMs is the marketing term “artificial intelligence”: it gives the false impression that these models would actually understand their output, which is not the case - in essence, it is more of a probability calculation based on what is available in the training data and what the user asks - it’s a kind of collage of different pieces of info from the training data that gets mixed and arranged in a new way based on the query.
As long as it’s not a prompt that conflicts directly with the data set (“Explain why the world is flat”), you get answers that are relevant to the question - however, LLMs are neither able to decide on their own whether one source is more credible than another, nor can they make moral decisions because they do not “think,” but are merely another kind of search engine so to speak.
However, the way many users use LLMs is more like a conversation with a human being – and that’s not what these models are; it’s just how they’re sold but not at all what they are designed to do or what they are capable of.
But yes, this will be a major problem in the future as most models are controlled by billionaires that do not want them to be what they should be: Tools that help parsing great amounts of Information. They want them to be propaganda machines. So as with other Technologies: Not AI ist the problem but the ruthless way in which this technology is being used (by greedy wheelers and dealers).
- Comment on We wouldn’t need the Epstein files to prove DJT’s guilt if society just trusted women in the first place. 4 weeks ago:
I don’t mean legal regulations, but rather a minimum level of common sense: I cannot imagine a more unsuitable candidate as the incumbent US president - who he is was widely known. Now organized crime is in power - that was completely predictable, because that is what he has always stood for.
- Comment on We wouldn’t need the Epstein files to prove DJT’s guilt if society just trusted women in the first place. 4 weeks ago:
One thing is certain: someone who has been declared a rapist by a court of law and has been convicted of many serious crimes should never be president of a country — especially not if he is also doing everything in his power to withhold incriminating material relating to the investigation of a pedophile ring.
- Comment on President Trump threatened to break up Nvidia, didn't even know what it was — 'What the hell is Nvidia? I've never heard of it before' 4 weeks ago:
Apart from the fact that Trump is a pedophile, rapist, fascist, and a criminal, he and his entire administration are also incredibly incompetent.
- Comment on TIL about Fedi-Search, an open sourced frontend to easily search the Fediverse with a lot of mainstream engines 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Lemmy is ... ahhrrr, c'mon ... WTF? ... the door! ... who the hell would ... ? ... where is this darn towel ... AHHH, FUUU ... hnnnrrghhh ... 5 weeks ago:
Don’t worry, I would have added way more capital "U"s to “FUUU” if that were the case.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 18 comments
- Comment on If you turn the Chicago Bulls logo upside down, it looks like a robot is doing a crab. 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on If you turn the Chicago Bulls logo upside down, it looks like a robot is doing a crab. 5 weeks ago:
Well, you know what they say about Fridays…
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to [deleted] | 13 comments
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 5 weeks ago:
Here in Germany, at least something is happening. Recently, for example, the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein decided to switch to Linux (and also LibreOffice), with the change planned for this fall.
Overall, however, far too little is happening in our country. The vast majority of federal states and the national government continue to rely on proprietary software (mainly from US corporations, especially Microsoft).
At the national level, this is hardly surprising, as our Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, is more of a US lobbyist than a politician: Until 2020, he was on the supervisory board of Black Rock Germany and was also a long time chairman of the “Atlantik-Brücke”, a German-American lobby organization for economic relations (so on and so forth). Unfortunately, no change of course is to be expected from him — nor from his party, the conservative CDU, that is the most popular party for some strange reason.
In Bavaria, which is also deeply conservative, the federal state government is even considering introducing Palantir.
I don’t understand how all this can happen when it is perfectly obvious how vulnerable all these US products are making us – vulnerable to industrial espionage and worse - especially now that the US is developing into a fascist, unjust state.
But hey, I think we all have to remain somewhat positive despite all this. As I said, there is some movement in terms of FOSS —probably much more in other European countries than in Germany. So, slowly but steady, we’re moving forward! I really hope that’s how it is in the US as well.
Best of luck in these harsh times!
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 5 weeks ago:
Still far too low, considering that the US is now a police state.
- Submitted 2 months ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 21 comments
- Comment on I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount 2 months ago:
The US is a failed state. There’s no other way to put it.
- Comment on One major issue with social media is that it operates on a first come, first served basis. This essentially rules out the possibility of well-considered, well-researched content being successful. 2 months ago:
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- Comment on One major issue with social media is that it operates on a first come, first served basis. This essentially rules out the possibility of well-considered, well-researched content being successful. 2 months ago:
What I mean by this is that every topic is treated like breaking news on social media. However, news reports are characterized by the fact that they are usually outdated by the next day because they are only relevant for a limited period of time. This is not true for many topics discussed on social media. In fact, it is even possible to repeat something after a certain period of time (e.g., reposting memes), which is impossible with actual news reports.
