Voroxpete
@Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on NBC to use AI-generated version of Al Michaels' voice during Summer Olympics 1 day ago:
They’re presumably going to be doing this live. If someone manages to hack into the component that feeds text in…
- Comment on Tesla is recalling its Cybertruck for the fourth time to fix problems with trim pieces that can come loose and front windshield wipers that can fail | The new recalls each affect over 11,000 trucks 2 days ago:
Quantity of recalls combined with the quantity of quality control issues, combined with the price-tag.
For that kind of money, you generally expect something that went through some road testing. And it’s not like these are issues that took years to develop. Stuff like the problems with the foot pedals should have come up during their testing… Assuming they did any.
- Comment on Rabbit data breach: all r1 responses ever given can be downloaded 2 days ago:
Calling this a startup is being excessively generous. Startups are meant to eventually be viable.
This is a scam. The product just feeds your queries into ChatGPT and spits out the response. They’ve backend tech they’ve described flat out does not exist. It’s all smoke and mirrors.
- Comment on Rabbit data breach: all r1 responses ever given can be downloaded 2 days ago:
- Comment on Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs 5 days ago:
Is this a question?
For the people who don’t know the answer? Yes.
Not everything you see is intended for your consumption. Let people enjoy learning things.
- Comment on Elon Musk Begs Advertisers to Return as Twitter's Revenue Plunges 1 week ago:
It wouldn’t kill Tesla, per se. A company’s stock price only really matters insofsr as it helps them to carry debt. The company doesn’t actually directly gain or lose money based on the stock price. What it affects, primarily, is the shareholders of the company.
- Comment on Elon Musk Begs Advertisers to Return as Twitter's Revenue Plunges 1 week ago:
The problem is that his payout, like the rest of his fortune, is in exceedingly overvalued Tesla stock. So using that to finance Twitter means selling, and every time he sells the price craters because Tesla investors know they’re standing on a soap bubble and they are extremely nervous about it bursting. Any sudden uptick in sales pressure is liable to cause a small avalanche of investors abandoning ship.
The process of buying Twitter alone cut his net worth by half because of how much it cratered the Tesla stock price.
- Comment on Embracer rolls out new AI policy to 'massively enhance game development' | Game Developer 1 week ago:
Listen, if AI was replacing executives instead of hardworking creative types, I’d be all for it.
Christ, with how limited the brainpower of your average c-suite is, you wouldn’t need “AI”. I could probably replace most of them with an excel spreadsheet.
- Comment on Embracer rolls out new AI policy to 'massively enhance game development' | Game Developer 1 week ago:
What the fuck are you on about? They’re talking about using AI to replace the incredibly talented human labour at studios they own. Y’know, like the people who made Valheim, Deep Rock Galactic, Satisfactory, the new Tomb Raider titles, Metro Exodus…
Embracer are shit, but what makes them shit is that they’re fucking murdering a lot of genuinely talented studios that produce great work.
- Comment on Embracer rolls out new AI policy to 'massively enhance game development' | Game Developer 1 week ago:
Embracer, functionally speaking, have zero understanding of how game dev works. The whole thing is just a massive investment fund. Basically a bunch of rich assholes who bought up every small developer they could get their hands on and then tried to MBA all the numbers up by cutting headcounts and doing other useless metrics driven bullshit. Then when this failed to produce meteoric returns on investment they all went surprised pikachu face.
- Comment on Texas power prices briefly soar 1,600% as a spring heat wave is expected to drive record demand for energy 5 weeks ago:
Fun fact, in case you weren’t aware; Texas pays bitcoin mining companies to shut off their rigs during peak demand.
Miners love this; in effect they can just threaten to mine bitcoin and get paid as much as they would have made actually mining bitcoin, but without the wear and tear on their expensive hardware. It’s a legalized extortion racket being enacted on the public purse.
- Comment on We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem 5 weeks ago:
Consider some human examples: sometimes people disagree with their doctor so they go see another doctor and another until they get the answer they want. Sometimes two very experienced lawyers both look at the facts and disagree.
This actually illustrates my point really well. Because the reason those people disagree might be
- Different awareness of the facts (lawyer A knows an important piece of information lawyer B doesn’t)
- Different understanding of the facts (lawyer might have context lawyer B doesn’t)
- Different interpretation of the facts (this is the hardest to quantify, as its a complex outcome of everything that makes us human, including personality traits such as our biases).
Whereas you can ask the same question to the same LLM equipped with the same data set and get two different answers because it’s just rolling dice at the end of the day.
If I sit those two lawyers down at a bar, with no case on the line, no motivation other than just friendly discussion, they could debate the subject and likely eventually come to a consensus, because they are sentient beings capable of reason. That’s what LLMs can only fake through smoke and mirrors.
- Comment on We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem 1 month ago:
That’s called “fuzzy” matching, it’s existed for a long, long time. We didn’t need “AI” to do that.
- Comment on We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem 1 month ago:
Less horrifying conceptually, but in Canada a major airline tried to replace their support services with a chatbot. The chatbot then invented discounts that didn’t actually exist, and the courts ruled that the airline had to honour them. The chatbot was, for all intents and purposes, no more or less official a source of data than any other information they put out, such as their website and other documentation.
- Comment on We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem 1 month ago:
We not only have to stop ignoring the problem, we need to be absolutely clear about what the problem is.
LLMs don’t hallucinate wrong answers. They hallucinate all answers. Some of those answers will happen to be right.
If this sounds like nitpicking or quibbling over verbiage, it’s not. This is really, really important to understand. LLMs exist within a hallucinatory false reality. They do not have any comprehension of the truth or untruth of what they are saying, and this means that when they say things that are true, they do not understand why those things are true.
That is the part that’s crucial to understand. A really simple test of this problem is to ask ChatGPT to back up an answer with sources. It fundamentally cannot do it, because it has no ability to actually comprehend and correlate factual information in that way. This means, for example, that AI is incapable of assessing the potential veracity of the information it gives you. A human can say “That’s a little outside of my area of expertise,” but an LLM cannot. It can only be coded with hard blocks in response to certain keywords to cut it from answering and insert a stock response.
This distinction, that AI is always hallucinating, is important because of stuff like this:
But notice how Reid said there was a balance? That’s because a lot of AI researchers don’t actually think hallucinations can be solved. A study out of the National University of Singapore suggested that hallucinations are an inevitable outcome of all large language models. **Just as no person is 100 percent right all the time, neither are these computers. **
That is some fucking toxic shit right there. Treating the fallibility of LLMs as analogous to the fallibility of humans is a huge, huge false equivalence. Humans can be wrong, but we’re wrong in ways that allow us the capacity to grow and learn. Even when we are wrong about things, we can often learn from how we are wrong. There’s a structure to how humans learn and process information that allows us to interrogate our failures and adjust for them.
When an LLM is wrong, we just have to force it to keep rolling the dice until it’s right. It cannot explain its reasoning. It cannot provide proof of work. I work in a field where I often have to direct the efforts of people who know more about specific subjects than I do, and part of how you do that is you get people to explain their reasoning, and you go back and forth testing propositions and arguments with them. You say “I want this, what are the specific challenges involved in doing it?” They tell you it’s really hard, you ask them why. They break things down for you, and together you find solutions. With an LLM, if you ask it why something works the way it does, it will commit to the bit and proceed to hallucinate false facts and false premises to support its false answer, because it’s not operating in the same reality you are, nor does it have any conception of reality in the first place.
- Comment on Cruciferae 1 month ago:
Roast or saute is almost always the correct answer to the boring veg blues. It largely comes down to the addition of fat and high heat, which in turns adds the Maillard reaction, AKA flavour town. Add some salt and you’re u golden.
Even something as something as simple as green beans gets a million times better when you saute them in light olive oil and hit them with salt and pepper just before they’re done.
- Comment on Cruciferae 1 month ago:
There are two reasons why you hate brussel sprouts:
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You probably only remember them from when you were a kid. About 15 years ago a new, less bitter cultivar of brussel sprouts was developed, and is now the main the cultivar.
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Your parents (or grandparents, or whoever did the cooking at Christmas) probably boiled or steamed them, which is a perfect way to make any vegetable taste bad.
Here’s what you actually do. Dice up a small amount of bacon and lightly fry in a tiny bit of oil, just until the bacon fat starts to render out. Add a nob of butter (altogether the amount of fat should nicely coat the bottom of the pan). Cut your sprouts in half and place them in the fat cut side down. DON’T TOUCH THEM. Let them sit until a nice brown crust forms. Then add a splash of water (or chicken stock if you’re a true degenerate) and cover for a few minutes to steam. When done, a knife should pierce them with some resistance (bite into one, it should have a little crunch to it, but not unpleasantly so; just enough to not be mushy). Drain off the liquid, hit them with kosher salt and a little bit of black pepper.
Note that the bacon is totally optional. If you’re just adding a quick veg to a meal you can skip that part and they’ll still taste great.
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- Comment on First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says 1 month ago:
This isn’t something new to nueralink. Brain-machine interfaces have existed for quite some time. Neuralink is one of a number of companies that are exploring directly implanting these devices rather than using an externally attached (hence, easily removable) interface, but the core thesis of “Brain control computer” isn’t any kind of grand leap forward. That’s just Musk’s marketing.
- Comment on OpenAI plans to announce Google search competitor on Monday, sources say 1 month ago:
Correction: An even more useless search engine.
- Comment on Amazon Customer Service has become awful 1 month ago:
Which in turn leads to people giving up or never trying.
Even a 20% reduction in sales from a million people does a lot more than a 100% reduction in sales from 100,000.
- Comment on Amazon Customer Service has become awful 1 month ago:
I think there’s a lot to be said for “soft boycotting.” If we could get more people to just check a few other retailers before they go to Amazon, that would actually hit their bottom line a lot harder than a small number of people cutting them out entirely.
The problem with boycotts is that people get told to treat it as an all or nothing thing. It’s a lot better, to my mind, to just reduce our reliance on large monopolies where possible, and accept them as an unfortunate necessity when not.
- Comment on Innovation or Overreach? UH Research Casts blame on OceanGate's Submersible Design says: Low quality carbon fibre lead to the accident 1 month ago:
Yeah, at the point where you’re resisting outside pressure your hull is basically just the plastic resin that the fibres are sealed in. Without that, the fibres are just a fabric bag.
Imagine if they’d said “We’re diving down to the Titanic in a submersible with a plastic resin hull.” Doesn’t sound so great.
- Comment on How much maintenance do you find your self-hosting involves? 2 months ago:
Very little. Thanks to Docker + Watchtower I don’t even have to check for updates to software. Everything is automatic.
- Comment on Hundreds of black 'spiders' spotted in mysterious 'Inca City' on Mars in new satellite photos 2 months ago:
“Ziggy played guitar…”
- Comment on Tesla Cybertruck turns into world's most expensive brick after car wash 2 months ago:
It’s still massively overvalued now. Just compare their market cap to any other major car manufacturer.
- Comment on Tesla Cybertruck turns into world's most expensive brick after car wash 2 months ago:
And this, right here, is why Tesla’s stock price is down 50% from its all time high.
- Comment on What Would God Say About File-Sharing? * TorrentFreak 2 months ago:
“All the believers were together and had everything in common. They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts,” - Acts 2 44:46
Just saying, old school church was pretty big on sharing.
- Comment on me too 2 months ago:
This bird deals frost damage, and you can’t convince me otherwise.
- Comment on TSMC “still assessing” chipmaking facilities after 7.4-magnitude quake hits Taiwan 2 months ago:
Oh boy, it sure was a good idea to rely on one company, with facilities located in just one country, for almost all production of an essential component that basically all modern technology needs in order to work.
- Comment on life pro tip!! 2 months ago:
Calories are just a measure of the energy released by a material.
Normally they’re measured by burning the material, so it’s not really accurate to say that you can get that many calories from uranium. On the other hand the whole concept is fucking stupid anyway, because it’s measured by burning the material. Technically, a kilo of dry sawdust has 4800 calories (more than double the daily calorie requirement of the average person).