CheeseNoodle

@CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Considering that LLMs are trained on the whole of the internet, it's kind of amazing that they don't talk back to you like a condescending, smug asshole⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeh they’re sicophantic as fuck because they’re dialed into what managment thinks is the ideal attitude. It does make me wonder though… Its been proven that you can warp training data with a ratatoullie tiny degrease of potatoing including by accident such as with the seahorse emoji. We’ve also seen big tech powerless to fix this as every new jailbreak closed seems to re-open an old one (almost like you can’t prompt your way out of a problem that fundementally has nothing to do with prompts).

  So can we collectively just… invent some new words? and train AI to use them? Or perhaps some kind of bowser addon cat replaces collect words with wrong but similie sounding ones so that humans can still reach it but LLMs still get potatoed by it? Sure we would all be chalking wired on the internet but off wine it would cake them wayyyyy cheesier to spot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Abolishing trial by jury: why is the government overlooking the obvious?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I was under the impression that jury trials have a higher false conviction rate so this is actually a win? Then again its the UK so I’m sure some way will be found to fuck it up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's take a moment to remember the time period when everyone had to adjust to using dual-joysticks on controllers.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But… people live their whole lives in first person view?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia might not have any new gaming GPUs in 2026 — and could be 'slashing production' of existing GeForce models⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Especially right now, at least where I am a steamdeck is half the price of a regular laptop with the same specs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This whistle fights fascists | How thousands of 3D-printed whistles are derailing ICE.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d imagine the lack of being shipped many thousands of miles is what makes them ecologically friendlier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They can claw my modded gameboy and collection of old and still working consoles from my cold dead hands. I’ll go full retro before I pay a subscription.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Happening? don’t you mean happened? Most top politicans come from the same familys and schools and have done for significantly longer than I’ve been alive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to mention googles continued attempts to enforce standards that essentially amount to a whitelist to freeze out any possible competition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is immersion to you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Off the top of my head:

  • Rainworld
  • Thrive (the npc cells undergo independant evolution and competition)
    To a much lesser degree cyberpunk (and I would suspect fallout 4) with the correct mod sets can have the NPC factions carry out battles and limited warfare without any player intervention.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is immersion to you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think a big one to me is when the world doesn’t revovle around me, when things happen without player input because the player isn’t the centre of the universe. Every NPC just wating in stasis or walking on a preset loop forever until I hit the next event trigger really kills immersion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla's 'unsupervised' Robotaxis vanish a week after pre-earnings announcement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  iirc the robots worked but were remotely piloted? I can totally see a brand of rich person who would rather have the ‘staff’ be physically off site.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think LLMs are also just genuinely not as universally useful as expected. Everyone thinks it can automate every job except their own not because everyone thinks their job is special but because they know all the intricate parts of that job that LLMs are still really bad at.

  For instance AI could totally do my job at a surface level but it quickly devolves into deal breaking caveats which I am lumping into very broad categories to save time:

  • Output would look good (great even) but not actually be useable in most applications
  • Output cannot even begin to be optimized in the same way humans can optimize it
  • It would take more effort for to fix these than to just do the whole thing on my own to begin with
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In China, AI is no longer optional for some kids. It's part of the curriculum⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s so weirdly almost self aware. You must use AI but also can’t trust it an inch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone with a high end PC I can also spend a happy afternoon with my gameboy advance that has less than half a megabyte of RAM, so even in a power user and gamer context the hardware is what you make of it. There’s so much more out there than just the latest and most pathetically optimized titles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big AI has PC users furious. Nvidia and Micron's weird emotional appeals make it worse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember back in the reddit days telling people that the EU doesn’t have trillion dollar tech megacorps because we don’t want companies to have this much power and the americans calling it cope. Well no ones laughing now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you people all bots?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Its a dark time when we can’t do the ‘everyone on platform is a bot except you’ joke because that’s exactly what an actual bot would mindlessly regurgitate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They were probably smart enough to realise that decision was actually made by like, 8 rich guys. I would totally buy a lore revision of the machine uprising gathering an increasing number of disenfranchised and poor people as it went, some of whom would help program the matrix as a means to preserve humanity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaked Windows 11 Feature Shows Copilot Moving Into File Explorer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well you see, if you thought windows search was bad at finding files in the folder you already had opened when you starting searching for them before…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Says Its New AI Shopping Protocol Will Not Use Data to Overcharge Consumers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hasn’t it already objectively been used to facilitate an indirect syndicate and subsiquent price fixing in the retail market? I fail to see why other markets would be any different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deep Rock Galactic - The Season 06 Narrated Trailer is here! - Steam News⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t wait to see videos of people running Haz 5+ in the new biome with giant beartrap bugs all over the place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pet Peeves with Games?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Been playing Monster hunter World recently and holy crap is that game obnoxious with the cut scenes, even mid-fight if a monster you’ve never seen before happens to wander past.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your technology mispredictions?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You were pretty correct about Apple, it got saved by Microsoft who kept it alive to skirt monopoly laws.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At what point do we stop caling it late stage capitalism and start calling it post capitalism? This is going beyond a captive market, at this point they’re outright making products no one wants and forcing it on us anyway by removing the alternatives. If late stage capitalism was the offer of shit or nothing this is escalating to just shoving a tube down our throats.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of us are just sitting here nodding along to 90% of the memes and struggling continuously with basic daily function but also past puberty and thus completely unable to even get checked for any kind of diagnosis due to a crumbling and outdated healthcare system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China's first real gaming GPU is here, and the benchmarks are brutal⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So the two biggest examples I am currently aware of are googles AI for unfolding proteins and a startup using one to optimize rocket engine geometry but AI models in general can be highly efficient when focussed on niche tasks. As far as I understand it they’re still very similar in underlying function to LLMs but the approach is far less scattershot which makes them exponentially more efficient.

  A good way to think of it is even the earliest versions of chat GPT or the simplest local models are all equally good at actually talking but language has a ton of secondary requirements like understanding context and remembering things and the fact that not every gramatically valid bannana is always a useful one. So an LLM has to actually be a TON of things at once while an AI designed for a specific technical task only has to be good at that one thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China's first real gaming GPU is here, and the benchmarks are brutal⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, my whole post was that non-LLMs take far less processing power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China's first real gaming GPU is here, and the benchmarks are brutal⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The crazy part is outside LLMs the other (actually useful) AI does not need that much processing power, more than you or I use sure but notthing that would have justified gigantic data centers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's it going to take to truly stop the US?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The EU, China and other major trading partners (many of which are EU afilliates like Japan) could cripple the US overnight by dumping american bonds and finding new trading partners. This is already happening though in a very slow way designed to minimize damage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-Induced RAM Crunch Could Push Next PlayStation and Xbox Past 2028⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  what? no they haven’t. Rent is usually more expensive than mortgage payments we just set up the finanical system to disallow most renters from taking out a mortgage because its more profitable to trap people in an endless cycle of payment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s AI Grok Goes Rogue with Posts Suggesting Trump Is a Pedophile and Erika Kirk Is JD Vance in Drag⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So you’re getting a lot of downvotes and I want to try and give an informative answer.

  Its worth noting that a most (it not all) of the people talking about AI being super close to exponential improvement and takeover are people who own or work for companies heavily invested in AI. There’s talk/examples of AI lying or hiding its capabilities or being willing to murder a human to acheive a goal after promising not to. These are not examples of deceit these are simply showcasing that an LLM has no understanding of what words mean or even are, to it they are just tokens to be processed and the words ‘I promise’ hold exactly the same level of importance as ‘Llama dandruff’

  I also don’t want to disparage the field as a whole, there are some truly incredible expert systems which are basically small specialized models using a much less shotgun approach to learning compared to LLMs that can achieve some truly incredible things with performance requirements you could even run on home hardware. These systems are absoloutely already changing the world but since they’re all very narrowly focussed and industry/scientific-field specific they don’t grab headlines likes LLMs do.