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- Comment on Two Tesla Robotaxis Use Center of Four-Lane Road for Pickup and Dropoff… With One Getting Stuck for 4 Minutes 6 hours ago:
In referring to AI Mania and the disdain people got discovering genAI is still disappointingly a long way off. It wasn’t a leaps and bounds thing, just LLMs bringing the attention back on like there was a breakthrough, though the pace of the tech has not changed.
Expect a resurgence in a few more years once the world is done with betas and thing improve at the same old rate. I think the best we got coming up is genAI assisting the increase of speed toward actual AI as a whole. Reliable generative iterations would be really helpful, but we’re obviously not there yet and likely not for a little while more.
In the meantime, the global open betas not advertised as such have done their job, but have left a foul taste in mouths.
- Comment on Two Tesla Robotaxis Use Center of Four-Lane Road for Pickup and Dropoff… With One Getting Stuck for 4 Minutes 20 hours ago:
It feels like AI Mania has come to an end. Kind of like Facebook, the only ones still on it are your parents.
- Comment on Japan to raise bar on foreign driver's license conversion test 4 days ago:
Good point.
If you drive like the test in Australia, you’ll be pretty good. If you drive like the test in Greece, you’re a rolling hazard. But also doing mandatory motorcycle tests in some SE Asian countries were insanely easy. Just demonstrating bike control and then doing a short 5 min ride around a block, literally breaking the rules to keep in flow of traffic, and they pass you. Though I’ve found in most countries that have that, it’s IMPOSSIBLE to fail, they just tell you what was wrong and have you keep doing it again until you get a tick.
So again to your point, it’d be very country-specific on whether the driving culture there makes the test an absolute nightmare or not.
- Comment on Japan to raise bar on foreign driver's license conversion test 5 days ago:
Good.
Whenever I drive in another country, I’ve done some decent research on not just the law differences but the culture difference. But it’s never enough and at the end of each day I look up the things that puzzles me on the road earlier.
You can easily be involved in an accident if you don’t know, “That’s just how they do it here.”
Some countries the standards are loose, others are very tight. Some countries have things unique to a state or region that are totally different in other parts of it. Driving around people that have transitioned from one to the other is always tense.
And at the end of the day, if you can drive how you’re supposed to in Japan, there’s nothing to worry about with the test.
- Comment on Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes 1 week ago:
Yesterday it tried to tell me Duration.ToralYears() and Number.IsNaN() were M functions in the first few interactions. I immediately called it out and for the first time ever, it doubled-down.
I think I’m at a level where, for most cases, what I ask of LLMs for coding is too advanced, else I just do it myself. This results in a very high counts of bullshit. But even for the most basic stuff, I have to take the time to read all of it and fix or optimise mistakes.
- Comment on If you don't own one you will never understand it 1 week ago:
Play fireworks compilations on YT to desensitise. My dogs sleep through fireworks. They’ll some times bark but it’s because they hear other dogs barking down the road.
- Comment on What are the chances 1 week ago:
Mine’s 35. 40 is illegal unless you’re a medical doctor. And legally I have to be paid overtime for every minute over but it’s my choice.
- Comment on It was inevitable 1 week ago:
The US sees an item not referred to by a corporate brand name, and wouldn’t have it.
They’re not alone in it, but their suseptiblity to macro-marketing can only be described as “American level”.
- Comment on 'I've been turned into an AI train announcer - and no one told me' 1 week ago:
That’s not disturbing; that’s completely fucked up.
If they want to buy data to use for AI, they can pay someone to license their voice for its use. What they’ve done is no different to bootlegging, but it’s worse because it’s personally identifiable data.
- Comment on Bounce bounce bounce 1 week ago:
I’ve had someone recognise I’m a drummer because of the way my leg bounce made the bench move. Apparently my anxiety ticks groove.
- Comment on ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it 1 week ago:
It would be quicker to either:
- Type that into your search engine of choice.
- Read the article’s second sentence.
- Comment on US to halt shipment of weapons pledged to Ukraine, White House says 1 week ago:
…continuing to destroy its global reputation as a dependable entity other nations want to rely on or do business with.
And TIL their arsenal has issues. Explains the wimpy parade.
- Comment on Kanye West was denied entry to Australia after releasing antisemitic song 1 week ago:
He was diagnosed with bipolar but has recently said he was misdiagnosed and instead has been rediagnosed with autism.
A grain of salt, but there appears to be something under the salt nonetheless.
- Comment on Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman 2 weeks ago:
Meanwhile the unemployment rate continues to be troublingly low, begging the question, “If not for immigration, who’s going to fill the new fancy All-American manufacturing industries?”
- Comment on Saying "It is what it is" when it is all that it is 2 weeks ago:
Things aren’t so bad if you avoid doom scrolling and comparing yourself to others. Almost any other time was worse to be alive in.
- Comment on The "We Tried" Award 2 weeks ago:
That’s fine. Being the fastest at getting from A to B using just legs is rarely a deal breaker. Though, you’d have probably tried harder if the trophy was called the “Least likely to die in an open field of zombies trophy”.
- Comment on But I am mighty!! 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on But I am mighty!! 2 weeks ago:
“ball of fire”
Haha, no no. You threw down with a gigantic source of cell destroying radiation. The fire did no harm.
- Comment on The "We Tried" Award 2 weeks ago:
It felt worse. Getting a recognition certificate or a white ribbon for coming fourth was a total bummer to my care-factor for participating. Kick a kid while they’re down and they’re not likely to be motivated.
- Comment on When the AI bubble bursts 2 weeks ago:
It will burst. It’s expanding at the same rate it always has, just LLMs have gotten attention from normal users who seem to think “this is AI”.
For actual AI, nothing has changed. You still need extremely well governed data and lots and lots of controlled training, lots and lots of condition farming and resolving, all at considerable cost not worth it for BAU, just AI-soecific projects.
It’s already bursting, as people realise what is AGI and what is non-logic LLMs and why the latter has limited use, especially with awful mass “training”.
The most realistic outcome is that LLMs are able to assist in increasing the pace of AGI.
- Comment on 'A total failure' — Hungarian opposition leader says Ukraine EU accession national poll had lowest ever turnout 3 weeks ago:
Perhaps you’re confusing the EU with NATO or don’t quite understand the EU.
Them already being in a conflict would have little impact on the EU.
- Comment on Who is Mothman? 3 weeks ago:
Gets me every time
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- Comment on [🇨🇭|Switzerland] Google, X/Twitter and Other Online Services are Set to Pay Copyright Fees for Displaying Short Extracts From Newspaper Articles. 3 weeks ago:
They’ll blame this for more ads and enough people will say, “Oh, that makes sense.”
- Comment on Why is the progress pride flag so poorly designed (especially the intersex progress pride flag)? Will it be redesigned? 3 weeks ago:
You’re right. Could literally design anything and people that know nothing about any of it could figure it out quickly. But instead, a salad of sex preferences, gender, race, kink, specific US cities, all appearing to be under the Intersex insignia.
It’s always seemed so bad to me that it’s more likely to be done by an anti-woke troll or someone like Michael Scott discovering Pride Month.
It’s just offensive. Obviously to the eyes, but also to any group being shoved together within its borders.
- Comment on The soil, I crave it 3 weeks ago:
grab item, close pantry, wonder how many times this has happened before blanking out memory once again, go back to cooking
- Comment on There’s Good Posture, Bad Posture, and Golden Posture 3 weeks ago:
For me, first immediate issue was,
“Now let me settle in with my comfy computer jeans and leather boots.”
I bet that buttoned collar shirt has never seen Cheetos dust either.
- Comment on Why is the progress pride flag so poorly designed (especially the intersex progress pride flag)? Will it be redesigned? 3 weeks ago:
They all sprung up in that period where flags were trendy. Every little camp had to have one to feel like a singled-out tribe—and, no, this isn’t just kink flags. This meant many would be flag designers overnight.
The result is there’s some really fugly designs out there in the wild now and the idiots can’t go back. But most people are over flag phase now, so you’re unlikely to ever see this and most others out in the wild.
Nothing fails more at its job than a pride flag that people have no idea what is. It’s almost irony.
And is this one ugly? Oh, yes. Enough to turn a person straight.
- Comment on There’s Good Posture, Bad Posture, and Golden Posture 3 weeks ago:
Honestly, if we’re gonna be this bad on our bodies, we may as well just lay down and have monitors above us as the norm. It sounds unhealthy, but only because we’d be admitting to ourselves how unhealthy were being so we may as well take care of our skeletons over the hours and days and weeks and years of the same shit.
- Comment on JD Vance gets suspended from Bluesky 'just 12 minutes after first post': reports 3 weeks ago:
It becomes very fatiguing. Especially when the same article is posted in several places.
To make things worse, it’s a trash article. It’s literally just quoting another article. So it’s bot scraped, bot written, title generated with zing and spooned to idiot cohorts on places like this, simply to garner traffic.
There are a lot of simple users on Lemmy, though they’d hate to admit it. But we have this post in this community with those comments, soooo… GG, big brains 👍
