maniclucky
@maniclucky@lemmy.world
- Comment on YSK that if you lose your Social Security Card (USA) more than 10 times, the Social Security Administration will have to, by law, refuse to issue anymore replacement cards, for the rest of your life. 2 weeks ago:
Not everyone has a passport and you use SSN to get one. Passports are relatively rare for a lot of people in the US.
- Comment on YSK that if you lose your Social Security Card (USA) more than 10 times, the Social Security Administration will have to, by law, refuse to issue anymore replacement cards, for the rest of your life. 2 weeks ago:
Yes, sort of, but in a stupid way. The number is treated as a unique identifier of a person, but you don’t carry it around since it’s so insecure.
- Comment on I tried THIS and it actually works all the time 2 weeks ago:
I love what appears to be a citation.
- Comment on Jackbox Games coming to Smart TVs for free 4 weeks ago:
Actually, that part I’m not worried about. Jackbox is one of my friends go-to end of party games. It’s all through your phone and accommodates a good amount of people, slightly game dependent.
- Comment on New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code. 1 month ago:
You’re right in that the goal is problem solving, you’re wrong that inability to code isn’t a problem.
AI can make a for loop and do common tasks but the moment you have something halfway novel to do, it has a habit of shitting itself and pretending that the feces is good code. And if you can’t read code, you can’t tell the shit from the stuff you want.
It may be able to do it in the future but it can’t yet
Source: data engineer who has fought his AI a time or two.
- Comment on AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds 1 month ago:
An elegant way to make someone feel ashamed for using many smart words, ha-ha.
Unintentional I assure you.
I think it’s some social mechanism making them choose a brute force solution first.
I feel like it’s simpler than that. Ye olde “when all you have is a hammer, everything’s a nail”. Or in this case, when you’ve built the most complex hammer in history, you want everything to be a nail.
So I’d say commercially they already are successful.
Definitely. I’ll never write another cover letter. In their use-case, they’re solid.
but I haven’t even finished my BS yet
Currently working on my masters after being in industry for a decade. The paper is nice, but actually applying the knowledge is poorly taught (IMHO, YMMV) and being willing to learn independently has served me better than by BS in EE.
- Comment on AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds 1 month ago:
I’m not against attempts at global artificial intelligence, just against one approach to it. Also no matter how we want to pretend it’s something general, we in fact want something thinking like a human.
Agreed. The techbros pretending that the stochastic parrots they’ve created are general AI annoys me to no end.
While not as academically cogent as your response (totally not feeling inferior at the moment), it has struck me that LLMs would make a fantastic input/output to a greater system analogous to the Wernicke/Broca areas of the brain. It seems like they’re trying to get a parrot to swim by having it do literally everything. I suppose the thing that sticks in my craw is the giveaway that they’ve promised that this one technique (more or less, I know it’s more complicated than that) can do literally everything a human can, which should be an entire parade of red flags to anyone with a drop of knowledge of data science or fraud. I know that it’s supposed to be a universal function appropriator hypothetically, but I think the gap between hypothesis and practice is very large and we’re dumping a lot of resources into filling in the canyon (chucking more data at the problem) when we could be building a bridge (creating specialized models that work together).
Now that I’ve used a whole lot of cheap metaphor on someone who causally dropped ‘syllogism’ into a conversation, I’m feeling like a freshmen in a grad level class. I’ll admit I’m nowhere near up to date on specific models and bleeding edge techniques.
- Comment on AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds 1 month ago:
Ooooooh. Ok that makes sense. Correct use of words, just was not connecting those dots.
- Comment on AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds 1 month ago:
That response doesn’t make sense. Please clarify.
- Comment on AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds 1 month ago:
We do that all the time. It’s kind of humanity’s thing. I can’t run 60mph, but my car sure can.
- Comment on I didn't ask for any of this. 2 months ago:
That third one is just cheating.
- Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace 2 months ago:
The sentence structure is kinda wonky coming from English, but the vocab isn’t bad. There are tons of cognates.
- Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace 2 months ago:
I don’t disagree conceptually, but English has been the lingua franca for a long time now.
- Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace 2 months ago:
Close. It’s flea market.
- Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace 2 months ago:
It’s not that bad. It’s just German for flea market. And English speakers shouldn’t have an issue with at least “Markt”. Not far from a cognate.
Definitely better names but I think the bigger hurdle is getting the critical mass to get something like marketplace to work in the fediverse even with the perfect name.
- Comment on 79% of Americans feel burned out as they put most vacation time toward errands, doctor visits, and family care 3 months ago:
Bullets or paragraphs please. My brain hates all of this and won’t let me read it.
- Comment on Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds 3 months ago:
Pooped the onion? Honestly, I’ve only ever seen these kinds of stories as notTheOnion.
- Comment on FINAL FANTASY XIV MOBILE – Reveal Trailer 4 months ago:
I’d be shocked if that was possible. Though I wouldn’t hate being able to do crafting/gathering from my phone.