pachrist

@pachrist@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who’s had two kids since AI really vaulted onto the scene, I am enormously confused as to why people think AI isn’t or, particularly, can’t be sentient. I hate to be that guy who pretend to be the parenting expert online, but most of the people I know personally who take the non-sentient view on AI don’t have kids. The other side usually does.

  When it writes an answer to a question, it literally just guesses which letter and word will come next in a sequence – based on the data it’s been trained on.

  People love to tout this as some sort of smoking gun. That feels like a trap. Obviously, we can argue about the age children gain sentience, but my year and a half old daughter is building an LLM with pattern recognition, tests, feedback, hallucinations. My son is almost 5, and he was and is the same. He told me the other day that a petting zoo came to the school. He was adamant it happened that day. I know for a fact it happened the week before, but he insisted. He told me later that day his friend’s dad was in jail for threatening her mom. That was true, but looked to me like another hallucination or more likely a misunderstanding.

  And as funny as it would be to argue that they’re both sapient, but not sentient, I don’t think that’s the case. I think you can make the case that without true volition, AI is sentient but not sapient. I’d love to talk to someone in the middle of the computer science and developmental psychology Venn diagram.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazing Grace⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I cannot imagine how hard it is to be as kind, loving, and gracious as she is, but to be surrounded by a world with so much willful anger, hate, and misery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple sued by shareholders for allegedly overstating AI progress⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As much as I dislike Steve Jobs personally, Apple needs someone at the helm who is product and customer experience oriented like he was. Obviously, technical know-how is good, but someone exclusively technical would flounder. Tim Cook is a supply chain guy. His replacement would almost certainly be someone marketing oriented, since innovation no longer drives Apple. Sales do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I know JK Rowling sucks, and it’s been a long time since the first Harry Potter movie came out, but it was definitely a component and precursor to Hagrid beating the shit out of that door.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a tricky situation.

  I think a lot of men, particularly rural men, want someone in their corner. I think a lot of people are underestimating how angry and hopeless many of these men feel. The study a couple years ago from NPR about how many families are living paycheck to paycheck, have less than like $400 in savings, and have nobody to call in during a financial emergency was astounding.

  Most Americans are in a desperate situation. And they aren’t used to it. And they feel they don’t deserve it. And because of that, they’re going to vote for whoever promises to fix it, whether they fix it or not.

  The issue is that neither party is willing to fix the wealth desparity and class oriented labor practices that cause it. They’re only interested in playing the same game we are now that keeps them paid, and grinds everyone else into the dirt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report: Apple CEO “cares about nothing else” Than Building Breakout AR Glasses Before Meta⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this is a case where the imagination is much, much better than the reality.

  For the mobilization of technology, miniaturization has had a lot of benefits, not just in the technology, but in the accessibility. Having a desktop computer instead of a mainframe was huge. It brought the computer to the home. Laptops becoming viable was huge again. It untethered the computer from the wall. For most of the planet, we’re still in the midst of the massive leap that is smart phones. It put a computer in the pocket of billions of people.

  Beating that is hard. Smart phones are the most accessible, most powerful devices most end users have ever used. We take that for granted, and we take the time it took to get there for granted. It took 25 years of desktops to get real, decent laptops (personally, I’d say mid 90s). It took 25 of laptops to get real, decent smartphones (again personally, I’d say ~2010ish).

  Like it or not, we have another decade to go probably before the technology is there for the next evolution in personal computing. But the problem we have really is that there’s not another leap as far as accessibility is concerned. Smart phones work places where laptops can’t. Laptops work places where desktops can’t. Desktops work places where mainframes can’t. Smart phones can work anywhere. Taking the computer from the datacenter, to the home, to your backpack, to your pocket is huge. Is the next step from the pocket to your wrist? To your face? Is it worth it? Is it really that much better?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Applying 'extreme heat' to lithium-ion batteries reportedly restores their capacity, and I think it's the sustainable tech breakthrough of 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Otherwise this reads as if some LLM 4chan came up with the idea

  Remember kids, updating to iOS 7 enables your phone to charge wirelessly in the microwave.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hear The Good News⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've done it again...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I always weigh my pasta. A really large serving of pasta is ~4oz.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israel publicly announces genocidal intent⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you think there’s a 13 year old girl in Gaza who is writing a diary that will be widely read by children across the world 40-50 years from now?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer of WalkScape (the fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL) here again. We're accepting new players and have a Lemmy community!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same! Without smart watch support, it’s a great game. With it, it will be incredible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And a $199 stand for it, sold separately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That hurts a little⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Crazy to know that Cleopatra was born closer to the creation of Halo: Combat Evolved than to the Great Pyramid of Giza.