fsmacolyte

@fsmacolyte@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023)⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Like most popular social media sites, you usually won’t see very valuable discussion in the comments, at least in my experience. It’s mostly for people to post news, research, and so on, and follow the big names or organizations in their field.

  Most of the valuable information is diffused via posts but I do put a bit of time and effort into trying to filter out all the crap posts like memes, the faux inspirational stuff, self-congratulatory nonsense, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Morale is at an all-time low': Ex-Googler writes scathing latter slamming layoffs and 'eroded' culture⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, in the short term. I’ve switched to DDG and I’m not getting another Pixel when I need a new phone, and hoards of tech savvy people are feeling the same way. Dissatisfaction is causing them to lose customers and talent.

  Eventually, they’ll start feeling it in their bottom line. And by then it might be too late to change course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hmm⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I recognize that my intrusive thoughts are my own, but this term existing is helpful because: 1) some people incorrectly believe that thoughts imply a desired outcome, and this term helps explain and describe that this isn’t always the case and 2) it’s a meaningful and useful way of categorizing these types of thoughts for the purposes of psychology, psychiatry, understanding ourselves better, etc.

  In cases like severe OCD, classifying intrusive thoughts as such could help someone understand and cope with disturbing thoughts and develop subsequent coping mechanisms. Not everyone’s the same and some terms can be helpful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI investors' race to reinstate Sam Altman makes tech expert Gary Marcus feel 'sick to his stomach'⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  what in particular shows that Gary Marcus is uniformed? I dislike him because he’s dogmatic and petty but I haven’t seen a specific thing he’s been wrong about, but I’d love examples.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Black Mirror creator unafraid of AI because it’s “boring”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to use those things as answer machines and you can’t stop me.

  Jokes aside, I always validate what chatbots tell me, not even just important things. I use GPT-4 for work and 90% of the time it can show me how to use very specific functions in complex ways, but yesterday (for the first time in awhile) it made up a function that didn’t exist. To its credit, I said, “Are you sure about [function]?” and it said, “I’m sorry, I got confused. That function doesn’t exist. However, look into X, Y, Z for further resources” and I did and they were the correct things to look into.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Black Mirror creator unafraid of AI because it’s “boring”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The best ones can literally write pretty good code, and explain any concept on the Internet to you that you ask them to. If you don’t understand a specific thing about their explanation, they can add onto their explanation, and they can respond in the style you want (explain as if I’m ten, explain as if I’m an undergrad, etc). I use it literally every day for work and a somewhat niche field. I don’t really agree that it’s a “parlor trick”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit abandons user privacy - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I was kind of with you until saying they’re “being a fucking idiot.”

  Encouraging someone to help out? Great.

  Browbeating someone for voicing the viewpoint or experience a lot of users are facing? We can do better than that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A speech jammer would be cool on some of our politicians 🤭⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Fascinating that people with stutters can be helped by practicing speaking with speech jammers.

  It makes me think about how ADHD medication will make people without ADHD more distractible while it’ll help focus people with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lyft now lets drivers prioritize matches with women and nonbinary riders⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  John Wayne Gacy is really unhappy with this feature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The IRS Is Using AI to Target the Ultra-Wealthy for Tax Violations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Old-school AI systems from way back in the day called Expert Systems were just a crapload of IF statements. There’s never been a concrete agreed-upon definition of AI because there’s never been an agreed-upon definition of the word Intelligence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WARNING: Lemmy Self-Hosters, There Have Been CSAM Attacks taking place against !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So then why was Meta trying to get Threads to be on the Fediverse? Of course they’re aware of any potential threats, no matter how small.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT generates cancer treatment plans that are full of errors — Study finds that ChatGPT provided false information when asked to design cancer treatment plans⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Recent papers have shown that LLMs build internal world models but about a topic as niche and complicated as cancer treatment, a chatbot based on GPT-3.5 be woefully ill-equipped to do any kind of proper reasoning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT generates cancer treatment plans that are full of errors — Study finds that ChatGPT provided false information when asked to design cancer treatment plans⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s possible to build intelligent AI

  What does intelligent AI that we can currently build look like?