ByteJunk
@ByteJunk@lemmy.world
- Comment on My Religion 1 week ago:
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you lose your freedom. Be sure to remain meek when they come to shackle you, it’ll be fine I’m sure.
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 1 week ago:
Partition the internet… Like during the Morris worm of '88, where they had to pull off regional networks to prevent the machines from being reinfected?
The good old days were, maybe, not that good. :)
- Comment on idk 1 week ago:
Aye, as God intended.
- Comment on idk 1 week ago:
Oh, reduced the time by 8 minutes.
I was wondering what sort of kettle you were using that was almost as slow as a stove. Mine takes under two minutes for 2 cups (0.5L), so it checks out.
Happy brewing!
- Comment on Truly an institution of culture 2 weeks ago:
Why did the British called all their tanks “Mark”?
(I’m working in the punchline)
- Comment on How could you do this to me? 2 weeks ago:
Spin up some Linux distro while you wait.
Especially if you’re a “power user”, you’ll have a lot of unlearning to do, might as well get started and go in prepared for a lot of disappointment.
- Comment on The disadvantaged are more sensitive to biased language for good reasons. 2 weeks ago:
Bro you’re being bitten by chupacabras or something, what the hell
- Comment on The disadvantaged are more sensitive to biased language for good reasons. 2 weeks ago:
I 100% agree with your point of view then, it seems very logical.
Let’s say I’m immune to mosquito bites. I wouldn’t even notice one or two buzzing about. But I’m very reactive to bites, and get itchiness that lasts for what feels like hours, so as soon as something buzzes nearby, I’m panicking.
- Comment on What did I forget? 2 weeks ago:
And that script. I’m curious how you implemented it.
- Comment on Fuck Microsoft 2 weeks ago:
This is the final straw that made install Mint. I was so sick of the constant screens after every update continuously pestering me with shit I didn’t want, like “YOU ASKED BEFORE AND SAID NO, ASK ME AGAIN AND ILL PUNCH YOU IN THE DICK”
So I metaphorically did.
- Comment on Stretch marks 2 weeks ago:
Are you writing The Testicle Monologues? I was captivated, whens the off-Broadway premier?
- Comment on Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it. 2 weeks ago:
But then how can you tell that it’s not an actual conscious being?
This is the whole plot of so many sci-fi novels.
- Comment on Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it. 2 weeks ago:
I’ll bite.
How would you distinguish a sufficiently advanced word calculator from an actual intelligent, conscious agent?
- Comment on Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it. 2 weeks ago:
Let me grab all your downvotes by making counterpoints to this article.
I’m not saying that it’s not right to bash the fake hype that the likes of altman and alienberg are making with their outlandish claims that AGI is around the corner and that LLM are its precursor. I think that’s 100% spot on.
But the news article is trying to offer an opinion as if it’s a scientific truth, and this is not acceptable either.
The basis for the article is the supposed “cutting-edge research” that shows language is not the same as intelligence. The problem is that they’re referring to a publication from last year that is basically an op-ed, where the authors go over existing literature and theories to cement their view that language is a communication tool and not the foundation of thought.
The original authors do acknowledge that the growth in human intelligence is tightly related to language, yet assert that language is overall a manifestation of intelligence and not a prerequisite.
The nature of human intelligence is a much debated topic, and this doesn’t particularly add to the existing theories.
Even if we accept the authors’ views, then one might wonder if LLMs are the path to AGI. Obviously many lead researchers in AI think the same way - notably Prof LeCun is leaving Meta over this.
But the problem is that the Verge article then goes on to conclude the following:
an AI system might remix and recycle our knowledge in interesting ways. But that’s all it will be able to do. It will be forever trapped in the vocabulary we’ve encoded in our data and trained it upon — a dead-metaphor machine. And actual humans — thinking and reasoning and using language to communicate our thoughts to one another — will remain at the forefront of transforming our understanding of the world.
This conclusion is a non sequitur. It generalizes a specific point about the capacity of LLMs to evolve into true AGI or not, into an “AI dumb” catchall that ignores even the most basic evidence that they themselves give - like being able to “solve” go, or play chess in a way that no human can even comprehend - and, to top it off, conclude that “it will never be able to” in the future.
Looking back at the last 2 years, I don’t think anyone can predict what AI research breakthroughs might happen in the next 2, let alone “forever”.
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy 2 weeks ago:
I’ve worked at large (5k+ workers) companies that were running Windows XP well into the late 2010’s, with matching hardware. That was too extreme (goddamn ie6).
But this article makes me sick. If the economy needs people to throw away perfectly usable goods and buy new ones, the problem isn’t the people, it’s the fucking economy. It’s time to take a step back and rethink the system, because it’s gonna implode.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Same. I don’t think he is my brother.
- Comment on Amazing 2 weeks ago:
I’ll make a bold prediction that we won’t have 25 months this year either. Maybe next century.
- Comment on Is Mamdani introducing Arabic numerals to New York schools? 3 weeks ago:
I had a lousy impression of the US school system, but I never realized it was this bad…
- Comment on Drug deal 3 weeks ago:
The waiters still check, for some reason. I always order a cola here, and still get “is pepsi ok?”
- Comment on The Confederacy (or whatever) 4 weeks ago:
What are you talking about, what’s a dildo? That’s mom’s figurine collection, she likes them very much and plays with them all the time.
- Comment on Aeroplane 4 weeks ago:
Pff.
Just caption an Airbus. Assuming you’re in flight, you just need the buttons to engage cat III auto landing, make wings bigger, make wheels stick out, and brakes after you land.
- Comment on I said, LOOK at it! 5 weeks ago:
I don’t get it, maybe cause I don’t have Instagram. What’s this meant to represent, since I assume it’s not about trucks doing impossible u-turns
- Comment on What a lucky woman 5 weeks ago:
“Please help me convince her to let me sleep in our bed.”
- Comment on An Idea That I Could Get Behind 5 weeks ago:
Some humans are like warlocks, but with words. Wordlocks, really.
- Comment on Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved 5 weeks ago:
This is astonishing.
He’s hoarding the profits of automation for himself, while socializing the lost wages and poverty that will come from this.
But the issue is that we know full well that they’ll escape paying out their massive profits as taxes, which is what MUST happen for the model to work. Shareholder payouts need to be taxed at like 50+% rate or even more.
- Comment on An Idea That I Could Get Behind 5 weeks ago:
How did you make the r and n almost completely overlap? Letter sorcery…
- Comment on He makes a great point 5 weeks ago:
Exactly! Barking isn’t some sort of language in an of itself, it’s only a minor part of how dogs communicate.
- Comment on Beauty standards are insane these days 5 weeks ago:
I agree. Millipedes ads are getting absolutely crazy in the last several years, and must be stopped!
- Comment on Weeks of research 5 weeks ago:
Ahahah! You gotta watch The Boys now
- Comment on We could have lived in a world where Hideo Kojima made a Matrix game, if only someone had told him he was offered to make one 1 month ago:
KOTOR is such an amazing game… I’ve replayed it recently hoping it would ruin my childhood recollection of it being god tier. It didn’t, it’s still an amazing game after all these years