ByteJunk
@ByteJunk@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
I mean… I’m your typical run of the mill cishet, and my response to femboys would be very confusing if I was some huge bigot with moronic beliefs.
Except I’m not, so excuse me while GLUP GLUP GLUP
- Comment on xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers 1 week ago:
Ahahah I experienced only the media narrative, and it did play out exactly as you described it.
Of course now it comes to reason that many people were actively working to fix the problem, but they never really explained that part on TV.
- Comment on xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers 1 week ago:
Yep I think pops here has this one, us Millennials grew up with leet speak, it already was a thing in the 80s.
- Comment on Love what you do 1 week ago:
He has to scrape Jake Paul off of his legs a lot, that looked like hard work.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers 2 weeks ago:
“And that’s when enshitification kicked in”
- Comment on yoooo 2 weeks ago:
Of course! The smooching had me giggling like a teenager.
But also, I’m so impressed by just how much stage presence Christian Boyle and Jeremy Jordan have! I’m not dissing anyone, far from it, I love the whole cast so much, but those two are made for live acting, they have that bigger than life quality or something.
- Comment on yoooo 2 weeks ago:
I loved the whole name change arc lol.
- Comment on Always wear protection, folks 3 weeks ago:
THEY’RE DOING IT BEFORE THEY MARRY??
- Comment on Always wear protection, folks 3 weeks ago:
WHAT ARE YOU GUYS MUTTERING ABOUT?!
- Comment on My Religion 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Aye, as God intended.
- Comment on idk 4 weeks 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 4 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? 4 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. 4 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. 4 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? 4 weeks ago:
And that script. I’m curious how you implemented it.
- Comment on Fuck Microsoft 5 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 5 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. 5 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. 5 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. 5 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 5 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 5 weeks ago:
Same. I don’t think he is my brother.
- Comment on Amazing 5 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? 1 month ago:
I had a lousy impression of the US school system, but I never realized it was this bad…
- Comment on Drug deal 1 month 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) 1 month 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 1 month 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.