Ashelyn
@Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Is Your Phone Listening to You? | NOVA 2 days ago:
The device wouldn’t necessarily have to be constantly streaming the audio to a central server. If it’s capable of hearing wake up words like “Ok Google” it’s capable of listening for other phrases and having onboard processing to relay back the results much more compressed. Whether or not this is common practice is another matter, and yes the algorithms are scary good even without eavesdropping.
- Comment on Using Ubuntu may give off a hipster vibes to the average PC user, but within the Linux community its has the opposite effect. 6 days ago:
Technically, steamOS because it’s designed to play games and it’s what the steam deck uses. That probably won’t have many other non-gaming features though, and I’ve personally never used it. In my experience, you can get most games without a hyper-aggressive anti cheat working on any Linux distro with varying degrees of effort, just a matter of having all the needed libraries installed! The more popular distros like Ubuntu, popOS, Fedora, even Arch (btw) should have a lot of helpful information out there on how to get Lutris or Steam set up.
- Comment on Did Stanford just prototype the future of AR glasses? 1 week ago:
Any time a news headline asks a question, the answer is almost always “no”
- Comment on Possible snipers seen at OSU. Administration says they're not snipers but should be treated like they are. 3 weeks ago:
To be fair it’s kind of hard to not roll over to the National Guard
- Comment on just say no!! 3 weeks ago:
Also check out hyperrogue if you get the chance. It’s a turn based top down game with a non-euclidean, procedural game board
- Comment on Why is Windows 11 so annoying? 3 weeks ago:
Which games do you play? In my experience the only ones that haven’t worked are ones with a hefty (kernel-level) anti cheat or similar. Proton is surprisingly good at emulating windows games!
- Comment on Continental D r i f t s 3 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure the magma would have to be considerably hotter to actually be boiling.
- Comment on Amazon builds AI model to optimize packaging 4 weeks ago:
That’s fair. I think fundamentally a false positive/negative isn’t that much different. Pretty much all tests—especially those dealing with real world conditions—are heuristic, as are all LLMs by necessity of the design. Hallucination is a pretty specific term given to AI as an attempt to assign agency to a system that doesn’t actually have any (by implying it’s crazy and making stuff up instead of a black box with deterministic inputs and outputs spitting out something factually wrong but with a similar format to what is trained on). I feel like the nature of any tool where “you can’t trust this to be entirely accurate” should have an umbrella term that encompasses both types of providing inaccurate info under certain conditions.
I suppose the difference is that AI is a lot more likely to randomly go off, whereas a blood test is likelier to provide repeated false positives for the same person with their unique biology? There’s also the fact that most medical tests represent a true/false dichotomy or lookup table, whereas an LLM is given the entire bounds of language.
Would an AI clustering algorithm (say, K-means for instance) giving an inaccurate diagnosis be a false positive/negative or a hallucination? These models can be programmed on a sliding scale and I feel like there’s definitely an area where the line could get pretty blurry.
- Comment on A wonderful day begins 4 weeks ago:
Alcohol is also a known carcinogen and cause of numerous health issues. Probably worse than the aspartame
Plus all the extra sodium will give you kidney stones
- Comment on Amazon builds AI model to optimize packaging 4 weeks ago:
I mean, AI is used in fraud detection pretty often; when it hits a false positive (which happens frequently on a population-level basis), is that not a hallucination of some sort? Obviously LLMs can go off the rails much further because it’s readable text, but any machine learning model will occasionally spit out really bad guesses almost any person could have done better with. (To be fair, humans are highly capable of really bad guesses too).
- Comment on 💊💊💊 1 month ago:
So that means that if someone doesn’t believe a medicine will work when it actually does, the effect is still present but not as great?
- Comment on AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt 2 months ago:
I was thinking of a short lil bunny wearing a top hat and monocle with one ear sticking out of the center of the top hat but that works too
- Comment on remember, if your gf isn't open source and running locally, you don't own her 2 months ago:
I could comment on the notion that one owns one’s girlfriend but regardless, you should definitely self host if you’re sharing deeply personal information with a program
- Comment on AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt 2 months ago:
Sounds like a Pal name lol
- Comment on Reddit seeks to launch IPO in March 3 months ago:
Do we really though? Don’t get me wrong it’s some of the most entertaining content I’ve seen on the Internet but I think it brings more harm than good on the whole, especially with the fervor around GME that spun off into being downright delusional. I’d prefer if we don’t end up bringing that over here tbh.
I think the ‘old’ wsb even would be sort of borderline with the egging on and memefication of gambling one’s life savings on weeklies
- Comment on Just a single one, please! 4 months ago:
New diy orchi procedure just dropped??
- Comment on have you been doing crime? 4 months ago:
Twecond
- Comment on Sigma college loans 4 months ago:
That’s good! I remember hearing about it being a possibility but never the follow up. It really did seem just pointlessly cruel
- Comment on Sigma college loans 4 months ago:
And you owe back payments from when we paused it!
- Comment on Wolves or something idk 5 months ago:
Your left or my left?
- Comment on Choose A or B 5 months ago:
Tis a shame the uncles don’t come with a real estate empire to house your personal army of alcoholics in. Imagine the political sway you could have by threatening to put them all loose on downtown at the same time? There’s an infinite amount of them! It would destroy the city!
- Comment on Stereotypical religious nutjobs in the 80s and 90s were all "The end is nigh!" Now that science supports them, they're all "Everything is A-OK!" 5 months ago:
A lot of those types believe in climate change, but not because of fossil fuels or any of that fake news science stuff, but because it’s punishment from their god for allowing the gays to exist.
- Comment on Whitmore knew. 6 months ago:
The dimension of character was transformed into an extra dimension of space
- Comment on Don't forget to tip your gas station 6 months ago:
I try to keep track of ones that can’t be turned off so I know to never visit that gas station ever again
- Comment on New Study: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th Grade-Levels 7 months ago:
Rest assured, I did not interpret any hostility from you on the matter. After I had sent my initial reply, I had thought about it myself and yeah there were a lot of times where people were painfully slow. I’d stumble over my words when reading, but I’d make an effort—the main thing that would trip me up is trying to have a good speaking voice and inflection to sound engaging, only to realize the tone for the sentence was completely off halfway through!
But then there were the people who struggled with nearly every word, and the pace would slow to a crawl. More often than not, I felt bad for those people and their situation than anything else, but it was also frustrating. It was especially bad when one was expected to read along strictly “with the class”. I wasn’t nearly as avid a reader in school as you, but I did get in mild trouble a few times for reading several chapters ahead of the class. I’m sorry Mrs. Thomas, you should have picked a less interesting book for class if you didn’t want me reading it on my own time!
The situation with the school “not being able to afford” basic prizes to reward reading, then dropping fat stacks on a stadium is pretty fucked. What a harsh reflection of our society’s values.
- Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish 7 months ago:
Something I don’t think anyone is talking about is that, if this is now considered a ToS violation, Google will probably decide at some point to start banning accounts over it. Oh, you use adblock? Now your email, Drive documents, and photos are gone.
- Comment on New Study: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th Grade-Levels 7 months ago:
Tbf reading sentences aloud for a group is generally much trickier than reading them (silently/subvocalized) for just yourself. You have to guess the tone, word choice, etc at the very start, and you can end up being wrong halfway through. I stumble over my words when speaking already so having to read from something just compounds that problem.
- Comment on ‘Modern cars are a privacy nightmare,’ the worst Mozilla’s seen 8 months ago:
Key word is access. Not everything on your phone is available to the vehicle, but if, for instance, you allow your car to access your contacts, it downloads all of them with all the metadata which the company can then sell. Or internally run through algorithms to profile you and everyone who uses your vehicle. If you use Android Auto or CarPlay, or just connect to the entertainment systems, they’ll skim whatever metadata they can and phone it home. Even worse if you use a car’s official app, it will use your own phone as the transmission point.
No, it doesn’t immediately transmit an entire backup of your phone over a personal Bluetooth connection, but I was very precise in how I worded my sentence.
- Comment on ‘Modern cars are a privacy nightmare,’ the worst Mozilla’s seen 8 months ago:
The cars themselves have connectivity that can be transmitted over cellular networks (same as/similar to whatever OnStar uses). Plus if you ever connect your phone via Bluetooth to listen to music or plug it directly into the car with a cable that can transfer data, standard protocol on a lot of cars is to just download everything off the phone that it can access.