utopiah

@utopiah@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  FWIW I replaced my Samsung “smart” TV by a Nebula Mars video projector. It’s very convenient and let’s me forget I have it, tucked away and hidden most of the time. Yes it is “smart” but it’s Android and I can connect via adb to it to install apps like VLC, make it start on boot, etc. I’m not updating it.

  Next time I do buy a replacement though I’ll verify first in forums if it can be rooted to have the level of control I need. Maybe there will be a OSHW equivalent to www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/open-printer for video projectors as unfortunately it seems like a trend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China Has Reportedly Built Its First EUV Machine Prototype, Marking a Semiconductor Breakthrough the U.S. Has Feared All Along⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Meanwhile ASML just stops doing R&D and give up on its extremely specialized supply chain. /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI'⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Surprising, I would expect it’d rely at some point on something like CLIP in order to be prompted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI'⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, a friend recommended it few days ago indeed but unfortunately AFAICT they don’t provide the CO2eq in their model card nor an analogy equivalence non technical users could understand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI'⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Does it only use that or doesn’t it also use an LLM to?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI'⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, and to be clear I’m not saying it’s not possible. This isn’t a trick question, it’s a genuine request to hopefully be able to rely on such tools.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI'⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You are solely using your own data or rather you are refining an existing LLM or rather RAG?

  I’m not an expert but AFAIK training an LLM requires, by definition, a vast mount of text so I’m skeptical that ANY company publish enough papers to do so. I understand if you can’t share more about the process. Maybe me saying “AI” was too broad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There are AI’s that are ethically trained

  Can you please share examples and criteria?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh… I have one and use it. What are you monsters using, a spoon?! /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t want to wake up until they have something else more appealing to put their money on. They NEED something to invest. They don’t care what it is, or even if it works but it has to be plausible enough to make money, more money.

  Until there is another scam to put their money in, they are stuck in the bubble, like us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just have to ask nicely. 🐙

  (for people confused en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_regulator#Octopus )

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  FWIW (and I know it’s not the joke…) it’s perfectly fine to remove the mouth piece while scuba diving. In fact it’s part of basic training. You should be able to remove the mouth piece and take another one, your octopus or the one of your buddy, in case there is an incident.

  No… the real question for a good diver is how the heck you’re going to say HDMI 2.1 with hand signs! /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Addressed earlier in lemmy.world/post/39884328/20912060

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there a way to verify that? I remember Mozilla pushed for webcompat.com so wondering if this can be used to see the pace of change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It renders… so what is missing for you to use it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Open an issue to explain why it’s not enough for you? If you can make a PR for it that actually implements the things you need?

  My point to say everything is already out there and perfectly fits your need, only that a LOT is already out there. If all re-invent the wheel in our own corner it’s basically impossible to learn from each other.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I understand correctly then this means mostly adapting the interface?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, you’re right, I just worry (maybe needlessly) about people re-inventing the wheel because it’s “easier” than searching without properly understand the cost of the entire process.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  FWIW that’s a good question but IMHO the better question is :

  What kind of small things have you vibed out that you needed that didn’t actually exist or at least you couldn’t find after a 5min search on open source forges like CodeBerg, Gitblab, Github, etc?

  Because making something quick that kind of works is nice… but why even do so in the first place if it’s already out there, maybe maintained but at least tested?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree… but beside the point I have access to a dedicated workshop and a tool library www.tournevie.be which challenges this whole setup. It’s relatively unique though, unfortunately, so your example still stands, thanks for sharing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. That’s exactly why I tend to never discuss “AI” with people who don’t have to actually have a PhD in the domain, or at least a degree in CS. It’s nothing against them specifically, it’s only that they are dangerously repeating what they heard during marketing presentations with no ability to criticize it and, in such cases, it can be quite dangerous.

  TL;DR: people who could benefit from it don’t need it, people who would shouldn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mostly because the model is incapable

  There, fixed that for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s their question too, what the hell did Google makes this the default, as opposed to limiting it to the project directory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because “agentic”. IMHO running commands is actually cool, doing it without very limited scope though (as he did say in the video) is definitely idiotic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well… at least do that for Windows and MacOS, not for Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because people who runs this shit precisely don’t know what containers, scope, permissions, etc are. That’s exactly the audience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The user can choose whether the AI can run commands on its own or ask first.

  That implies the user understands every single code with every single parameters. That’s impossible even for experience programmers, here is an example :

  rm *filename

  versus

  rm * filename

  where a single character makes the entire difference between deleting all files ending up with filename rather than all files in the current directory and also the file named filename.

  Of course here you will spot it because you’ve been primed for it. In a normal workflow then it’s totally difference.

  Also IMHO more importantly if you watch the video ~7min the clarified the expected the “agent” to stick to the project directory, not to be able to go “out” of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It should also be sandboxed with hard restrictions that it cannot bypass

  duh… just using it in a container and that’s it. It won’t blue pill its way out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s the point, the “agent” (whatever that means) is not running in a sandbox.

  I imagine the user assumed permissions are small at first, e.g. single directory of the project, but nothing outside of it. That would IMHO be a reasonable model.

  They might be wrong about it, clearly, but it doesn’t mean they explicitly gave permission.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow… who would have guessed. /s

  Sorry but if in 2025 you believe claims from BigTech you are a gullible moron. I genuinely do not wish data loss on anyone but come on, if you ask for it…