Zos_Kia
@Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com
- Comment on Oh fuck no 2 weeks ago:
I don’t remember people being offended by the word fuck in 2000. Sure on TV it could be considered dicey but on the internet it was pretty fair game
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 weeks ago:
“i have collected some soil samples from the mesolithic age near the Amazon basin which have high sulfur and phosphorus content compared to my other samples. What factors could contribute to this distribution?”
Haha yeah the top execs were tripping balls if they thought some off-the-shelf product would be able to answer this kind of expert questions. That’s like trying to replace an expert craftsman with a 3D printer.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 weeks ago:
What kind of use-cases was it, where you didn’t find suitable local models to work with ? I’ve found that general “chatbot” things are hit and miss but more domain-constrained tasks (such as extracting structured entities from unstructured text) are pretty reliable even on smaller models. I’m not counting my chickens yet as my dataset is still somewhat small but preliminary testing has been very promising in that regard.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 weeks ago:
Most projects I’ve been in contact with are very aware of that fact. That’s why telemetry is so big right now. Everybody is building datasets in the hopes of fine tuning smaller, cheaper models once they have enough good quality data.
- Comment on I'll share a troubling fact with you if you share one with me 3 weeks ago:
Did you listen to that hardcore history episode? It was crazy
- Comment on Maybe all this AI bullshit might finally push people to touch grass and interact face to face some more 4 weeks ago:
That’s the problem with imaginary enemies. They have to be both ridiculously incompetent, and on the verge of controlling the whole world. Sounds familiar doesn’t it?
- Comment on 18 treated for severe nausea in Stuttgart after opera of live sex and piercing 5 weeks ago:
But what if that money goes to art I don’t personally like?
- Comment on There exists a position inside the earth where it is possible to cook a perfect pizza just by leaving it there 1 month ago:
There was also a time when most of the universe was at the perfect temperature and density to cook pizza,I guess.
- Comment on Name generator 1 month ago:
Ok that one is hilarious
- Comment on louder for those in the back 1 month ago:
Le ai Bad amirite guize
- Comment on Out of curiosity if a woman is in control of her own body. If the SCOTUS did not reverse Roe than why can't a woman in control become a prostitue? 2 months ago:
Why can’t a woman take illegal drugs? Control of your own body is a philosophical concept not a legal one.
- Comment on NVIDIA: Copyrighted Books Are Just Statistical Correlations to Our AI Models. 2 months ago:
Then you have to agree that piracy is theft and people pirating content should be sued.
- Comment on 62% of Funded Blockchain and Web3 Companies Attract Fewer Than 100 Monthly Organic Visitors 2 months ago:
Even if you were extremely generous and didn’t factor in the scams in your analysis, the reality is that a Blockchain solves problems 99.9% of people will never face. This breaks the whole imagined model, when your product is ultra niche but relies on mass adoption for its security.
- Comment on 62% of Funded Blockchain and Web3 Companies Attract Fewer Than 100 Monthly Organic Visitors 2 months ago:
Even if you were extremely generous and didn’t factor in the scams in your analysis, the reality is that a Blockchain solves problems 99.9% of people will never face. This breaks the whole imagined model, when your product is ultra niche but relies on mass adoption for its security.
- Comment on The one opening no one skips [OC Edit] 3 months ago:
There’s also the weird over the top intro song to paranoia agent! It felt so right with such a surreal series.
- Comment on Nope 3 months ago:
Jesus Christ man 😂 you’re looking for a moral angle but there is no moral angle here. A business has the right to design their transactions however they want, even if that design explicitly excludes people like you.
Some people are easy-going, they are more prone to trust, they want to test a product they don’t write an essay about it about it they just put their CC info in, try the thing, and cancel the sub if it’s not for them. If they forget to cancel i refund their money cause i need a happy customer more than i need 20 bucks. You don’t need to call them rubes just because they’re invited to the party and you’re not.
- Comment on Nope 3 months ago:
Hey man I’m not saying you’re wrong, but you’re touching on another important thing which is trust. On average, high trust people are just easier to manage, especially when you’re a small outfit. It’s better for everyone if low trust users bounce away because of the cc wall. They’ll come back once the product has some brand recognition or social proof.
- Comment on AI trained on AI garbage spits out AI garbage. 3 months ago:
Then these models are stupid
Yup that is kind of the point. They are math functions designed to approximate human tasks.
These models should start out with basics of language, so they don’t have to learn it from the ground up. That’s the next step. Right now they’re just well read idiots.
I’m not sure what you’re pointing at here. How they do it right now, simplified, is you have a small model designed to cut text into tokens (“knowledge of syllables”), which are fed into a larger model which turns tokens into semantic information (“knowledge of language”), which is fed to a ridiculously fat model which “accomplishes the task” (“knowledge of things”).
The first two models are small enough that they can be trained on the kind of data you describe, classic books, movie scripts etc… A couple hundred billion words maybe. But the last one requires orders of magnitude more data, in the trillions.
- Comment on Nope 3 months ago:
Again, it’s a filter. You give me card details, that means you seriously want the product and also that you trust me. If i treat you right and give you a great experience you’ll be subscribed for years, purchasing add-ons, and recommending me to your friends. That’s much more valuable for me than skimming 20 bucks a month because you forgot to unsub.
When it’s a big corpo sure they’ll do it cause they don’t give a shit about their customers or even their reputation. I’m honestly not saying it doesn’t happen. But when it’s a no-name with a small online product they can’t afford that shit. If they put a credit card wall it’s most likely because they were getting too many people on the free trial, and were having a hard time telling actual future customers from drive-bys. This solves that.
- Comment on AI trained on AI garbage spits out AI garbage. 3 months ago:
That’s what smaller models do, but it doesn’t yield great performance because there’s only so much stuff available. To get to gpt4 levels you need a lot more data, and to break the next glass ceiling you’ll need even more.
- Comment on Nope 3 months ago:
lmao what a nuanced point of view, you seem to have vast personal experience of this kind of things
- Comment on Nope 3 months ago:
Or maybe they should keep their free trial and just filter out randos with a credit card wall. It’s a simple and cheap way to keep your user base high value. And as attested by the OP’s meme, it just works!
- Comment on Nope 3 months ago:
Yes, it’s a classic.
Pre-market fit it makes sense to be 100% free, as you want to gauge whether your product is attractive to people.
Post-market fit you already know the product has traction, so now you want to gauge whether it is attractive enough for people to pay for it.
- Comment on Nope 3 months ago:
Having worked at a bunch of SaaS products, it’s actually not that shady (at least in those cases i’ve seen). Free users are low value but they can cost a ton in support and commercial effort. Asking for a credit card upfront is just a simple way to filter for people who actually intend to buy the product.
OP’s reaction is not a bug, it’s the feature.
- Comment on What does it mean?? 3 months ago:
- Comment on AI is like a hammer 3 months ago:
Very useful in some contexts, but it doesn’t “learn” the way a neural network can. When you’re feeding corrections into, say, ChatGPT, you’re making small, temporary, cached adjustments to its data model, but you’re not actually teaching it anything, because by its nature, it can’t learn.
But that’s true of all (most ?) neural networks ? Are you saying Neural Networks are not AI and that they can’t learn ?
NNs don’t retrain while they are being used, they are trained once then they cannot learn new behaviour or correct existing behaviour. If you want to make them better you need to run them a bunch of times, collect and annotate good/bad runs, then re-train them from scratch (or fine-tune them) with this new data. Just like LLMs because LLMs are neural networks.
- Comment on Fallout London's Robot Speaker of the House Played by UK's Actual Former Speaker of the House 3 months ago:
Ordaaaaaah
Seriously I used to watch compilations of funny Bercow moments, this guy was hilarious
- Comment on What does it mean?? 3 months ago:
93!
- Comment on Many people don't realize this place is just as toxic and censored as Reddit just in smaller scale, hell I'm afraid this post will be removed as well, they hate any type of discussion... 4 months ago:
I was banned from awful.systems yesterday for posting a personal experience about GenAI that wasn’t negative 💀
- Comment on Devs should not be "forced to run on a treadmill until their mental or physical health breaks", says publisher of Manor Lords, citing how gamers seem to be trained to expect endless content work now 4 months ago:
I don’t know, the bedrock version started in 2011 way before Microsoft bought the studio. It was never free or community-driven, it is cheaper than the Java version, but it doesn’t have access to the free modding community. This sounds like a relatively good non-toxic deal to me, either you pay upfront or you suffer the micro-transactions. If you don’t have the money, you can still play the full game for a relatively low price.
Your implication that they don’t optimize or develop new content for the base game is simply unfounded and proven wrong every year like clockwork.
