Zacryon
@Zacryon@feddit.org
- Comment on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation 1 day ago:
Aren’t they already doing that?
- Comment on I should call her. 4 days ago:
- Comment on Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30 5 days ago:
That’s a complicated way of saying that Microsoft recommends switching to Linux. /j
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 5 days ago:
I don’t care about votes. I just hope that people start to comprehend this field a tiny bit better .
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 5 days ago:
But yes. Exactly in the use of “Artificial Intelligence”.
Artificial Intelligence is a wide field, consisting of a plethora of methods. LLMs like ChatGPT are part of this wide field, as per definition how researchers are describing the field.
The “intelligence” part is an issue though if taken literal?., since we have no clear definition of what “intelligence” even is. Neither for human / natural intelligence, nor for artificial. But that’s how the field was labled. We have created a category for a bunch of methods, models and algorithms and sticked “AI” onto it. Therefore I stand by what I have said before:
It is AI.
Due to the lack of a clear definition for “intelligence” I would coarsely outline AI as: mimicking natural thinking, problem solving and decision processes without necessarily being identical. (This makes it difficult to distinguish it from plain calculators though, so a better definition is required.) So if we have a model that is able to distinguish cat pictures from non-cat pictures, that’s AI. And if we have “autocorrect on steroids” (credit to Dirk Hohndel) like ChatGPT, that matches the text comprehension skills of 15 year olds (just an example), then this too is AI.
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 5 days ago:
Have you tried Ecosia?
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 5 days ago:
Whithout a clear definition of intelligence, such a discussion is somewhat pointless. The closest thing I would use to describe artificial “intelligence” is: Mimicking human thought and decision processes, without the necessity of being identical.
Secondly, regarding your first paragraph:
Humans excel at providing wrong information. Sometimes they are right. In that regard there are similarities between an LLM and a human.By the way: LLMs are part of the field of AI. But AI consists of a plethora of methods and algorithms, where LLMs are just a tiny fraction that is currently very popular.
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 5 days ago:
It is AI.
- Comment on Imagine not being able to shower, because AI slop generator machines need that water! 1 week ago:
It’s always a good idea to put computer centers in areas with water scarcity. /s
- Comment on Welcome to the new world of risk: Microsoft cuts off services to energy company without notice 1 week ago:
Crowdstrike already showed very impressivels the danger of monopolies.
- Comment on Zuckerberg says people without AI glasses will be at a disadvantage in the future 1 week ago:
Something something, Sugarmountain tries to push a project again that will probably fail, like so many before.
- Comment on electrostatic spider flight 3 weeks ago:
They’ve observed this in a lab.
- Comment on Are password managers secure to use? 3 weeks ago:
They will run out of business very quick if they allow it!
I wouldn’t be so naive. Even applications advertised as “secure” may be subject to surveillance laws of various nations. Or even just plainly lying for other malicious reasons while keeping it “hidden”.
And any file can be brute forced open given enough processing power or enough tech
Which, depending on the encryption and password, may take more time than the age of the universe. Even with quantum computers, afaik. There are already a bunch of new encryption technologies undergoing standardization that are also not vulnerable to quantum computers.
- Comment on electrostatic spider flight 3 weeks ago:
“just”
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 4 weeks ago:
Fair point. But still pretty bad. Literally two days after the warranty expired my Seagate drive was broken. This was my first and only Seagate drive. Never again.
Meanwhile my old Western Digital drive is still kicking way beyond it’s warranty. Almost 10 years now.
- Comment on Since we're doing magic eyes now... 4 weeks ago:
How to make people on the internet staring on their phones like this:
Worked well for me. Cool stuff!
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 4 weeks ago:
Is Seagate still producing shitty drives that fail a few days after the warranty expired?
- Comment on Can't fool me 4 weeks ago:
When I first looked at this, I saw it as a broken-up kitchen floating through space.
- Comment on Can't fool me 4 weeks ago:
“NASA is lying about how space looks like and fabricates photographies instead. In this example, by just taking pictures of such shiny counters to fake how space with stars looks like”. - Conspiracy™
- Comment on ⚡️👇👇👇⚡️ 4 weeks ago:
“There is no evidence that this didn’t happen.”
This line of reasoning is the same way religions “argue”.
There is also no evidence that this did happen.
So I assume that it’s wrong until undeniably proven otherwise by the scientific method.
- Comment on I self hosted a World of Warcraft server. 4 weeks ago:
For dipping your toes into a new topic I think it’s perfectly fine. It helps to provide useful pointers for further “research” (in a sense that would meet your requirement) and also manages to provide mostly accurate overviews. But sure, to really dive into this, LLMs Like ChatGPT and co. are just some low-level assistants at best and one should go through the material themselves.
- Comment on I self hosted a World of Warcraft server. 4 weeks ago:
Perplexity does a good job as LLM-search-engine-combo.
- Comment on Robot performs first realistic surgery without human help: System trained on videos of surgeries performs like an expert surgeon 4 weeks ago:
Yes. But if the machine has proven to work reliably it will usually do so for its lifetime, while humans are prone to e multitude of errors. Especially in the medical field.
- Comment on Robot performs first realistic surgery without human help: System trained on videos of surgeries performs like an expert surgeon 4 weeks ago:
I trust a good machine much more than any human.
- Comment on Robot performs first realistic surgery without human help: System trained on videos of surgeries performs like an expert surgeon 4 weeks ago:
That’s such a fucking stupid idea.
Care to elaborate why?
From my point of view I don’t see a problem with that. Or let’s say: the potential risks highly depend on the specific setup.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 5 weeks ago:
Do billionaires count as red meat? I am asking for a friend.
- Comment on Connor Myers: As if graduating weren’t daunting enough, now students like me face a jobs market devastated by AI 5 weeks ago:
The idea of a world driven by robots empowered by AI methods, is really great. It gives freedom to everyone with almost no costs. Just doesn’t work so well with a capitalistic society as the one we currently have.
Such uses demand a non-capitalistic socio-economic system. Like some form of communism.
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 5 weeks ago:
It’s easy to try on that pairs of shoes. Those ignorants should go ahead and try building a community, try creating a video with some genuine effort regarding its content and - especially - edit it in an appealing way.
Heck, I was doing some Blender rendering for fun as a hobby and am occasionally recording some demo videos of a project I am working at for my supervisor. Sometimes it takes about two hours to edit a fucking 10 minute video. This is just a huge amount of work. No wonder any creator, who has reached a sufficient level of income, hires editors.
- Comment on YSK that fracking is not safe. People living near fracking sites are more likely to develop serious diseases 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 1 month ago:
We don’t even have a clear definition of what “intelligence” even is. Yet a lot of people art claiming that they themselves are intelligent and AI models are not.
