Zacryon
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- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 1 week ago:
The logic behind the voice controls sounds pretty questionable, but it’s supposedly backed by data showing that users spend billions of minutes talking in Microsoft Team meetings, according to Mehdi — so they’re already used to talking on the computer, right?
Do they really reason like this? Oh my. That’s stupid. And here I was thinking Microsoft employs clever people.
- Comment on one bright second 1 week ago:
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Don’t worry. We’re working on AI powered humanoid robots that will replace natural human connection.
- 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 3 weeks ago:
This is in beta, not available for all users and you can also disable it easily: support.ecosia.org/article/994-ai-overviews
- 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 3 weeks ago:
As far as I know they are using Bing. They’ve started building their own search index last year in a partnership with Qwant.
- Comment on Inspiring. Innovating. 3 weeks ago:
Yes, of course there is a physical limit. But I’m not sure we’ve leveraged all that’s possible yet. And currently the scale of inefficiency - also from a financial perspective - is quite significant. Especially when comparing to other methods like planting trees.
- Comment on Inspiring. Innovating. 3 weeks ago:
Of course. But it’s the scale of inefficiency (also in terms of a financial perspective) that becomes quite significant.
- 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 3 weeks ago:
It find it unfortunate that you are unwilling to continue this discussion. I can only recommend to you to read more deeply about this topic in order to form a well founded and critical opinion, before judging things you do not seem to comprehend sufficiently.
Let me know as soon as you’d like to continue this matter. I am always open for a good discussion and good arguments.
(I am not sorry for “necroing”, sometimes I’m just not in the mood and/or don’t have the time to reply to various comments. But that’s the beauty of discussion platforms: it’s always possible to pick it up at a later time.)
- 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 3 weeks ago:
Well, in that case I wonder why you were criticising the field of AI. Doesn’t seem to be substantiated.
- 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 3 weeks ago:
Is it though? By which definition?
What is “thinking critically about thoughts”?
And what is an “independent thought”? Aren’t our brains not just reacting to sensory inputs and dictated by the way our brains are wired?Maybe we should go even further and clarify what a “thought” even is.
Are animals, who lack the higher cognitive functions, that humans have, therefore not “intelligent”? Are mentally impaired people no longer to be considered “intelligent”? If so, where is the line to be drawn? What are the specific definitions and criteria to correctly distinguish intelligence from non- or pseudo-intelligence?
- 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 3 weeks ago:
Not my wording, but the one from the paper I have linked.
- Comment on Life imitates art 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on If A.I. is so fast and efficient, and CEOs are paid so much, why not replace CEOs with A.I.? 4 weeks ago:
This is possible and much easier than with the people who usually do the actual work that makes a company sucessfull.
For example, this chinese company has done it and performs very well: independent.co.uk/…/ai-ceo-artificial-intelligenc…
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 4 weeks ago:
“Google stands for free and open internet”
blog.google/…/keep-internet-free-and-open/
Aged like milk.
- Comment on Efficiency! 4 weeks ago:
I’ve got a rejection notice after I was hired by the very same company. The reason was that someone forgot to mark the application as accepted, so the system automatically sent the rejection mail. That was confusing at first, but also funny.
- Comment on Efficiency! 4 weeks ago:
You seldomly do get the reason. Even if you’re asking. Because companies don’t want to provide ground for lawsuits. The reasons for rejection can be highly arbitrary and therefore not be justified. Even on a legal basis. So they won’t tell.
These application process dances are usually a highly defect and outdated approach to hiring anyway.
- Comment on Efficiency! 4 weeks ago:
Signs that they are in dire need of devs.
- Comment on OK what is your Roman name? 4 weeks ago:
Croissantius 🥐
- Comment on Kinesi Protein 1 month ago:
“But I would walk 500 miles And I would walk 500 more Just to be the protein who walks a thousand miles To deliver cargo to your core” ♫
- Comment on xkcd #3140: Biology Department 1 month ago:
The Last of Us
- Comment on Misogyny or something... Idk 1 month ago:
They are not totally wrong. But not totally right either.
What we perceive as sexual and how we react to it has strong cultural and social influences, of course there is also the baseline biology.
There was a time when women’s legs were “tobooed”, since being considered as highly sexual and delibaretly hidden.
Nowadays it’s no issue at all if women wear clothes that reveal their legs accross all occasions.So there is some form of habit to it. If we are used to seeing naked body parts in non-sexual contexts, then we will see similar normalization in this regard as with legs or other body parts and areas.
We might benefit from normalizing this. Among other effects, this could help to counter many legal and social issues people have with revealed body parts between genders.
- Comment on Inspiring. Innovating. 1 month ago:
Current state of the art DAC plants are incredibly inefficient. Also, even if they would come with efficiency that is comparable to trees, they would still lack other positive ecological functions of trees.
- Comment on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation 2 months ago:
Aren’t they already doing that?
- Comment on I should call her. 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
It is AI.
