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- Comment on Are humans really so predictable that algorithms can easily see thru us, or does continuous use of algorithm feeds make us predictable to their results? 3 hours ago:
If there are 800 sentences/whatever chunk of information it uses about what color a ball is, using the average can result in that sentence using red when it should be blue based on the current question or it could add information about balls that are a different type because it doesn’t understand what kind of ball it is talking about. It might be randomness, it might be using an average, or a combination of both.
Like if asked about ‘what color is a basketball’ and the training set includes a it of custom color combinations by each team it might return a combination of colors that doesn’t match a team like brown (default leather) and yellow. This could also be the answer if you asked for an example of a basketball that matched team colors, because it might keep the default color from a ball that just has a team logo.
If someone doesn’t know the training set it would probably look like it made something ip. To someone who knows it is impossible to tell of it is random, due to a lack of knowing what it is talking about, or if it had some other less obvious connection that combines the two which lead to yellow and brown result.
- Comment on Are humans really so predictable that algorithms can easily see thru us, or does continuous use of algorithm feeds make us predictable to their results? 6 hours ago:
Quantum computers are inherently unreliable, but you can perform the same calculation multiple times and average the result / discard the outliers and it will still be faster than a classical computer.
That works for pattern matching, but you don’t want to do that for doing accurate calculations. There is no reason to average the AI run calculation of 12345 x 54321 because that can be done with a tiny calculator with a solar cell the size of a pencil eraser. Doing calculations like that multiple times adds up fast and will always be less reliable than just doing it right in the first place. Same with reporting historical facts.
There is a vslidation step that AI doesn’t do. If you feed it 1000 posts from unreliable sources like reddit or don’t add even more context about whether the ‘fact’ is a joke, baseless rumor, or from a reliable source you get the current AI.
Yes, doing multiple calculations efficently and taking averages has a lot of uses, mainly in complex systems where this provides opportunities to test chaotic systems with wildly different starting states. There are a ton of great uses for AI!
But the AI that is being forced down our throats is worse than wikipedia because it averages content from ALL of reddit, facebook, and other massive sites where crackpots are given the same weight as informed individuals and there are no guardrails.
- Comment on Are humans really so predictable that algorithms can easily see thru us, or does continuous use of algorithm feeds make us predictable to their results? 7 hours ago:
The unpredictable element is also why they absolutely suck at being the reliable sources of accurate information that they are being advertised to be.
Yeah, humans are wrong a lot of the time but AI forced into everything should be more reliable than the average human.
- Comment on Why don't people like Melon Tusk get tired of the shit they gave you pull through literally every day ? I mean doesn't the guilt of bad decisions pull them down enough like the rest of us ? 11 hours ago:
Yeah, they wouldn’t reach that level of wealth if they had any amount of compasssion or self awareness.
- Comment on Ed Sheeran 19 hours ago:
He looks like a discarded muppet.
- Comment on Are you a Lemmy Shitbird? Click here to find out. 1 day ago:
Aww, I want to see if my estimated ratio is correct. I think it is around 10:1 and am perfectly fine with any ratio tbh.
- Comment on Are you a Lemmy Shitbird? Click here to find out. 1 day ago:
I gentle caress really.
- Comment on Why do some people say "I wouldn't want a government to dictate what I eat"? This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not? 1 day ago:
Neither is healthy for you, but neither is going to kill you outright in small amounts. So heavily regulated and limited to adults is fine as long as the companies aren’t allowed to outright lie about their products like cigarette companies used to do. Those are basically on par with eating excessive amounts of unhealthy food when consumed in small quantities.
By safe I’m referring to things like food that isn’t going to kill you in the short term because it is spoiled, toxic, has harmful additives. You know, the things that lead to food regulation agencies that keep companies from selling rotten meat or food with lead intentionally added for flavor.
- Comment on Why do some people say "I wouldn't want a government to dictate what I eat"? This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not? 1 day ago:
I want them to deny bad actors the ability to sell dangerous foods on the open market.
Informed choice should be between safe products.
- Comment on Im not familar on how to make meth. But is my mom in trouble with amonia windex bleach 2 empty 2 liters, batteries under the sink? 2 days ago:
I’m confused, is your mom already in trouble or are you worried she would be in trouble?
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 2 days ago:
I have used a case on the last three phones, all Samsung, because they seem to be of a form factor intended to have a case. I find the naked phone to be a bit thing and slippery, so I get a case that doesn’t add a lot of thickness but has a rubbery kind of texture and slap a pop socket on the back to make it even easier to keep in my hand as I’m a bit clumsy and fumble stuff.
No screen protector though. Only cracked the corners of one phone that was in a flip case by fumbling it onto rough concrete sideways and the cover flipped open. No issues with the phones since with just a back and edge protector despite dropping it a number of times.
- Comment on How do you gently tell someone you only want to keep seeing them if it's on a dating level? 2 days ago:
As someone who had this mindset from social pressure in their younger years, you should get over yourself. A friendship and a dating/sexual relationship can be separated by being able to let go of the feeling of being rejected.
Because the friendship is going to end, one way or the other.
Your feelings of being rejected are valid, your reaction is counter productive in the long run. Try to be friends, let the rejection go. Focus on putting yourself out there to find someone else.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
I don’t see how your argument is anything other than “Memes about men aren’t inclusive. What about everyone else?”
- Comment on Baldur's Gate IP overlords Wizards of the Coast reveal a new Dungeons & Dragons single-player action adventure 2 days ago:
That’s good to hear, hopefully that continues.
- Comment on Ai Code Commits 2 days ago:
Right now they do between a combination of extra oversight, generally travelling at slow speeds, and being resticted in area. Kind of like how children are less likely to die in a swimming pool with lifeguards compared to rivers and beaches without lifeguards.
Once they are released into the wild I expect a number of high profile deaths, but also assume that those fatalities will be significantly lower than the human average due to being set to be overly cautious. I do expect them to have a high rate of low speed collisions when they encounter confusing or absent road markings in rural areas.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate IP overlords Wizards of the Coast reveal a new Dungeons & Dragons single-player action adventure 2 days ago:
I know he has worked on some popular games, but also know that WotC/Hasbro have been going a bit overboard on being controlling and feel lucky that we got BG3.
- Comment on Time sure flies. I remember pausing my N64 to watch the news coverage. 2 days ago:
Surely it wasn’t that recent.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Do you also complain that gay pride and black history month aren’t inclusive of everyone?
- Comment on Ai Code Commits 2 days ago:
The “AI agent” approach’s goal doesn’t include a human reviewer. As in the agent is independent, or is reviewed by other AI agents. Full automation.
They are selling those AI agents as working right now despite the obvious flaws.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Except they are part of the group, so that line makes bo sense in this context.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
This poster/meme might work better if it aimed for equality and that it doesn’t exclude anyone.
Who does it exclude?
- Comment on Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Now Promotes Microtransactions When You Swap Weapons 2 days ago:
Which is placed exactly where the most recently used blueprint used to be, making it extremely easy to click on out of muscle memory.
- Comment on well... 3 days ago:
A giant cock.
- Comment on Activision Quietly Force Adverts into Call of Duty Black Ops 6 and Warzone Loadouts and Players Absolutely Hate It: 'At This Point It Really Feels Like Opening Up a Mobile Game' 3 days ago:
They regularly have skins of famous people for $20 worth of in game points.
It is never enough.
- Comment on Companies are using Ribbon AI, an AI interviewer to screen candidates. 4 days ago:
I assume they haven’t caught on because they think it will work soon due to not understanding the current problems are fundamental issues with the current offerings. The current problems cannot be fixed by scaling or using different training data, the core design introduces
hallucinationserrors. - Comment on Delicious 5 days ago:
A ton of movies from the 80s and 90s hold up well except for maybe one or two jokes that haven’t aged well. In most cases, they could cut those specific jokes out without losing anything and the rest of the movie aged perfectly fine.
- Comment on Amazing. 5 days ago:
RIP this mechanic’s liver.
- Comment on Research reveals “non-existent” enforcement of industry-led standards on loot boxes 5 days ago:
“Parents who leave loaded guns on the table bear no responsibility if their kids shoot themselves with it.” That’s you right now.
- Comment on Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ plan has a major obstacle: Physics 5 days ago:
I am half surprised that it isn’t just Star Wars 2: Electric Boogaloo.
- Comment on Gemini will now automatically summarize your long emails unless you opt out 5 days ago:
Plus the options are frequently hidden and unclear.
I thought disabling One Drive on my Windows machine would keep it from syncing to the cloud. Nope, it just changed where the files were stored but Windows copies it to One Drive even when One Drive isn’t running.
In the case of google, I assume that turning off the Gemini bullshit doesn’t have any impact on it copying all the content to their servers even if you don’t see it happening.
