juanito_the_great
@juanito_the_great@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on ‘A feedback loop with no brake’: how an AI doomsday report shook US markets 1 day ago:
Thank you for putting in the time to try to explain this. I’ve also been working with ML for a long time and have the intuition that there is a fundamental limit to what can be achieved with Neural Networks and probably any other Machine Learning technique.
Your cake analogy is probably better, but let me try another one. It’s like having a machine that is trying to solve a gigantic puzzle with random pieces from different puzzles. Yeah, if you have enough puzzle pieces and the machine is fast enough it can give you suboptimal solutions but the puzzle will not ever be solved as it is supposed to be solved.
- Comment on Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital 1 week ago:
It destroyed the budget of scientific research in Spain. I was a Spanish researcher then. There was a point when universities couldn’t pay us the grant that the government had already assigned to us. Some of my peers missed rent. I heard stories of Spanish PhD. students stranded all over the world. I quit research (my dream job at the time) because of this crisis and never came back to it.
Happy you felt nothing in your happy little bubble.
- Comment on All I Want 6 months ago:
They were! This trend kind of died out because of growth and enshitiffication, and I’m very glad to see it coming back here :)
- Comment on WeTransfer updates T&Cs, allows it to use your data to train AI 7 months ago:
Direct consequence of this.
techcrunch.com/…/bending-spoons-acquires-file-tra…
After which they fired 75% of the employees. Now they are trying to milk a dying product.
- Comment on Telegram will integrate Elon Musk's Grok A.I into the app 8 months ago:
Anthrax will integrate HIV into the mix.
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 9 months ago:
It’s kind of the opposite in my mind, WSL is (was) Microsoft capitulating to the fact that Linux is not going away, same with Azure. WSL is mostly for companies. Some companies have a huge contract with Microsoft and manage all laptops with it. Then they grow big enough that they can’t ignore Linux because they have people who need to work on Linux. WSL is the way of allowing them to do so.
EEE would have been investing in PowerShell, PuTTY, or similar.
- Comment on Meta’s AI Profiles Are Already Polluting Instagram and Facebook With Slop 1 year ago:
I mean, he had a point, particularly at the time.