kreskin

@kreskin@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re all idiots. Even the titans of industry-- sit down with then-- they are idiots, at best. narcissists and criminals at worst. At least you and I lack the power to be that awful with our idiocy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I work in an company who is all-in on selling AI and we are trying desperately to use this AI ourselves. We’ve concluded internally that AI can only be trusted with small use cases that are easily validated by humans, or for fast prototyping work… hack day stuff to validate a possibility but not an actual a high quality safe and scalable implementation, or in writing tests of existing code, to increase test coverage (yes, I know thats a bad idea but QA blessed the result… so uh … cool).

  The use case we zeroed in on is writing well schema'd configs in yaml or json.  Even then, a good percentage of the time the AI will miss very significant mandatory sections, or add hallucinations that are unrelated to the task at hand.  We then can use AI to test AI's work, several times using several AIs.  And to a degree, it'll catch a lot of the issues, but not all.  So we then code review and lint with code we wrote that AI never touched,  and send all the erroring configs to a human.  It does work, but cant be used for mission critical applications.  And nothing about the AI or the process of using it is free.  Its also disturbingly not idempotent.  Did it fail?  Run it again a few times and it'll pass.   We think it still saves money when done at scale, but not as much as we promise external AI consumers.  The Senior leadership know its currently overhyped trash and pressure us to use it anyway on expectations it'll improve in the future, so we give the mandatory crisp salute of alignment and we're off.
  

  I will say its great for writing reviews. It adds nonsense and doesnt get the whole review correct, but it writes very flowery stuff so managers dont have to. So we use it for first drafts and then remove a lot of the true BS out of it. If it gets stuff wrong, oh well, human perception is flawed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean its fair, no one uses semicolons – except for you evidently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft says Copilot will 'finish your code before you finish your coffee' adding fuel to the Windows 11 AI controversy that's still raging⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yes but all the code will be wrong and you will spend your entire day chasing stupid mistakes and hallucinations in the code. I’d rather just write the code myself thanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What the democrats just did.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yes, we give them all of our money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨STAR TREK 4 Has Finally Been Scrapped As Paramount "Moves On" From Chris Pine-Led Franchise⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Best ratings the star trek franchise has ever seen, by a huge margin, and they toss it in the trash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  yes, except the bullshit cancer discoveries are always in Israel, and the bullshit chip designs are in china.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  sounds like bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How does one become a corporate troll?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Las Vegas deploys world’s first Tesla Cybertruck police fleet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We already knew cops arent smart or in any way serving for the American people, or informed about laws, this gives them the perfect vehicle to match.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Does blame itself matter though? Can we steer opinions with such a thing and make real change or is that ability an illusion, and blame a …verbal masturbation?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m starting to lose hope in the progress of humanity at all. I am pretty sure we wont solve our critical problems. We just arent capable of doing so as a group. And we will keep bombing and burning until the planet cant sustain itself any longer. We are not really progressing in our social infrastructure and philosophies at all-- we might as well be humans from 5000 years ago, only sedentary, holding iphones and bathed in chemicals all day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  religions are the absolute bane of human philosophy. Its prepackaged bundles of ideas that no one is allowed to challenge. Most religions are basically ridiculous and easily proved false. They serve to control. All of them were written by flawed people from long ago, and it shows.

  The meaning of all writing is based on the time it exists in. Whats in the bible (and Koran, and Talmud) today doesnt mean what it meant two thousand years ago, and even then it was probably sketchy. Now its worse and getting more irrelevant all the time. But say that out loud in any setting except an anonymous internet chatroom, and everyone shuns you, at best.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve noticed no one has books anymore though. I used to be able to go to peoples houses, look at their bookcase, and learn lots about them. No one has bookcases full of books on display anymore except really old people. Even our library has been mostly emptied and has maybe a fifth of the number of books it used to have. I have no idea where all those book went.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  where’s that Kylo Ren MORE! meme at…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  you can use archive.today to unpaywall it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such??⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Spoken like someone who mixes their fabrics and eats shellfish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It'S tHe SaMe PiCtUrE!!!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you are still allowed to be that. Saying you are against facism (member of antifa) gets you on terrorist watch lists though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It'S tHe SaMe PiCtUrE!!!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  she’s an absolutely terrible human being. But no one can say she was a prostitute, or you get sued. Definitely not a high priced prostitute.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2 Instances are being used for coordinated vote manipulation, and should be defederated. chinese.lol lemmy.doesnotexist.club⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  threelonmuskteers whats up with this? lemmy.world/post/35942590?scrollToComments=true

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  kind of the dark side of the reddits/lemmys. Mods just doing whatever they like. btw, fuck Elon musk, that guy sucks. and fuck threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works. What a snowflake douchebag.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well as long as we still have enough money to buy weapons for that one particular filthy country in the middle east, we’re fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So this is the terminator consciousness so many people are scared will kill us all…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He died doing what he loved.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They think the shooter was trans, but I’d bet real money that when the find the shooter its going to be a right winger. It almost always is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too soon?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Look what you made me do, I’ve opened a bottle of very good pinot to ponder these things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too soon?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I expect the NRA will stage a gunshow at a nearby site someplace in the next few days, right? Its what they do for school shootings and this was at a school. So Kirk’s fam can stock up on cheap ammo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too soon?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you even sent your thoughts and prayers yet?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bye Intel, hi AMD! I’m done after 2 dead Intels⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  they always did, even back in college.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU Hits Google With $3.5 Billion Antitrust Fine⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  googles EMEA division is 29% of profits. So figure about 30k profits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU Hits Google With $3.5 Billion Antitrust Fine⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  googles net profit is 115 billion/year. So while 3.5 is inconvenient, I imagine google feels that its just the cost of doing business in the EU.