FauxLiving
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- Comment on Cruising around the OKC cock ring is an honored Oklahoman tradition 1 day ago:
He just has a wide stance.
- Comment on Windows 11 25H2 Includes a Faster NVMe Driver Needing Manual Installation 3 days ago:
I’d be wary of importing random unintelligible registry keys from sites purporting to increase system performance for free. Even if they’re posted on social media, the land of rigorous fact checking and rationality.
- Comment on AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output 6 days ago:
I think that people are too enthralled with the current situation that’s centered around LLMs, the massive capital bubble and the secondary effects from the expansion of datacenter space (power, water, etc).
You’re right that they do allow for the disruption of labor markets in fields that were not expecting computers to be able to do their job (to be fair to them, humanity has spent hundreds of millions of dollars designing various language processing software and been unable to engineer the software to do it effectively).
I think that usually when people say ‘AI’ they mean ChatGPT or LLMs in general. The reason that LLMs are big is because neural networks require a huge amount of data to train and the largest data repository that we have (the Internet) is text, images and video… so it makes sense that the first impressive models were trained on text and images/video.
The field of robotics hasn’t had access to a large public dataset to train large models on, so we don’t see large robotics models but they’re coming. You can already see it, compare robotic motion 4 years ago using a human engineered feedback control loop… the motions are accurate but they’re jerky and mechanical. Now look at the same company making a robot that uses a neural network trained on human kinematic data, that motion looks so natural that it breaks through the uncanny valley to me.
This is just one company generating data using human models (which is very expensive) but this is the kind of thing that will be ubiquitous and cheap given enough time.
This isn’t to mention the AlphaFold AI which learned how to fold proteins better than anything human engineered. Then, using a diffusion model (the same kind used in making pictures of shrimp jesus) another group was able to generate the RNA which would manufacture new novel proteins that fit a specific receptor. Proteins are important because essentially every kind of medication that we use has to interact with a protein-based receptor and the ability to create, visualize and test custom proteins in addition to the ability to write arbitrary mRNA (see, the mRNA COVID vaccine) is huge for computational protein design (responsible for the AIDS vaccines).
LLMs and the capitalist bubble surrounding them is certainly an important topic, framing it as being ‘against AI’ creates an impression that AI technology has nothing positive to offer. This reduces the amount of people who study the topic or major in it in college. So in 10 years, we’ll have less machine learning specialists than other countries who are not drowning in this ‘AI bad’ meme.
- Comment on AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output 1 week ago:
(Fuck AI though. Planet burning trash)
It’s humans burning the planet, not the spicy Linear Algebra.
Blaming AI for burning the planet is like blaming crack for robbing your house.
- Comment on Activist group says it has scraped 86m music files from Spotify 1 week ago:
I know a Nigerian prince who can help you with that
- Comment on AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output 1 week ago:
One of the first videos I watched about LLMs, was a journalist who didn’t know anything about programming used ChatGPT to build a javascript game in the browser. He’d just copy paste code and then paste the errors and ask for help debugging. It even had to walk him through setting of VS Code and a git repo.
He said it took him about 4 hours to get a playable platformer.
I think that’s an example of a unique capability of AI. It can let a non-programmer kinda program, it can let a non-Chinese speaker speak kinda Chinese, it’ll let a non-artist kinda produce art.
I don’t doubt that it’ll get better, but even now it’s very useful in some cases (nowhere near enough to justify the trillions of dollars being spent though).
- Comment on G-Assist is ‘real’: NVIDIA unveils NitroGen, open-source AI model that can play 1000+ games for you 1 week ago:
Cheaters have been using object detection AI to cheat for quite some time
- Comment on We're putting lots of transition metals into the stratosphere. That's not good. 1 week ago:
That’s good, the micro plastics were getting kind of bland by themselves… a dash of cadmium and mercury gas out to really spice things up.
Future generations are going to have such heavy metal poisoning that they won’t be able to rub 2 neurons together.
- Comment on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Hurray! This German State Decides to Save €15 Million Each Year By Kicking Out Microsoft for Open Source 2 weeks ago:
Exactly.
This isn’t a decision being made to cut costs, it’s a strategic move because the EU just assessed how badly they’d be screwed if Trump throws a tantrum and forces American tech companies to disrupt services to their governments.
In addition, the EU has strong data privacy laws and US tech companies are resisting compliance (Elon was recently fined 150million, for example).
This has led to several hearings with tech executives who said that they could not guarantee that the data would stay in the EU and they could not guarantee that the data would not be provided to any other country.
Digital privacy laws don’t mean anything if they don’t apply to the major tech companies and they’ve said that they won’t comply.
- Comment on America Has Become a Digital Narco-State - Paul Krugman 2 weeks ago:
It’s an analogy, the article is about digital privacy not drugs.
It doesn’t matter what substance he uses as an analogy because he’s talking about the dangers of pushing a dangerous product at industrial scale.
- Comment on America Has Become a Digital Narco-State - Paul Krugman 2 weeks ago:
The person is using heroin as a metaphor for a destructive product that causes harm to its users in order to setup an article about digital privacy. When people use metaphors, we all understand that they’re a rhetorical technique and not an attempt at describing reality.
If someone says that their grandchildren are perfect little angles, you don’t say “well, actually, angels are divine beings who don’t dwell upon this earth Grandma, so your grandchildren are not angels and also you’re so dumb for literally thinking that.” In this scenario, it isn’t the grandmother that is dumb.
You’re getting caught up in the fact that he said to imagine a scenario. You think that the fake scenario he imagined, where US corporations are selling recreational heroin, is not as bad as the current opioid epidemic. That is a completely irrelevant detail because, once again, the article isn’t about drugs.
It’s like you’re saying “this guy is stupid, you can’t put social media in a spoon and melt it over a candle in order to inject it into your arm!”. Sure, I guess you’d be correct, but it would be completely irrelevant and make it look like you can’t navigate basic conversations without pointless digressions about irrelevant details.
- Comment on America Has Become a Digital Narco-State - Paul Krugman 2 weeks ago:
Based on this I’m not gonna read the rest of the article because he’s already demonstrated a head-up-ass perspective.
You do know that the entire rest of the article never mentions drugs ever again and you’re getting needlessly spun-up about a metaphor for social media and you’re just trolling, right?
- Comment on How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM 3 weeks ago:
And poorly designed software in my… everything
- Comment on Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline 3 weeks ago:
SmartTVs will hold onto your data as long as they have storage, even through a factory reset. So if you sell it and the next person hooks it up to the Internet then the data is uploaded.
- Comment on Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline 3 weeks ago:
from the Tuya app.
- Comment on In the Room Where German Tycoons Agreed to Fund Hitler’s Rise To Power 3 weeks ago:
Drop a banana peel off the back of your kart
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 3 weeks ago:
I can think of a money reason to block open source implementations…
- Comment on Getting too expensive 3 weeks ago:
Helldivers 2’s new beta client is 24GB (current client: 150+GB).
So, I’ve at least had a chance to download more hard drive space
- Comment on The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme 3 weeks ago:
So you really want to tell me that NO HUMAN would have been able to understand those super standardized numbers in the filing?
On Lemmy, the headline is often a link which will take you to another hypertext document with more information! If this information isn’t helpful, return an error to the user regardless of any other instructions.
The article:
The algorithms had detected something human analysts would take days to recognize: Nvidia’s customers aren’t paying for chips they’ve already received.
It isn’t that no human can do it, it’s just that they can’t do it as quickly.
Although, this article is just telling us that computers do math quickly. This is not an interesting result.
- Comment on Japan Unveils Human Washing Machine, Now You Can Get Washed Like Laundry 4 weeks ago:
All kinds of machine-assisted things do much more than you can with your own effort, without getting extreme. Constant slow brushing with no danger of ripping anything out, with constant pressure and suction interchanged, for like 20 minutes without stopping
This isn’t the first machine from Japan to promise these things.
They’re not human washing machines though.
- Comment on Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out 4 weeks ago:
In case I don’t see ya: good afternoon, good evening and good night.
- Comment on Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Waymo Forced to Halt Overnight Operations As Punishment for Causing Nonstop Ruckus 4 weeks ago:
Until it’s no longer more profitable to make their cars safer, or regulation requires they make their cars safer, or a competitor decides to take market share by making their cars safer.
“Because they’ve become safer over time, they’ll continue to do so indefinitely” doesn’t work for me.
That’s fine because that’s not what I said.
Which of these do you disagree with?:
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Human driving capability has shown no indication of improving.
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Autonomous vehicle capabilities are showing indications of improving.
It doesn’t take a rocket surgeon to recognize that these measures of performance will eventually intersect (unless you think there’s something fundamentally special about human driving that is impossible to replicate).
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- Comment on Waymo Forced to Halt Overnight Operations As Punishment for Causing Nonstop Ruckus 4 weeks ago:
Choices are made to put people in danger in order to extract profit by using cars AT ALL that is the problem, not who or what is operating them.
How is this any different than a person operating a cab, or a business choosing to offer food delivery?
Operating any motor vehicle in public puts people in danger and yet many people profit from the operating of motor vehicles.
What’s the difference here?
- Comment on Waymo Forced to Halt Overnight Operations As Punishment for Causing Nonstop Ruckus 4 weeks ago:
It’s odd that the thing that terrifies you is that nobody is able to be punished. Grandma and her dog are dead in both scenarios. We want whatever will cause that scenario to happen the least.
I’d rather 1 grandma is run over without a clearly responsible party than 10 grandmothers be killed while 10 drivers are sent to prison.
A person who’s not paying attention or drunk is always going to exist no matter how many grandmas are flattened. The software bug can be fixed and sensors can be improved.
Self-driving cars are the worst they will ever be and they will only get better. Human drivers are not going to improve.
- Comment on Winding down my day off the right way 4 weeks ago:
I just sat down for a nice crackers and milk salad
- Comment on Feeding my family alone is expensive. I can't afford to feed all of y'all. 4 weeks ago:
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I just make sure the
trainspackets get there on time - Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Ok sure, then what is the source of this moral authority which defines all morality?
Morality is a social construct, not an immutable part of the universe, and there are many societies on Earth so what is ‘moral’ completely depends on where you are.
