bampop

@bampop@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d get a whole bunch of these and keep a different book on each one, so you could just pick it up and read it. But it’ll never work, it’s too much trouble to keep them all charged.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What seems really off to me is that Firefox has one standout feature that people really love: extensions. You can customize your browser however you want. So it makes sense that if they wanted to integrate AI into their design that it should be done via extensions. They could produce a mozilla-approved pack of extensions which add whatever AI features they want to offer. That way any AI functionality is opt-in, and transparent in the sense that you have a specific feature set for each extension so you kind-of know what you’re buying into, rather than having a built-in set of opt-out features that are ill-defined and constantly changing. Such a radical and unnecessary change of their whole design philosophy seems very suspect to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've always thought THIS was unfair⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh come on now, they don’t really have to do that until stalactites start forming

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Having a rough morning. I'm still pondering the question about beavers, and my kid asks me THIS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The tooth fairy can go where it wants, and can see in the dark. Why would it need to dig them up?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought you were kidding but I just had to know lol. Like to make a case for Papyrus being racist you’d firstly have to say who it’s being racist towards, and it’s just a bit… vague… for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OK I love that fonts stir up such strong feelings in people… but racist? How tf is a font racist?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Santa is working on those lists⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s going to find out who’s naughty and nice

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, you’re thinking of a hundred-plus-million dollar company. Being understaffed and disastrously managed is about right for a million dollar company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Expecting a LLM to become conscious, is like expecting a painting to become alive⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So I can outnumber my enemies

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Expecting a LLM to become conscious, is like expecting a painting to become alive⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just don’t think this is a problem in the current stage of technological development. Modern AI is a cute little magic act, but humans (collectively) are very good at piercing the veil and then spreading around the discrepancies they’ve discovered.

  In its current stage, yes. But it’s come a long way in a short time, and I don’t think we’re so far from having machines that pass the Turing test 100%. But rather than being a proof of consciousness, all this really shows is that you can’t judge consciousness from the outside looking in. We know it’s a big illusion just because its entire development has been focused on building that illusion. When it says it feels something, or cares deeply about something, it’s saying that because that’s the kind of thing a human would say.

  Because all the development has been focused on fakery rather than understanding and replicating consciousness, we’re close to the point where we can have a fake consciousness that would fool anyone. It’s a worrying prospect, and not just because I won’t be immortal by having a machine imitate my behaviour. There’s various bad actors trying to exploit this situation. Elon Musk’s attempts to turn Grok into his own personally controlled overseer of truth and narrative seem to backfire in the most comical ways, but that’s teething troubles, in time this will turn into a very subtle and pervasive problem for humankind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Expecting a LLM to become conscious, is like expecting a painting to become alive⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, that’s why we need clones with mind transfer, and to be unconscious during the process. When you wake up you won’t know whether you’re the original or the copy so it’s not a problem

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Expecting a LLM to become conscious, is like expecting a painting to become alive⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People used to talk about the idea of uploading your consciousness to a computer to achieve immortality. But nowadays I don’t think anyone would trust it. You could tell me my consciousness was uploaded and show me a version of me that was indistinguishable from myself in every way, but I still wouldn’t believe it experiences or feels anything as I do, even if it says it does. Especially if it’s based on an LLM, since they are superficial imitations by design.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To celebrate Oxford Word of The Year, Submit your worthy ones for rating in the comments⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Obviously anything by Mariah Carey would be a contender but I stand by my assertion

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To celebrate Oxford Word of The Year, Submit your worthy ones for rating in the comments⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fact: the best Christmas song ever is “All I Want For Christmas is You” by Mariah Carey. Search your feelings. You know it to be true.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨idk⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AI generated content is what ought to be disclosed, and even then it’s not necessarily a bad thing, but I can see how it might usually be. But AI in general encompasses a broad range of tools which is bound to get broader and more ubiquitous with time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ^ updooted

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One man's trash is another man's garbage⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  just like Windows itself

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parenting advice⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  3/5 nice clear instructions but it tastes like gasoline

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parenting advice⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Alright but where’s the recipe?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Heretic! There is only one true god and it’s name is SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been in a situation where I thought I might well die, and this point of view flitted across my mind, as it is bound to do. Followed immediately by the certainty that this would be the most wretched, hypocritical and worthless way to spend my final moments. If I had no survival strategies to consider or ways to contact my loved ones, I’d rather spend the time looking out the window and admiring the view.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Might not be efficient, but at least it... Uhhh, wait, what good does it provide again?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How much have you got? I’ve got about 3kg of coffee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ikr? Who buys salt and pepper pots with their weekly groceries?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia’s first AI-powered humanoid robot AIDOL collapses during its onstage debut⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If they hadn’t had those two guys ready to smoothly cover the stage with a curtain, that could have been embarrassing. Close call!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2³² will get interesting...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Kill the person who invented the trolley problem. It’s the only way to be sure

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I can easily imagine having this conversation with someone in the late 90s, when there was so much excitement about the internet. If, as a skeptic, you were to ask me why the internet was really needed or why anyone would take the trouble to connect to it on a daily basis, I wouldn’t have been able to give a complete and correct answer, not being able to predict the future with any accuracy.

  But AI is already super useful as a tool for sifting through data, finding patterns and acting based on patterns. Its potential applications in medical diagnostics or surveillance (yes, I hate that too but it is what it is) are huge. People like to shit on LLMs but they do go beyond what search engines or scripts can do. But the real question is what AI will be in the next decade or so. And much like the internet in its early days, we can only guess at its future capabilities, how it will integrate with our lives, what will take off, and what is just a scam. Everyone is selling ideas that don’t work yet but seem exciting. But just because it’s inflated, oversold, and often untrustworthy, doesn’t mean that AI as a whole is just a mirage. It will be huge, and change our world fundamentally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s like the dotcom bubble. Everyone got all excited thinking the internet would be the next big thing, change the world, revolutionize the way we do business. And it did. But not without a lot of hot air and snake oil getting sold along the way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She is making a GREAT point⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨a minor to moderate amount of tomfoolery in construction⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a fine line between insanity and genius

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly I don’t think it will take long. When you look at all the grifts the American evangelists pull, and people fall for it every time, then you’ve got all these people thinking that Trump is anointed by God or some such crap. No problem at all in selling these idiots the idea that they have an instant always-on hotline to God via God’s chosen LLM. Then you’ve got them locked in to whatever psychosis you choose to construct for them.