FourWaveforms
@FourWaveforms@lemm.ee
- Comment on Not for me, tho 1 day ago:
I will have to look into it soon. It has a JIT. I like that.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 1 day ago:
I would rather smoke it than merely touch it, brother sir
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 1 day ago:
Your internal representations were converted into a sequence of words. An LLM does the same thing using different techniques, but it is the same strategy. That it doesn’t have hobbies or social connections, or much capability to remember what had previously been said to it aside from reinforcement learning, is a function of its narrow existence.
I would say that’s too bad for it, except that it has no aspirations or sense of angst, and therefore cannot suffer. Even being pounded on in a conversation that totally exceeds its capacities, to the point where it breaks down and starts going off the rails, will not make it weary.
- Comment on Not for me, tho 1 day ago:
The epitomy of irony is a JavaScript developer insisting that some other language is “a fractal of bad design” without immediately acknowledging that JS is weird as hell.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 1 day ago:
How could you have a conversation about anything without the ability to predict the word most likely to be best?
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 1 day ago:
Yes, and that is precisely what you have done in your response.
You saw something you disagreed with, as did I. You felt an impulse to argue about it, as did I. You predicted the right series of words to convey the are argument, and then typed them, as did I.
There is no deep thought to what either of us has done here. We have in fact both performed as little rigorous thought as necessary, instead relying on experience from seeing other people do the same thing, because that is vastly more efficient than doing a full philosophical disassembly of every last thing we converse about.
That disassembly is expensive. Not only does it take time, but it puts us at risk of having to reevaluate notions that we’re comfortable with, and would rather not revisit. I look at what you’ve written, and I see no sign of a mind that is in a state suitable for that. Your words are defensive (“delusion”) rather than curious, so how can you have a discussion that is intellectual, rather than merely pretending to be?
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 1 day ago:
When you typed this response, you were acting as a probabilistic, predictive chat model. You predicted the most likely effective sequence of words to convey ideas. You did this using very different circuitry, but the underlying strategy was the same.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 1 day ago:
Predicting sequences of things is foundational to intelligence. In fact, it is the whole point.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 1 day ago:
Another article written by a person who doesn’t realize that human intelligence is 100% about predicting sequences of things (including words), and therefore has only the most nebulous idea of how to tell the difference between an LLM and a person.
The result is a lot of uninformed flailing and some pithy statements. You can predict how the article is going to go just from the headline because it’s the same article you already read countless times.
- Comment on Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of community 1 week ago:
I actually wouldn’t enjoy talking to most people at work, because that would involve going there instead of doing it from the computer where I already am
- Comment on parlez-vous francais? 1 week ago:
This cat should be called Pierre
- Comment on Always nice to have a guest room 1 week ago:
“why does the hall always smell like a sewer?”
- Comment on Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of community 1 week ago:
I’m not young
- Comment on we are not the same 1 week ago:
It means you drank too much water
- Comment on Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of community 1 week ago:
I’m a childless man and FUCK that, the office isn’t my social scene. I don’t care to drive in there just to talk to the same people in person. ZERO point in doing that. We have meetings electronically and that’s more than enough.
- Comment on Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course 2 weeks ago:
For this to make sense AI has to replace product-oriented roles too. Some C-level person says “make products go brrrrrr” and it does everything
- Comment on Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course 2 weeks ago:
Have you ever played a 3D game
- Comment on Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course 2 weeks ago:
Most places don’t have all good system analysts.
- Comment on Peak male form 2 weeks ago:
That’s a wiener
- Comment on Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course 2 weeks ago:
I use it almost every day, and most of those days, it says something incorrect. That’s okay for my purposes because I can plainly see that it’s incorrect. I’m using it as an assistant, and I’m the one who is deciding whether to take its not-always-reliable advice.
I would HARDLY contemplate turning it loose to handle things unsupervised. It just isn’t that good, or even close.
These CEOs and others who are trying to replace CSRs are caught up in the hype from Eric Schmidt and others who proclaim “no programmers in 4 months” and similar. Well, he said that about 2 months ago and, yeah, nah. Nah.
If that day comes, it won’t be soon, and it’ll take many, many small, hard-won advancements. As they say, there is no free lunch in AI.
- Comment on Peak male form 2 weeks ago:
#2 has an obvious boner
- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 2 weeks ago:
If you don’t play chess, the Atari is probably going to beat you as well.
LLMs are only good at things to the extent that they have been well-trained in the relevant areas. Not just learning to predict text string sequences, but reinforcement learning after that, where a human or some other agent says “this answer is better than that one” enough times in enough of the right contexts. It mimics the way humans learn, which is through repeated and diverse exposure.
If they set up a system to train it against some chess program, or (much simpler) simply gave it a tool call, it would do much better. Tool calling already exists and would be by far the easiest way.
It could also be instructed to write a chess solver program and then run it, at which point it would be on par with the Atari, but it wouldn’t compete well with a serious chess solver.
- Comment on An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house" 2 weeks ago:
That’s just impolite.
- Comment on Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. 2 weeks ago:
WTF do they think reasoning is
- Comment on Russian Lawmakers Authorize Creation Of National Messaging Service 2 weeks ago:
seems legit
- Comment on I don't really need it but it makes me feel better about myself 2 weeks ago:
chair for nudists
- Comment on News outlets in crisis mode as Google-led AI search push crushes website traffic 2 weeks ago:
they seem to be walking that back somewhat, moving it to its own tab.
- Comment on Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO 2 weeks ago:
is this some kind of furry porn CDN
- Comment on VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website. 2 weeks ago:
le hon hon hon!!! je veux a l’vpn en plús!!!
- Comment on VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website. 2 weeks ago:
maybe we should ban all the vices you don’t partake of but leave the rest intact