danzabia
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- Comment on Hundreds of public figures, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Virgin’s Richard Branson urge AI ‘superintelligence’ ban 1 week ago:
ChatGPT would have been science fiction 5 years ago. We are already living in science fiction times, friend.
- Comment on Hundreds of public figures, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Virgin’s Richard Branson urge AI ‘superintelligence’ ban 1 week ago:
On the contrary, many of the most notable signatories walked away from large paychecks in order to raise the alarm. I’d suggest looking into the history of individuals like Bengio, Hinton, etc. There are individuals hyping the bubble like Altman and Zuckerberg, but they did NOT sign this, casting further doubt on your claim.
- Comment on Hundreds of public figures, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Virgin’s Richard Branson urge AI ‘superintelligence’ ban 1 week ago:
I think this is called the “relative privation” fallacy – it is a false choice. The threat they’re concerned about is human extinction or dystopian lock-in. Even if the probability is low, this is worth discussing.
- Comment on Hundreds of public figures, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Virgin’s Richard Branson urge AI ‘superintelligence’ ban 1 week ago:
But to develop superintelligence, probably all you need is some computer science researchers and some fairly ordinary computers. How can you monitor those, verify that parties involved are actually following the rules?
I do not think this statement is accurate. It requires many, very expensive, highly specialized computers that are completely spoken for. Monitoring can be done with hardware geolocation and verification of the user. We are probably 1-2 years away from this already, due to the fact that a) US wants to win the AI race vs China but b) the White House is filled with traitors long NVDA.
- Comment on Amazon to replace 600,000 US workers by 2033 with robots 1 week ago:
A quick google says 15-20%, which makes sense. Maybe the top 10% could comprise 50% of consumer spending, perhaps.
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 1 month ago:
It’s becoming clear people view reality as a “choose your own adventure” game.
- Comment on Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” Is Now Available for Download 1 month ago:
It also says I’m using i915 but I bought this laptop a year ago… so I suspect many Intel GPUs use that driver?
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 2 months ago:
weird flex but OK
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 2 months ago:
Don’t try to argue with the lemmy anti-AI crowd, it’s not worth it.
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 2 months ago:
ddg is great :)
- Comment on Marco Rubio orders US diplomats to launch lobbying blitz against Europe's tech law 2 months ago:
I’m curious what you felt the EU should have done differently.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 2 months ago:
There’s certainly no revolution happening in Trumpistan, but approval polls are at a record low: www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/…/ar-AA1K2O1k
We shouldn’t delude ourselves that they will wake up from their delusion one day, but also recognize the trend so far.
- Comment on My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now, using GLM-4.5 Air and MLX 2 months ago:
I still contend that this sort of task is uniquely positioned to show off LLMs. The idea that they’ll turn into agents that can do real-world tasks remains a fantasy. Despite how impressive this is, they’re losing money and have no real path to profitability.
I’m curious. What would it take to change your mind? I’d like to check in with you in two years to see what you think then.
- Comment on (LLM) A language model built for the public good 3 months ago:
I’m sure the community will find something to hate about this as well, since this isn’t an article about an LLM failing at something.
- Comment on More than 60 scientists issue dire warning that the Earth is careening toward catastrophe: 'Things are all moving in the wrong direction' 3 months ago:
Yup.
- Comment on Microsoft axe another 9000 in continued AI push 3 months ago:
I know at Lemmy we usually don’t read the article title and sure as hell won’t read the actual article, so I’ll just post this here for everyone: nowhere in the article does it say they are laying people off because of AI. It merely states 9000 people will be laid off, and separately MSFT has invested a lot in AI.
A better reframe: huge tech company shifts focus.
- Comment on [JS Required] How Performant are LLM Agents(AI Chatbots) on Real World Work Tasks? They Fail 70% or More of The Time. 3 months ago:
Found the daily LLM denial thread.
- Submitted 4 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users 4 months ago:
I can see why Reddit needs to secure the user base. As not accounts proliferate they need to be able to demonstrate verified real users to their advertisers. Unfortunately for privacy, this will be widespread, in that case. I’m opting out.
- Comment on The Department of Defense Efforts to Buy and Maintain IT Systems Are Billions Over Budget and Delayed 4 months ago:
You may need to work on your jokes :)
- Comment on The hidden cost of self-hosting 4 months ago:
Have you considered the possibility that, if you have 2k bookmarks, this isn’t necessarily a self-hosting issue, but rather a bookmark hoarding issue :)
- Comment on We went from LEARN TO CODE to NO ONE LEARN TO CODE GET A CONSTRUCTION JOB in about a 3 year span. 4 months ago:
I think the post is about the state of agentic coders in 10 years, not the present.
- Comment on AOSP isn't dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers 4 months ago:
So I installed LineageOS recently. Now that I’ve transferred my passwords and account info I’m quite happy. What will happen from here? Will some apps stop working? If not, is there a problem with just continuing to use the phone as is until I need a new phone (security, eg)?
- Comment on Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT. 4 months ago:
Students are now prompting the AI to make it sound like a student wrote it, or putting it through an AI detector and changing the parts that are detected as being written by AI (adding typos or weird grammar, say). Even kids who write their own papers have to do the latter sometimes.
- Comment on Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT. 4 months ago:
Then the student could just ask the AI to simulate a thesis defense and learn answers to the most likely questions.
The funny thing is, they would actually learn the material this way, through a kind of osmosis. I remember writing cheat sheets in college and finding I didn’t need it by the end.
So there are potential use cases, but not if the university doesn’t acknowledge it and continues asking for work that can be simply automated.
- Comment on Scientists discover that feeding AI models 10% 4chan trash actually makes them better behaved 4 months ago:
Yeah, it’s like me never having alcohol before and walking into a frat parry as a freshman. Sometimes it’s better to come prepared.
- Comment on Scientists discover that feeding AI models 10% 4chan trash actually makes them better behaved 4 months ago:
People who track performance (like METR, a nonprofit) indicate that progress is, if anything, speeding up. Most people’s use case is so simple they can’t detect the difference. However for cases like complex problem solving, agentic tasks, etc you can in fact see significant progress happening. This should be concerning if you think the world isn’t ready for labor displaced by LLMs.
- Comment on Scientists discover that feeding AI models 10% 4chan trash actually makes them better behaved 4 months ago:
I think this may be a skill issue on your part.
- Submitted 4 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 61 comments
- Comment on The world could experience a year above 2°C of warming by 2029 4 months ago:
I’m curious about the scientific consensus continually undershooting. At a certain point, if you’re always updating in one direction, shouldn’t you overcorrect a bit?