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- Submitted 6 days ago to technology@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users 6 days 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 1 week ago:
You may need to work on your jokes :)
- Comment on The hidden cost of self-hosting 2 weeks 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. 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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. 2 weeks 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. 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago:
I think this may be a skill issue on your part.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 61 comments
- Comment on The world could experience a year above 2°C of warming by 2029 2 weeks 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?
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 54 comments
- Comment on How the US is turning into a mass techno-surveillance state 2 weeks ago:
Better that they cover it than not. And the recent ramp up is worth reporting on, it’s a new level of weaponization compared to previous administrations.