PhilipTheBucket
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- Comment on Meta chief technology officer(CTO) explains why the smart glasses demo failed at Meta Connect — and it wasn’t the Wi-Fi 17 hours ago:
Yeah, I get it. I don’t think it is necessarily bad research or anything. I just feel like maybe it would have been good to go into it as two papers:
- Look at the funny LLM and how far off the rails it goes if you don’t keep it stable and let it kind of “build on itself” over time iteratively and don’t put the right boundaries on
- How should we actually wrap up an LLM into a sensible model so that it can pursue an “agent” type of task, what leads it off the rails and what doesn’t, what are some various ideas to keep it grounded and which ones work and don’t work
And yeah obviously they can get confused or output counterfactuals or nonsense as a failure mode, what I meant to say was just that they don’t really do that as a response to an overload / “DDOS” situation specifically. They might do it as a result of too much context or a badly set up framework around them sure.
- Comment on Meta chief technology officer(CTO) explains why the smart glasses demo failed at Meta Connect — and it wasn’t the Wi-Fi 1 day ago:
Initial thought: Well… but this is a transparently absurd way to set up an ML system to manage a vending machine. I mean it is a useful data point I guess, but to me it leads to the conclusion “Even though LLMs sound to humans like they know what they’re doing, they does not, don’t just stick the whole situation into the LLM input and expect good decisions and strategies to come out of the output, you have to embed it into a more capable and structured system for any good to come of it.”
Updated thought, after reading a little bit of the paper: Holy Christ on a pancake. Is this architecture what people have been meaning by “AI agents” this whole time I’ve been hearing about them? Yeah this isn’t going to work. What the fuck, of course it goes insane over time. I stand corrected, I guess, this is valid research pointing out the stupidity of basically putting the LLM in the driver’s seat of something even more complicated than the stuff it’s already been shown to fuck up, and hoping that goes okay.
- Comment on Meta chief technology officer(CTO) explains why the smart glasses demo failed at Meta Connect — and it wasn’t the Wi-Fi 1 day ago:
Yeah it’s a bunch of shit. I’m not an expert obviously, just talking out of my ass, but:
- Running inference for all the devices in the building to “our dev server” would not have maintained a usable level of response time for any of them, unless he meant to say “the dev cluster” or something and his home wifi glitched right at that moment and made it sound different
- LLMs don’t degrade by giving wrong answers, they degrade by stopping producing tokens
- Meta already has shown itself to be okay with lying
- GUYS JUST USE FUCKING CANNED ANSWERS WITH THE RIGHT SOUNDING VOICE, THIS ISN’T ROCKET SCIENCE, THAT’S HOW YOU DO DEMOS WHEN YOUR SHIT’S NOT DONE YET
- Comment on ‘We pray a visa comes before death’: Gaza’s injured children left in limbo 3 days ago:
“I care SO MUCH about what’s happening in Palestine that I CANNOT vote for Kamala Harris”
Thanks guys
- Comment on Republicans put tech firms in a vise on Kirk social-media posts 5 days ago:
I think the crisis of Trump is likely to be worse than any crisis in the Western world for the last 50 years. I think the closest analogue is probably the collapse of the USSR. So yes, some of the rich people upped their wealth by orders of magnitude, and honestly you might be right that Zuck might manage to be one of that category, but also some of them lost everything or got thrown out windows, or had to survive in reduced capacity within their new walled fortresses in the horrifying new meta. I feel like more likely is that the MAGA world will remember Facebook censoring their posts about ivermectin, and not feel like Zuck needs to have a seat at the table, no matter how many ass-kissing sessions he shows up at the White House to do.
For example I feel like breaking up Meta and mandating Truth Social and TikTok as the only new sanctioned social media going forward might be one possible outcome. It's kind of hard to say and I won't swear that you're definitely wrong that he might come out way ahead in the end. I'm just saying that this type of crisis is a very different type of crisis.
- Comment on Republicans put tech firms in a vise on Kirk social-media posts 5 days ago:
Part of my point is that the damage Trump is going to do will cost them tons more money than if they had helped to prop up the fairly safe and civil society they previously were allowed to exist within, under which secure umbrella they've been able to rake in money like leaves in autumn on a wide country estate.
- Comment on Republicans put tech firms in a vise on Kirk social-media posts 5 days ago:
Hopefully the idiots who run these tech companies will learn their lesson soon.
"If the thing is free, you're the product" applies just as much to dinners at the White House as it does to social media apps.
- Comment on Russia Tests Hypersonic Missile at NATO’s Doorstep—and Shares the Video 5 days ago:
Russian generals: Hey, so we're behind in terms of tactics, intelligence, morale, and we're constantly short on manpower. We've been fighting this thing for years now, and the distance we've penetrated into Ukraine is shorter in a lot of places than some of the longer footraces. And the more Western countries take this whole thing seriously, the more of their functionally infinite economic resources they're going to devote to making sure we keep losing. We have figured out one good thing we can do, though: Cheap drone munitions including a lot of decoys, just spamming to overwhelm the defenses, since a lot of Western defenses are organized around single-shot ordnance that costs a ton of money. If we can launch 30 drones that each cost $15k, and it costs $3 million to shoot down each one and there aren't even all that many of those $3 million missiles in the launcher, we can overwhelm the defenses and get some bombing done.
It doesn't help too much with the war, but we can at least kill some civilians, which everyone knows is always productive. So: The plan is to make sure the West's focus is elsewhere so they don't start committing lots of energy and resources to us as an issue, and attack Ukraine focusing on cheap ordnance so that what resources they do commit are going to be as disadvantaged as possible.
Putin: Or, hear me out here,
- Comment on Senators demand ICE cease use of facial recognition app 1 week ago:
That oughta fix it
- Comment on The McDonald's employee who called on Luigi has never received their "reward", folks chasing the 100k for Kirk may not either... 1 week ago:
Yeah. Sometimes for high-profile cases, lawyers have a habit of giving press conferences and things, but that's kind of an exception to the norm and not necessarily a good idea I think.
- Comment on The McDonald's employee who called on Luigi has never received their "reward", folks chasing the 100k for Kirk may not either... 1 week ago:
Part of the point of the Snowden leaks was that they don't completely give a shit about those limitations. I'm sure the details vary in various parts of the apparatus, but as I understand it they don't even really bother with the fig leaf anymore (even as of that pretty long ago time at this point).
- Comment on South Korea’s president says Georgia ICE raid could have ‘considerable impact’ on direct US investment from his country 1 week ago:
I should fucking well hope so
- Comment on The McDonald's employee who called on Luigi has never received their "reward", folks chasing the 100k for Kirk may not either... 1 week ago:
Not really... "not guilty" can mean, he didn't do it, or else he was temporarily insane because he was in pain from his medical condition, or even Ed Snowden's "yeah I did it and it was illegal but at the end of the day I was right to do it and I think I can convince a jury of that." Or just the OJ Simpson "let's talk about something else for a while and change the subject" defense. It could be a lot of things.
But I do get it that that might be their defense and they're just not saying anything about it because they're waiting for the trial to lay out anything at all about it.
- Comment on The McDonald's employee who called on Luigi has never received their "reward", folks chasing the 100k for Kirk may not either... 1 week ago:
I haven't heard that his defense team is trying to claim that... I feel like if that was reality they would have. Maybe not, but I feel it.
- Comment on The McDonald's employee who called on Luigi has never received their "reward", folks chasing the 100k for Kirk may not either... 1 week ago:
I 100% assume that the McDonald's employee who called on him is fake in some way, and they tracked him down through some kind of spy apparatus shit and just don't want to give away their methods.
I have no evidence and I don't really know how these things work, it just seems way way more plausible to me.
- Comment on OpenAI reportedly on the hook for $300B Oracle Cloud bill 1 week ago:
Pretty much. Some decades ago, I read a story from a guy who didn't have a lot to do at work because things were poorly organized, and he created a script to just move windows around and enter numbers and gibberish on the screen, and he would leave that running and just sit at his desk daydreaming. Eventually he got promoted, because every time his boss stopped by, it looked like he was actively doing stuff (which wasn't true of most people there).
- Comment on OpenAI reportedly on the hook for $300B Oracle Cloud bill 1 week ago:
It's already happening. HHS has OpenAI for everyone who works there, and as of now they're required to use it.
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- After Ukrainian testing, drone detection radar doubles range with simple software patcharstechnica.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 1 comment
- Comment on Holocaust Museum LA deletes post saying 'never again' applies to all people 1 week ago:
I just looked at your account, it's two years old and you've been saying the same stuff, so maybe you are legit and actually believe this stuff.
To take it at face value: No one's "harassing" or "attacking" anyone here. Just saying that we think carving out a specific exception to "never again" for the Palestinians is pretty on-the-nose fucked up. Now imagine that we bombed their apartment block, and then bombed the tent in the refugee camp where they went to live after that, and the journalists who went to report on it. That would be attacking.
Two years ago, you said Israel "will make an effort to minimize civilian casualties." How is denying food aid while the country is starving to death minimizing civilian casualties?
A year ago you said, "there’s no way to rationalize out support for an organization that purposefully murders Jewish children." Is there a way to rationalize support for an organization that purposefully murders Palestinian children?
- Comment on Holocaust Museum LA deletes post saying 'never again' applies to all people 1 week ago:
Good stuff. I think to take it to the next level, you should throw in something about the rape accusations. Get us arguing with each other. This stuff is sterling, I especially like the part about "go outside and touch grass," but at the end of the day it's mostly just going to annoy people temporarily (and ultimately unify them in yelling at you and you alone.)
To really create lasting damage to the community, you have to create hostility that's going to (a) spiral more than you have energy to invest in nourishing it, get other people involved in creating conflict and (b) persist after you've moved on. Talk about the October 7th rapes. Say that you're glad Trump got in office because you really feel like Biden betrayed Israel with all his lack of support. Spark some free range conflict. That's the next level.
Like I say it's a really good start though! Don't feel like I am saying it is bad or putting it down, I am only trying to help take it to the next level. Think of it as critical support.
- Comment on Holocaust Museum LA deletes post saying 'never again' applies to all people 1 week ago:
I think I said quite a while ago that the Lemmy troll brigades should really invest some effort into pro-Israel accounts, they could get a ton of mileage out of them. I have mixed feelings about the fact that they seem to have taken up the challenge. I used to never see this stuff.
- Comment on Holocaust Museum LA deletes post saying 'never again' applies to all people 1 week ago:
It's actually quite a bit worse than the headline. They deleted the post saying 'never again' applies to all people, and explained that some people might have thought they included Palestinians in "all people" when they said that, and they officially said that didn't want to give that impression.
- Microsoft, Linode, warn of cloud latency spikes due to Middle East submarine cable problemsgo.theregister.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 1 comment
- Comment on The Downfall of Southwest Airlines 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Trump to blacklist countries for imprisoning Americans 2 weeks ago:
I think the purpose is to place anyone who's connected to him or his minions above the law when they travel internationally. The proles, he still won't give a fuck about.
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- Comment on Google’s $45 Million Contract With Netanyahu's Office to Spread Israeli Propaganda 2 weeks ago:
I saw an ad on YouTube for what a good job ICE is doing not that long ago. Kristi Noem was in it.
More disturbingly, I've noticed a little scattering of those "police bodycam raw video" channels starting to play up when the criminal involved is an immigrant, what their status was, how ICE was involved, and so on. There's clearly something at work that's a little more subtle than "here's an ad about why ICE is a good thing for the country."
- Comment on Would you ever give up your right to leave a bad review about a company? 3 weeks ago:
I would never hire a company that had a clause like this. Just find someone else. There's a reason they felt it necessary to include that.
- Comment on YSK that if U.S. housing and U.S population projections hold, the Electoral College will shift further away from Democrats after the 2030 census. 3 weeks ago:
It is funny that in Piefed this topic is classified under "Chilling"