AbouBenAdhem

@AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks I'd rather my beer stay analogue⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  there is no “AI” in “IPA”

  …because they’re still in the process of putting it there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If suffering is good because it gives life meaning, wouldn't it follow that hurting people is good?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The original (and still valid) meaning of “to suffer” is “to tolerate”.

  Is it possible that whoever told you that “suffering is good” had that definition in mind?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨True or false⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A neural network can learn to closely imitate someone making logical inferences, but that’s different from making logical inferences itself. It doesn’t have a sense of whether it’s correct or incorrect—just a sense of how similar it is to its training examples.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK about Changing your Profile Picture to Clippy⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Were these people too young in the early 2000s to recognize Clippy for what it was? It was never benign—ChatGPT is exactly what Microsoft always wanted to make, but Clippy was as close as it could get at the time.

  This is like protesting Trump with pictures of George W. Bush.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI beats Elon Musk's Grok in AI chess tournament⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “Up until the semi finals, it seemed like nothing would be able to stop Grok 4 on its way to winning the event,” Pedro Pinhata, a writer for Chess.com, said in its coverage. “Despite a few moments of weakness, X’s AI seemed to be by far the strongest chess player… But the illusion fell through on the last day of the tournament.” He said Grok’s “unrecognizable” and “blundering” play enabled o3 to claim a succession of “convincing wins”.

  I think the main takeaway is that these models are fundamentally inconsistent, and you can never assume they’re going to be reliable based on past performance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone say "What ho!" anymore?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Was it ever a common exclamation, or was it specific to Bertie and Wooster?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘We didn’t vote for ChatGPT’: Swedish Prime Minister under fire for using AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The typical pattern for leaders is to get “second opinions” from advisors who end up telling them whatever they want to hear, so… maybe asking the equivalent of a magic 8 ball is a marginal improvement?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists grow a mini human brain that lights up and connects like the real thing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So they culture different brain tissues and blood vessels separately and then glue them together manually. Are the resulting blood vessels fully functional, such that they could keep the organoid alive indefinitely?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Soup of Theseus⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like homeopathic soup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humanity will likely survive climate change, but the vast majority of humans won't.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Take the horseshoecrab, or the tardigrate or even the cockroach.

  None of those are species—they’re a family, a phylum, and a (partial) order, respectively. While those clades have been relatively stable morphologically, species within each clade still come and go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you put a "s" in front of the "sh" in chivalry, they turn into a "k" like in schism⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  English makes perfect sense—it’s all the other languages we keep stealing words from who can’t agree on a common spelling system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humanity will likely survive climate change, but the vast majority of humans won't.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No species lasts forever—and the faster their environment changes, the sooner their expiration date.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Mexico" sounds like the name of a business⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How about Monaco and Morocco?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you had 1 dollar and 24 hours what would you do?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Give the dollar to someone who looks hungry, then go to the park and read a book.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A leap toward lighter, sleeker mixed reality displays⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Researchers in the field sometimes describe our goal as to pass the ‘Visual Turing Test,’” said Suyeon Choi […] “A visual Turing Test then means, ideally, one cannot distinguish between a physical, real thing as seen through the glasses and a digitally created image being projected on the display surface,” Choi said.

  That’s got nothing to do with the Turing test—the word they’re looking for is “verisimilitude”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the ping between your eyes and brain increase when you're tired?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the literal sense of the time it takes neuronal spikes to travel from your retina to your visual cortex, I doubt it.

  The more likely cause, I think, is the amount of resources your brain is devoting to the real-time modeling of your environment that those visual signals feed into, and that has to be processed before you become conscious of any changes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump’s war on windmills started in Scotland. Now he’s taking it global⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Doom Quixote.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibe coding takes the "science" out of computer science⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I kind of see the relationship between computer science and programming as parallel to the relationship between linguistics and speaking foreign languages. You don’t need to learn linguistics to speak another language—so AI translation isn’t taking the linguistics out of translating because it wasn’t a necessary element to begin with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Surprising no one, new research says AI Overviews cause massive drop in search clicks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As a 50-something, I can see the case for putting the “golden age” of the internet between the birth of Wikipedia in 2001 and Facebook in 2006.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the equivalent of rose coloured glasses for always seeing something in a negative perspective?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A jaundiced view?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would remain for a future species if humans were to vanish tomorrow?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  See the Silurian hypothesis:

  The Silurian hypothesis is a thought experiment, which assesses modern science’s ability to detect evidence of a prior advanced civilization, perhaps several million years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who discovered/"invented" fire?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Dont say Prometheus

  Ok—it was Προμηθεύς.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taking screenshots of everything is no different than elders printing out emails.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  These days elders are taking screenshots of emails and printing the screenshots (and wondering why they’re cut off).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge backs AI firm over use of copyrighted books⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  IMO the focus should have always been on the potential for AI to produce copyright-violating output, not on the method of training.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Artificial intelligence and the wellbeing of workers: no evidence of a sizeable negative impact of AI on workers’ well-being and mental health.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would the article’s credited authors pass up the chance to improve their own health status and health satisfaction?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Artificial intelligence and the wellbeing of workers: no evidence of a sizeable negative impact of AI on workers’ well-being and mental health.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Critical paragraph:

  Our research highlights the importance of Germany’s unique institutional context, characterized by strong labor protections, extensive union representation, and comprehensive employment legislation. These factors, combined with Germany’s gradual adoption of AI technologies, create an environment where AI is more likely to complement rather than displace worker skills, mitigating some of the negative labor market effects observed in countries like the US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it still shopping local if I'm in Bentonville AK and it's Walmart?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How much of their profits do the Waltons put back into the Bentonville economy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Try Bayes’ theorem. Ask them to give percent likelihoods for the following:

  A. The odds that the government (or whoever) is trying to kill everyone, before taking the evidence of excess deaths into account
  B. The odds of seeing excess deaths for any possible reason, not just their conspiracy hypothesis
  C. The odds of seeing excess deaths if the conspiracy hypothesis were true.

  Then logically, the odds of the conspiracy being real given the excess deaths should be A*C/B. If you disagree on the outcome, you must disagree on one or more of the assumptions (probably A—if it’s B, you can find the objective odds by checking historical data).

  If you still disagree on the prior assumption (A), you can set aside the excess deaths argument and ask what other evidence led them to form that prior assumption. Then you can repeat the process until you either reach agreement or they’re left with an assumption with no evidence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI supremo Sam Altman says he 'doesn't know how' he would have taken care of his baby without the help of ChatGPT⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That makes sense—being raised by ChatGPT might be marginally better than being raised by Sam Altman.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Stanford Teaches AI-Powered Creativity in Just 13 MinutesㅣJeremy Utley⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks! I hate it.