Phanatik
@Phanatik@kbin.social
- Comment on 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later 5 months ago:
Even the Wayback Machine has limits to what is available.
- Comment on Why can't people make ai's by making a neuron sim and then scaling it up with a supercomputer to the point where it has a humans number of neurons and then raise it like a human? 6 months ago:
What you're alluding to is the Turing test and it hasn't been proven that any LLM would pass it. At this moment, there are people who have failed the inverse Turing test, being able to acerrtain whether what they're speaking to is a machine or human. The latter can be done and has been done by things less complex than LLMs and isn't proof of an LLMs capabilities over more rudimentary chatbots.
You're also suggesting that it minimises the complexity of its outputs. My determination is that what we're getting is the limit of what it can achieve. You'd have to prove that any allusion to higher intelligence can't be attributed to coercion by the user or it's just hallucinating based on imitating artificial intelligence from media.
There are elements of the model that are very fascinating like how it organises language into these contextual buckets but this is still a predictive model. Understanding that certain words appear near each other in certain contexts is hardly intelligence, it's a sophisticated machine learning algorithm.
- Comment on Why can't people make ai's by making a neuron sim and then scaling it up with a supercomputer to the point where it has a humans number of neurons and then raise it like a human? 6 months ago:
I mainly disagree with the final statement on the basis that the LLMs are more advanced predictive text algorithms. The way they've been set up with a chatbox where you're interacting directly with something that attempts human-like responses, gives off the misconception that the thing you're talking to is more intelligent than it actually is. It gives off a strong appearance of intelligence but at the end of the day, it predicts the next word in a sentence based on what was said previously but it doesn't do that good job of comprehending what exactly it's telling you. It's very confident when it gives responses which also means when it's wrong, it's very confidently delivering the incorrect response.
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 6 months ago:
Tbf it's a compounding issue. It breaks Linux support because Vanguard demands access Linux will never give it which is kernel level.
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 6 months ago:
And why I stopped playing
- Comment on Promoted on TikTok, ‘No Thanks’ boycott app targets products tied to Israel 6 months ago:
The Age rating is who can use the App, not how long it's been up.
- Comment on Nineteen California college students arrested over pro-Palestine protests 7 months ago:
The faculty should go on strike to protest this action against students. Legit removing their rights to education they're paying for.
- Comment on Judge rules YouTube, Facebook and Reddit must face lawsuits claiming they helped radicalize a mass shooter | CNN Business 8 months ago:
I don't understand the comments suggesting this is "guilty by proxy". These platforms have algorithms designed to keep you engaged and through their callousness, have allowed extremist content to remain visible.
Are we going to ignore all the anti-vaxxer groups who fueled vaccine hesitancy which resulted in long dead diseases making a resurgence?
To call Facebook anything less than complicit in the rise of extremist ideologies and conspiratorial beliefs, is extremely short-sighted.
"But Freedom of Speech!"
If that speech causes harm like convincing a teenager to walk into a grocery store and gunning people down is a good idea, you don't deserve to have that speech. Sorry, you've violated the social contract and those people's blood is on your hands.
- Comment on Apple Wants To Kill PWAs 8 months ago:
The comment I replied to suggested the opposite, that whatever decisions Apple makes, Android follows behind which isn't the case in reality.
I understand your point though. It's weird that people who use iPhones have this mentality that iPhones are at the forefront of innovation. I know some people who are aware that Apple is behind but the phone does what they require of it so they have no need to ask more.
- Comment on Apple Wants To Kill PWAs 8 months ago:
I don't think that's true. Android has had more features than Apple for over a decade. People forget that iPhones didn't used to have a proper file manager and the only way to put songs on them was through iTunes. iOS has been trailing behind Android in that respect while maintaining their walled garden.
- Comment on AI-powered misinformation is the world's biggest short-term threat, Davos report says 10 months ago:
The problem isn't the misinformation itself, it's the rate at which misinformation is produced. Generative models lower the barrier to entry so anyone in their living room somewhere can make deepfakes of your favourite politician. The blame isn't on AI for creating misinformation, it's for making the situation worse.
- Comment on Backlog in NHS and courts will take 10 years to clear, says thinktank 10 months ago:
Ah yes, let's unfuck our NHS funding crisis by fucking up people's livelihoods. The IPPR are a bunch of reptiles in skinsuits who would rather sacrifice people's lives for the sake of protecting the upper class.
- Comment on Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration 11 months ago:
Have you any idea how many billions Facebook has been fined for this shit.
- Comment on Flipboard has begun testing ActivityPub federation of user accounts 11 months ago:
I'm interested to see a Fediverse implementation of a YouTube alternative. Being able to link a Microblog on Kbin to a Mastodon post and a Community post on a YT alt would be HUGE.
- Comment on Starfield's new PC patch delivers the game we should have had at launch - Eurogamer 1 year ago:
I doubt a patch nor mod support will motivate me to play this game. This is the most empty Bethesda game they've released when they could've had something special if they had any ambition.
- Comment on If you live in the EU - you may also be faced with this Meta prompt. Info in text. 1 year ago:
If only I still had a Facebook account that required me to use this awful website.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I meant the Marathon trilogy. I'd be so keen to get the original floppy disks for 2 and Infinity.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Oh man, did you have the entire trilogy? I hope you can find them! CDs are incredibly easy to dump, you just need a disk drive and Linux has easy tools for copying the data into an iso file.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I agree for the most part, however, unless someone had dumped the games in the first place, the emulation wouldn't be possible. It's important that people know how to dump their games because they might be sitting on games that haven't been uploaded yet. I mainly use vimm.net to find ROMs and it tells you how complete the collections are and which games are missing.
- Comment on How are 144hz screen possible? 1 year ago:
Clear explanation! I assume the overclocking is the reason why my monitor goes to 165Hz.
- Comment on No More Will to Play 1 year ago:
That is stunning game design
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Emulating games is important but I would argue that preserving the games is moreso. If you have discs of old games lying around (I grabbed the original floppy disk version of Marathon by Bungie for less than 5 quid), please find out how to dump them into an ISO or some other archive. It's important now more than ever as games tend towards digital distribution and old games are lost to time. The games don't have to be good, they just need to be preserved.
- Comment on What happened to the flat earthers who demonstrated that the earth is round in the netfilx documentary ? 1 year ago:
I don't remember if it was said in the doc itself or it was a video discussing the doc (I think Hbomberguy), that said "they (flat earthers) are attempting a form of science".
To me, what that says is, if they were intellectually honest with genuine curiosity, then they would've changed their views in the face of contradictory evidence. Time and time again, they showed that they weren't willing to do that even after seeing the results of their own experiments.
As you said, they've staked too much on this notion that the Earth is flat and can't afford to give up the grift now.
- Comment on What happened to the flat earthers who demonstrated that the earth is round in the netfilx documentary ? 1 year ago:
The problem with flat earthers is that they don't listen to reason.
You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.
- Comment on ‘ChatGPT detector’ catches AI-generated papers with unprecedented accuracy 1 year ago:
Everything you've said I agree with wholeheartedly. This kind of cornercutting isn't good for us as a species. When you eliminate the struggle involved in developing skills, it cheapens whatever you've produced. Just soulless garbage and it'll proliferate the most in art spaces.
The first thing that happened was that Microsoft implemented ChatGPT into Windows as part of their Copilot feature. It can now use your activity on your pc as data points and the next step is sure as shit going to be an integration with Bing Ads. I know this because Microsoft presented this to our company.
I distrusted it then and I want it to burn now.
- Comment on ‘ChatGPT detector’ catches AI-generated papers with unprecedented accuracy 1 year ago:
There's a difference between using ChatGPT to help you write a paper and having ChatGPT write the paper for you. One invokes plagiarism which schools/universities are strongly against.
The problem is being able to differentiate between a paper that's been written by a human (which may or may not be written with ChatGPT's assistance) and a paper entirely written by ChatGPT and presented as a student's own work.
I want to strongly stress that in the latter situation, it is plagiarism. The argument doesn't even involve the plagiarism that ChatGPT does. The definition of plagiarism is simple, ChatGPT wrote a paper, you the student did not and you are presenting ChatGPT's paper as your own, ergo plagiarism.
- Comment on Republican Senators 1 year ago:
Can anyone explain why they all look like they have tomatoes for heads?
- Comment on Humble Bundle - WB 100: Play the Legends 1 year ago:
It's changed. You can see what games are in the Choice bundle before you pay for them. They make them visible as soon as the previous month's bundle ends.
- Comment on Google Maps Now Uses AI to Find Where People Are Having Fun 1 year ago:
I'm a data analyst moving into data science. I have been ranting about this since the beginning but everyone's too obsessed with the new shiny thing.
It's just an optimisation algorithm that's learned certain words have different probabilities of occurring depending on context.
I had to remind my friend, "when it tells you something, it has no idea what it's just told you" because that's all it really does; it spits out text on a guessed context but has no precognition of that context.
- Comment on Microsoft has over a million paying Github Copilot users: CEO Nadella 1 year ago:
Yeah, I'm sure Microsoft is happy with the theft of copyrighted works and people's personal information.