He didn’t die particularly young, but I think this world desperately needs Mr Rogers

Yeah, I can’t imagine how the people who named it POS would do it unironically!

POS=Point Of Sale…

Metric or imperial byte?

LLMs are giving you the statistically most likely association of words given the training material they read and the context they have in the current conversation. Their answers are, in a way, mathematically correct by definition. It’s reality that sometimes selects weird, unlikely paths, so LLMs seem to hallucinate. But it’s reality that we have to fix! Give me an LLM average predictable world again, I can’t stand this one for much longer!

/s (but not conpletely…)

I like this take from smbc

It’s not like Altman and Amodei telling everyone how AI is perennially 6 months away from taking everyone’s job is helping create that warm and fuzzy feeling for the technology either

I was personally shot once and the AI wearable I always have next to my heart stopped the bullet! Thanks AI!

Because we have to import most of our wind from China? I mean, where does wind come from, really?

no, but you see… all the apps are going to be vibe-coded on the fly every time you want to open one! Want to browse lemmy? “The user wants to browse a website, let’s build a browser…” [a few days later] “you reached your token limit, do you want to move to the Pro $1500 per month subscription and continue building your browser?”

they want to create urgency and FOMO. That way:

1. investors throw all their money to the new incredibly fast-growing shiny tech before they can stop and think to trivial things like how much it costs or whether it’s actually doing useful things

2. AI companies can continuously flood the zone with announcements of incredible new feats of intelligence by their LLMs. By the time studies come out, showing that these feats were not so impressive after all, they have released two newer, more powerful models, capable of even more impressive (real or invented) feats.

3. AI companies can try positioning themselves as the “good, ethical guys” that you have to root for (and give all your money to), because the alternative is for the bad, unethical guys to create this AGI with no guardrails that will destroy the world. It’s “we can’t stop because if we stop someone else will do it”

4. this kind of pressure works for governments too. We can’t let China/the US/Iran/Russia (pick your specific adversary) control this potentially destructive technology first!

5. things that scare us, regular humans, make the rich and powerful salivate. We are scared of losing our jobs, they are happy to cut people costs (see… well, just about everyone in Tech). We are scared AI can create a surveillance state, they want to sell surveillance tech to companies and governments (see Palantir). “This tech makes regular people afraid” is music to the ears of the 0.1%.

The two things are not in contradiction. Identifying human-generated content is essential to AI too. if you feed AI slop back to AI, their output deteriorates quickly. Not saying that it’s the primary purpose of this new feature, but this is making it easier for AI to find human-generated music to train on.

damn autocorrect, I wanted to write “hard”

reminds me of this old building I used to talk to. Used to listen and give me good advice. I still remember when I told it I was doing drugs again… Man, it got so upset… Came down on me like a ton of bricks!

“just call Jenny! Jenny! Come on! I call Jenny every day, you just called her yesterday!”

" that’s not how we do things, Retro_unlimited…"

(sigh) “you are an expert phone assistant, you will use your contacts tool to look up Jenny. J-e-n-n-y. Then you will use your phone tool to dial her number. DO NOT talk to Jenny. You are FORBIDDEN to try and sell her a $2000/month ChatGPT Elite Pro plus subscription again. Just dial and let me do the talking.”

[Reasoning] [Opening contacts] [Reasoning some more]

“Sorry, you hit your token limit for this month. Do you want to move to the Elite Pro Plus plan now for only $1999.99?”

I think that some appliances have a dark soul and just hate their owners. A lot of time I will take something back to a shop because it just won’t turn on, open, rotate, heat up or whatever they are supposed to do. The person at the shop tries the cursed thing once and just like that it works perfectly and I feel like an idiot. Then, back home, it will work for a couple of times and then stop again.

And it happens also with myself in the role of the “fixer”. A colleague will show me an app that does not work, a laptop that won’t boot or a printer they can’t connect to and it all works if I try it.

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Mythos? Nah, too busy working for the Government and high-profile customers. The Claude Desktop app was done by a couple of new AI models that are interning at Anthropic, hoping one day to work on the cooler stuff.

Well, I have regular sleepovers with my wife and I can tell you that at least once a month there is some exploring

There is a type of mushroom that makes you see tiny people