Agree. And these tasks can’t be tailored to the AI in order for it to have a chance. It needs to drive to work, fix the computers/plumbing/whatever there, earn a decent salary and return with some groceries and cook dinner. Or at least do something comparable to a human. Just wording emails and writing boilerplate computer-code isn’t enough in my eyes. Especially since it even struggles to do that. It’s the “general” that is missing.

Judging just by the headline, the answer should be “No”, though, according to Betteridge’s law of headlines.

You’re right. The current LLM approach has some severe limitations. If we ever achieve AGI, it’ll probably be something which hasn’t been invented yet. Seems most experts also predict it’ll take some years and won’t happen over night. I don’t really agree with the “statistical” part, though. I mean that doesn’t rule anything out… I haven’t seen any mathematical proof that a statistical predictor can’t be AGI or anything… That’s just something non-expert people often say… But the current LLMs have other/proper limitations as well.

Plus, I don’t have that much use for something that does the homework assignments for me. If we’re dreaming about the future anyways: I’m waiting for an android that can load the dishwasher, dust the shelves and do the laundry for me. I think that’d be massively useful.

Why does OpenAI “have” everything and they just sit on it, instead of writing a paper or something? They have a watermarking solution that could help make the world a better place and get rid of some of the Slop out there… They have a definition of AGI… Yet, they release none of that…

Some people even claim they already have a secret AGI. Or at least ChatGPT 5 sure will be it. I can see how that increases the company’s value, and you’d better not tell the truth. But with all the other things, it’s just silly not to share anything.

Either they’re even more greedy than the Metas and Googles out there, or all the articles and “leaks” are just unsubstantiated hype.

Idk man. If you’re writing wrong stuff, people will call you out here on Lemmy. Doesn’t really matter who you are. And the issue was someone wanting that info as text.

I wonder where this will lead. I mean the usual strategy of selling something is to look at customers, see what they want or need, give them about that… And it’ll make them buy your product. And I can see that in some of Microsoft’s products. But recently, that doesn’t seem to be super important any more when it comes to the operating system. I mean they’ve done that before. Used their marked share on the desktop to push their agenda. Even if their customers don’t like any of that. Or alternated between improvements and the worse new Windows version in-between… But especially with Windows 11 it doesn’t seem to me they care any more. Do they still have a lock on desktop computers like they used to? So they can afford to do that? Because I’m hearing more complaints than before…

As always AI doesn’t quite get it. One of the main points is that it could catch on fire and burn down your house. Plus you’ll run into other problems as well. You’re not supposed to buy extensions for USB. Buy a longer cable instead.

I don’t think there is a point to any of Microsoft’s current design decisions and features. I’ve recently had a look at Win 11 and everything seemed mostly random to me. My guess is, someone noticed they’re doing AI these days (that’s fairly consistent) and just decided to feed some regular screenshots in.

You do you. If you’re having a better time at Discord, just go there and have fun. I don’t relly like it, so I wouldn’t do it, but that’s me. Any reason why you want to tear down the bridges? I mean you could as well leave the accounts in place until you made a final decision?

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Adds character. Or put a sticker of your band’s mascot on it 😆

Sure. I didn’t know you already put some thought into this. And I’m not in charge here. We can leave this up to the mods of YSK. If they decide to keep this post around, it’s probably alright.

I think a related community would be https://lemmy.ca/c/fediverselore

What’s the correct term within casual language? “correctness”? But that has the same issue… I’m not a native speaker…

By the way, I forgot my main point. I think that paper generator was kind of a joke. At least the older one, which predates AI and uses “hand-written context-free grammar”:

• SCIgen

And there are projects like Papergen and several others. But I think what I was referring to was the AI scientist which does everything from brainstorming research ideas, to simulating experiments, writing reports etc. That’s not meant to be taken seriously, in the sense that you’ll publish the generated results. But seems pretty creative to me, to write a paper about an artificial scientist…

Right, the public and journalists often lump everything together under the term “AI”. When it’s really a big difference between some domain specific pattern recognition task that can be done with machine learning and >99% accuracy… Or an ill-suited use-case where a LLM gets slapped on.

For example I frequently disagree with people using LLMs for summarization. That seems to be something a lot of people like. And I think they’re particularly bad at it. All my results were riddled with inaccuracies, sometimes it’d miss the whole point of the input text. And it’d rarely summarize at all. It just picks a topic/paragraph here and there and writes some shorter version of that. Missing what a summary is about, providing me with the main points and conclusion, reducing the details and roughly outlining how the author got there. I think LLMs just can’t do it.

I like them for other purposes, though.

I thought it had that factored in. But yeah, if it’s bittorrent, just as a CDN, this isn’t anonymous. I’ll look it up.

If you do it right, you can have that AI replace all the complicated pirating and downloading process. I think someone already came up with a paper writer AI. You just give it the topic, and it fabricates a whole paper, including nice diagrams and pictures. 😅

Yeah, but that also made me worry. I wonder how AI and science mix. Supposedly, some researchers use AI. Especially “Retrieval-Augmented Generation” (information retrieval) and such. I’m not a scientist, but I didn’t have much luck with AI and factual information. It just makes a lot of stuff up. To the point where I’m better off without.

I think you’re all making look a bit worse than it is. I downloaded a few PDFs via IPFS and it worked for me. And I was happy it provided me with what I needed at that time. I can’t comment on reliability or other nuances. It also was slow in my case, but I took that as the usual trade-off. Usually, you either get speed or anonymity, not both. And there are valid use-cases for denylists. For example viruses, malware, CSAM and spam. I’d rather not have my node spread those. It’s complicated. And I also talk in public like that. I think what matters is what you do and implement, not if you say you comply with regulation and the DMCA…

Thanks for the links, I’ll have a look.

I think they stopped endorsing IPFS. I can’t find a good source right now. If you wan’t to support Anna’s Archive, you can help seed their torrents. They don’t seem to have that much redundancy.

Sure, that basic physics knowledge was kind of implied in my comment. But yeah, my phrasing is misleading. They can’t make “every” pager explode. But they can make you end up with one with explosives inside. Most of these things are supply chain attacks. Could be targeted at someone and happen after manufacuring. Or you’d make the regular manufacturer include a backdoor. Or you’d do it like with the pagers and set up a whole fake manufacturer and sell them with a bomb inside. I suppose in that case it would be possible to detect it. But I’m not an expert on explosives.