Rhaedas

It’s the Fediverse. You can literally run your own little instance on your own or or a friend’s computer and restrict only the ideas you want to talk about. When you say “this place” you mean everyone else since there’s not a single entity controlling the flow of discussion.

And if “we” sold out, I’d like to know how much each of us got. I seem to have missed a check.

he worked to build a music player called the Synapse Media Player. The device used machine learning to learn the user’s listening habits

Oh, so then he did already establish what superintelligence is.

(I miss original Pandora)

It’s been worse and worse over time for whatever reasons, but the AI summary at the top now can be way off. I had a result the other day where a quick glance (all that I give it as I scroll down to any results) I laughed because I could tell it was totally wrong, and couldn’t even figure out where it got that result from. It wasn’t in the results I found.

It’s a race to the bottom. So far The Onion is doing a great job, but reality is so much better at this.

I’m convinced the AI models ran across the “best place to test is in production” joke in training and thought it was a valid process.

I mean, it is a valid process. You will get far faster results that way than on a test server.

Good news is that it won’t be from Starlink unless they decide to start moving them higher. LEO has atmospheric drag that slowly decays orbits that aren’t actively maintained.

“More satellites!”

Maybe the overall idea isn’t a great one.

Have you tried the newest release? It seems to be more PS leaning, at least that’s what I hear from PS experts.

To be fair, a lot of those are due to a Windows legacy of dominating the market, which isn’t going to change until there are more people elsewhere. It’s a bit of a catch-22, and yet even being a small percent use in desktop Linux has started to get distros that feel and run similar to Windows enough so people who don’t dabble in Windows specific software don’t miss it. It’s also a bit much to weigh Windows as better in many of those above features when it still have its own issues often, even though it is the dominate and supported OS.

I laughed at your last part. I have never not had to do the same for Windows as I have for Linux when a problem pops up. Google the problem. Those troubleshooters are such a waste of time, and honestly the only time I’ve had an automated fix that worked to resolve a situation was in Linux via purging the old driver and reloading it. The Windows troubleshooter is like the first tier on a tech support line, where you tell them, yeah, I already did all that.

plug in AI security device

“Initializing security sweep.”

“Security scan finished. All databases wiped clean.”

You don’t have to be intelligent to ruin things. Look at Trump.

At least a thinking machine would have a reason for doing what it might do, instead of bumbling along and overshooting any safeguards left. Which given Musk’s attitude, Grok would be the first and last safeguard for everything. So yeah, this is worse than Terminator.

I’ve seen this movie.

“The only way to keep things from crashing is to plug Skynet Grok in.”

“Anybody who thinks LLMs are a direct route to the sort [of] AGI that could fundamentally transform society for the good is kidding themselves.”

A quote in an article that still uses the generic “AI” to refer to LLM models, thus losing any credibility. Probably was written by an LLM - sorry, AI, since that’s what it means now. AI is popular jargon now to mean anything that seems like it’s thinking, only serious people use AGI/ASI and even they often slip up and say AI sometimes. Tainted word.

I do think LLMs are/will be part of the tools needed for AGI, but alone, no, they aren’t processing what they’re being asked, so of course on anything more complex than their training they can go astray.

I’d disagree with Rogue One as a first intro to Star Wars simply because there’s a lot of assumptions of knowledge of things explained at a minimum in ANH. If anything, ANH first, then Rogue One to cover the stolen plans story that is mentioned all throughout.

The only benefit for seeing Rogue One before ANH is to explain why Vader is so pissed at the princess.

I’ll add to the bias. I created both a kbin account and a Lemmy.one account when the migration happened. Preferred kbin’s look and feel, then changed over to mbin when Ernest started having issues. Haven’t looked back, mbin is great.

When the tariff costs five times more than what you were selling the cheap shit for, somehow it’s hard to believe people are going to pay that. Part of these cheap markets is that it’s throwaway money for crap, that sometimes is something usable. Hard to justify that now.

Ollama.com is another method of self hosting. Figuring out which model type and size for what equipment you have is key, but it’s easy to swap out. That’s just an LLM, where you go from there depends on how deep you want to get into the code. An LLM by itself can work, it’s just limited. Most of the addons you see are extra things to give memory, speech, avatars, and other extras to improve the experience and abilities. Or you can program a lot of that yourself if you know Python. But as others have said, the more you try to get out, the more robust a system you’ll need, which is why you find the best ones online in cloud format. But if you’re okay with slower responses and lower features, self hosting is totally doable, and you can do what you want, especially if you get one of the “Jailbroke” models that has had some of the safety limits modified out of them to some degree.

Also as mentioned, be careful not to get sucked in. Even a local model can be convincing enough sometimes to fool someone wanting to see things. Lots of people recognize that danger, but then belittle people who are looking for help in that direction (while marketing realizes the potential profits and tries very hard to sell it to the same people).

You didn’t factor in the variability of federation vs. a single platform and how not only can it affect how long it takes for everyone to see a post, if they do at all, but also how many duplications there may be floating around. And I don’t know if you can predict that reliably, as we’re all still trying to figure it out.

I agree it can be used fallaciously, often found in the business world. My point was to include both good and bad honestly and not hide it, and people won’t shut down if they get the good first. It also depends on the subject - if they’re on the right track and your suggestion leads to better results, that’s not as negative as telling someone they’re doing something incorrectly and offering a different way.

In the end, how you say things is just as important as what is said.

On constructive criticism - definitely rule one is make sure that it’s invited first, but second, the best way to “sweeten” a critique and make it more appealing is to put it between compliments. Don’t have a bare remark about the problems or suggestions, tell them what you like first, then how they might change things, and then close with something else positive or simply thanking them for sharing it. Even if someone says they want to hear what people think, it’s normal to be defensive, so help lower that reaction first, and then leave them feeling appreciated even though you pointed out issues you saw.