14th_cylon

14th_cylon , 1 month ago to Technology in ChatGPT Answers Programming Questions Incorrectly 52% of the Time: Study

AI made those discoveries. Yes, it is true that humans made AI, so in a way, humans made the discoveries, but if that is your take, then it is impossible for AI to ever make any discovery.

if this is your take, then lot of keyboard made a lot of discovery.

AI could make a discovery if there was one (ai). there is none at the moment, and there won't be any for any foreseeable future.

tool that can generate statistically probable text without really understanding meaning of the words is not an intelligence in any sense of the word.

your other examples, like playing chess, is just applying the computers to brute-force through specific mundane task, which is obviously something computers are good at and being used since we have them, but again, does not constitute a thinking, or intelligence, in any way.

it is laughable to think that anyone knows where the current rapid trajectory will stop for this new technology, and much more laughable to think we are already at the end.

it is also laughable to assume it will just continue indefinitely, because "there is a trajectory". lot of technology have some kind of limit.

and just to clarify, i am not some anti-computer get back to trees type. i am eager to see what machine learning models will bring in the field of evidence based medicine, for example, which is something where humans notoriously suck. but i will still not call it "intelligence" or "thinking", or "making a discovery". i will call it synthetizing so much data that would be humanly impossible and finding a pattern in it, and i will consider it cool result, no matter what we call it.

14th_cylon , 1 month ago to Technology in ChatGPT Answers Programming Questions Incorrectly 52% of the Time: Study

In general, “The technology is young and will get better with time” is not just a reasonable argument, but almost a consistent pattern. Note that XKCD’s example is about events, not technology.

yeah, no.

try to compare horse speed with ford t and blindly extrapolate that into the future. look at the moore's law. technology does not just grow upwards if you give it enough time, most of it has some kind of limit.

and it is not out of realm of possibility that llms, having already stolen all of human knowledge from the internet, having found it is not enough and spewing out bullshit as a result of that monumental theft, have already reached it.

that may not be the case for every machine learning tool developed for some specific purpose, but blind assumption it will just grow indiscriminately, because "there is a trend", is overly optimistic.

14th_cylon , 1 month ago to Technology in ChatGPT Answers Programming Questions Incorrectly 52% of the Time: Study

will therefore never be good enough?

no one said that. but someone did try to reject the fact it is demonstrably bad right now, because "there is a trajectory".

14th_cylon , 1 month ago to Technology in ChatGPT Answers Programming Questions Incorrectly 52% of the Time: Study

I appreciate the XKCD comic, but I think you’re exaggerating that other commenter’s intent.

i don't think so. the other commenter clearly rejects the critic(1) and implies that existence of upward trajectory means it will one day overcome the problem(2).

while (1) is well documented fact right now, (2) is just wishful thinking right now.

hence the comic, because "the trajectory" doesn't really mean anything.

14th_cylon , 1 month ago to Technology in ChatGPT Answers Programming Questions Incorrectly 52% of the Time: Study

For example, AI has discovered

no, people have discovered. llms were just a tool used to manipulate large sets of data (instructed and trained by people for the specific task) which is something in which computers are obviously better than people. but same as we don't say "keyboard made a discovery", the llm didn't make a discovery either.

that is just intentionally misleading, as is calling the technology "artificial intelligence", because there is absolutely no intelligence whatsoever.

and comparing that to einstein is just laughable. einstein understood the broad context and principles and applied them creatively. llm doesn't understand anything. it is more like a toddler watching its father shave and then moving a lego piece accross its face pretending to shave as well, without really understaning what is shaving.

14th_cylon , 1 month ago to Technology in ChatGPT Answers Programming Questions Incorrectly 52% of the Time: Study

There is a good chance that it is instrumental in discoveries that lead to efficient clean energy

There is exactly zero chance.... LLMs don't discover anything, they just remix already existing information. That is how it works.

14th_cylon , 1 month ago to Technology in ChatGPT Answers Programming Questions Incorrectly 52% of the Time: Study

Seeing the trajectory is not ultimate answer to anything.

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/extrapolating.png

14th_cylon , 1 month ago to Technology in ICQ, One of the Oldest Instant Messengers, Is Shutting Down

And here I thought I was cool with my 8digit number starting with "1"

14th_cylon , 1 month ago to linuxmemes in toxic help forum

I could do this in about five seconds with Corel PhotoPaint.

that is because you are familiar with corel photopaint. i could do that faster than you in gimp, because i am familiar with gimp.

and yes, using tool capable of doing lot of complex tasks takes more time to learn than some single-purpose tool that is optimized to do one task (and even then you have to learn how to use it). that is like wondering that learning to pilot aircraft takes longer than learning to ride on a bicycle.

14th_cylon , 1 month ago to Technology in Self-Driving Tesla Nearly Hits Oncoming Train, Raises New Concern On Car's Safety

The currently enabled Autopilot and Full Self-Driving features require active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous.

https://www.tesla.com/support/autopilot

14th_cylon , 1 month ago to Technology in We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem

i approve of that. it is funny and there is no harm to anyone else other than the shareholders, so... 😆

14th_cylon , 1 month ago to Technology in OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts

These fuckers see it as well. Fuckity fuckity fuck.

14th_cylon , 1 month ago to Technology in We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem

People who suggest, let's say, firing employees of crisis intervention hotline and replacing them with llms...

14th_cylon , 1 month ago to Technology in Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down

their traffic data has no rivals

do you mean the waze traffic data, or does google actually have some of its own?

14th_cylon , 2 months ago to Technology in Tractor-trailers with no one aboard? The future is near for self-driving trucks on US roads

i would guess these would be last. the garbage cans are not on the highway, they are in potentially hard accessible places, where some maneuvering and judgement may be required.