Deebster

Deebster , 9 days ago

I had to check, but the real thing is the Dairy Council and this is a parody account. Obviously it's way more interesting than the real @dairyuk account.

Deebster , 9 days ago

This one's obviously fake because of the capitalisation errors and .. but the fact that it's otherwise (kinda) plausible shows how useless AI is turning out to be.

Deebster , 9 days ago

You're claiming that Generative AI isn't AI? Weird claim. It's not AGI, but it's definitely under the umbrella of the term "AI", and at the more advanced end (compared to e.g. video game AI).

Deebster , 9 days ago

I agree to your broad point, but absolutely not in this case. Large Language Models are 100% AI, they're fairly cutting edge in the field, they're based on how human brains work, and even a few of the computer scientists working on them have wondered if this is genuine intelligence.

On the spectrum of scripted behaviour in Doom up to sci-fi depictions of sentient silicon-based minds, I think we're past the halfway point.

Deebster , 9 days ago

Humans invent stuff (without realising) it to, so I don't think that's enough to disqualify something from being intelligent.

The interesting question is how much of this is due to the training goal basically being "a sufficiently convincing response to satisfy a person" (pretty much the same as on social media) and how much of it is a fundamental flaw in the whole idea.

Deebster , 9 days ago

Hmm, I think they're close enough to be able to say a neural network is modelled on how a brain works - it's not the same, but then you reach the other side of the semantics coin (like the "can a submarine swim" question).

The plasticity part is an interesting point, and I'd need to research that to respond properly. I don't know, for example, if they freeze the model because otherwise input would ruin it (internet teaching them to be sweaty racists, for example), or because it's so expensive/slow to train, or high error rates, or it's impossible, etc.

When talking to laymen I've explained LLMs as a glorified text autocomplete, but there's some discussion on the boundary of science and philosophy that's asking is intelligence a side effect of being able to predict better.

Deebster , 24 days ago

I'm going to tag you in next time I lose the game.

Deebster , 1 month ago

It's an ad in your post, fittingly (although yours isn't particularly ironic).

Do you know of oulipo.social? No fifth symbols found on all of that domain.

Deebster , 1 month ago

"I might try to put up a (compliant) post a day for a half-fortnight"?

Deebster , 1 month ago

https://youtu.be/O9ITcAbVGkU for those who want to hear it

Deebster , 2 months ago

Apart from OP's picture missing the 's on Kelley's, it seems genuine due to the matching inconsistent use of capitalisation.

Deebster , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I liked when the US National Honey Board funded a study that compared honey, cane sugar, and HFCS and found they're all about the same (and all raised a key blood fat, a marker for heart disease).

Of course, the truth is that sugar's sugar and you should have limited amounts of it, but when it's as cheap as HFCS is in the States, they can stick it in everything.

Deebster , 2 months ago

Seems that this has been asked before, and Wikipedia has gone for inaptronym

I like nominative ironicism or unaptonym.

Deebster , 2 months ago

Changing a total of three lines is hardly worth mentioning.

As a professional software I know that the actual typing is hardly any of the work - let alone on someone else's code!

And you're a developer too, so you know this. This minimising of his contributions comes across as you arguing in bad faith, not to mention backing up the complaints about your hostile attitude.

Deebster , 4 months ago

4 out of 4, which seems a slightly unintuitive scale

Finally, there’s a level 4 sting, which is as bad as it can get. Schmidt knows of only three critters capable of inflicting level-4 suffering: the warrior wasp (Synoeca septentrionalis), a two-and-a-half-inch-long black bug found in the tropics; the bullet ant (Paraponera clavata), also tropical; and the tarantula hawk (genus Pepsis), two inches long, which Schmidt can find in his yard in Tucson.

-- The Straight Dope

btw, this image is a legit snippet from the wikipedia page Schmidt sting pain index although it doesn't make clear that Schmidt didn't get stung on purpose for science.

Deebster , 4 months ago

I assume this is funny answers only? Some kinda woooosh? I think a lot of Lemmy could name them all, given how popular Trek is on here.

Deebster , 4 months ago

Interesting point. So it's more like

Cart?	Returns	Leaves
Thinks return is right	😇	👿
Thinks leave is right	👿	😇

Deebster , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

You're allowed not to know! It's just that since you'd got Picard I thought you'd know the rest since they're from the same show (Star Trek: The Next Generation).

Seeing as I've just discovered you can use tables on Lemmy, I'll give you a proper answer:

Actor	Character
Patrick Stewart	Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes	William Riker
Brent Spiner	Data
Gates McFadden	Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis	Deanna Troi
LeVar Burton	Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn	Worf
Denise Crosby	Tasha Yar
Wil Wheaton	Wesley Crusher
Colm Meaney	Miles O'Brien
Diana Muldaur	Katherine Pulaski
Dwight Schultz	Reginald Barclay
Michelle Forbes	Ro Laren
Majel Barrett	Lwaxana Troi
Brian Bonsall	Alexander Rozhenko

Deebster , 4 months ago

Yeah, the same kid:

Screenshot of Brian Bonsall's IMDB page showing he's known for Family Ties and Star Trek TNG

Deebster , 8 months ago

Obligatory mention that Firefox Mobile supports plugins like uBlock Origin. You don't have to suffer this rubbish!