NounsAndWords

NounsAndWords , 19 days ago to Technology in The rent is too dang high in Cities: Skylines 2, so the devs nuked the landlords

I keep forgetting that that's an option

NounsAndWords , 1 month ago to Comic Strips in Sharing creative stuff on Social Media

And if you try long enough, maybe you can identify someone else's idea to steal and profit from!

NounsAndWords , 1 month ago to Lefty Memes in "We must send in the national guard to stop these violent extremist protests"

Quiet? Polite? Easily ignored? Those are the protesters they like.

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

No clue? Somewhere between a few years (assuming some unexpected breakthrough) or many decades? The consensus from experts (of which I am not) seems to be somewhere in the 2030s/40s for AGI. I'm guessing accuracy probably will be more on a topic by topic basis, LLMs might never even get there, or only related to things they've been heavily trained on. If predictive text doesn't do it then I would be betting on whatever Yann LeCun is working on.

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

Perhaps there is some line between assuming infinite growth and declaring that this technology that is not quite good enough right now will therefore never be good enough?

Blindly assuming no further technological advancements seems equally as foolish to me as assuming perpetual exponential growth. Ironically, our ability to extrapolate from limited information is a huge part of human intelligence that AI hasn't solved yet.

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

GPT-2 came out a little more than 5 years ago, it answered 0% of questions accurately and couldn't string a sentence together.

GPT-3 came out a little less than 4 years ago and was kind of a neat party trick, but I'm pretty sure answered ~0% of programming questions correctly.

GPT-4 came out a little less than 2 years ago and can answer 48% of programming questions accurately.

I'm not talking about mortality, or creativity, or good/bad for humanity, but if you don't see a trajectory here, I don't know what to tell you.

NounsAndWords , 1 month ago to Comic Strips in Color Feels

I've always felt Green is Science, Blue is Math, Red is English

NounsAndWords , 1 month ago to Technology in Scarlett Johansson denied OpenAI the right to use her voice. They used it anyway.

This is very much the type of case that settles out of court for an undisclosed amount of money.

NounsAndWords , 1 month ago to Comic Strips in I urgently need to come in!!!

And now it's time to go back out.

NounsAndWords , 1 month ago to Comic Strips in Free time [Mr. Lovenstein]

I have to get all of my (non money earning) work in the morning before even opening my phone. As soon as the social media gets going my motivation to do anything creative and engaging drops.

I've tried focusing on creative/artistic communities to try and inspire myself.....but it just doesn't work. I think the passive intake of media ends up scratches the same itch in a much less fulfilling way.

NounsAndWords , 1 month ago to Comic Strips in Well, we can't have that... [Extra Fabulous Comics]

The planet will be fine. Completely inhospitable for human life, sure, but the planet itself will manage.

NounsAndWords , 1 month ago to linuxmemes in Reality check

I only take on gross work, as per rhyming conventions gross work is your gross worth.

NounsAndWords , 2 months ago to Lefty Memes in Nazis fuck off.

I imagine it's fairly easy for them to get a permit with all the cops already on board.

NounsAndWords , 2 months ago to Technology in After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat

The company is offering affected users a 30 percent discount on a new Ecobee thermostat, valid for up to 15 thermostats.

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NounsAndWords , 2 months ago to Lefty Memes in Eat the rich with new potatoes and asparagus.

I've seen a lot of comments like this for a lot of years...