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drislands ,

We don't! When I was younger I had a theory that the brain is a 3D representation of an organ that exists in a higher dimension. Granted, I had (and still have) no relevant expertise to properly speculate on how that could work, but it was fun to think about.

drislands ,

And it's so ridiculously good. The NYT even wrote an article about it.

drislands ,

Is this the comic that had the raccoon saying something like "I'm rabid for titties"?

drislands ,

Hell yeah brother. Never forget the most important step a man can take: the next one.

drislands ,

The girl in the passenger seat clearly has a look of "we knew this was going to happen", too.

drislands ,

I wouldn't say "any" major games. Helldivers 2 is a notable exception.

drislands ,

That's what I'm saying. It has anticheat, and it runs on Linux without issue.

drislands ,

No worries, I may have just been unclear considering multiple people appear to have downvoted my comment.

drislands ,

Honestly mad respect for owning it. No one's perfect all the time, and it takes a lot of courage to be able to admit when those mistakes happen.

In my opinion, that makes you MORE qualified to be a mod -- not less.

drislands ,

To be fair, my understanding is the "10 is the last version" idea came from a developer speaking in an unofficial capacity and the media ran with it. It may have never been true.

drislands ,

That would require that it be a social media platform, as supposed to a money laundering front.

drislands ,

(•_•)

drislands ,

I'll explain for you, because there's a lot of misinformation around.

What is being called AI these days is various companies' version of what's called an LLM -- Large Language Model. Put simply, an LLM is a very sophisticated piece of software that takes what is asked of it to determine what is statistically the most likely sequence of words to follow as an answer.

This means you can ask a question the way you'd ask a human, and the way it answers will closely mirror how a person would answer (as opposed to stuff like Google Assistant or Siri, where you need to ask a question a specific way to get a decent answer).

Note, however, that at no point did I say that an LLM is accurate. This is the fatal issue that is never included by proponents of this kind of AI. They don't have any mechanism to retrieve information, or verify the truthfulness of the answers given. You wind up seeing a lot of answers from this kind of AI that is either partially or completely wrong.

My favorite example is the result you get when googling "african countries that start with the letter K". Someone posted the answer they got from an LLM to a forum online, which said that there is no country, and that became the top google result...despite the fact that Kenya obviously exists and starts with the letter K.

Essentially, LLMs are really fascinating in how well they approximate human speech -- but they have absolutely no intelligence behind them. Proponents of this tech as AI either ignore this, or outright lie about it. As a result, a lot of companies have started using this tech to replace their support teams and/or the search functionality of their websites. I'm sure you can imagine the negative effects this has caused.

drislands ,

Oh whoops! 😬 I hope you get the answer you needed!

drislands ,

Rocko?!

drislands ,

https://xkcd.com/2071/

drislands ,

I appreciate that, friend. I hope my comment didn't come off as flippant. I absolutely believe you've seen the shit you're railing against, I just haven't seen it (on Lemmy) myself.

drislands ,

I love Linux as much as the next guy, but installing a new OS is not easier than downloading a single program and clicking check boxes. No need to be hyperbolic, Windows is bad enough as it is.

drislands ,

Well, that's fair. I thought you meant easier to install Linux over an existing Windows 11 install.

Rabbit R1 is Just an Android App (lemmy.world)

See, it turns out that the Rabbit R1 seems to run Android under the hood and the entire interface users interact with is powered by a single Android app. A tipster shared the Rabbit R1’s launcher APK with us, and with a bit of tinkering, we managed to install it on an Android phone, specifically a Pixel 6a....

drislands ,

He's my go-to for tech reviews. He'll happily gush about what he likes, but he isn't shy about what isn't good.

drislands ,

A variety of small but useful features. Typing indicator, reactions, read receipts, and larger media limits. I'm sure there's more, that's all I can think of off the top of my head.

drislands ,

Okay.

drislands ,

Honest question: how many email-havers do you think know what GPG is?

drislands ,

...what? How is that related at all?

drislands ,

Fellas, is it geriatric to not want food poisoning?

drislands ,

Jokes on you, whippersnapper! My ass is behind 7 proxies layers of depends!

drislands ,

Real answer: when people finance their phones, the provider needs to check their credit to confirm if they're actually eligible.

drislands ,

Probably so they can re-check you in the future when you inevitably renew your contract.

Not that I agree with that. It should only be stored as long as it takes to run the check.

drislands ,

I know I'm being that guy here, but this is a butchering of the meme format. Woof.

drislands ,

ROAR!

drislands ,

Sometimes I think that I could easily comprehend any idea, as long as I carefully read about it.

...then I see stuff like this and realize there are ideas so far beyond my current understanding that I feel like I'd need a PhD to wrap my head around them.

drislands ,

My partner suggested "Tesla Tittyflips" as a modern replacement to "punch buggy". That's been a fun game on long drives.

drislands ,

That's Cory Doctorow, my guy. He's not making an ad.

drislands ,

I get what you mean, but considering how many influential people are having their anti-trans opinions broadcast (see: JKR), I think this kind of article is more necessary than you might think.

Redditors Vent and Complain When People Mock Their "AI Art" (futurism.com)

Setting aside the usual arguments on the anti- and pro-AI art debate and the nature of creativity itself, perhaps the negative reaction that the Redditor encountered is part of a sea change in opinion among many people that think corporate AI platforms are exploitive and extractive in nature because their datasets rely on...

drislands ,

Agreed. Consider this absolutely batshit take from the reddit post linked in the article.

Your art looks pretty good, so most people wouldn't be able to tell it's AI unless you told them it's AI.

Generally it's always best to just lie and tell everyone you made it yourself, just to avoid all the toxic people that hate AI, because not having to read hateful comments from people like that is reason enough to lie. Don't need to provide any evidence or go into details, just tell everyone you made it yourself and ignore anyone that question it.

"Your art". I'm sure clicking the "regenerate" button on mid journey for 5 hours took lots of work. It's hard not to feel real hate for these people.

drislands ,

That's fair. I'll admit I've not done it myself, I've only seen folks talking about it -- and of the people I personally know that have done it, the activity has been described as clicking regenerate until you like the results.

drislands ,

Relatable. In our rush to say the clever thing we're thinking, we don't stop to double check that we read it correctly in the first place. I've been guilty of that too many times....

drislands ,

...because they frequently do? Glaring errors are like, the main thing LLMs produce besides hype.

drislands ,

Y'know what, that's a fair point. Though I'm not the original commenter from the top, heh.

drislands ,

No worries mate. I appreciate the correction regardless.

drislands ,

Where are you seeing that? Searching the article isn't showing that text.

"A dream. It's perfect": Helium discovery in northern Minnesota may be biggest ever in North America (www.cbsnews.com)

"A dream. It's perfect": Helium discovery in northern Minnesota may be biggest ever in North America::For a century, the U.S. Government-owned the largest helium reserve in the country, but the biggest exporters now are in Russia, Qatar and Tanzania. With this new discovery, Minnesota could be joining that list.

drislands ,

Ah yes, we're wasting helium, so finding more isn't a good thing. Of course. 🙄

drislands ,

I don't disagree with your general point. But finding a new source of Helium, regardless of the rate of use, is a good thing.

That aside -- are you saying Helium is related to climate change? Curious to know how, if so.

drislands ,

I sincerely appreciate your effort to relate your perspective. I think I did originally interpret the comment how you described, but I over thought it and wondered if there was a connection I was unaware of.

drislands ,

A few things came together for me here.

The paper had two reviewers, one in India and one based in the U.S.

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"...a reviewer of the paper had raised concerns about the AI-generated images that were ignored."

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...the U.S.-based reviewer who said that they evaluated the study based solely on its scientific merits and that it was up to Frontiers whether or not to publish the AI-generated images...

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"The authors failed to respond to these requests. We are investigating how our processes failed to act on the lack of author compliance... "

They don't outright say it in the article, but it looks like the reviewer based in India was the one who actually raised concerns about the garbage images. The authors were supposed to respond, but didn't, and the journal published anyway.

I will readily admit that this is just my own conclusion here, but -- I wonder if there was an element of racism that went into ignoring the reviewer's concerns?

drislands ,

I brought it up purely as speculation, as one possible explanation for why the process was not properly followed. I don't have any experience with publishing companies, whether for science journals or otherwise.

drislands ,

Hilarious as all the other answers are, my guess is that this species has more complex sex chromosomes than the XX/XY variations we're familiar with -- perhaps there are more than 2 slots for the chromosomes to go, and then there are more than 2 options per slot, resulting in the humongous number of options stated in the post.

drislands ,

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