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kaffiene ,

I guess all those highly skilled researchers around the world looking at different sectors in different countries must have just been wrong in exactly the same way, then. Boy will the feel dumb when they find out

kaffiene ,

I doubt it

kaffiene ,

Film and theatre are areas that have been and still are rife with abuse. I don't really want to hear from someone who isnt a vulnerable individual about what we should do to protect vulnerable individuals

kaffiene ,

There's no contradiction there.

kaffiene ,

That's me. I have a pretty decent computer but it can't run win11. Ill be buggered if I'm getting a new PC just to make win11 run

kaffiene ,

I don't think we should have billionaires but celebrating state sponsored murder is fucking gross

kaffiene ,

The French revolution shows that the guilotines don't necessarily stop when the aristocrats are all dead. I'm not enthusiastic about mob justice

kaffiene ,

I 100 % oppose the existence of Billionaires but not murdering people for being rich. History is littered with the monstrous actions of mobs thinking they were slaying a beast. We should always be wary of simplistic, violent final solutions

kaffiene ,

Heh. Yeah I thought Metallica were anti "the man" when I was a teen but the Napster case showed me that they were the man

kaffiene ,

The Internet was just fine before everything had to be monetised

kaffiene ,

It's been noticed for ages. This is not the first time the issue has been discussed

kaffiene ,

That isn't the issue

US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones (www.theverge.com)

The US Department of Justice and 16 state and district attorneys general accused Apple of operating an illegal monopoly in the smartphone market in a new antitrust lawsuit. The DOJ and states are accusing Apple of driving up prices for consumers and developers at the expense of making users more reliant on its iPhones.

kaffiene ,

It's probably safe to assume that's not the basis for the monopoly claim

kaffiene ,

Did you read the article? Their concerns are a number of anticompetiive behaviours from Apple,. Not the lack of competition. But that said, "Android" is not a competitor, Android is an OS. Samsung is a competitor and they're nowhere near Apples size in the US

kaffiene ,

It's not a competitor in the sense of a being a company that can monopolise, which is the context of the discsussion

kaffiene ,

Damning with faint praise

Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis (www.theverge.com)

Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis::Google says it’s aware of historically inaccurate results for its Gemini AI image generator, following criticism that it depicted historically white groups as people of color.

kaffiene ,

Why would anyone expect "nuance" from a generative AI? It doesn't have nuance, it's not an AGI, it doesn't have EQ or sociological knowledge.
This is like that complaint about LLMs being "warlike" when they were quizzed about military scenarios.
It's like getting upset that the clunking of your photocopier clashes
with the peaceful picture you asked it to copy

kaffiene ,

I DO expect better use from new technologies. I don't expect technologies to do things that they cannot. I'm not saying it's unreasonable to expect better technology I'm saying that expecting human qualities from an LLM is a category error

kaffiene ,

I don't disagree. The article complained about the lack of nuance in generating responses and I was responding to the ability of LLMs and Generative AI to exhibit that. Your points about bias I agree with

kaffiene ,

I pretty much agree with that

Scientists develop game-changing 'glass brick' that could revolutionize construction: 'The highest insulating performance' (www.thecooldown.com)

Scientists develop game-changing 'glass brick' that could revolutionize construction: 'The highest insulating performance'::The team of scientists developed an aerogel glass brick, which is a translucent and thermally insulating material.

kaffiene ,

Aerogel isn't made our of sand

kaffiene ,

Then say the system is shit.

kaffiene ,

No but what really is helpful is having a slogan that prompts misunderstanding and division every time you use it.

How the fuck can being clear be "unhelpful circlejerkibg"?

kaffiene ,

Society. And more than just the police. It's not the people in the police, it's the society that makes them like that. ACAB makes it sound like the police exist in a vacuum where the politicians and businesses and media and vitersthat create this situation don't exist.

kaffiene ,

If retail workers started engaging in violence I wouldn't imagine that all retail workers had suddenly become bastards, I would ask wtf is going on systemically to create that outcome.

kaffiene ,

Society doesn't effect anyone because I'm part of society and I didn't make them like that

kaffiene ,

Sure. But ACAB doesn't describe why the system is shit

kaffiene ,

IMO, at best, it identifies a symptom of the issue that requires change.
Look, i don't agree with you about the optics and helpfulness of ACAB but I agree with you that police are a major problem in the US and I'd welcome reform.

kaffiene ,

"the system sucks"

kaffiene ,

I hate Fox but they have a point. Preaching about climate change (good) doesn't excuse using a private jet (bad). And obviously the hypocricy makes it worse.

kaffiene ,

This is so unlike MS /s

Biden Expected to Announce Billions in Chip Subsidies, WSJ Says (www.bloomberg.com)

Biden Expected to Announce Billions in Chip Subsidies, WSJ Says::The Biden administration is expected to soon announce billions of dollars in new subsidies to chipmakers including Intel Corp. and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing as part efforts to reshore production, the Wall Street Journal reported.

kaffiene ,

Always makes me laugh when the US pushes deregulation and small government on the rest of the world and then acts protectionist AF

kaffiene ,

I find this extraordinarily unconvincing. Firstly it's based on the idea that random graphs are a great model for LLMs because they share a single superficial similarity. That's not science, that's poetry.
Secondly, the researchers completely misunderstand how LLMs work. The assertion that a sentence could not have appeared in the training set does not prove anything. That's expected behaviour.
"stochastic parrot" wasn't supposed to mean that it only regurgitates text that it's already seen, rather that the text is a statistically plausible response to the input text based on very high dimensional feature vectors. Those features definitely could relate to what we think of as meaning or concepts, but they're meaning or concepts that were inherent in the training material.

kaffiene ,

It's a comparison. This is something g you can do in language

kaffiene ,

HP are one of the few electronics manufacturers who I will never again purchase from

kaffiene ,

You're a fucking idiot

kaffiene ,

Maybe this is just a British thing? They're very popular here in NZ

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