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platypus_plumba , (edited )

It really depends on the type of information that you are looking for. Anyone who understands how LLMs work, will understand when they'll get a good overview.

I usually see the results as quick summaries from an untrusted source. Even if they aren't exact, they can help me get perspective. Then I know what information to verify if something relevant was pointed out in the summary.

Today I searched something like "Are owls endangered?". I knew I was about to get a great overview because it's a simple question. After getting the summary, I just went into some pages and confirmed what the summary said. The summary helped me know what to look for even if I didn't trust it.

It has improved my search experience... But I do understand that people would prefer if it was 100% accurate because it is a search engine. If you refuse to tolerate innacurate results or you feel your search experience is worse, you can just disable it. Nobody is forcing you to keep it.

platypus_plumba , (edited )

The same people who didn't understand that Google uses a SEO algorithm to promote sites regardless of the accuracy of their content, so they would trust the first page.

If people don't understand the tools they are using and don't double check the information from single sources, I think it's kinda on them. I have a dietician friend, and I usually get back to him after doing my "Google research" for my diets... so much misinformation, even without an AI overview. Search engines are just best effort sources of information. Anyone using Google for anything of actual importance is using the wrong tool, it isn't a scholar or research search engine.

platypus_plumba ,

It's an expression. In this context Elon is the broken clock and saying desktops should run Linux is one of the rare times he's been right about something.

The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates (www.theguardian.com)

Despite its name, the infrastructure used by the “cloud” accounts for more global greenhouse emissions than commercial flights. In 2018, for instance, the 5bn YouTube hits for the viral song Despacito used the same amount of energy it would take to heat 40,000 US homes annually....

platypus_plumba ,

The whole article is blaming t"the cloud" as if it didn't serve services consumed by users. What do they want? To shut down the internet?

Energy transition is something these companies are working on.

https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/climate-solutions/carbon-free-energy

Reaching these goals isn't easy.

platypus_plumba ,

You know you can disable the AI overview from Google, right?

CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information (futurism.com)

You know how Google's new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won't slide off (pssst...please don't do this.)...

platypus_plumba ,

There's really nothing they can do, that's just the current state of LLMs. People are insane, they can literally talk with something that isn't human. We are literally the first humans in human experience to have a human-level conversation with something that isn't human.... And they don't like it because it isn't perfect 4 years after release.

platypus_plumba ,

I'd rather get an AI answer that is kinda incorrect than having to search the top 10 pages with ads and cookies buttons to get the same kinda incorrect information.

platypus_plumba ,

In terms of language, Chatgpt is more advanced than most humans. Have you spoken to the average person lately? By average I mean worldwide average.

It's obviously not full human intelligence, but in terms of language it is pretty mind blowing.

platypus_plumba , (edited )

Does it matter if it is actually experiencing things? What matters is what you experience while talking to it, not what it experiences while talking to you. When you play videogames, do you actually think the NPCs are experiencing you?

It's pretty insane how negative people are. We did something so extraordinary. Imagine if someone told the engineers who built the space shuttle "but it isn't teleportation". Maybe stop being so judgemental of what others have achieved.

"Uhh actually, this isn't a fully simulated conscious being with a fully formed organic body that resembles my biological structure on a molecular level.... Get this shit out of here"

platypus_plumba ,

So... Humans get basic things right all the time and never provide false information? What humans are you talking to?

platypus_plumba ,

Does it need to be real intelligence in order to have a conversation with it?

platypus_plumba ,

If nobody told you that you were talking to an AI in 2020,you'd have thought it was a person in quick interactions.

The only reason why it doesn't feel more real is because they literally programmed it to feel the way it does. They didn't create chatgpt to express emotions, that would be insane.

platypus_plumba , (edited )

"a text app"... Sure, it is a text app. Definetely not revolutionizing the tech industry as we speak, totally irrelevant. Sure.

platypus_plumba ,

Show me a better search engine....

platypus_plumba , (edited )

"How easy it is to blah blah blah"... Dude, what the hell are you talking about, there's nothing easy about this system.

If they release a real AI you'd still dislike it because it was created by a corporation.

platypus_plumba , (edited )

I'm already using Copilot every single day. I love it. It helps me save so much time writing boilerplate code that can be easily guessed by the model.

It even helps me understand tools faster than the documentation. I just type a comment and it autocompletes a piece of code that is probably wrong, but probably has the APIs that I need to learn about. So I just go, learn the specific APIs, fix the details of the code and move on.

I use chatgpt to help me improve my private blog posts because I'm not a native English speaker, so it makes the text feel more fluent.

We trained a model with the documentation of our company so it automatically references docs when someone asks it questions.

I'm using the AI from Jira to automatically generate queries and find what I want as fast as possible. I used to hate searching for stuff in Jira because I never remembered the DSL.

I have GPT as a command line tool because I constantly forget commands and this tool helps me remember without having to read the help or open Google.

We have pipelines that read exceptions that would usually be confusing for developers, but GPT automatically generates an explanation for the error in the logs.

I literally ask Chatgpt questions about other areas of technology that I don't understand. My questions aren't advanced so I usually get the right answers and I can keep reading about the topics. Chatgpt is literally teaching me how to do front ends, something that I hated my whole career but now feels like a breeze.

Maybe you should start actually figuring out how to use the tool instead of complaining about it in this echo chamber.

platypus_plumba ,

I have never said that Chatgpt is smarter than humans, I said that when it comes to linguistics, it is more advanced than the average human.

But keep twisting my words, I don't care. Have a wonderful rest of the week. Good bye.

platypus_plumba ,

Have a nice day sir.

platypus_plumba ,

Yeha, and walk everywhere. Use a boat with paddles. Don't be lazy.

platypus_plumba ,

Nobody has said that an LLM is real artificial intelligence.

platypus_plumba ,

Yes, I'll keep using it because it helps me get things done faster, just like vehicles help me move faster.

Read everything you wrote again. You're so toxic and irrational. It's just a tool man, just understand its limitations and work with it. It's very useful even if it isn't perfect.

platypus_plumba ,

👍

platypus_plumba ,

You just inflated my initial statement by assuming I meant that Chatgpt is smarter than humans. I said that Chatgpt is more advanced than the average human at linguistics, and I stand by it. Show me where I said "Chatgpt is smarter than a human" or "this is real simulated human intelligence". You just wanted to be angry at someone so you made your narrative in your mind.

I even said that it doesn't need to be real intelligence in order to be capable of having a conversation.

You'll probably keep creating your imaginary narrative, so there's no point in arguing with you.

Good bye.

platypus_plumba , (edited )

You can have human-level conversations with a tool. I don't get your point. Just because it doesn't have full human intelligence doesn't mean it isn't good at conversation. It is better at conversation than most humans. It is obviously not smarter than a human, but it is more eloquent and has more general knowledge than the average human.

We are the first humans who can have a human level conversation with something that is not a human. What do you think human conversations look like? They are not very deep in general.

Pretty funny you think you convinced me it is a tool when I just showed you like 8 different ways I use it as a tool.

I literally started this thing saying that even if it isn't perfect, it is pretty good and it a crazy achievement. You just keep saying it is worthless shit, but that's not true. Just because the tool isn't perfect it doesn't mean that it is worthless or it isn't an achievement.

But whatever man... You just want to be right, so take your imaginary trophy and walk away.

platypus_plumba , (edited )

I don't care what you think, your attitude is disgusting.

platypus_plumba ,

Personal attacks and insults, what a disgusting person.

platypus_plumba ,

What fact?

platypus_plumba ,

You haven't said a single fact. All you do is assume things and insult people who don't agree with you.

platypus_plumba ,

What if I use Ubuntu but I'd rather talk about the kernel than distros?

platypus_plumba ,

Yeha, mistakes have been made but I guess those are understandable for the biggest distro. But that's the past. We can always switch between distros when needed. Atm Ubuntu is fine.

platypus_plumba ,

I honestly just want to enjoy Linux. If I'm concerned about what happens in every update, I won't enjoy it.

So I leave the worrying to other people. If something really bad happens that I need to know about, I'll probably hear about it on these communities.

"Ubuntu did this crazy thing!!!"

Google -> how to disable this crazy thing?

disables the crazy thing

So far I haven't been hacked (almost 7 years using it) or murdered by the phantom of the bloat. Everything works fine. The only issues I've had are Nvidia related. Fuck Nvidia.

Ubuntu literally delivers the promise of a user friendly experience, which is what I want. I don't want to obsess about the libraries or Init system my distro uses. I just want it to work. I'll let other amazing minds to worry about the philosophy and technical aspects while I just cruise.

I know I can relax thanks to other people who really worry and want everything to be perfect. I'm really grateful with them, I just don't want to be them.

platypus_plumba ,

That's exactly what Canonical is trying to do. They are trying to create a system with all the batteries included so people don't need to worry about installing extra stuff, which means that of course they'll have a bunch of bloat if you don't use everything they offer, which is probably the case.

Their end goal is to be able to push this to the masses and maybe one day be able to get compensation for their effort.

I wouldn't mind if Ubuntu becomes a Microsoft Windows-like product. If that's what it takes to steal people from the claws of Microsoft, I'm OK with that. That would mean that hardware manufacturers will start developing specialized drivers for their hardware in Linux. To this day, in freaking 2024, I need to have a Windows image in order to configure my headset and mouse because developing the interfaces for Linux is pointless for these companies.

We still have like 50 other distros we can use. Let Ubuntu be that bridge to bring more users to Linux.

platypus_plumba ,

I just realized I have never said this word out loud, but in my mind it sounds like "shown"

platypus_plumba ,

I get the feelings, but once they added the content in SO, it was no longer their content.

platypus_plumba ,

Do they have the non-commercial/no-derivative clause?

platypus_plumba ,

If the most revolutionizing technology of century didn't help them beat Google Search, nothing will.

platypus_plumba ,

Alternatives for WhatsApp and Google Search that won't sell your information?

platypus_plumba ,

DuckDuckGo does sell your information, doesn't it? I thoughts that was their business model.

platypus_plumba ,

Why can't a country choose which services it wants to prohibit? Seems strange, it isn't an American company.

I don't really care, just wondering.

platypus_plumba ,

I had like 4 snaps installed in my system and it was hogging like 60Gb of storage. What the actual fuck.

I wish I kept the names of the dependencies, I just ran a command to remove all snaps and the snap itself.

Am I talking bullshit here? I saw my disk drop 60gb after I did that but I have no evidence.

platypus_plumba ,

Did they forget smartphones exist? Why would I want another device for something my smartphone could do?

platypus_plumba ,

Yeha, but they can make their free tier as shitty as they want, it is their product...

If you don't want to pay, just use one of the thousands tools to pirate music. If you don't want to pay but still think you deserve a product with all the features you like, then you're delusional.

platypus_plumba ,

Right, I used their free tier for so long that I even started enjoying the lack of control I had. Like, music would just play for me. I bought the subscription because I really wanted to give them the money. I recall their ads even being only about Spotify premium, so I wouldn't get random shit like YouTube ads.

platypus_plumba ,

If I won't pay, pirating isn't going to take money away from them. Yeha, I know it is stealing, I won't pretend it isn't like many do, but hey, if they are giving me a shit service, they left me no choice.

I pay for most of what I consume but when I have no choice, I pirate. I do pay for Spotify premium, I don't even mind the free tier, I just wanted to give them the money because their app is great.

platypus_plumba ,

I think there are plenty legit reasons to pirate, but I do agree that it isn't ethical. The thing is, I'm not a 100% ethical individual and I'm OK with that, it's not like I'm supporting a drug cartel by buying illegal drugs or killing someone, I have a threshold I consider acceptable for myself. At least I'm not the type of pirate who thinks they are saving the world by pirating content.

Some people think their acceptable threshold is drink and driving. My personal threshold is downloading a movie that the 3 streaming services I'm already paying for don't offer. Pretty vanilla if you ask me.

platypus_plumba ,

So, where did you bury her?

platypus_plumba , (edited )

Still remember my father's face when he realized I was sharing all his personal documents with Limewire.

My internet was so slow that I was tweaking all the settings and doing pattern analysis on bandwidth traffic with nonsense tweaks. So I probably tweaked that setting and felt the internet was 10kbps faster.

I also recall placing the modem under a blanket because I thought the internet was faster when the modem was warmer. My father's face when he saw the modem had melted... and the flabbergasted repair technicians theorizing that our house was probably hit by a thunder and it caught fire somehow. Little did they know.

I was just a desperate kid willing to try anything to be able to download 1 song per day.

platypus_plumba ,

Yeha, I could also point far right authoritarian governments and say that capitalism is bad... But that would be stupid.

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