sacredbirdman

sacredbirdman , 1 month ago to Technology in Mozilla is adding tab grouping, vertical tabs, profile management, and local AI features to Firefox

Nope, they can use your NPU, GPU or CPU whatever you have.. the performance will vary quite a bit though. Also, the larger the model the more memory it needs to run well.

sacredbirdman , 5 months ago to Technology in The Cult of AI. How one writer's trip to an annual tech conference left him with a sinking feeling about the future

Depends on how you define meaning. I find meaning in experiencing the life. It may be predetermined or have random elements in it but the experience is unique to me.

Anyway, given all we know about us and the universe I haven't heard a coherent proposal of how free will could work. So, until there's good evidence to convince me otherwise .. I can't help but believe it doesn't exist.

sacredbirdman , 5 months ago to Technology in The Cult of AI. How one writer's trip to an annual tech conference left him with a sinking feeling about the future

I'm not saying that humans are just AI, I'm just saying that there's no fundamental difference in the sense that we also respond to stimuli.. we don't have free will.

sacredbirdman , 5 months ago to Technology in The Cult of AI. How one writer's trip to an annual tech conference left him with a sinking feeling about the future

"What we call AI lacks agency, the ability to make dynamic decisions of its own accord, choices that are “not purely reactive, not entirely determined by environmental conditions.” "

That's from the article and I referred to that.

sacredbirdman , 5 months ago to Technology in The Cult of AI. How one writer's trip to an annual tech conference left him with a sinking feeling about the future

It's one of the terrible hype trains again... However, I wonder what makes him think that humans are something clearly more than a model that gathers data through the senses and reacts to external stimuli based on the current model. I think that's special pleading.