Ech

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I'm not claiming there's no chance of a true AI ever being created, but even a cursory understanding of how llms work is enough to know it won't ever lead to anything more than the text-generator it is. It might be a part of the process leading to the former, but it's simply not enough on it's own. Treating it otherwise just plays into the hands of the techbros trying to upsell the lie.

on Gramfel #21 [Nhoj] · c/comicstrips · 2 pts · 17h

I'm no expert, but I know a bit from experience. For starters, Lemmy isn't one single platform, it is made up of many different instances. Instances are the domains used to access content in the fediverse (lemmy.world, lemmy.ca, etc) using Lemmy. Each instance is separate, owned and run by different people or groups (the admins). As a user of an instance, we view and interact with content exclusively through the instance we're signed into, so a URL like the one you posted is useful information, but forces a user not on that instance to modify it to make it usable on their own. The developers of Lemmy helpfully created the shortcut I used (adding a ! in front of the community) that any user can click and be sent to the given community through their current instance.

So when we're not using fiction to judge the present, we're instead rewriting fiction to fit the present? I have a good idea - stop forcing your conception of either through such a narrow frame of view.

Skynet was exactly what it was shown to be because it's fiction and that's how fiction works. And llms have no chance of becoming anything similar, regardless of what fools or charlatans proclaim. Neither inform or contradict the other.

on Curses · c/wizards · 14 pts · 4d

It fizzles on the stack - I'm always aware of that.

On the one hand, people put their names on shit they didn't even make all the time.

On the other, it's twitter. Expecting critical thought is asking for disappointment.

on Always · c/Memes · 4 pts · 8d

Unironically, people (including me) get too picky when there's effectively infinite choices. Instead of settling for something that meets most of their interests, the task becomes finding the perfect thing for that exact moment, which basically nothing will fit.

"I spent way too much instead of eating before I left and need to make this about being better than everyone else."

on me_irl · c/me_irl · 1 pts · 10d

Never seen a whole pickle at the deli?

Fyi, that list doesn't collapse on some clients and is egregiously long. Hosting it on pastebin or something would probably be better.