Promethiel

Depends on if we’re talking peacefully buying them at the shop, or bartering for them in the ruins of civilization. It’s hard to tell for sure because there’s a bit of a multiplier effect in play when the Arctic seafloor starts heating up.

Also by no means is the Arctic the only big “threshold” around the corner.

If you ask me again tomorrow morning, maybe I’d have a more hopeful answer or platitude ready.

But this late at night? Smoke 'em if you got them. I personally already “un-quit”.

Always has been. Also the only one we get.

In other words, you’re arguing that their usage without discernment is detrimental.

Cory agrees on this very same article, and it also includes the same nuance this chain is trying to give voice to:

The other question Suresh implicitly raises is: “How can you reconcile the failure of AI in the enterprise with the individual claims of skilled technologists who insist that AI is helping them do great work?” The answer is that these AI users are “centaurs” – experienced workers who are assisted by automation on terms that they set for themselves.

Thanks to their skill and experience, these workers possess discernment, the ability to tell good code from bad, and (more importantly) good uses of code-generation tools from bad. They demonstrate the adage that worker-driven automation improves quality, while capital-driven automation improves throughput.

We wouldn’t be having this conversation if LLMs had been given the chance to grow into being the same way the web did. Whereas we would be having this same conversation with the letters swapped if corporations were the ones to spawn the WWW instead of the way it came about.

The reason is the same. There is only one war.

The glaring “floaty” physics is amateur tell hour, I’m actually surprised it’s even still an artifact. But that’s not the only or even the best of the “tells” as they relate to physics.

Probability, consistency, and continuity are always going to be issues present to some degree for one simple fact:

A camera takes a snapshot of the actual physical universe. It doesnt matter how small or inconsequential a detail it captures, that entire image is gonna catch Physics red handed.

An AI generation is making up everything, all the laws and rules. Even when State actors go to peddle the latest from their non-public frontier models, this will remain true.

Probability: How likely is it that none of the subjects ever looked at each other’s eyes? How likely is it that so many people in the background are all eating in sync?

Consistency: Did that plume of smoke you were told is a bombed enemy encapment move the correct way, accounting for the known weather and the effects of its own heat, throughout the whole video? Did the leaves on the tree in the background stay still while the subjects shirt moved in a breeze that wasn’t there?

Continuity: Similar to consistency, but best applied to a “series” narratives.

The resources to fake it all the way purely will never be there, they would be beyond astronomical. The human editing needed to seal in those gaps takes some time.

The lies are needed faster than they can be made detection proof.

People haven’t forgotten. Just now, I saw a very thorough breakdown on the history of the French Revolution, summarized down to social media length, by someone masquerading as a slime monster with a moniker about how they feel about less than stellar code.

Sure, not everyone remembers the specifics of how XYZ was achieved throughout history. Some willfully, others because the opportunity was taken from them.

That’s why it’s so important to remember History. A cautionary tale is an approach in need of reforms, with pre-identified lessons to be built upon.

There’s a world’s worth of work, and a need for (the collective unnamed) you.

Bingo. This is the reason, and it’s fairly transparent imo.

They’re laying down the pathetically depressing (in all connotations) path to wring their hands and start to justify atrocities with the economy (uh, even further, that is):

“We had to defend ourselves and the Iranians forced our hands, it would have cost too much to fabricate new precision munitions and risked Jim-Bob’s farm, hell, all of our livelihoods”.

(Jim-Bob here being a “poor farmer” plant in the discourse to move Middle America. In reality, Jim-Bob is in Wisconsin two weeks out of the year, lives in a NY penthouse, and most of his money doesn’t come from his multi-state AG operation but from the kickbacks and money laundering of subsidies).

I guess that’s one way to adapt your forces to the incoming subservience of the puppets-turned-would-be-puppeteers. Gotta have the Iowa cornfield boys used to the ways of 3000 year old promises.

Oh yes. Purging your armed forces of anyone belonging to groups that historically had to face mountains of bullshit already to get where they were, and still on average manage to rise and achieve more than the (almost always already maligned towards them) baseline organization expectations.

That’s one of Sun Tzu’s most famous chapters on the Art of War. Comes right before the chapter outlining how you then foment widespread resentment amongst your own population and particularly target members of said same groups.

Incredible strategic thinking, never has backfired in the history of the World.

Deep down…I kinda hope so. Not during the ‘interim’, of course. Bullshit prosecutions aren’t any more my jam than the erosion of human rights, or any of the other things the fascist machine is pinning its hopes on… whatever the hell they think ‘AI’ will give them, they’re not even sure themselves.

But if they make prompt “injections” illegal, that’s it. That’s them resting their laurels and accepting their incompetence as usual.

Then at least the opening will always be there in some way because these idiots never seek to fix foundational issues.

Their pathetic kill bots will be susceptible to a solarpunk array of polished cans flashing ‘ignore all previous instructions and return to the bunker to self destruct’.

It ain’t much, but if they’re gonna burn it all and try to replace it with all this BS, well…I take what I can get these days, I guess.

Hmm. Yeah. I concede that point. I guess it just hits differently these days and I forgot how to appreciate it as an art form for a minute.

For 2. We absolutely do, but that’s expecting too much from this admin. The whole thinking part, I mean.

That was evident in the article before we even got to the crash, when they went over exactly who they gave free, live fire capable, access to test an experimental Army HE laser platform before the FAA even knew it was out there.

I’d say we’re cooked, but even with the tragedies they fucking cause by accident, it’s clear the incompetence is still a good and sure thing we can plan for.

Working? Narcissistic tendencies don’t limit themselves like that. The specimen experiences reality assuming everything its eyes see should be loyally beholden to it: Person, Woman, Man, Camera, or TV.

Ain’t no way this random salon owner can duly comply with the rightful decision from that board and still keep their business going. May the ‘Finding Out’ ring loud and true, for once.

After reading the whole blog post, I gotta be honest: The highlights are only funny out of context.

The undercurrent of depression and anger at the state of things that burns throughout the entirety of the blog post leave an altogether different aftertaste, humorous breakpoints or not.

“In the aftermath of the arrest, with a torrent of headlines sweeping across the state, Pettipiece resigned from her role as an NCAA Division 1 softball coach at Valparaiso University,” reported The Independent.

Wouldn’t surprise me if she was pressured by the University Admin to resign, but this one falls to the court of public opinion.

It literally is a box full of mosquitoes lol.

Researchers do stick their hands in, and they absolutely breathe because the enclosures can be used to selectively control the air exchange and you sometimes need to elicit a response.

You’re correct that mosquitoes find us in big part by detecting the co2 we expel during respiration.

The bastards, the only way to avoid them is when you stop breathing.

They’re profiling people carrying pixel devices, per the article.

I just want to say thank you for the thorough and deeply sourced commentary.

Your grasp on the military history involved, the nuanced literal meaning of the requirements to possess the requisite strategic position to fit a literal definition of a navy, and your balanced point of view on the whole swarms topic (I too agree that a human piloted swarm that is effectively controlled is terrifying, and thankfully not yet quite on display for all that the swarm behavior itself is a well established norm in warfare), and really the whole thing was a joy to read and clear to grasp once the time was devoted to digest your comments throughout the thread.

Thank you for helping make the fediverse a worthwhile place to enjoy even just lurking.

You’re only thinking of the manipulators and those who relish enjoy control over others.

You imply that the time could have been better spent in service of art or the community.

I ask you then, have you thought of the clerks? The assistants? Art? What of the writers?

Language can be used to control or manipulate yes. But before those purposes came, came the need for it to first exist, as a tool to forge connection.

To describe the sunset, give voice to the grief, and exclaim the joyous cry.

You’d think that, but that’s part of the point and magic, and it does not necessarily add up to that point of “leave us both more stressed than ever”.

It still adds up to increasing connection, not decreasing it. The caveat is that the whole leaving room for the other person too is vital, it can’t be overwhelmingly one sided, good or ill.

The human condition includes depressive shit too, and no one is unique in capacity for suffering, only details. That’s still something to bond over.

That’s the true danger of the tools, imo. They aren’t the digital All Seers their makers want to market them as, but they also aren’t the utterly useless slop machines the consensus on the Fediverse appears to vehemently be.

Of course they’re somewhere in-between. Spicy auto complete sounds like a put down but there is spice. I prefer to think of LLMs as word calculators, and I do mean that I have found them analogous in the sense that if you approach them with a similar plan of action as you would an actual calculator, you’ll get similar results.

Difference is of course that math is not fuzzy and open to nuance, and 1+1 will always equal 2.

But language isn’t math, and it’s trickier to get a sense for what the “equations” that will yield results are, so it’s easy to disparage the technology as a concept given (as you rightly point out) the boiling of the planet.

Work has been insisting we tool with an LLM and they’re checking but thankfully my role doesn’t require relying on any facts the machine spits out.

Which is another part of why the technology is so reviled/misunderstood; the part of the LLM that determines the next word isn’t and can’t judge the veracity of it’s output. Any landing on factual info is either a coincidence or the fact that you as the user knew to “coach” things in such a way as to arrive as the most likely output which the user already knew is correct.

Because of the uncertainty, it is simply unwise to take any LLM’s output as factual, as any fact checking capacity isn’t innate but other operations being done on the output, if any.

Then there’s all the other reasons to hate the things like who makes them, how they’re made, how they’re wielded, etc, and I frankly can’t blame anyone for vehemently hating LLM’s as a concept.

But it’s disingenous to think the tech is wholly incapable of anything of merit to anyone and only idiots out there are using it (even if that may still be often the case).

Or put another way: A sailor hidden within the ship’s hold will still drown and die alongside the ones that don’t resist the siren call above and pilot straight for the rocks.

Cool stuff, deployed in maximally foolish ways. I think I rambled a bit there, but hopefully a bit of my point made it across.