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Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

  • George Orwell

  • What technologies are constant failures but we can't stop trying to make work?

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  • LLMs are AI. ChatGPT alone has over 800 million weekly users. If just one percent of them are paying, that's 8 million paying customers. That's not "nobody."

    That sheer volume of weekly users also shows the demand is clearly there, so I don't get where the "useless" claim comes from. I use one to correct my writing all the time - including this very post - and it does a pretty damn good job at it.

    Relying on an LLM for factual answers is a user error, not a failure of the underlying technology. An LLM is a chatbot that generates natural-sounding language. It was never designed to spit out facts. The fact that it often does anyway is honestly kind of amazing - but that's a happy accident, not an intentional design choice.

  • It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines

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  • And they always will. You need to look at the big picture here, not individual cases. If we replaced every single car on US roads with one driven by AI - proven to be 10 times better a driver than a human - that would still mean 4,000 people getting killed by them each year. That, however, doesn't mean we should go back to human drivers and 40,000 people killed annually.

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  • LLM is an AI, but the terms aren't synonymous. AI describes a broad field - LLM is only one subcategory of it.

  • It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines

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  • Broadly speaking, an AI driver getting stumped means it's stuck in the middle of the road - while a human driver getting stumped means plowing into a semi truck.

    I'd rather be inconvenienced than killed. And from what I've seen, even our current AI drivers are already statistically safer than the average human driver - and they're only going to keep getting better.

    They'll never be flawless though. Nothing is.

  • Ordered rat bait and station today

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  • I have a mouse/rat family living in my attic, but I also have a pet rodent - so I can't trap the attic dwellers without being a massive hypocrite.

    Guess they're officially pets now too.

  • It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines

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  • If it's connected to internet it can be hacked.

  • It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines

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  • I think the interventions here are more like: "that's a trash can someone pushed onto the road - let me help you around it" rather than: "let me drive you all the way to your destination."

    It's usually not the genuinely hard stuff that stumps AI drivers - it's the really stupid, obvious things it simply never encountered in its training data before.

  • What technologies are constant failures but we can't stop trying to make work?

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  • You seem to be focusing on LLMs specifically, which are just one subcategory of AI. Those terms aren't synonymous.

    The main issue here seems to be mostly a failure to meet user expectations rather than the underlying technology failing at what it's actually designed for. LLM stands for Large Language Model. It generates natural-sounding responses to prompts - and it does this exceptionally well.

    If people treat it like AGI - which it's not - then of course it'll let them down. That's like cursing cruise control for driving you into a ditch. It's actually kind of amazing that an LLM gets any answers right at all. That's just a side effect of being trained on a ton of correct information - not what it's designed to do. So it's like cruise control that's also a somewhat decent driver, people forget what it really is, start relying on it for steering, and then complain their "autopilot" failed when all they ever had was cruise control.

    I don't follow AI company claims super closely so I can't comment much on that. All I know is plenty of them have said reaching AGI is their end goal, but I haven't heard anyone actually claim their LLM is generally intelligent.

  • What technologies are constant failures but we can't stop trying to make work?

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  • How is AI a failure exactly?

  • There's no such things as a get rich quick scheme, but we live in a world of get richer quick schemes.

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  • Ya gotta spend money to make money.

    I mean, that's technically true. If someone handed me 5 million, I could invest 4.5 million and live pretty comfortably for 5 to 10 years off the remaining 500k. In that time, the 4.5 million in the stock market would probably grow to around 9 million over 10 years. That's why it's difficult to get rich but easy to get richer.

  • Have you ever momentarily forgotten a word, so you just make one up?

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  • Similar thing happens to me with certain subjects I mostly only ever discuss online in English or hear talked about on English-language podcasts.

    Then when I try talking about them in my native language, I often realize I don't have the vocabulary for it. Depending on who I'm talking to, I'll either just drop the English term in there or have to pause and hunt for the closest equivalent in my own language - which isn't always easy.

  • How to fix this crack in the shower wall?

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  • There's no really universal answer because there are many ways to do waterproofing.

    I'd start by removing the trim around the doorframe, light switch, or outlet to check the wall structure - or look for a service hatch on the ceiling to peek at the unfinished top part of the wall.

  • In your opinion, what is the most convenient Lemmy web interface on a phone?

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  • I agree with the rest of the people here: the one I personally use.

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  • How long before you can’t afford to maintain the diesel?

    Decades. That's not really the point of what I'm saying though.

  • Are we done with business cards?

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  • I still use them as well. Feels more professional to hand out a card than to start spelling out my phone number.

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  • I still think it would be interesting to see those stats.

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  • Would be interesting to see this compared to total car sales in a year - including used ones.

    In a hypothetical where new cars get so expensive that most people are forced to buy used, you could still report "100% of new cars sold are electric" while more and more people quietly switch to cheaper used gas and diesel instead.

    I don't think that's happening here, but it's definitely something to consider.

    I consider myself middle class, but I'd never buy a brand-new car - and even used electric trucks are way out of my price range. I drive a diesel because I have no option.

  • How to fix this crack in the shower wall?

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  • I don't know how waterproofing gets done where you live, but if a customer here in Finland asked me about this, I'd just tell them it's mostly a cosmetic issue - and trying to fix it risks puncturing the waterproofing membrane behind the tiles.

    You're also highly unlikely to find a matching replacement tile unless whoever did the bathroom stashed the spares in the attic or something.

    Anyway, the point is this probably isn't going to cause water damage down the line - what actually keeps the walls watertight is behind the tiles, not the tiles themselves.

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    American men are the LAST people on earth that you shoud actually listen to when it comes to health

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  • ..said the 1 hour old account that's about to be deleted.

  • You Should Know @lemmy.world
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    YSK that only by being yourself will you find people who like the real you. No one can beat you at being you, but you’ll only ever be second best at pretending to be someone else.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Besides dating one, how could I possibly figure out whether I'm even capable of developing romantic feelings towards another man?

  • Suomi @sopuli.xyz
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    Ihmisten käytös sapettaa Jarkko Niemeä, jonka koti paloi Lempäälässä: ”Tulivat mässäilemään toisen hädällä”

    yle.fi /a/74-20184312
  • Mildly Interesting @lemmy.world
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    I found a sunken boat

  • pics @lemmy.world
    Perspectivist @feddit.uk

    Why don't you go and make yourself a Balearic sling, get a stack of rocks and become a human siege engine?

  • Home Improvement @lemmy.world
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    I pressure washed, swapped out the rotten pieces and repainted a deck railing

  • You Should Know @lemmy.world
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    YSK that you can usually tell news site's bias based on how complimentary the picture they attached is

  • pics @lemmy.world
    Perspectivist @feddit.uk

    Made some cordage from hay while out in the woods

  • DIY @slrpnk.net
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    I replaced my truck's rusted out muffler

  • AI Generated Images @sh.itjust.works
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    I was working on a picture of a horse trailer for a single horse. This isn't what I asked for. It's even better.

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    I just dont seem to ever learn

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL about the term "kludge"

  • Suomi @sopuli.xyz
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    Mistä löytää poliitikkojen/puolueiden näkemyksiä tästä EU:n ikärajojen valvonta hankkeesta?

  • knives @sopuli.xyz
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    Retired my almost 10 year old work knife

  • You Should Know @lemmy.world
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    YSK that "AI" in itself is highly unspecific term

  • Dull Men's Club @lemmy.world
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    Called the police on a (suspected) bike thief today