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  • Full disclosure - my background is in operations (think IT) not AI research. So some of this might be wrong.

    What's marketed as AI is something called a large language model. This distinction is important because AI implies intelligence - where as a LLM is something else. At a high level LLMs are using something called "tokens" to break apart natural language into elements that a machine can understand, and then recombining those tokens to "create" something new. When a LLM is creating output it does not know what it is saying - it knows what token statistically comes after the token(s) it has generated already.

    So to answer your question. An AI can hallucinate because it does not know the answer - its using advanced math to know that the period goes at the end of the sentence. and not in the middle.

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  • Mint.

    I'll be very honest with you. It's not fancy, it's not snazzy computing. It's simple, designed with a graphical interface in mind, and a good operating system for someone who A) does not know Linux, or B) does not want to fiddle.

  • Not dissimilar - my three steps.

    1. Ran away from vista.
    2. Get a job at Microsoft and figured I should learn how to use a core product again (Windows 10).
    3. Dual boot for years (you never know when you will need to wake up the windows for some random task), until Win 11 and recall...
  • See you think that - but excel finds a way. We have what are lovingly called the "spreadsheets of doom" which accounting uses to manage all forecasts, and the bits that involve money flows. Did you know you can hook excel into Salesforce and pull all the sales records? A person who thinks her monitor is her computer (she has a Dell laptop) somehow found a way...

  • Switch to Linux but you have major paradigm you need to pick. Do you want your computer to be bleeding edge but it be a hobby? Or do you want slightly older and rock solid? Or do you have an enterprise support contract? You only pick Ubuntu/RHEL if you have the last one.

  • Can we take a moment to ask ourselves - how the hell did piping to shell become ok? We have all kinds of method's for deploying stuff - from the age old tarball to the new shinny flat pack. But somehow we also became ok with

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    Curl foo | sh
    
    
      

    Oftentimes as root.