enframed wrote: Tue May 14, 2024 7:31 pm See you post things like this, which admittedly I don't watch for more than a few minutes because 1) the dude annoys me, 2) I don't understand some things, and 3) I don't care.

Then I listen to a podcast that says that these large language models get the answers to questions like "What time is it in London?" incorrect. What's a motherfucker supposed to think about all this?

They're doing two different things and, as annoying as the papers guy is, the videos are always well put together and nicely explained, and worth sticking out.

Advances in protein folding, via these models, has already had a profound social impact when it came to sussing out the first Covid vaccines, and it's doing similar work with the rest of our major health conditions.

And let's have it right - buy a watch and do the maths.

enframed wrote: Tue May 14, 2024 7:31 pm Then I listen to a podcast that says that these large language models get the answers to questions like "What time is it in London?" incorrect. What's a motherfucker supposed to think about all this?

That you don't use a LLM to find out the time in London. That's like trying to do open-heart surgery with a socket wrench.

People have been saying they wished you could talk to a computer like it was regular folk for the last fifty years and it was always impossibly unrealistic but now you finally can, and people just go "ok, well that sucks". As somebody who was fairly well-acquainted with the prior limitations of computers, the fact that any of this stuff works AT ALL feels like mind-blowing sci-fi shit. And we're only just beginning to see what neural networks can do.

After a long while of being basically the same thing but a little bit faster, computers are getting freaky again.

https://www.washington.edu/news/2024/05 ... h-hearing/

Christ man.

A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Fri May 31, 2024 5:14 am https://www.washington.edu/news/2024/05 ... h-hearing/

Christ man.

I wish so bad I could be in a noisy room and understand what the person five feet away from me is saying.

I could understand there would also be some privacy concerns with tech like this, but it would literally change my life.

When it seemed like cryptocurrency was gonna be the thing to break the grid, Generative AI was like Hold My Beer:

(several articles about this in recent days)

https://jacobin.com/2024/06/ai-data-cen ... 6d7c8fabbc

There doesn't seem to be an easy way to disable the horseshit AI search feature Google tacked on a few months ago (that consumes 10x as much power), but ending queries with before:2023 seems to work well.

penningtron wrote: Mon Jun 24, 2024 7:25 pm There doesn't seem to be an easy way to disable the horseshit AI search feature Google tacked on a few months ago (that consumes 10x as much power), but ending queries with before:2023 seems to work well.

Might not meet your definition of "easy way", but: https://udm14.com/

Also: DuckDuckGo.

There are a few, and I mean vanishingly few, legitimately useful applications for the family of technologies our media / discourse refer to as "AI", and almost none of them are visible to the average (media) consumer. Things like generating different shapes for fabricating concrete that satisfy material cost and strength parameters. Upscaling digital video is maybe one of the few that is visible. None of these are an excuse for jamming chatbots and dumbass LLM responses into every goddamn thing under the sun. I found this article, "I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again", extremely funny and relatable from the perspective of someone who knows this shit well, but is still incredibly skeptical of the way we're using it.

brephophagist wrote: Mon Jun 24, 2024 8:26 pm I found this article, "I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again", extremely funny and relatable from the perspective of someone who knows this shit well, but is still incredibly skeptical of the way we're using it.

I clicked and found it very relatable.

It also led me to an older essay titled "I Will Fucking Haymaker You If You Mention Agile Again", which I also found relatable.

Yeah that was great, though I wish there was a non-profane equivalent I could share to all the Linkedin fools who obsess about How AI Will Transform Your Team. If You're Reading This You're Already Behind horseshit.

I was talking to a friend who works freelance in animation and he fucking hates AI. His main points were that for people who create in his field and related ones, AI is basically ripping off and copying all of their work. To add insult to injury the Adobe suite keeps charging more and adding AI tools to their software. It's discouraging to be marketed a bunch of fancy new tools that are also ripping off the content creators who are supposed to implement them.