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    I love how accurate this image is. As they hammer more the structure becomes more and more unstable.

    I’ve noticed the AI search suggestions from Bing and Google are just becoming more and more inaccurate as they feed off themselves. I can’t even imagine what it’s doing to systems we can’t see.

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      Everything is fine. It will become god and fix all our problems any second now, and if you say that’s mathematically impossible you’re just a hater.

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        i mean, we have the solutions to a lot of problems already

        traffic? public trains

        hunger? just like, feed people

        global warming? reduce fossil fuel usage and stop poisoning the oceans

        homeless? literally so many empty homes, put people in them???

        and we’ve had many smart people create step by step plans for all of these!

        the thing is… i guess rich people want a solution that doesn’t involve them paying for something that’s good not just for them but for others? so all those plans fail at step 1 - have empathy

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        I mean, nitpick, but if you blamed mathematics you actually would be. The observation that AI/LLMs are highly unreliable and don’t appear to be getting any better is empirical.

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              No but Turing was involved, and the guy who wrote ELIZA

              The tech isn’t new. That’s all the effort I’m willing to put in for this trash.

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                And that paper’s name? Albert Einstein. I can’t find anything on Weizenbaum and Turing authoring together. Weizenbaum seems to have written mostly prose and code, even - he’s not really thought of for his mathematical innovations, although obviously math was his original field.

                Back in the 50’s people thought conventional algorithms, like everybody here has worked with, were going to reach human intelligence. They could play chess, and chess is smart guy stuff, so obviously recognising a bird should be easy, right? Well, they figured out that wasn’t right, and so began the first AI winter.

                The tech of deep neural nets is in fact fairly new. Like, arguably it didn’t become a thing until the Cold War was ending, although there were a lot of precursors, and it kind of arrived gradually.

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      noai.duckduckgo my beloved, glad that’s the best free option rn (although I think Kagi is getting popular too, but that’s paid).

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        Glad to know that option is available, I’ve been using DDG for years and use the AI assist like once a week when I have a really specific search about a movie or scene or actor or event happening 14 years ago going off memory. After about the 3rd search I actually get useful information from the AI assist.

        Most recently I searched for “movie scene with slow motion cannonballs flying around while ship explodes” because I could remember that gif but not the movie. No search results were helpful, nor images or videos but the AI assist said it was a scene from the 3rd pirates of the Caribbean.

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        Kagi pays yandex for image search ewww. Use a searxng instance and thank me later. Seriously give it a try

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      Also it’s building on top of existing fragility (the thin pillar below), and only making it worse

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      MS is especially egregious about it.

      They’re planning the next iteration of Windows to be primarily AI-driven - as in, the AI runs things for you.

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        well Microsoft saaaaaays that, but they also said in the same video that they’d achieve “Computing in the realm of Quantum” so I predict multiple shitty interface updates and a few new pop-ups.

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        As a developer this has not been my experience, we all hate it with the fiery passion of a thousand suns.

        My former boss fucking loved it though, but he was a PM not a dev.

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        There are job postings that not only actively encourage it as part of the job description but ask that you be enthusiastic about it

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    Meanwhile that little block at the bottom is still doing its best to keep it all together. For now.

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      Love the person in the background getting up, looking over and just sitting back down again like Greg sledgehammering his monitor to pieces is nothing extraordinary

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        “…but I ignored your specific instructions and instead ran the washing machine for 15 hours. That was very wasteful of me, and you’re right that was not what I was instructed to do, but I did it anyways.”

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        User: Add enough detergent for this weight of clothes.

        Washing machine AI: OK, I have added the correct amount for you, ready to start the wash.

        User: You only added fabric softener, I need you to add detergent. Please weigh the clothes and add the detergent based on that weight.

        Washing machine AI: Ah, I see what you mean. I have now weighed the clothes and added the needed amount of detergent.

        User: you just added more fabric softener. Do not add any more of that, I only need detergent. Please, add detergent.

        Washing machine AI: I’m sorry, I misunderstood you before. I have now made sure to add detergent.

        User: you added more fabric softener…

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    Speaking of being needlessly destructive with stupid bots, these duplicates of other user’s posts don’t even register as cross-posts anymore (due to image proxying).

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      Lol what bots? This is all manual hence why some posts get through with the dumb proxy URL that I typically manually edit

      Why am I cross-posting .ml content?

      I cross-post from .ml to the nearest relevant non-.ml comm to reduce the influence of .ml comms and indirectly, the instance as a whole, to make it an easier decision for other instance admins to defederate because one key reason I identified that admins don’t want to defederate is because .ml still has some very large comms and some niche comms.

      Megathread on the issue

      Some highlights from the link:

      "Don’t worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/30580167

      “See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn’t count!!” ~ Davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/30673342

      .ml admin, Nutomics continued transphobia https://lemmy.world/post/29222558 The original transphobic Comment from Nutomic: https://lemmy.world/post/18236068

      “NK is actually good and anything counter to that is Western propaganda!” ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/31595035

      General negative sentiment to other instances who haven’t “seen the way” yet ~davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/27426510

      “If you don’t support Russia then you just don’t understand geopolitics” ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/27352415

      And so so much documentation on clear heavy handed censorship and bias also on the link. So much I can’t even put them all here because this comment would be really long.

      I believe the behavior of its admins (the main admins are Lemmy devs) does harm to the overall growth of the Lemmy-verse and maybe even the Thrediverse (since Lemmy kinda kicked off the Thrediverse) because of its association with the devs of Lemmy and their insistence to use .ml as their personal political platform to spread harmful propaganda

      On the outside, bringing up Lemmy frequently leads to comments like “Lemmy? Isn’t that the place with a bunch of tankies?” Or “Tried Lemmy, but found it full of pro Russia crap so I left”. The best way forward from that I see is to either widely defederate from .ml like the rest of the Triad, or pressure them to put a fair and unbiased as possible admin team.