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platypus_plumba ,

I was thinking the other day that we no longer see bugs around the house I grew up in. When I was a kid my house was always full of bugs, we live next to a protected natural area, so it was impossible to keep them out. Anyways, I’ve always loved bugs so they were welcome. I moved out and whenever I go there are no animals to be seen. I can’t even hear birds or see iguanas walking around. It’s so disturbing.

platypus_plumba ,

Don’t worry guys, the billionaires already built their bunkers and their space ships! Just as planned.

platypus_plumba ,

For large companies that serve many customers 5K per year is a drop in a bucket. If it provides their customers with a more secure experience, it is worth it.

platypus_plumba , (edited )

It really depends on the type of information that you are looking for. Anyone who understands how LLMs work, will understand when they’ll get a good overview.

I usually see the results as quick summaries from an untrusted source. Even if they aren’t exact, they can help me get perspective. Then I know what information to verify if something relevant was pointed out in the summary.

Today I searched something like “Are owls endangered?”. I knew I was about to get a great overview because it’s a simple question. After getting the summary, I just went into some pages and confirmed what the summary said. The summary helped me know what to look for even if I didn’t trust it.

It has improved my search experience… But I do understand that people would prefer if it was 100% accurate because it is a search engine. If you refuse to tolerate innacurate results or you feel your search experience is worse, you can just disable it. Nobody is forcing you to keep it.

platypus_plumba ,

The same people who didn’t understand that Google uses a SEO algorithm to promote sites regardless of the accuracy of their content, so they would trust the first page.

If people don’t understand the tools they are using and don’t double check the information from single sources, I think it’s kinda on them. I have a dietician friend, and I usually get back to him after doing my “Google research” for my diets… so much misinformation, even without an AI overview. Search engines are just best effort sources of information. Anyone using Google for anything of actual importance is using the wrong tool, it isn’t a scholar or research search engine.

platypus_plumba ,

It’s an expression. In this context Elon is the broken clock and saying desktops should run Linux is one of the rare times he’s been right about something.

platypus_plumba ,

Could someone explain how it’s possible for him to be running for president?

Like, are there no laws against this? Is the only requirement for the person to have a pulse?

platypus_plumba ,

I don’t know who downvoted you but you’re right. It’s not possible to get there clean.

platypus_plumba ,

Springboot is very confusing. The inheritance tree is insane, they created a class for everything, which I get… But it is so hard to understand the whole scope their design.

The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates (www.theguardian.com)

Despite its name, the infrastructure used by the “cloud” accounts for more global greenhouse emissions than commercial flights. In 2018, for instance, the 5bn YouTube hits for the viral song Despacito used the same amount of energy it would take to heat 40,000 US homes annually....

platypus_plumba ,

The whole article is blaming t"the cloud" as if it didn’t serve services consumed by users. What do they want? To shut down the internet?

Energy transition is something these companies are working on.

…aboutamazon.com/…/carbon-free-energy

Reaching these goals isn’t easy.

platypus_plumba ,

You know you can disable the AI overview from Google, right?

platypus_plumba ,

I can smell them like at a 1m distance. They smell bad. The first time I realized what they smell like, I took a bite of a muffin that I left on the counter. I tasted the muffin and another bad flavor so I looked and it had ants. From that moment I could smell them, not because I couldn’t smell them before but because now I knew what they smelled like.

CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information (futurism.com)

You know how Google’s new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won’t slide off (pssst…please don’t do this.)...

platypus_plumba ,

There’s really nothing they can do, that’s just the current state of LLMs. People are insane, they can literally talk with something that isn’t human. We are literally the first humans in human experience to have a human-level conversation with something that isn’t human… And they don’t like it because it isn’t perfect 4 years after release.

platypus_plumba ,

I’d rather get an AI answer that is kinda incorrect than having to search the top 10 pages with ads and cookies buttons to get the same kinda incorrect information.

platypus_plumba ,

In terms of language, Chatgpt is more advanced than most humans. Have you spoken to the average person lately? By average I mean worldwide average.

It’s obviously not full human intelligence, but in terms of language it is pretty mind blowing.

platypus_plumba , (edited )

Does it matter if it is actually experiencing things? What matters is what you experience while talking to it, not what it experiences while talking to you. When you play videogames, do you actually think the NPCs are experiencing you?

It’s pretty insane how negative people are. We did something so extraordinary. Imagine if someone told the engineers who built the space shuttle “but it isn’t teleportation”. Maybe stop being so judgemental of what others have achieved.

“Uhh actually, this isn’t a fully simulated conscious being with a fully formed organic body that resembles my biological structure on a molecular level… Get this shit out of here”

platypus_plumba ,

So… Humans get basic things right all the time and never provide false information? What humans are you talking to?

platypus_plumba ,

Does it need to be real intelligence in order to have a conversation with it?

platypus_plumba ,

If nobody told you that you were talking to an AI in 2020,you’d have thought it was a person in quick interactions.

The only reason why it doesn’t feel more real is because they literally programmed it to feel the way it does. They didn’t create chatgpt to express emotions, that would be insane.

platypus_plumba , (edited )

“a text app”… Sure, it is a text app. Definetely not revolutionizing the tech industry as we speak, totally irrelevant. Sure.

platypus_plumba ,

Show me a better search engine…

platypus_plumba , (edited )

“How easy it is to blah blah blah”… Dude, what the hell are you talking about, there’s nothing easy about this system.

If they release a real AI you’d still dislike it because it was created by a corporation.

platypus_plumba , (edited )

I’m already using Copilot every single day. I love it. It helps me save so much time writing boilerplate code that can be easily guessed by the model.

It even helps me understand tools faster than the documentation. I just type a comment and it autocompletes a piece of code that is probably wrong, but probably has the APIs that I need to learn about. So I just go, learn the specific APIs, fix the details of the code and move on.

I use chatgpt to help me improve my private blog posts because I’m not a native English speaker, so it makes the text feel more fluent.

We trained a model with the documentation of our company so it automatically references docs when someone asks it questions.

I’m using the AI from Jira to automatically generate queries and find what I want as fast as possible. I used to hate searching for stuff in Jira because I never remembered the DSL.

I have GPT as a command line tool because I constantly forget commands and this tool helps me remember without having to read the help or open Google.

We have pipelines that read exceptions that would usually be confusing for developers, but GPT automatically generates an explanation for the error in the logs.

I literally ask Chatgpt questions about other areas of technology that I don’t understand. My questions aren’t advanced so I usually get the right answers and I can keep reading about the topics. Chatgpt is literally teaching me how to do front ends, something that I hated my whole career but now feels like a breeze.

Maybe you should start actually figuring out how to use the tool instead of complaining about it in this echo chamber.

platypus_plumba ,

I have never said that Chatgpt is smarter than humans, I said that when it comes to linguistics, it is more advanced than the average human.

But keep twisting my words, I don’t care. Have a wonderful rest of the week. Good bye.

platypus_plumba ,

Have a nice day sir.

platypus_plumba ,

Yeha, and walk everywhere. Use a boat with paddles. Don’t be lazy.

platypus_plumba ,

Nobody has said that an LLM is real artificial intelligence.

platypus_plumba ,

Yes, I’ll keep using it because it helps me get things done faster, just like vehicles help me move faster.

Read everything you wrote again. You’re so toxic and irrational. It’s just a tool man, just understand its limitations and work with it. It’s very useful even if it isn’t perfect.

platypus_plumba ,

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platypus_plumba ,

You just inflated my initial statement by assuming I meant that Chatgpt is smarter than humans. I said that Chatgpt is more advanced than the average human at linguistics, and I stand by it. Show me where I said “Chatgpt is smarter than a human” or “this is real simulated human intelligence”. You just wanted to be angry at someone so you made your narrative in your mind.

I even said that it doesn’t need to be real intelligence in order to be capable of having a conversation.

You’ll probably keep creating your imaginary narrative, so there’s no point in arguing with you.

Good bye.

platypus_plumba , (edited )

You can have human-level conversations with a tool. I don’t get your point. Just because it doesn’t have full human intelligence doesn’t mean it isn’t good at conversation. It is better at conversation than most humans. It is obviously not smarter than a human, but it is more eloquent and has more general knowledge than the average human.

We are the first humans who can have a human level conversation with something that is not a human. What do you think human conversations look like? They are not very deep in general.

Pretty funny you think you convinced me it is a tool when I just showed you like 8 different ways I use it as a tool.

I literally started this thing saying that even if it isn’t perfect, it is pretty good and it a crazy achievement. You just keep saying it is worthless shit, but that’s not true. Just because the tool isn’t perfect it doesn’t mean that it is worthless or it isn’t an achievement.

But whatever man… You just want to be right, so take your imaginary trophy and walk away.

platypus_plumba , (edited )

I don’t care what you think, your attitude is disgusting.

platypus_plumba ,

Personal attacks and insults, what a disgusting person.

platypus_plumba ,

What fact?

platypus_plumba ,

You haven’t said a single fact. All you do is assume things and insult people who don’t agree with you.

platypus_plumba ,

laugh tracks go wild

platypus_plumba ,

What if I use Ubuntu but I’d rather talk about the kernel than distros?

platypus_plumba ,

Yeha, mistakes have been made but I guess those are understandable for the biggest distro. But that’s the past. We can always switch between distros when needed. Atm Ubuntu is fine.

platypus_plumba ,

I honestly just want to enjoy Linux. If I’m concerned about what happens in every update, I won’t enjoy it.

So I leave the worrying to other people. If something really bad happens that I need to know about, I’ll probably hear about it on these communities.

“Ubuntu did this crazy thing!!!”

Google -> how to disable this crazy thing?

disables the crazy thing

So far I haven’t been hacked (almost 7 years using it) or murdered by the phantom of the bloat. Everything works fine. The only issues I’ve had are Nvidia related. Fuck Nvidia.

Ubuntu literally delivers the promise of a user friendly experience, which is what I want. I don’t want to obsess about the libraries or Init system my distro uses. I just want it to work. I’ll let other amazing minds to worry about the philosophy and technical aspects while I just cruise.

I know I can relax thanks to other people who really worry and want everything to be perfect. I’m really grateful with them, I just don’t want to be them.

platypus_plumba ,

That’s exactly what Canonical is trying to do. They are trying to create a system with all the batteries included so people don’t need to worry about installing extra stuff, which means that of course they’ll have a bunch of bloat if you don’t use everything they offer, which is probably the case.

Their end goal is to be able to push this to the masses and maybe one day be able to get compensation for their effort.

I wouldn’t mind if Ubuntu becomes a Microsoft Windows-like product. If that’s what it takes to steal people from the claws of Microsoft, I’m OK with that. That would mean that hardware manufacturers will start developing specialized drivers for their hardware in Linux. To this day, in freaking 2024, I need to have a Windows image in order to configure my headset and mouse because developing the interfaces for Linux is pointless for these companies.

We still have like 50 other distros we can use. Let Ubuntu be that bridge to bring more users to Linux.

platypus_plumba ,

I just realized I have never said this word out loud, but in my mind it sounds like “shown”

platypus_plumba ,

This dog has more style than me.

platypus_plumba ,

I get the feelings, but once they added the content in SO, it was no longer their content.

platypus_plumba ,

Do they have the non-commercial/no-derivative clause?

platypus_plumba ,

If I had to present this as an anti-humor joke:

I’ll have H2O.

I’ll have H2O… also.

The water was very refreshing.

platypus_plumba , (edited )

They never hacked your computer, you agreed to everything. So what’s the problem then? It’s just a file that can be shared.

I’m not talking only about you. I’m talking about how senseless the “I can share files with anyone” is. If that were true, companies could really fuck their customers, but thankfully it isn’t logical, thus it is illegal.

Imagine if a single person could buy a movie and then place it in their Facebook to share with their friends. And then their friends share with their friends. And so on… because it’s just a file, nobody is stealing, copying information isn’t stealing! … Who would make a movie under those conditions?

If you want to own the movie, you need to buy a real copy. If you are buying a digital copy, you do not own the movie. There is already a solution for your problem, real copies.

So sure, if you want a bunch of industries to die, keep believing and convincing others of that.

The only reason you can watch your pirated movie is the fact that other people actually pay for the content. So you’re really stealing from people who now have to pay more to access the content.

platypus_plumba , (edited )

You’re delusional man. Creating information costs a lot of money. Do you think it takes the same amount of investment to create a 10gb file of random bytes as a 10gb file that contains a movie with actors?

Imagine if only a single person had to buy your movie in order for everyone to watch it. Wherevs the logic in that?

The only reason why the industry is surviving is because most people understand that they need to pay for the entertainment they consume. So yeha, paying customers are actually the only reason you get to pirate movies, because if everyone had your same mindset, the industry would be dead.

And I pirate movies too, I’m just not in denial with reality.

platypus_plumba , (edited )

yeha, piracy isn’t about buying things. You keep bringing up that ultra specific scenario, again using a specific scenario to defend something more general. Do you think piracy is about buying things and then sharing with friends? No. It is about buying something once and distributing it massively to millions of people you don’t even know, who can probably afford the content. For some peiple it is about just downloading content for free.

How much people have a home server that costs thousands of dollars with tens of terabytes to download all the movies they want and then sell a subscription to their NAS, or just share that for free to people who can totally afford paying for a streaming service.

How much people in developing countries pay for illegal streaming boxes that have a return of investment of around 4 years in order to avoid paying for streaming services?

How much people could totally afford one month of a streaming service to watch a series, but instead pirate it?

If you think piracy is about sharing movies with friends, you live in a fairytale.

I pirate movies, I know why I do it and it isn’t ethical at all. I do it because I don’t want to give my money to streaming services. But I don’t lie to myself about what I’m doing. Am I helping someone who really can’t afford the movie? Sure, but I’m mostlikely sharing it with someone like me.

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