xthexder

xthexder , 1 month ago to technology in OpenAI founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman go on the defensive after top safety researchers quit

I think they’re being more literal. All the latest open source AI models get posted on Hugging Face.

xthexder , 1 month ago to memes in Just a few specs of rust

Basically every car says not to wash in direct sunlight. From my understanding it’s because you’ll end up with water spots and other residue from the soap drying on to the paint before you can rinse it off.

xthexder , 1 month ago to technology in "I lost trust": Why the OpenAI team in charge of safeguarding humanity imploded

Let me try putting this a different way: The machine is picking the next best word / action / chess move to output based on its past experience of the world (i.e. it’s training data). It’s not just statistics, it’s making millions of learned connections between words, and through association they start to have meaning.

Is this not exactly what the human brain does itself? Humans just have the advantage of multiple senses and having a physical agent (a body) to interact with the world.

The problem that AI has is it’s got no basis in reality. It’s like a human talking about fantasy things like unicorns. We’ve only ever experienced them as descriptions and art created from those descriptions without any basis in reality.

xthexder , 1 month ago to technology in We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem

I have adopted the philosophy that human brains might not be as special as we’ve thought, and that the untrained behavior emerging from LLMs and image generators is so similar to human behaviors that I can’t help but think of it as an underdeveloped and handicapped mind.

I hypothesis that a human brain, who’s only perception of the world is the training data force fed to it by a computer, would have all the same problems the LLMs do right now.

To put it another way… The line that determines what is sentient and not is getting blurrier and blurrier. LLMs have surpassed the Turing test a few years ago. We’re simulating the level of intelligence of a small animal today.

xthexder , 1 month ago to technology in We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem

Because hallucinations pretty much exactly describes what’s happening? All of your suggested terms are less descriptive of what the issue is.

The definition of hallucination:

A hallucination is a perception in the absence of an external stimulus.

In the case of generative AI, it’s generating output that doesn’t match it’s training data “stimulus”. Or in other words, false statements, or “facts” that don’t exist in reality.

xthexder , 1 month ago to pics in Sucks to suck!

Bare stainless steel, lol

xthexder , 1 month ago to pics in Sucks to suck!

If it’s the city that put that on, they might get you for vandalism or destruction of property, something like that. Those parking boots aren’t cheap.

xthexder , 1 month ago to pics in Sucks to suck!

I don’t see any rust? That’s just the fingerprints that you can’t not get all over it.

xthexder , 1 month ago to memes in Crunchy goodness lies within.

As someone not subscribed to simpsonsshitposting, I really don’t care if it’s a repost. That community isn’t even on the same instance, so it’s a little like complaining if someone reposts from R*ddit.

xthexder , 1 month ago to memes in Self-Made

Personally grit makes me think of literal sand. Or dirt in general. It’s something you wash off the first chance you get. Not exactly something to be celebrated.

xthexder , 1 month ago to memes in Self-Made

The main thing sitting between me and being a billionaire is my conscience and moral values. I’m of the opinion that to become a billionaire you must necessarily have psychopathic tendencies.

For example: No way I could stand up on stage and bullshit my way through a Cybertruck reveal knowing it’s all lies and unfinished ideas.

xthexder , 1 month ago to programmerhumor in Gotta use all those brain cells

If it’s someone else’s job to design things, then that’s a pretty terrible specification. But depending on your role, it’s common enough for there to be one person who designs and builds a feature like “User projects dashboard”, and the job is to decide what’s important based on the product. Especially with smaller companies.

xthexder , 1 month ago to pcgaming in EA is looking at putting in-game ads in AAA games — 'We'll be very thoughtful as we move into that,' says CEO

GTA is filled with parody ads, which are actually fun content and not intended to make you buy something. The second they become real ads, you’ll have brands complaining about being displayed next to gun violence or prostitutes, and all the fun goes away.

There’s a reason there’s no real car brands in GTA, because none of them want to be associated with running down pedestrian and drive-bys

xthexder , 1 month ago to technology in A Staggering 19x Energy Jump in Capacitors May Be the Beginning of the End for Batteries

If you remember what battery powertools were like in early 2010s, it’s super obvious how far we’ve come. The higher end things like battery powered lawn mowers didn’t exist, and if you wanted real power, you needed a cord.

xthexder , 1 month ago to technology in Nintendo Switch Is Removing Integration for X, Formerly Twitter

Classic Nintendo, making simple things like copying screenshots so complicated hacking your switch is a reasonable thing to do…