Yesterday I honestly had the bot flip and flop on an answer while deeply apologising and everytime saying “now you can actually trust, I checked and rechecked and now it’s definitely correct”.

Like a simple question with two choices.

It didn’t know the answer so then it prompted to choose from two answers. One which confidently said one thing and one which confidently said the other. I called it out on making me choose the answer to a question I asked. Then it decided itself. I then questioned it. It changed it mind. And around and around we went for like 20 minutes, everytime it swearing this time it isn’t hallucinating.

They suck so bad for most things, but they’re useful for some very niche things, but even for those, they still sort of suck at those as well a not non-significant. They’re definitely shouldn’t be used for official shit, but they very much are.

What would you, specifically, find to be a tolerable amount of ads?

No you won’t.

Properly implemented machine learning, sure.

These dimwits are genuinely just gonna feed everything to a second rate LLM and treat the output as the word of God.

Sarumon, nice typo.

Popeball

"AI is not a toy. It is a weapon,” said CEO Alex Karp. “It will be used to kill people.”

If it aims as well as Gemini retrieves facts, I’m not really worried tbh.

Monolingual people should be reminded that machine translation is still for rather basic conversation.

Until they manage to autogenerate even correct English subs on YouTube on English speaking videos, theres really not much trust I will have in it.

So yeah, cool function, definitely helpful, but machine translation isn’t dependable if you need to accurate with your language.

I have a few problems with this episode, but also it’s one of my favourites, because it’s trying to actually process the problems tech like that would have, languages is sometimes incredibly contextual.

For one AI is shit with idioms.

For things like the UN, you just must have an actual person — who’s proficient at a native-level — translating.

As always, the ancient Romans had that.

A nomenclator referred to a slave whose duty was to recall the names of persons his master met during a political campaign. Later, the scope was expanded to include names of people in any social context and also other socially important information about them.

I’m pretty sure that only applies due to a majority of people being morons. There’s a vast gap between the 2% most intelligent, 1/50, and the average intelligence.

Also please put digital text on white on black instead of the other way around

black on white, ew

so I can now put my spicy pillows in the oven and tell the insurance men the internet told me to?

For a lot of languages, lots of names are just “descriptions”. Like Finnish, German — and I assume — Japanese.

Like capybara is a “water pig” in at least Finnish and German. And English usually just takes loanwords it doesn’t understand, and thus English speakers don’t think of as descriptors. “Capybara” is originally from Tupi language (spoken by indigenous Brazilians) capiuára , from capĩ ‘grass’ + uára ‘eater’.

Although the names aren’t always accurate. Like guinea pigs aren’t from Guinea. (And neither are they related to pigs, really.)

“Schwein” (=pig) was used much in the same way “deer” once was in terms of animals and “apple” was in terms of fruit. A general term. Oranges are still etymologically “Chinese apples” in Northern Europe/Nordics; variations of “appelsin” ~applechina.

Languages are fun, aren’t they?

Bullshit. It’s not about digital. It’s about who owns it.

Yeah I’m not gonna build a house with duct tape, but I most definitely like keeping a roll around, because it’s very useful in certain situations.

As of now LLM’s are little more than glorified chatbots, but I find them useful when cooking / making drinks. I’ll have an idea, query something, ask about whether it’s generally thought that x spice goes well in y dish or how the temperature of a drink will affect the layering of it or something.

It’s decent enough for that. But like for any data that’s not as stable as cooking (which is subjective at its core anyway more or less) etc, it’s not good. Movie released for instance? Nah. Because the release dates change and the batch of data it’s uses for training can have a different date than it does.

That happened in December when Kraven the Hunter was coming out. It told me it had premiered like 6 months ago when I knew it was gonna be in a week or so.

But on the other hand I once accidentally made this cool drink where I got bits of pineapple to go up and down for 10-15 minutes after served, pretty furiously. Couldn’t replicate it until I talked to Gemini for a minute. And the input would’ve been so niche it would’ve yielded no direct results online. I’d have had to refresh some basic chemistry for at least 10-20 min prolly. But now I just got the answer in one.

Decent enough.

I know AI is overhyped, but it’s also overhated. I too hate the overhyping, but I don’t hate the tool itself. It’s just not anywhere near as versatile or complex as some people make it out to be, but it’s also rather more useful than some make it out to be.

Books are going to keep doing just fine.

Books haven’t been the go to for several decades. When’s the last time you went to search something in a library before Googling it? Or hell, in general. Because we used to have to do that you know. When I was a kid and I wanted to know something, I had to cycle to library.

Now I can ask my phone about it, then ask it for the source, then check the source and I can use a search engine to find an actual book on the source on the subject.

It’s a tool.

It’s a poor craftsman who blames his tools. If you’re trying to use a hammer as a screwdriver, ofc it’s gonna suck.

Well that I can’t believe.

But their tubby little fingers aren’t nimble enough nor can they hold their attention span nor take basic instructions, so they can’t be employed for production unlike their healthier and more dutiful same aged Asian counterparts

“We told them this self-driving software isn’t for self driving, you can’t blame us” is a bit like q-tips. There’s an explicit warning on the packaging to not put them in your ear canal. But like what else do people buy them for?

Got banned for antisemitism around the time the genocide ramped up in Gaza.

And I was just criticising Israel. Things got a bit heated for the other guy apparently, and then I got brigaded and reported. I didn’t defend Hamas or advocate violence, just criticised Israel.