I’d pay even more taxes without a single complaint if they got big businesses and the uber rich to actually pay their taxes correctly and fully

Whoa - hyprland is made by a transphobe?

Edit: whoa it really is. I joined their discord and saw like, very strict anti-lgbtqphobic rules and thought that they must be good. But looking into him… Turns out the rules are there because he’d let it fester into a 4chan toxic hellhole

Me, a lesbian: Aktivsm

Seems up to me!

I don’t really dispute that but at least we are able to apply formal analytical methods with repeatable outcomes. LLMs might (and do) achieve a similar result but they do so without any formal approach that can be reviewed, which has its drawbacks.

I never made any “AI bad” arguments (in fact, I said that they may be incredibly well suited to this) I just argued for the correct use of words and you hallucinated.

You said “they literally do analyze text” when that is not, literally, what they do.

And no, we don’t “all know” that. Lay persons have no way of knowing whether AI products currently in use have any capacity for genuine understanding and reasoning, other than the fact that the promotional material uses words like “understanding”, “reasoning”, “thought process”, and people talking about it use the same words. The language we choose to use is important!

The person you’re replying to is correct though. They do not understand, they do not analyse. They generate (roughly) the most statistically likely answer to your prompt, which may very well end up being text representing an accurate analysis. They might even be incredibly reliable at doing so. But this person is just pushing back against the idea of these models actually understanding or analysing. Its slightly pedantic, sure, but its important to distinguish in the world of machine intelligence.

Damn that’s crazy

Anyway

Who’s we

I mean this person seems to be not doing it maliciously. As they say, if it wasn’t them, it would be someone else. Pushing archive to improve their security is great for everyone. As long as this person doesn’t do anything actually malicious, they’re in the clear as far as I’m concerned.

*if you’re paying for a TV license

Thanks for the clarity :)

Calling mass shooters a fact of life, implying we can’t ban guns, calling climate activists dangerous criminals. But I’m autistic so I can’t tell if its sarcasm or if you genuinely hold those beliefs.

This is sarcasm right?

I didn’t say they don’t serve a purpose, I said that customers didn’t ask for it/don’t want it. I also said AI, not LLM (initially).

They serve a purpose, but in many cases are not well suited or ready for production.

Examples?

I use a food delivery app that added an AI chatbot to supposedly help you with restaurant and food suggestions, and it wasn’t able to handle simple dietary restrictions (whereas standard filtering options on the search work just fine). A prompt as simple as “I’m looking for restaurants with vegan sandwiches” would return places that had vegan food and/or sandwiches. Even if it worked properly, just having adequate filter options and robust search is far more suited to the kinds of things users are doing on this kind of app.

Search engines putting their in-house LLM generated slop above actual search results, which is the equivalent of ensuring that the first search result is from a garbage site with hit or miss accuracy of information or relevance to the topic. I don’t imagine it will be long before we start to see generative ai image results being served on the fly by in-house products when you search for images. Pass the user query to an LLM to generate a prompt for image gen, then pass that to image gen and bam! Slop!

Every fucking product has some stupid gradient-coloured ✨ AI button shoved into it now and it drives me up the wall.

Putting LLM auto complete into IDEs? Great, as long as I can turn it off and as long as they’re not training it on the code I write in the IDE. AI denoising in rendering software? Excellent. Image infill/outfill using AI in photo editing and drawing software? Spot on.

Well for one, the clickbait BS has become worse because of the LLMs :P I think its cool tech, don’t get me wrong. Before it started getting shoved into every product and before its environmental impact started skyrocketing, I was keenly interested in it. In all honesty, I still am, but I’m keenly interested in what happens with it after the bubble pops and the real use cases are left behind. Text summarisation and code prediction are two genuine use cases I’ve seen have tremendous success. But I don’t need an LLM built into every product I use, and I don’t need every product I use to be training LLMs.

Customer preferences: The rise of Artificial Intelligence in the global market has been fueled by a growing demand for personalized and efficient solutions. Consumers are increasingly looking for AI-driven products and services, such as virtual assistants and chatbots, to streamline their daily tasks and improve their overall experience.

Blatantly untrue, not a single person I speak to is glad that AI has been shoved into their products, or goes out of their way to use a product because of its AI integration.

But yeah, AI is going to kill any chance of climate recovery unless the bubble bursts soon

The Last Campfire is delightful, and feels like being read a bedtime story. God, it’s good. I could listen to the narrator read the back of a shampoo bottle.

Planet of Lana is a drop dead gorgeous side scrolling puzzle platformer with a beautiful soundtrack and world building.

Beacon Pines isn’t technically linear, in that you can complete some stuff in an order of your choosing. But the overall experience is quite linear. Its an exquisite experience, I can’t recommend it enough.

If you enjoyed Undertale, play OneShot. No question. Its splendid.

Night in the Woods is a joy as well, it makes me nostalgic for a childhood I never had. Must-play.

Stray - you are a cat doing cat things in a broken future. Splendid experience.

Mirror’s Edge is a game I think everyone should experience at least once. It’s beautiful.

Celeste - it has the best tuned difficulty curve I’ve seen in any game, and it wants you to succeed. It also tells a really beautiful story. God the platforming is good. Its so good. By the end of it, you are doing things you never thought you’d dream of doing. You’ll feel like a speedrunner with all the little movement tricks you’re able to do.

Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice is a thought provoking masterpiece and a little spooky.

QA is part of the game development process and its supposed to happen before it reaches end users. They’ve made some good games but they can’t act all surprised that selling a game and letting users be free QA doesn’t cut it.