It’s amazing that you managed to try to pretend this thing will do what it cannot do.

AI in general? Sure, maybe at some point.

LLMs? Nope. Sorry. They’re basically an echo of sorts.

(As, you know, the study you’re posting under is showing.)

Nah rare seered tuna is awesome

Yeah, I get very good sound out of class d amplifiers. They’re cheap; they’re energy efficient, and they usually pack in features for digital formats because it’s easy to do.

The US has almost no freedom of choice when it comes to some things, and transit is definitely one of those things. Sure, I can move to the desert, the beach, the forest, the city, or the country, but the only thing I’ll find in any of those places are cars, cars, and more cars. Even the cars themselves are starting to become choiceless with increasingly the only options to choose from being either trucks or SUVs.

America is the home of a choiceless and meaningless variety.

If a robotic taxi can lower the taxi category of accidents by 91% across the board, including death rates, then that’s a positive improvement to society any way you slice it.

The “if” in this sentence is a load bearing word.

With today’s crew running the policy, I don’t think anyone will prevent corporations from unleashing completely unsafe robotic taxis on the public that’ll perform well worse than regular ones. I really wish people would stop making this argument to the corporation’s benefit until we have some data backing it up.

I get that there’s a theoretical possibility that still imperfect robotic taxis could outperform humans, but that’s just theoretical.

With the way corporate accountability is handled (i.e., corporations aren’t held accountable) nowadays, I just don’t see robotic taxis as much more than an accountability sink and at this point I’d prefer taking regular taxis because at least there is someone to fucking hold accountable when things go wrong.

I think these things are maybe more useful (in very narrow cases) when people realize a little about how they work. They’re probabilistic. So they’re great at bullshit. They’re also great at bullshit adjacent things (quarterly goal documents for your employer for instance). Knowing they’re probabilistic makes me treat them differently. For instance, I wanted to know what questions I should ask about something, and so I used Google AI insights or whatever from their search engine to generate a large list by simply resubmitting the same question over and over.

It’s great at that kind of (often extremely useless) junk. You can get lots of subtle permutations out of it. It also might be interesting to just continually regen images using the same prompt over and over and look at the slight differences.

It would be more interesting to me instead of bullshit like Sora if they made something that just gave you the prompts in a feed and allowed you to sit there and regenerate the junk by hitting a button. People could see the same post and a slightly different video every time. Or image. Still stupid? Yes. Still not worth slurping up our lakes for? Yes. But hey at least it’d be a little more fun.

The prompts are also, for the most part, the only creative thing involved in this garbage.

Instead of the current knobgobblers that want to take a single permutation and try to make it more than worthless, or want to pretend these systems are anything close to right…or intelligent…or human or whatever it’d be much better if we started thinking about them for what they are.

Yeah we all know that calculators are completely useless. 🙄

The UN needs an army or at least a sanctioning body that can do real things.

But it can only good do

In their mind, consumers and employees are totally separate groups.

Which simply, isn’t true? That is where this generation of robber barons seems more short-sighted than the last one. Henry Ford was a prick, but he at least grasped that if his workers couldn’t afford a car, that would negatively affect his company outlook.

I was in a meeting where they went on for two hours about agents. They nor I seem to really have any idea wtf they’d do with them.

I 100%d sable and only found it mildly frustrating in certain parts. Pretty good game overall.

I wish there were more games like it where you could just enjoy the world instead of it being all about some missions.

I can make up my own songs with lyrics that I want to sing.

Lately I’ve been working on one called “these people are nuts”.

What do you expect from people who basically have no friends left, are seemingly permanently isolated, and the last “social” arrangement they have is talking to a fucking agreeable robot?

It’s a really sad “society” we’ve built here.

This song sent me down a trip hop rabbit hole when I first heard it from which I still haven’t fully emerged.

Often it’s climbing.

I’m looking at you, breath of the wild.

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You’re not wrong that AI makes human style mistakes, but a human can learn, or at least generally doesn’t have to be taught the same fucking lesson at least once a week for a year (or gets fired well before then).

This is the point nobody seems to get. Especially people that haven’t worked with the technology.

It just does not have the ability to learn in any meaningful way. A human can learn a new technique and move to master simple new techniques in a couple of hours. AI just keeps falling back on its training data no matter how many times you tell it to stop. It has no other option. It would need to be re-trained with better material in order to consistently do what you want it to do, but nobody is really re-training these things…they’re using the “foundational” models and at most “fine-tuning” them…and fine-tuning only provides a quickly punctured facade…it eventually falls back to the bulk of its learning material.

This is my take with it too. They seem to be good at creating “high fidelity” mock-ups, and creating a basic framework for something, but try to even get them to change a background color or something and they just lie to you.

They’re basically a good tool for stubbing stuff out for a web application…which, it’s insane that we had to jump through all of these hoops and spend unknown billions in order to get that. At this point, I would assume that we have a rapid application development equivalent for web apps…but maybe not.

All of the “frameworks” involved in front-end application delivery certainly don’t seem to provide any benefit of speeding up development cycles. Front-end development seems worse today than when I used to be a full-time full stack engineer (and I had fucking IE6 to contend with at the time).

My nephew immediately uploaded his newborn into one to remove watermarks from the hospital’s $400 (?!) paid digital photo package.

🤦