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this post really attracted the lamest people in the fucking world

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midwestmarshcreeper

Awww they are just settin' there in the yard ❤️

redstonedust

for the record im not technially 100% anti-AI, in the sense that its a broad category of tech being lumped under one umbrella term so it feels over-zealous to say i hate all of it all the time forever. but i also think trying to discuss what it actually IS good for is difficult right now when i cant take one step without something trying to convince me to use chatgpt to summarize my life and speed up my hobbies and turn my friends into chatbots and optimize my life into oblivion. i am certain there is nuance to the topic but can we stop cramming the square peg into the round hole before you start trying to sell me on the legitimate benefits of the square peg. please.

ralfmaximus

Neural Nets have existed for decades and are genuinely useful. It's a form of AI that recognizes patterns, and can do stuff like identify cancer cells, tell whether an egg is fertilized or not, detect fraud, and optimize routes.

Those are Expert Systems, tuned to do exactly one thing. If you (say) ask a medical expert system a question about financial law, it's useless. The autopilot that flies a 787 has no idea how to drive a truck on the freeway. A Coulter Counter is excellent at identifying lymphocytes in a blood sample but can't predict the next card in a blackjack game.

And so on.

The problem with so-called generalized AI (AGI) is that we don't have that yet. It doesn't exist. It MIGHT some day, but AGI has been "10 years away" since the 1980s. The goals keep moving as we learn more about how people and machines process data.

But the current crop of AI techbros have been selling generative Large Language Model AI (LLM) as AGI because generative systems do a good job of faking it. There's no actual thought going on, merely the illusion of thought via predicting the next word in a sentence accurately.

If you let a human toddler listen to 800 hours of YouTube car influencer videos, that toddler might end up sounding like a car influencer. They'd parrot horsepower numbers and 0 to 60 times, mention EV range and MSRP numbers.

But they wouldn't understand any of it.

That's ChatGPT.

And yeah, it's worse than useless because it doesn't even know when it's lying or hallucinating. It just babbles convincingly until you stop it.

But for techbros to make money selling that as "AI"? It's the perfect scam, especially if you don't understand how it works.

I fucking hate it.

chrispypineappleburger

Saw this and thought of sharing it because it is very beautiful

purplepints

Oldest human footprint discovered, made 153,000 years ago in South Africa.

Oldest human footprint in North America, made 21,000 years ago in New Mexico, USA.

Oldest human footprint on the Moon, made July 20, 1969 on the Sea of Tranquility, Earth's moon.

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punishedsaints

anachronic-cobra

I cannot emphasize enough how exactly accurate this is to working in production

dramatic-dolphin

and if i said nolan's odyssey starring no greek actors and with no recognizable aspects of greek culture or involvement by greeks, is the direct legacy of white supremacist colonialism that treated ancient greece as not just the pinnacle of ancient culture, but of an artificially created "european" culture, which white western europeans and their settler descendants, as the new pinnacle of culture, were the sole spiritual inheritors of.

hiveswap

^^^ PEOPLE ARE STILL THERE. There's a metro station across the street from the colosseum where i found a hair in my pizza slice. We drove by ruins of an amphitheater next to a motorway in greece once. It's literally just real places where real people live and have lived. It's not mythical perfect lands that once existed. I went to Itacha in 2023 and there was not enough parking space.

beastsposting

yes... yes! the condor is out!

condor 1215 (tag yellow 15) being released back into pinnacles national from (as far as i can tell) a checkup. she is 3 years old and was wild born to 589 & 569 ("phoebe the forager"). [1]

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not-your-average-url

I miss when ads were a single click and then they’re gone. Now every ad has a minimum of three phases where you watch a video, exit the still frame of fake gameplay, and then exit the app download. That doesn’t even touch on the ones that forcibly take you to another app after opening a tab in safari without you ever touching the screen.

I hate advertising. I hate that you can’t do anything without companies jumping down your throat with mostly bullshit ads. I hate that billboards exist. I hate that every company unanimously decided to make their ads longer and longer. I hate that ad blockers try to charge you money and there are in app purchases to remove ads. I hate that my attention has become commodified. I hate that there’s nothing I can do about it.

halochewer

i can't lie it kind of scares the shit out of me that people i now consider huge pillars of my life kind of just appeared to me one day as if from the desert sands

halochewer

like what do you do when some of the people you love most in the world only know you because you did like, a silly improv bit with a girl you hardly know? what do you do when that chance encounter pulls along two other girls you love like the fucking sun with it????? buy a fucking lotto ticket????????????

izzyvanizzy

my girlfriend I'm moving into an apartment with in a month? Yeg, I met a couple years ago because my discord nickname was in french.

fiddlertoad

yup, meeting my partner in a discord server i had just joined but they haven't checked in years and my pk had homestuck art and their in-denial system ass also had a homestuck character as a pfp

#to think that the likelihood of us ever meeting was so low #we live in different countries #tho i am visiting them again in a few days #been dating for over a year #shit just really be like that sometimes

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pillowspace

My 5k word one-shot has recently turned 30k words. Is this normal for pet one-shots? Is it sick? Should I take mine to the vet?

pillowspace

And why won't it naturally transition between this scene and the next? I'm poking it with a stick and everything

pillowspace

ckret2

OP, this is a VERY common scam in the pet fic industry right now! Fic ideas are marketed as "teacup" one-shots, and unsuspecting writers take them home not being told that they're actually juveniles!

Most alleged one-shots that supposedly cap out at 5k words are only a couple weeks old or severely malnourished, and once they start receiving proper care and writing sessions, they'll blow up to 25k, 50k, or often even 100k or more. This is perfectly normal and the size they were always meant to be!

But sadly, many writers don't have space in their homes & lives for such a long fic, which is why it's a shame they're often presented as one-shots.

Unfortunately, the industry being what it is, sometimes it's safer to stick to drabbles until you're absolutely sure a fic idea you've had your eye on is fully grown.

viohra

The Angel of Death

FISTS YOU

And then you Die

viohra

Context: my teacher translated the verb “to grasp with one’s hand” as “to fist” since that’s kinda what it literally means, but you can’t translate it like that into English because “to fist” means something ENTIRELY different, but she doesn’t know that.

So she was explaining how they use the verb to describe the angel of death taking your soul — he rips your soul out of you with his fist. Now that’s pretty damn metal, but she said word for word “the angel of death fists you, and then you die” which is the single most terrifying and powerful sentence to ever grace my ears

cassidyrld

Op i appreciate the context but i was going to rb anyway no questions asked

introvertsnation

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frogzilla3983

@bunnyloverqueen

flareonfloof

reblog this to pet the user you reblogged from please

#perry #yes the platypus #no you #get petted you silly

nostalgicfoxxosystem

literally me like this hits so hard

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chloebangbang

I don't know how I'm ever expected to be normal again after watching this. this video is already lodging itself deep within my vocabulary as I type

frontier001

IS MOON DAY!!! MOOOOON DAY!!!! THE DAY OF MOOOOON! HAPPY MOON DAY 🌝 (we landed on the moon today in 1969)

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