• 1 Post
  • 526 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
Cake day: February 16th, 2024
  • Dasus@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Is it realistic to think that having a funding campaign to save my sister?
    2·
    7 days ago

    There’s a somewhat similar system in Finland I’d say.

    I got union money after I got sick and stopped working at my job. I could’ve just decided to do nothing, but I went to a graphic design school, as I asked and the way it was explained to me was quitting it won’t affect anything, so it’d be fine to go and swe whether it is for me. I had good grades but stopped after a year, not my thing.

    Then the union, or rather a union replacing general union unemployment register or whatnot, demanded all the money back from the year I had been there. Despite me being able to show I had success. Despite me having asked would this specific scenario happen and them having had said “no”.

    But it did. I complained and the way it was resolved was “oh even though we acknowledge it wasn’t his fault, we still want half”.

  • Dasus@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?
    11·
    9 days ago

    So you are saying that because cars are designed by engineers, you don’t need to check that the brakes work, because engineering is magic and you trust it.

    Are you talking about manual or digital calculators?

    What happens when you divide by zero on a mechanical calculator?

    Now unless you’re using a machine in which you can clearly see every single part of it, such as an abacus, you can’t be 100% sure it’s actually working correctly. You may reliably assume that of such a base level of technology as calculators, and of calculator software on your PC/phone, and you may also somewhat reliably trust that a car is in working order.

    However, in my country the law actually does mention that you’re required to check that all lights, indicators, and safety equipment functions before going out on the road, but if everyone actually did that everywhere in the world, the whole gimmick of cutting brake lines wouldn’t exist.

    Now is AI way more unreliable, and actually hallucinates things? Yes. But were search engines pretty much equally unreliable in the early days of the world wide web? Also yes. That’s why you still hear people sneering “oh, did you Google that?”. Yes, obviously I used a search engine to search for information, but I also known how to verify the sources of any information I find with it.

    The modern version is LLM, a few years back it was “oh did you read that on Wikipedia” and before that is was general derision at all search engines.

    As if someone actually fucking took the time to walk to a library anymore to spend an hour looking at books which might talk about the subject you have a question about and might be several decades old and have out of date information.

    I can’t even take the rest of your bullshit seriously if you honestly think what you said has any merit.

    The “tldr” or “do your own research” of the pseudointellectual. I’m confident you’re perfectly capable of understanding what I said. You just don’t want to answer because it’d show your logic sucks and you can’t form your own opinions.

  • Dasus@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•aight... i'm out..English
    2·
    9 days ago

    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.

  • Dasus@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•aight... i'm out..English
    2·
    9 days ago

    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.

  • Dasus@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?
    11·
    9 days ago

    no, I don’t check the math that a calculator does. know why?

    But unless your using an actual abacus, the person who built your calculator, or more likely programmed the OS you’re running a calculator software on, you’re still using a product made by a fallible person and which could have made a mistake.

    Problem with AI is that it can’t even do math properly!

    Then neither can basic calculators. Or your trying to say that sometimes the input isn’t clear enough for the AI to get the corrected calculation it could do correctly. Ie the interface is still unreliable.

    But at some point, it will be reliable enough. And it’s already reliable enough for cooking. It can still make mistakes, but if you understand the basics, you’ll realise if there’s some massive hallucination.

    it is similar, know why? it’s fucking engineering, which is an entire branch of math!

    Ah, so the minimum wage people actually putting the cars together (there’s one factory I know not far from me which every single one of my immigrant friends has been at for a week or two) are infallible, because engineering is — at its core — based on math?

    You know you seem just as ridiculous as the guy you were arguing, who’s claiming LLM’s will cure cancer.

    “Engineering is math and math is math thus all engineered products and all engineered software is perfect and infallible … except for anything AI, WHICH IS TO BE BURNED AS HERECY.”

    your brain has gone soft. make some better arguments next time and I’ll take you seriously.

    ;>

    btw, this has “Facebook essential oils” group written all over it. I hope to god you seek the medical help you need from a medical professional that has decades of training and not some LLM garbage that’s been forcefed “grey’s anatomy” and MLP fanfic.

    You misunderstand. It’s not because the AI is better at medicine. It’s because it’s a tool which has got access to medical information, and the doctors I used were public doctors who dismissed me. Something again which you somehow think of as impossible, as your “brain has gone soft” and suffers from the just world fallacy.

    With the aid of LLM’s, I could actually input very medical questions, which the doctors would’ve probably known how to answer, had they actually listened to what I was saying. You’re completely ignoring arrogance, bureaucracy, racism, sexism and agism.

    If you want, I’ll eat wheat right now and show you how I’ll start having a high blood pressure, high HR, extremely anxiety and shitting orange floaty poop. Despite that, I have a doctors statement saying the test for celiacs is negative. We took the antigen test after I asked the doctor whether the antigen test actually requires being exposed in case of a false negative, as I was already avoiding gluten since I know to be allergic to it. She said “no it doesn’t”. After the test came back negative, she messaged me, indirectly admitting she had made a mistake. Now I’ve a complaint going on about her but these take literally years to process.

    Don’t know who that was directed to, couldn’t be me. I run my own models among other things

    Ofc it was directed at you. You’re a mindless softbrain who just has to be in the “anti-AI” bandwagon, because you’re not capable of forming your own opinions, so you always just trail others and shout out what you think is the most successful thing you’ve heard. And you still use them, despite taking a stance like that in public. It’s pathetic, really. I hope you grow out of it.