V0ldek

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[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 21 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It's always funny to see this because you think that you're part of the smart 10% with original thoughts while actually you're the insufferable 10% whose only thought is that of superiority with nothing to back it up.

My cat has more original thoughts than that and he's currently stuck head-first in a cereal box.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 21 points 1 day ago (3 children)

(Preface: I work in AI)

Are they a serious researcher in ML with insights into some of the most interesting and complicated intersections of computer science and analytical mathematics, or a promptfondler that earns 3x the former's salary for a nebulous AI startup that will never create anything of value to society? Read on to find out!

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 13 points 1 day ago

because it encodes semantics.

Please enlighten me on how? I admit I don't know all the internals of the transformer model, but from what I know it encodes precisely only syntactical information, i.e. what next syntactical token is most likely to follow based on a syntactical context window.

How does it encode semantics? What is the semantics that it encodes? I doubt they have denatotational or operational semantics of natural language, I don't think something like that even exists, so it has to be some smaller model. Actually, it would be enlightening if you could tell me at least what the semantical domain here is, because I don't think there's any naturally obvious choice for that.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 10 points 1 day ago

The only remarkable thing is how fucking easy it is to convince the median consumer that vaguely-correct-shape sentences are correct.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

This has been said multiple times but I don't think it's possible to internalize because of how fucking bleak it is.

The VC/MBA class thinks all communication can be distilled into saying the precise string of words that triggers the stochastically desired response in the consumer. Conveying ideas or information is not the point. This is why ChatGPT seems like the holy grail to them, it effortlessly^1^ generates mountains of corporate slop that carry no actual meaning. It's all form and no substance, because those people -- their entire existence, the essence of their cursed dark souls -- has no substance.

^1^ batteries not included

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago

(see this for some others)

This article appears to contain a large number of buzzwords. (July 2011)

WP:LOL. WP:LMAO even

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Xml also used to be a tech hype for a bit.

Wha... What?

I'm trying to imagine a news anchor hyping about XM-fucking-L and I'm drawing a complete blank, is this a zen riddle

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Only in the philosophical sense of all of physics being a giant stochastic system.

But that's equally useful as saying that we're Turing machines? Yes, if you draw a broad category of "all things that compute in our universe" then you can make a reasonable (but disputable!) argument that both me and a Python interpreter are in the same category of things. That doesn't mean that a Python interpreter is smart/sentient/will solve climate change/whatever Sammy Boi wants to claim this week.

Or, to use a different analogy, it's like saying "we're all just cosmic energy, bro". Yes we are, pass the joint already and stop trying to raise billions of dollars for your energy woodchipper.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Okay but "Elon is not smarter than me" is a universally true statement in the exact same way as "dumb as a rock" is a universally applicable idiom.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 3 points 4 days ago

Maybe the AR could keep track of all the small fucking screws so that I don't lose them...

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 8 points 4 days ago

Why the fuck is there a gigantic 1000-year-old oak blocking the entire pavement. Also why is that one in autumn colors.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 11 points 4 days ago (4 children)

This response from her. Lol. Lmao.

can you and all your anti-ai bots just block me? we get it, you hate ai art

What a misunderstood wee lil smol bean, waah

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