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Literal birthplace of the Oxford Comma and they still don’t use it. Smh my head.

5 democrats voted against reining in this current attack. And 3 republicans voted for it. But sure, they’re both the same 🙄

Agreed.

“Surely I won’t end up under the bus!” - Every idiot in this circus

18% are, as per the article.

Super glad to have gotten off that shit-train last year. Still dealing with the Linux learning curve, but never going back.

Spot on. They’re talking about killing thousands and they sound like frat bros trying to talk themselves into getting a tattoo. Wtf…

This is one of those things that, while it’s awful, it’s also a lucky break since they are clearly incapable of providing acceptable medical service.

What a terrible fucking headline. Even if they kept a record of every single interaction on hand for the chatbot to reference (which is preposterous), the notion that it could reiterate it verbatim to a degree that is sufficient to hold up as evidence of anything is ludicrous. It’s also wildly inaccurate to the actual story. Bad job all around.

It’s uncanny.

Actual AI would be more than “just math”, but LLMs aren’t AI, so the comparison is moot.

Now we’ve built a collection of simulated neurons, at a scale close to that of the human brain, and trained it on the entirety of the human language

We are not even close to anything of the sort. We’ve got a probability machine that’s mostly decent at previous collections of human language. The other two are much farther down the road (if they’re even possible) than you or the rest of the tech bros are trying to convince everyone else of.

Though commonly reported, Google doesn’t consider it a security problem when models make things up

To be clear, all llms “make things up” with every use - that’s their singular function. We need to stop imparting any level of sentience or knowledge onto these programs. At best, it’s a waste of time. At worst, it will get somebody killed.

Also, querying the program on why it fabricated something as if it won’t fabricate that answer as well is peak ignorance. “Surely it will output factual information this time!”

And yet here you are, acting like one. “Phones bad. Kids dumb. My generation’s better.”

You got that boomer energy.

I’ve seen this a few times recently, and am wondering what authority do US coroners have to decide that a death was “unlawful”? Isn’t their job just determining cause of death, not handing out a verdict?

Same tactic used by scammers sending “bad” messages - it’s at least partially in purpose to single out the good marks.

Didn’t they just get busted for leaking their verification data that they totally weren’t keeping?

Whelp, hopefully federated video sharing gets the momentum it needs to compete with YT. Seems like it’s the only alternative that’ll be left.

It’s “hypotheses” btw.

Some interpretations of reincarnation posit that every person that has ever and will ever exist is the actually same being living through a mortal life over and over again. In that system, “time travel” (if you view it that way) would be essential.

Kurzgesagt did a nice video on the concept: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6fcK_fRYaI