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by bastien2 2y ago
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by bastien2 2y ago
There is yet to actually be a use case for chatbots that isn't profit-motivated. The entire effort to find a problem for them to solve has meant ecological harms at a scale that makes crypto mining seem trivial. The data required has c
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by bastien2 2y ago
Oh come on, Proton, you're supposed to be better than this. Chatbots are proven privacy-violation engines. If you're going to act like Google, there's zero reason to pay for your services.
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by bastien2 2y ago
Oh look, carcinisation for Apple products. ipodisation: the tendency for non-iPod Apple products to evolve iPod-like features over time.
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by bastien2 2y ago
Chatbots can't teach critical thought or ethics. They need to be able to understand language and bias first, and that's an as yet unsolved problem. Until a chatbot is provably correct and ethical in its output, it must not be use
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by bastien2 2y ago
This smacks of the infinite growth fallacy.
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by bastien2 2y ago
That really is the solution: stop misusing phone numbers as secure channels.
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by bastien2 2y ago
Just remember: the only reason they threw a trillion dollars at genAI is because they thought they could lay off their entire creative staff
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by bastien2 2y ago
It's more that VR/AR is a high-cost solution still in search of a problem that makes it profitable. So far the only market for VR is niche entertainment. VRC is fun, but VR games have been arounds for decades and never gotten past
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by bastien2 2y ago
AI is the last thing you want involved in accounting. Book-keeping and tax preparation are exercises in precision at a very high level of semantic knowledge. You have to understand why money flows through a company. These are skills the c
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by bastien2 2y ago
This just in: Google Spyware has features accessible only to Google.
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by bastien2 2y ago
We've been here before. OE firmware needs to be assumed hostile and either replaced with open source aftermarket firmware, or the device sequestered in a subnet with no internet access.
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by bastien2 2y ago
There is vendor-side infrastructure to receive the information. This wasn't a lapse in planning/testing. This was intentional. Stop giving corporations the benefit of the doubt.
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by bastien2 2y ago
Except that doesn't work in the real world, where encrypted and authenticated boot disks are increasingly common. So you'll need a significant amount of code that isn't the permanently-resident kernel that has enough device s
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by bastien2 2y ago
Unfortunately they did it by switching to natural gas instead of the massive sustainable buildout they needed. Good job on reducing thorium and uranium emissions, at least.
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by bastien2 2y ago
You can't "enhance" from zero. LLMs by design are not capable of reason. We can observe LLM-like behaviour in humans: all those reactionaries who just parrot whatever catchphrases mass media programmed into them. LLMs are j
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by bastien2 2y ago
I am so here for bringing konbini life to the U.S.
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by bastien2 2y ago
Higher frames rates are good, when you actually get more frames. But motion smoothing is a fraud. It interpolates additional frames. In order to make things look consistent, it has to apply addition filtering to the original frames. The res
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by bastien2 2y ago
The latest in a long line of utterly stupid decisions by Roku demonstrating their lack of competency. Why anyone willingly choses Roku anymore is beyond me.
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by bastien2 2y ago
The irony of using a chatbot to gain insight into the current problems with the job market
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by bastien2 2y ago
"delve"
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by bastien2 2y ago
only a prompter would think that looks realistic
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by bastien2 2y ago
Exactly why piracy is and always has been at the core of historical preservation
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by bastien2 2y ago
Well this definitely won't get exploited at all or lead to new strict limits on what Harfbuzz/WASM can do
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by bastien2 2y ago
They're bad for cars, so the establishment is decrying them as ruining America. I went two years with nothing more than a carshare membership when I lived in a 5+1 because I was three blocks from a grocery store and that three blocks h
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by bastien2 2y ago
That's because humans learn in stages of growing complexity and semantic depth, and LLMs don't. The chatbots do what infant humans do: mimic what it "sees" until it gets the pattern consistently matching what it saw with
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by bastien2 2y ago
A great example of why you should be running your own validating recursor instead of relying on a third party
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by bastien2 2y ago
Only if you have actual humans reviewing the output while being paid livable wages (i.e., you don't get to use digital sweatshops for this). But considering Google has had over a decade to get autogenerated captioning right and they co
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by bastien2 2y ago
Still haven't fixed the white flash
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by bastien2 2y ago
You don't. You use a full-text indexer and normal search tools. A chatbot is only going to decrease the integrity of query results.

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