minasmorath

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by minasmorath 2y ago
To be honest, I tried to work with with GitHub Copilot to see if it could help junior devs focus in on the important parts of a PR and increase their efficiency and such, but... I've found it to be worse than useless at identifying whe
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by minasmorath 2y ago
Oh, I have no issue with his textbook definition, I'm saying that it's now being used to sell products by people who know their normal consumer base isn't using the same definition and it conveniently misleads them into belie
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by minasmorath 2y ago
I searched for the definition of "agent" and none of the results map to the way AI folks are using the word. It's really that simple, because we're marketing this stuff to non-tech people who already use words to mean th
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by minasmorath 2y ago
That's actually a great example of what I'm saying, because I don't think the NPCs are agents at all in the traditional sense of "One that acts or has the power or authority to act on behalf of another." Where would
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by minasmorath 2y ago
It's disingenuous in that it takes a word with a common understanding ("agent") and then conveniently redefines or re-etomologizes the word in an uncommon way that leads people to implicitly believe something about the produc
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by minasmorath 2y ago
That definition feels like it's playing on the verb, the idea of having "agency" in the world, and not on the noun, of being an "agent" for another party. The former is a philosophical category, while the latter has
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by minasmorath 2y ago
Another great reminder to the rest of us that simple and complex are not analogous to easy and hard.
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by minasmorath 2y ago
To me that's the mark of a high quality sarcastic reply.
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by minasmorath 2y ago
Really hit the false equivalence nail on the head. Cars enable long-distance travel, which in many parts of the world is now essential for survival, and often that is, ironically, a result of climate change. LLMs do nothing to aid human sur
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by minasmorath 2y ago
That seems more likely than my initial interpretation, in which case the moral and ethical implications just so you can have a "Summarize with AI" button or other such features in your web browser are obviously much worse.
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by minasmorath 2y ago
That's how a lot of folks write when they want to make a shorthand comparison and they trust their readers to understand what they're doing. The author is making a comparison of the current cost / benefit of LLM tech to the c
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by minasmorath 2y ago
How is that weird? Current energy consumption levels for LLMs are definitely problematic. That's not to say they can't improve, but at the moment it's definitely bad. The estimate of ongoing power consumption for Google'
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by minasmorath 2y ago
I took it as more of a recognition of the downsides to LLM tech that the hype train tends to ignore, as well as the legal / moral / ethical gray areas that exist in both training those models and determining who is liable for what
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by minasmorath 2y ago
At a glance, it feels more likely to me that they're criticizing training LLMs on content without compensating the original creators, not the salaries of OpenAI engineers. It's a pretty common moral / ethical stance to take n
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by minasmorath 2y ago
Player's Handbook.
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by minasmorath 2y ago
Oh the AIrony.
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by minasmorath 2y ago
The keylogger and subsequent profit from selling the passwords we capture is just a small side effect.
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by minasmorath 3y ago
It's different in that it's creating a new unique intermediate layer, but admittedly I'm struggling to see the value for most workflows. I assume there's an important detail I'm missing, as is the usual case with in
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by minasmorath 3y ago
Unfortunately no, I paid for premium for a while believing this, but the experience is exactly the same. Though it's very possible I'm just missing the sarcasm here.
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by minasmorath 3y ago
I'm an Arch fanboy, but after all these years Fedora is still what I install on machines that I need to use for real work. It's been consistently rock solid for me when it matters most.