deception implies intent. this is confabulation, more widely called "hallucination" until this thread.
confabulation doesn't require knowledge, which as we know, the only knowledge a language model has is the relationships between tokens, and sometimes that rhymes with reality enough to be useful, but it isn't knowledge of facts of any kind.
Arch and its wikin were already pretty good when it happened, but the real turning point was when the Gentoo wiki got hacked. After that, it never really recovered, and the Arch wiki must have absorbed a lot of that expertise because that's when it really took off.
as I recall anyway. can't believe it's been so long.
It is amazing in fact how willingly Europe seems to be running into the arms of the actual fascist dictator, Xi, at the first sign of turmoil in the US. The US is written off as a lost cause and you cozy up with a government that is everything you dislike about the current US administration but on steroids. All because the US wants the EU to pay for its own war.
That’s quite an interesting take. You don’t think Europe doing more trade with China (I assume this is what cozying up means?), is a result of a wildly unpredictable trade policy and threats to invade Europe? Instead because the US with their global military presence are sick of footing the bill for it?
You bought a relationship with a service company that locked you in and sold you out. That's absolutely a bait and switch, just one of service instead of goods, because it's a SaaS company.
This is the real reason I'm tired of subscriptions. I don't even care about the "pay in perpetuity" problem in some cases, I just don't want the entity I chose to do business with to completely change.
Are you joking? It looks just as ugly as mountaintop removal to me.
They could preserve all that scenery by just building out nuclear. That's without mentioning the horrible ecological impact of blanketing an entire ecosystem in panels.
I understand this attitude but when I look back at my rural youth I just hear you telling me that I should have had no one to talk to at all about many things.
particularly ironic comment from an HN/lobsters celebrity account lol
this website isn't turning into Reddit, this website has been a pretentious orange subreddit for well over a decade if not right from the get go and a link to this site's Reddiquette page (just as ignored as on any subreddit!) is evidence TO that effect, and not against it!
the fact that the link petuously denies reality notwithstanding!
I mean, I'm not saying I think it's some sort of bastion of intellectual superiority, just that "have people been saying this place has been going downhill for a long time" is true.
I didn't see any complaints about any kind of artificial intelligence, research or otherwise, besides large language models, in this article.
Large language models are a single kind of AI, and a particularly annoying kind when you are forced to use them for deterministic or fact seeking tasks
or did you read the article? you're probably an LLM. why am I here? fuck this website
True but LLMs are all that are being sold right now. Mainly because people think they are intelligent because they're basically bullshit artist simulators.
I don't think the future of AI is with LLMs either. Not only LLMs anyway.
This is an astute comment, despite "Arathorn" CEO of Matrix LLC's downvote ring pushing down the score. (Hey bud you know you can just read without commenting, right? Sit and listen for awhile)
ActivityPub has the same problem. Browse a Japanese MissKey server and it'll start loading yours up with questionable drawings. I turned off my server FAST
This is a big, big problem for federated software that I have not seen addressed or even frequently discussed. Arbitrary file upload by the public is not something small operators can reasonably allow on their servers.
Even large operators of non federated systems with controlled access like Facebook struggle with this. It's impossible to protect yourself as a server operator on Matrix or ActivityPub from malicious actors that want to use your server to distribute illegal material, and you'll be the one found liable!
Hosting any publicly uploaded content is a bad decision and a problem since e-mail. IRC and MQTT with QoS 0 do not have this problem. They have others though. At least criminals won't use them because of how easy is to snoop.
you'll understand the first time you lose half an hour evaluating a library that has all the old signs of competent design and even the trivial examples don't work and you realize the project was generated and you've had your time completely wasted
In the new world, increasingly you’ll be better off writing your libraries from scratch than pulling in external dependencies. Less supply chain risk. Less bloat from features you don’t need. Sure complex mature libraries aren’t going away. But for many simple tasks the balance is shifting.
confabulation doesn't require knowledge, which as we know, the only knowledge a language model has is the relationships between tokens, and sometimes that rhymes with reality enough to be useful, but it isn't knowledge of facts of any kind.
and never has been.
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