• TypFaffke@feddit.org
    30·
    2 days ago

    People using a glorified Markov chain to fact check things is the most depressing shit I’ve had to endure in a while

    • KaiFeng@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      2 days ago

      It’s also useless. Like even for coding I have to check all the code manually for basic mistakes like solving a 2x2 system. Is not even good for grammar/spelling correction. The dam thing changes whole phrases to something with similar but different meaning.

      • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        I find it mostly good enough for canned response and template type of tasks but not much more than that

      • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        2 days ago

        Ehhh maybe a year or two ago. Modern systems are far more capable than you’re giving them credit for.

        I’m not insinuating that they are perfect or even human level, because they’re not, but both of those complaints are things that AI can usually handle summarily.

    • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      I don’t know if this will help, but the stupidity level is probably no worse than it’s ever been, it’s just a lot more visible now.

      Most human beings have never paid much attention to the world outside of the little bubble they live in. But now that we have such a good communication network they’re able to get casual low-effort glimpses of the big world by glancing at a few memes or whatever, which they think makes them experts, and they broadcast their ignorance worldwide because they can. The ignorance was always there, just never this noticeable.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    13·
    2 days ago

    Blade Runner was made in 1982 and set in 2019 Los Angeles. I think that in most ways, real life 2019 was closer to 1982 than Blade Runner 2019.

    • Krauerking@lemy.lol
      9·
      2 days ago

      Culturally we are still living in the 80s, just a dragged out fun mirror version of it because everyone at the top of the pyramid refuses to believe there could be anything better than their idea of life and the malls are online.

  • chellewalker@lemmy.caEnglish
    63·
    3 days ago

    It is true that the Earth is round, much like it’s true that an ongoing genocide against white people is occuring in South Africa.

      • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
        2·
        2 days ago

        Nah, Bear. The last time I read Heinlein he laid out a schema for starting a cult that sounded suspiciously close to what his friend L Ron Hubbard later did for real.

        • _stranger_@lemmy.world
          3·
          2 days ago

          Just in case you didn’t know:

          article: https://everything2.com/title/The+Heinlein+-+Hubbard+Wager+Myth

          relevant bit:

          “RAH and LRH had one or more discussions during 1944 and or 1945 when they were both in Philadelphia, and RAH pointed out to LRH that religions had an inordinate amount of legal latitude in the U.S. and that churches could engage in a great many activities otherwise thought of as secular, under the tax and other protection churches enjoy. He had already explored these ideas in some of his stories and was to revisit these notions in their original form in Stranger. It is possible that this conversation or series of conversations took place as late as December 1945 or early 1946 and in Los Angeles.”

          The theme of money and religion was apparently a very popular one for Hubbard as he seems to have mentioned it at several other informal discussions around the same time. In a 1978 interview Harlan Ellison commented “Scientology is bullshit! Man, I was there the night L. Ron Hubbard invented it, for Christ Sakes!..We were sitting around one night… who else was there? Alfred Bester, and Cyril Kornbluth, and Lester Del Rey, and Ron Hubbard, who was making a penny a word, and had been for years. And he said “This bullshit’s got to stop!” He says, “I gotta get money.” He says, “I want to get rich”.”

  • Kratzkopf@discuss.tchncs.de
    17·
    3 days ago

    We might be on track for that future though. The picture features a floor of ocean on which there seem to be artificial islands connected by tubes of glass and steel. So we see a future with heavy flooding and people needing to be protected from extreme weather events 24/7

    • Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world
      31·
      2 days ago

      I played with chat bots back in the AOL messenger days. There was this “Run-A-Bot” program I used to run at home, and when I was out I could chat with it and it was surprisingly interactive and realistic.

      The responses were probably hard coded to expected inputs, done the hard way… as I feel it should be.

      I thought wow if a company spent years add in more and more important data by hand this will be AMAZING in just a few years.

      Fast forward 20 years and the AI companies did it the most lazy way possible. Just auto feeding data scraped from the web. Yikes, all the trolls and fake info included.

      This new AI is just a sentence generator, it’s almost useless. They have some twisted algorithms to spit out junk but each one is leaning towards whatever twisted views the company that made it want it to spit out.

      • _stranger_@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 days ago

        back then the buzz word was “expert system” and later “fuzzy logic”, all kinda sorta leading down the same path LLM 's have taken today, they just didn’t have the compute power back then.

      • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org
        31·
        2 days ago

        I mean, I did not expect to have this kinda nonsense yet. The video creation stuff? Utterly without use, but technologically impressive.

        • msage@programming.dev
          31·
          2 days ago

          It would be way more impressive if it didn’t cost entire nations GDP and fresh water usage to implement.

          If you throw large enough sum of money on many problems, they will be solved. Yet most AI haven’t solved much, they just brute-force things.

          • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            I’m not sure what you mean by brute force… they are FAR more efficient than brute forcing things.

            I think people vastly underestimate the computational complexity of brute forcing a solution in reality.

              • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                2 days ago

                Is that true though? Nobody has shown a more efficient way to solve these problems. And if they did, everybody would immediately start using that technique.

                I’m confident that a more efficient way exists, but it has not yet been discovered. Hard to convince people to do a thing that nobody has invented yet.

                • msage@programming.dev
                  1·
                  22 hours ago

                  It’s not hard to say ‘this isn’t production ready, we need to approach it from a different angle’.

                  It’s hard to make it happen, I get it, it’s just ridiculous how money focused our society is. No problem will be solved unless it makes the rich richer.

    • ikt@aussie.zoneEnglish
      104·
      3 days ago

      yeah and this meme is entirely self defeating? twitter is garbage, why are you in a garbage dump complaining about the garbage?

      • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        If corporate social media can be used to fuck up the world so horribly, then imagine what we can build now that we have p2p social media. Everybody is mad and should be mad. But we’re easy to manipulate. We need to adapt how humans obtain and process information, and numerous p2p apps have demonstrated limits to corporate power.

        New ways to communicate and coordinate are a really big deal. We’re a tremendously productive species whose time is mostly being wasted. With what might seem like minor tweaks to our society, we can build this picture.

        • irmoz@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          I’m in complete agreement. The Internet should have been amazing for democracy. Then they went and privatised it, to control the online landscape and push propaganda.