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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
Alt Text: an image of Agent Smith from The Matrix with the following text superimposed, "1999 was described as being the peak of human civilization in 'The Matrix' and I laughed because that obviously wouldn't age well and then the next 25 years happened and I realized that yeah maybe the machines had a point."
The US is not all of civilization.
The rise of authoritarianism and nationalism is happening in multiple countries like Hungary, Russia, China, and the U.S. Parties like AfD have grown in strength in the last 20 years, thanks in part to the ability of social media companies to prioritize "engagement" to enable them to make more money over societal health.
I think China and Russia are pretty far gone
Other countries we can still help save
When I heard that line I was like "Yeah, sure. We'll never have AI in my lifespan" and you know what? I was right.
What I wasn't expecting was for a bunch of tech bros to create an advanced chatbot and announce "Behold! We have created AI, let's have it do all of our thinking for us!" while the chatbot spits out buggy code and suggests mixing glue into your pizza sauce.
You won't have general purpose true AI until it can actually think and reason, llm will never do that. At most they would be a way of interaction with an AI.
I work in the gaming industry and every week I receive emails about how AI is gonna revolutionize my job and get sent to time wasting training about how to use Figma AI or other shit like that because it's the best thing ever according to HR... and it never is obviously.
At best, it's gonna make middle managing jobs easier but for devs like me, as long as the "AI" stays out of our engines and stays into the equivalent of cooperative vision boards, it does nothing for me. Not once have I tried to use it for it to turn actually useful. It's mediocre at best and I can't believe there are game devs that actually try to code with it, can't wait to see these hot garbage products come on the market.
Gawd, me too. They've started scraping my LinkedIn recommenders to try bait me in.
For context, I work at a university. The subject was something like "xxxxxx recommends you for a company like us" implying my contact had actually been behind it, but obviously they didn't.
Hi saltesc,
Saw on LinkedIn that xxxxxx highlighted your industry expertise and dedication to client success—sounds like you're pivotal in driving both xxxxxx and solid outcomes for your clients!
By the way, any chance you'd be interested in using AI to get total visibility of all your data?
Our AI data analytics solution specializes in helping companies in the higher education industry do exactly that.
With Knowi, you can effortlessly get answers to questions like:
What is the percentage increase in graduate employment rates from diverse student demographics over the past three years, including international learners?
How many new educational offerings have been developed annually at xxxxxx to enhance skills development within the community, including international students?
It's like ChatGPT, but for your data!
Open to learning more?
All the best, xxxxxx xxxxxx Business Growth
And obviously it reads like it was written by one of the GPTs.
Had they seen our profiles, they'd actually know what it is we do and how ridiculous recommending a chat AI is. That's sooooo beneath our knowledge and expertise. Like a random suggesting Ivermectin to Dr Faucci.
When I heard that line I was like "Yeah, sure. We'll never have AI in my lifespan" and you know what? I was right.
Unless you just died or are about to, you can't really confidently make that statement.
There's no technical reason to think we won't in the next ~20-50 years. We may not, and there may be a technical reason why we can't, but the previous big technical hurdles were the amount of compute needed and that computers couldn't handle fuzzy pattern matching, but modern AI has effectively found a way of solving the pattern matching problem, and current large models like ChatGPT model more "neurons" than are in the human brain, let alone the power that will be available to them in 30 years.
the previous big technical hurdles were the amount of compute needed and that computers couldn’t handle fuzzy pattern matching
Was it? I thought it was always about we haven't quite figure it out what thinking really is
There's no technical reason to think we won't in the next ~20-50 years
Other than that nobody has any idea how to go about it? The things called "AI" today are not precursors to AGI. The search for strong AI is still nowhere close to any breakthroughs.
There's no technical reason to think we will in the next ~20-50 years, either.
there's plenty of reason to believe that, whether we have it or not, some billionaire asshole is going to force you to believe and respect his corportate AI as if it's sentient (while simultaneously treating it like slave labor)
I was surprised how poorly they still did as a chatbot vs ELIZA over after 50 years of potential progress and how revered they are in certain contexts.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/375117569_Does_GPT-4_Pass_the_Turing_Test
The best-performing GPT-4 prompt passed in 49.7% of games, outperforming ELIZA (22%) and GPT-3.5 (20%), but falling short of the baseline set by human participants (66%).
Given the baseline is 66% the GPT-4 results are fairly impressive
We had passed the peak. Limp Bizkit was already popular. Every dude I know that loved that band is now a middle aged incel.
God,
thought they were cool.
haven't heard of them in decades, not until the new Devil May Cry in netflix. enjoyed the nostalgia.
now I'm afraid I've become a middle aged incel.
someone put me down before it gets worse, why am I suddenly interested in starting a podcast?
Checks out. I lived through those times and see the same trend. Fuck that band was intolerable.
Fred Durst isn't a bad singer, he did a pretty good cover of behind blue eyes. Looking at reviews it wasn't super popular but I thought it was decent.
I feel like they used a lot of help from ProTools to make him some better on that one, though. Since there want really auto tune back then.