geekwithsoul

Joaquin Phoenix, no exceptions. And it’s totally not fair. He’s a gifted actor, and I can’t stand him for some reason.

What an original take…

Nice strawman, but not applicable. A car can mechanically fail, resulting in a crash or a human can operate it in such a manner as to cause a crash. It can’t crash on its own and if driven and maintained correctly, won’t crash.

An AI, on the other hand, can give answers but never actually “knows” if it’s correct or true. Sometimes the answers will be correct because you get lucky but there’s nothing in any current LLM out there that can tell fact from fiction. It’s just based on how it’s trained and what it’s trained on, and even when taking from “real” sources, it can mix things up when combining sources. Suggest you read https://medium.com/analytics-matters/generative-ai-its-all-a-hallucination-6b8798445044

The only way a car would be like an AI is if every time you sat in the car, it occasionally drove you to the right place and you didn’t mind the other 9 out of 10 times it drove you to the wrong place, drove you using the least efficient route, and/or occasionally drove across lawns and fields, and on sidewalks. Oh, and the car assembles itself from other people’s cars and steals their gas.

It’s more than “AI isn’t perfect”, it’s that AI isn’t even good. Moderation, and even summaries, require more than predictions - they require understanding, which AI doesn’t have. It’s all hallucinations, and it’s just that through sheer dumb luck and hoovering in so much ill-gotten data that sometimes the hallucinations happen to be correct.

Obi-Wan voice That’s a name i haven’t heard in a long time

I always name them, but I have no naming scheme per se, other than vibes. First car I ever owned was a light blue 83 Cutlass - that was “Bob”. Had an early 90s Dodge Shadow with a v6 and that was “Pepe.” Most recent is a 2010 VW Final Edition convertible w/ blue & white two tone paint and she’s “Elsa.” The names just always seem to be there already when I get them.

The UK government is going to force this on every site it can, not just Bluesky.

Yeah, I was one of the ones banned from a number of AI communities despite not engaging with them really on my old Lemm.ee account. With UM involved, I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised :) Sounds like just the sort of shit he’d have a hand in stirring up and just the way he’d do it.

Yeah, my first thought was “No way all those people opted-in to that, right?”

Looking forward to: everything

Scared of: everything

I’m an optimist with a lot of anxiety :/

Verizon’s customer portal. Clunky, badly designed interface and what should be simple tasks end in dead pages, non-responsive widgets, and interminable loading screens. Just awful.

Was thinking it’s either going to be food poisoning, completely unpalatable food combinations, or it’ll all be a sham and they’ll have their usual solution of immigrants doing all the actual work - and who are underpaid indentured servants and have had their passports confiscated.

You do know they’re rounding up and incarcerating/deporting legal immigrants and talking about denaturalizing citizens, right? They left that argument behind about only going after “illegals” after the inauguration. Now we’ve got Stephen Miller basically recreating internment camps and Laura Loomer talking about feeding 65 million Hispanics to alligators.

You can tell my brain already left for the long weekend - no idea where that brain fart came from.

From the guy who glossed over real historical/social issues in Titanic? Who ignored many of the moral issues of Bruce Wayne preferring to play dress up instead of working to fix Gotham? [Edit: I’m an idiot] Or who ripped off storylines from better movies, slapped Papyrus font on the title, and made an overly indulgent series of movies that are more pretty screensaver than cinema? He can fuck off.

Nothing for about the last two years - before that? All sorts of different things. But finally realized pretty much every game was either just trying to get me to cough up more money, was a subpar experience because of interface/hardware limitations, and/or weren’t actually fun beyond giving me a brief distraction when I was bored.

If I get to the point where I want a mobile gaming option, I’ll just get a Steam Deck. Honestly the less time I spend attached to my phone, the better.