If cats looked like frogs we’d realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That’s what people remember.
Comment on AI Artefacting
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 month ago
AIs are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
AIs are marvellous. They cause marvels.
AIs are fantastic. They create fantasies.
AIs are glamorous. They project glamour.
AIs are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
AIs are terrific. They beget terror.
The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.
No one ever said AIs are nice.
AIs are bad.
SirSamuel@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Comment105@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Puking on the carpet, dropping dead things at your feet, licking at you, drawing your blood with sharp claws. Imagine a long slimy toad-lizard with those sharp claws, behaving like that.
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 1 month ago
Someone is a Pratchett fan.
SirSamuel@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Senpai remembered me :3
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 1 month ago
AIs are a tool, at least currently, and depend on the way you use them like any other tool. Future AGI would be a whole other dangerous can of paperclips, but we dont have that yet.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 month ago
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I never said I didn’t recognise the quote from Terry Pratchett’s Lords and Ladies (which incidentally, shares many interesting parallels between The Witcher - namely, the elves being evil/not good, the elves having space bending powers, the elves being from another world, which the portal to is opened by a young girl, and they are associated with snow/frost. Like, I’m not saying Marcin Sapkowski was definitely inspired, but it’s an interesting coincidence at least.)
flicker@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This is the internet. No one cares if you know something or not. You don’t have to be defensive about it.
leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 1 month ago
GNU Sir pTerry.
areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 1 month ago
AI at this stage is just a tool. This might change one day, but today is not that day. Blame the user, not the tool.
AI and ML was being used to assist in scientific research long before ChatGPT or StableDiffusion hit the mainstream news cycle. AIs can be used to predict all sorts of outcomes, including ones relevant to climate, weather, even medical treatment. The University I work for even have a funded PhD program looking at using AI algorithms to detect cancer better, I found out because one of my friends is applying for it.
The research I am doing with AI is not quite as important as that, but it could shape the future of both cyber security and education, as I am looking at using for teaching cyber security students about ethical hacking and security. Do people also use LLMs to hack businesses or government organisations and cause mayhem? Quite probably, and they definitely will in the future. That doesn’t mean that the tool itself is bad, just that some people will inevitably abuse it.
Not all of this stuff is run by private businesses either. A lot of work is done by open source devs working on improving publicly available AI and ML models in their spare time. Likewise some of this stuff is publicly funded through universities like mine. There are people way better than me out there using AIs for all sorts of good things including stopping hackers, curing patients, teaching the next generation, or monitoring climate change. Some of them have been doing it for years.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I was just making a clever reference
areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 1 month ago
The problem is that some people like me won’t get that reference and instead think AIs are universally bad. A lot of people already think this way, and it’s hard to know who believes what.
leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 1 month ago
The problem is that people selling LLMs keep calling them AI, and people keep buying their bullshit.
AI isn’t necessarily bad. LLMs are.
SirSamuel@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Clearly, based on your responses, you don’t think AI/LLMs are universally bad. And anyone who is that easily swayed by what is essentially a clever shitpost likely also thinks the earth is flat and birds aren’t real.
You know. Morons.
SirSamuel@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I appreciate it <3
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
is just a tool.
Oh, thank you. I forgot. Sometimes I can’t remember.
superkret@feddit.org 1 month ago
It’s this from Terry Pratchett?
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yep, from Lords and Ladies
lemmyng@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
GNU STP.