AbelianGrape
@AbelianGrape@beehaw.org
Programmer, graduate student, and gamer. I’m also learning French and love any opportunity to practice :)
- Comment on Ex-Google CEO: Power Grid Crisis Could Kill AI's Next Big Leap 1 week ago:
This is definitely true for code but in terms of information retrieval and explaining complex topics, they have gotten much better in the sense that they can cite real sources (with links) now.
The analysis and synthesis that they do of those sources is still often bogus though. I’ve had one explain some simple Magic the Gathering rules with real-looking words but completely bogus interpretations and conclusions, but it did cite the correct rulebook with a link. I’ve also had one give a pretty strong overview of the construction and underlying theory of a particular compiler (a specific compiler, not the language it compiles) that matches up quite well with my own fairly deep understanding of that compiler.
Overall the real information is better, but the hallucinations look more real too. And they’re still pretty unhelpful for programming in my experience.
- Comment on YouTube Forces Dubs Now 2 weeks ago:
On my menu it does say original next to one of them, but tapping on the options (any of the options) doesn’t do anything. My phone is set to french because I’m an immigrant in a french-speaking region and am making sure to engage with the language as much as possible. But this means the autodub puts a stupid robo-french voice on everything – and it’s not always a faithful translation either.
At this point I just let the creators know that YouTube is making their videos unwatchable to people with different language settings and that they can disable this when they upload videos.
- Comment on Here's why Inscryption is a good game 4 weeks ago:
Americans often incorrectly ascribe degrees to “unique.” At this point it’s so baked into all of their dialects that it’s hard for me to keep calling it wrong.
- Comment on Behind the Curtain: The scariest AI reality 1 month ago:
I’d argue that the resulting tragedy is the moron’s fault in all of the ways that matter. The things the post are “warning” about are still alarmism.
- Comment on How to pronounce "Mana" properly 10 months ago:
Which, to be fair, is also derived from a word which would be most accurately (with English vowels) pronounced as mah-nuh. Although at this point “manna” is definitively also a word of English whose correct pronunciation is with /æ/.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 17th 1 year ago:
Most recently, KeyWe and modded Keep Talking with friends. Solo, still ol’ reliable slay the spire.
I have a plan to teach someone how to play schnapsen and crazyhouse chess tomorrow so that’s exciting.