hendrik

@hendrik@palaver.p3x.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over 250 CEOs sign open letter supporting K-12 AI and computer science education⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh wow, since when do we lump CS and AI together? One is basically studying maths and logic and how computers, networks and databases work. The other one is how to tell a chatbot to quote a Wikipdia article back to you. I think those are fundamentally different things. And what students should learn first is how to do a powerpoint presentation and write a letter. Or type a math formula into an electronic document, or use the spell checker. Because they frequently can't do any of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report: Meta's AI Chatbots Can Have Sexual Conversations with Underage Users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hehe, as the article says, there is an abundance of them. Dozens if (paid) online services... You can do it on your beefy graphics card... And as per this article to some degree with your Instagram account. I've tried it on my own and it'll generate something like internet fanfiction, or have a dialogue with you. It's a steep learning curve, though and requires some fiddling. And it was text only and I don't own a gaming computer, so it was unbearably slow. Other than that I try to avoid Meta's services or paying for those kind of "scientific" experiments so I wouldn't know how the voice conversation is like... Maybe someone can enlighten us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Enshittification of ChatGPT⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah you're right. I didn't want to write a long essay but I thought about recommending Grok. In my experience, it tries to bullshit people a bit more. But the tone is different. I found deep withing, it has the same bias towards positivity, though. In my opinion it's just behind a slapped on facade. Ultimately similar to slapping on a prompt onto ChatGPT, just that Musk may have also added that to the fine-tuning step before.

  I think there is two sides to the coin. The AI is the same. Regardless, it'll tell you like 50% to 99% correct answers and lie to you the other times, since it's only an AI. If you make it more appeasing to you, you're more likely to believe both the correct things it generates, but also the lies. It really depends on what you're doing if this is a good or a bad thing. It's argualby bad if it phrases misinformation to sound like a Wikipedia article. Might be better to make it sound personal, so once people antropormorphize it, they won't switch off their brain. But this is a fundamental limitation of today's AI. It can do both fact and fiction. And it'll blur the lines. But in order to use it, you can't simultaneously hate reading it's output. I also like that we can change the character. I'm just a bit wary of the whole concept. So I try to use it more to spark my creativity and less so to answer my questions about facts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report: Meta's AI Chatbots Can Have Sexual Conversations with Underage Users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh wow. A few days ago, societly looked down on people doing (erotic) role play with chatbots... Today it's rolled out on some of the largest internet platforms. Is it really that easy to do this with Meta's chatbots? I've tried asking ChatGPT and other major services to write me erotic fanfiction or answer lewd questions. And it'd always either dodged the question or straight out refused.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Enshittification of ChatGPT⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I'd have to agree: Don't ask ChatGPT why it has changed it's tone. It's almost for certain, this is a made-up answer and you (and everyone who reads this) will end up stupider than before.

  But ChatGPT always had a tone of speaking. Before that, it sounded very patronizing to me. And it'd always counterbalance everything. Since the early days it always told me, you have to look at this side, but also look at that side. And it'd be critical of my mails and say I can't be blunt but have to phrase my mail in a nicer way...

  So yeah, the answer is likely known to the scientists/engineers who do the fine-tuning or preference optimization. Companies like OpenAI tune and improve their products all the time. Maybe they found out people don't like the sometimes patrronizing tone, and now they're going for something like "Her". Idk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan has been down since Monday night after “pretty comprehensive own”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol. And what kind of people are on Soyjak, is that site more or less degenerated?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s game over for people if AI gains legal personhood⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly. This is directly opposed to why we do AI in the first place. We want something to drive the Uber without earning a wage. Cheap factory workforce. Generate images without paying some artist $250... If we wanted that, we already have humans available, that's how the world was for quite some time now.

  I'd say us giving AI human rights and reversing 99.9% of what it's intended for is less likely to happen than the robot apocalypse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Access to future AI models in OpenAI's API may require a verified ID⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They can't seriously complain about intellectual property theft, can they?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Human-AI relationships pose ethical issues, psychologists say.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel psychologists aren't really in the loop when people make decisions about AI or most of the newer tech. Sure, they ask the right questions. And all of this is a big, unanswered question. Plus how a modern society works with loneliness, skewed perspectives by social media... But does anyone really care? Isn't all of this shaped by some tech people in Silicon Valley and a few other places? And the only question is how to attract investor money?

  And I think people really should avoid marrying commercial services. That doesn't end well. If you want to marry an AI, make sure it is it's own entity and not just a cloud service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨just got this captcha⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  8FE62A

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most Americans don’t trust AI — or the people in charge of it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure. I think you're right. I myself want an AI maid loading the dishwasher and doing the laundry and dusting the shelves. A robot vacuum is nice, but that's just a tiny amount of the tedious every-day chores. Plus an AI assistant on my computer, cleaning up the harddrive, sorting my gigabytes of photos...

  And I don't think we're there yet. It's maybe the right amount of billions of dollars to pump into that hype if we anticipate all of this happening. But for a lame assistant that can answer questions and get the facts right 90% of the times, and whose attempts to 'improve' my emails are contraproductive lots of the times, isn't really that helpful to me.

  And with that it's just an overinflated bubble that is based on expectations, not actual usefulness or yield of the current state of technology.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most Americans don’t trust AI — or the people in charge of it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At the current state of things, AI just feels like being forced on people. There isn't much transparency and a lot happens without people's consent. Training data is taken without consent, and they display AI-written text, often riddled with msinformation to me withoit being upfront. I also stop reading most of the times, unless there is a comment section beneath for me to complain 😉

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most Americans don’t trust AI — or the people in charge of it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh. What do they say to an AI shill, rewriting their social system with AI code? Or a president writing the countries economic strategy with AI? I also believe that's going to have... consequences...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Growing Number of Tech Companies Getting Cancelled for AI Washing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea, I dunno. Seems investors like buzzwords more than anything else. I'm not really keeping track, but I remember all the crypto hype and then NFTs. I believe that has toned down a bit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Growing Number of Tech Companies Getting Cancelled for AI Washing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the mechanism behind that is fairly simple. AI is a massive hype, and companies could attract lots of investor money by slapping the word "AI" on things. And group dynamics makes the rest of the companies to want in, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does “PhD-level” AI mean? OpenAI’s rumored $20,000 agent plan explained.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It means AI can recite information from a domain that PhD-level people are concerned with. This doesn't mean it can draw correct conclusions, rephrase emails properly or do any heavy-lifting like come up with computer code beyond boilerplate templates and tech-demos. It's just hype.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I had an anonymous Google account I had been using with Grayjay. Today, they decided I must be a bot.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Had that happen to me without using Grayjay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah exactly. I mean it takes some balance and they absolutely need to be sensitive. But it is like this in some professions. Once you put in the effort to put away your lunch, drive somewhere etc, you're then going to engage. At least talk to people and try to assess the situation. Same for firefighters, paramedics and even some technicians. And it's the right call in lots of inconspicuous situations. At some point the stop giving a f.. and just bother people because the alternative is they'll occasionally have to return to the same situation several hours later and it'll usually have become worse in the meantime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, it's often difficult to judge a situation over the phone. Some crazy people sound like regular ones. And even more so in the opposite direction. Normal people might sound crazy in emergency situations. So there isn't really a way around checking on things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol. Did the cops handle this well, at least? Did it take them time to judge your age, or did they just laugh and leave?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does most religion talk about their GOD being male? Especially Christains and Muslims. Is there a prominent female god that as big as the other two that I am missing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Btw, Christians, Muslims and Jews worship the exact same God.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What interesting can I do with a dedicated GPU?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean their main use case is gaming... And you can do a few more AI things, LLMs aside. For example generate pictures, voice cloning (or changing), you can have a vtuber avatar and do live-streams as an anime girl. Or run Jupyter Notebooks with arbitrary machine learning projects. Do virtual reality. Or run a big CAD program and design some objects. Maybe even run finite element method simulations to see how your workpiece will deform with stress...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up with lemmit.online?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Small update: I didn't get any reaction (so far). The post in their about community has zero votes or interactions. I've then escalated things and filed a bug report on the bot's project page. Also with no reply in the last 3 days. So I guess either they're busy with other stuff and their "bridge" bot is practically unsupervised... Or they don't care... So I'd say your gut feeling was correct. I'll give them some more time, 9 or 3 days isn't a lot for a hobby side-project... But I think at some point, Fediverse admins might want to think about de-federating and effectively shunning them, if it turns out that instance is effectively unmoderated and pulls in problematic content, and isn't even liked by a good part of the user base here.

  Kind of a bummer to be honest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I stop laughing at stupid shit all the time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wear a mask. Or a helmet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How important is flirting within the dating scene?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure. I think being honest is a solid choice, generally speaking. There is some etiquette. If you're way too direct, you might be perceived as a creep. But you certainly have to do something, or it won't lead anywhere.

  Telling people you want to stay in contact, or you think they're attractive, or you like their outfit, or whatever people do for flirting seems to be alright. Whatever floats your boat. I think the one important thing is to read the room. See if they're comfortable. And if they enjoy talking to you, or if you've just cornered them and are monologuing. Most (not all) people can do that. And I'd say as long as everyone is comfortable, it's the right thing. I mean you have to send some signals for them to know what's up with you. So yeah, that kind of directness might be helpful. And after that, spending time together (and not just in a larger group) is a signal, too, in my opinion.

  I don't think there is any general, correct way of doing it. It just depends on the situation, on who you are, and especially what the other person likes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How important is flirting within the dating scene?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don't know why everyone else here says "No." Maybe it's down to preference. I usually like people not just for their outer appearance, but for their intelligence, wits, humor, similar perspective on life... And it just takes time to talk about all of that. So I rather keep it down with being suggestive and just let things play out. Took me a long time. But everyone is different.

  I'm not sure if I have a good definition of flirting. I'm more a problem-oriented person. I do whatever gets the job done. If I want to meet someone again, I just tell them that. And I usually don't have any ulterior motives. And I'm currently not in the dating game, so I'm pretty much relaxed on parties and social events in that regard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How important is flirting within the dating scene?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I'd say yes. That'd be a clear sign. And bordering on what I'd call flirting. If you say "Hey, I really enjoyed that conversation, let's meet for a coffee some day, how can I text you?"

  It'd be the wrong kind of flirting for a one-night-stand. But in my opinion a very good way to convey the right thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How important is flirting within the dating scene?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn't flirting the accepted way of signaling to another person, that you're interested in them in a certain way? I mean I talk to lots of different people of different genders in my life. And I'm mostly very nice to people and find interesting topics to talk about. But how are they supposed to find out if it's just a nice conversation, or if I want to meet them again, or if I want to go on a date with them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, yeah I forgot about watches and jewelry. Guess you can buy a lot of them and they won't take up that much space. I'd stick with one or two of them, though. Make it a very nice one you really like and wear it all the time. IMO it doesn't really help if you get 20 half-nice watches and keep 19 of them in one of your multiple wardrobes, that's just hoarding suff... Same applies to shoes, albeit you might be allowed to get a few more pairs of them. But what do I know...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Though there has to be more to this story. Chartering an entire private jet costs like a few thousand to 15,000 dollars for an hour. You can do this twice a week on that budget. Or buy lots of fancy food, electronic gadgets and gucci bags, maybe even cars. But don't you quickly run out of space to put them? So how would someone spend 100k?