dave
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- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Since yours was the first reply I came to that didn’t just ‘react’, I’d like to challenge 1 point in your list (the rest I pretty much agree with), and that is the first one. For context, I worked in AI (or ML as it was known then) in the 1990s. The models were very much based on ideas from neuroscience (my CS PhD supervisor was a biologist). Saying “they can’t think” requires a precise definition of what “thinking” is, and I’ve not seen one so far.
For sure, the most current LLMs are not what we might call human-level sentient, and have only seen a fraction of what a human baby would be exposed to in terms of training data. But as far as the way they process that data, perhaps they are “thinking” in the same way a brain would think if all it ever ‘saw’ was text. Perhaps they think in the same way an insect or small rodent thinks. And as they grow larger / more sophisticated, the same as a dog or cat? Or a small primate? You can see where that’s going.
Anyway, I enjoyed The Infinity Machine by Sebastian Mallaby. My PhD was based on the early work of Yann LeCun, and putting all those names and the motivations behind them into a full picture was eye-opening.
- Comment on The body of a contortionist while performing a trick. This X-ray also shows that a significant part of the spine does not bend. 2 weeks ago:
But it doesn’t say ‘become’. That totally changed the meaning. My breasbone can brease easy now, thank you!
- Comment on The body of a contortionist while performing a trick. This X-ray also shows that a significant part of the spine does not bend. 2 weeks ago:
Your ribs would what now?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I choose perish.
- Comment on Finally—my XL pack of fragile crushable poison arrived. 3 weeks ago:
Wait, what? I’m sending it back…
- Comment on Can't wait. 3 weeks ago:
And leading (being in front) doesn’t rhyme with leading (the metal on a roof).
- Comment on Finally—my XL pack of fragile crushable poison arrived. 3 weeks ago:
Not yet.
- Comment on Finally—my XL pack of fragile crushable poison arrived. 3 weeks ago:
Well, you have to know your symbols for that part of it. I bought it mainly for the danger.
- Comment on Finally—my XL pack of fragile crushable poison arrived. 3 weeks ago:
Where else :)
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- Comment on A Golf Trophy that you will always cherish 4 weeks ago:
!theyknew@lemmy.sdf.org seems to be most active
- Comment on Traffic Lights 2 months ago:
You could have this instead—no lights but some people entered several years ago and are still heading home…
- Comment on 3 months ago:
- Comment on 5 months ago:
This guy resists.
- Comment on Enlightened 7 months ago:
Told
- Comment on Are you able to access archive.org from where you are in the UK? 7 months ago:
Yes, turned off, and my hub is in modem mode (using FreshTomato on an R8000).
- Comment on Are you able to access archive.org from where you are in the UK? 7 months ago:
Not working for me on Virgin…
- Comment on Could building new train stations help get Britain back on track? 8 months ago:
Agreed—I can’t see the points of this.
- Comment on Oldmeldrum man who sent fish porn to pal as ‘joke’ admits obscenity charge 9 months ago:
Reader mode is your friend.
- Comment on KATHLEEN 9 months ago:
I read it as:
Katy -> Kathleen Dids -> Accomplishment
It’s a stretch.
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 9 months ago:
Yeah, my eyes are so perfect, I read that as ‘cartoonists’ and spent a good few minutes confused.
- Comment on Gravity 11 months ago:
And even if you jump from higher up, it’s the ground that does it, still not the Burj Khalifa.
- Comment on Anon visits a guy's house 1 year ago:
- me, an ice cube
- can’t wait to get out of this place
- door opens every day, but never get to leave
- anon finally picks me out–this is my chance
- wriggle out of his inept grip
- make a break for freedom under the fridge
- mfw the fuckwit helps by actually kicking me further under
- Comment on Diagrams 1 year ago:
If you take a finished product and gradually take away pieces, you can make a progression out of pretty much anything.
- Comment on Anon isn't fooled by planes 1 year ago:
Planes fly because aerodynamics.
Helicopters fly because money.
- Comment on Anon isn't fooled by planes 1 year ago:
Any type of glue is fine. Just stay away from the cardboard derivatives.
- Comment on What show are you surprise managed to finish, or get many seasons out of it at least, and avoid cancellation? 1 year ago:
Have you seen For All Mankind?
- Comment on Bees don't have lungs. 1 year ago:
Is that why bees can’t wear contact lenses?
- Comment on Godstone: Huge sinkhole swallows up more of Surrey street - BBC News 1 year ago:
Such as?
- Comment on Godstone: Huge sinkhole swallows up more of Surrey street - BBC News 1 year ago:
What kind of materials was the street made out of?
