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TootSweet

@ TootSweet @lemmy.world

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  • Is Qwen really Open Source, or do they just let you download weights? (Like LLaMa.)

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  • They just don't do anything useful, and the hype-ers are acting like they're AGI. Hallucinations make them too unreliable to be trusted with "real work", which makes them useless for anything beyond a passing gimmick. Vibe coded software is invariably shit. Doing any serious task with "AI assistance" ends up either taking more work than doing it without LLMs or sacrificing quality or correctness in huge ways. Any time you point this out to hype-ers, they start talking about "as AI advances" as if it's a foregone conclusion that they will. People talked the same way about blockchain, and the only "advancements" that have been made in that sphere are more grifts, and meanwhile it still takes anywhere between 10 minutes and an hour to buy a hamburger with Bitcoin, and it gets worse with greater adoption. Just like you can't make a distributed blockchain cryptocurrency that resolves discrepancies automatically without relying on humans fast at scale (and even if you could make it fast, it'd introduce at least as many problems as it purports to "solve"), you can't make LLMs not hallucinate. The only way to solve hallucinations is by abandoning LLMs in favor of a whole different algorithm.

    If anything LLMs have blocked us from making progress toward AGI by distracting us with gimmicky bullshit and taking resources from other efforts which may otherwise have pushed us in the right direction.

    Mind you, "AI" is a very old term that can mean a lot of different things. I took a class in college called "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence" in... maybe 2006 or 2007. And in that class, I learned about the A* algorithm. Every time you played an escort mission in Skyrim and had an NPC following you, it was the A* algorithm or some slight variation on it that was used to make sure that NPC could traverse terrain to keep roughly in toe with you despite obstacles of various sorts. It's absolutely nothing like LLMs. It doesn't need to be trained. The algorithm fully works the moment it's implemented. If you want to know why it made a particular decision, you can trace the logic and determine exactly why it did what it did, unlike LLMs. It's for a few very niche purposes rather than trying to be general purpose like an LLM. It requires no massive data centers and doesn't consume massive amounts of memory. And it doesn't hallucinate. The AI hype-ers (and the media who have mostly fallen for their grift hook, line, and sinker) love to conflate completely unrelated technologies to give the impression that LLMs are getting better because such-and-such article mentions an "AI" that discovered a groundbreaking new drug. But the kind of AI they use to find drugs is very special purpose and has nothing to do with how LLMs work.

    LLMs can't do your job, but the grifters are doing a damned good job of convincing your boss that LLMs can in fact do your job. As Cory Doctorow says, the current AI craze "is the asbestos that we're shoveling into our walls". We're causing huge problems with it and if/when the bubble properly pops, we're going to spend a long time painstakingly extracting it from our systems, replacing it with... you know... stuff that actually works, and repairing the damage it's done in the meantime.

    Meanwhile, it's Nvidia and OpenAI and so on who are boosting the LLM bubble. And they've made a shit ton of money off of their grift at the expense of everyone else. How anyone can look at all this and not think "scam" is beyond me.

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  • They're a straight up scam.

  • 🧬Cells at overwork🧬—Zach | lastplacecomics.com

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  • Nonsense. Everyone likes Mario Kart.

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  • I had asked a question regarding how could phones get possibly hacked, and this was the response I got. Is this a suitable forum for discussing about hacking and internet security ??

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  • Your friend installed a malicious app. They should follow the instructions on the screen: stop and uninstall the app in question and then restart the phone.

    And then your friend should be more discerning about what apps they install. Only install high-rated, widely-used apps from trustworthy sources.

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    On the day you hear the news about Trump, how will you celebrate?

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  • Trump posting "good, I'm glad he's dead" about Mueller changed my view on this. Before, I would have said celebrating Trump's death would be encouraging some very problematic tendencies. That "the adult in the room" shouldn't be driven by spite. Now, I suppose my position is that I don't really think it's "wrong" to celebrate his death. By doing so, especially by doing so in his own words, we highlight just how toxic a force he was on the U.S. and on the rest of the world. Celebrating his death may well be one of the better acts of defiance against fascism and authoritarianism one can make. If celebrating Hitler's death isn't wrong, perhaps so isn't celebrating Trump's.

    And yet, would a stabbing victim celebrate the moment the knife is removed from the wound? Surely that time is better spent staunching the bleeding and dressing the wound than rebuking the knife or the stabber.

    So, I suppose my answer "I hope with discretion." I hope to be smart enough to be able to discern when and how to celebrate constructively and when and how is less helpful.

  • Hospital visit fuels speculation about Samuel Alito’s future on Supreme Court

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  • $5 says Trump poisoned him.

  • Anthropic open-sourced claude-code

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  • Not sure I get what's up with this.

    The license doesn't appear to be Open Source as far as I've skimmed. (Don't let it being hosted on Github fool you.) I'm not seeing anything about permission to make copies or derivative works, for instance.

    It's not uncommon for AI companies to sneakily try to bill something as Open Source when it's not.

    But also, the post on Hacker News has been flagged and the only comment on that post indicates it may be an April Fools joke. And on top of that, that repo is at over a year old. So in general, I'm kindof confused.

  • IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember

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  • The sentence for 2345:0425:2CA1:0000:0000:0567:5673:23b5 is "How silently the linear strips unsettle the new time beyond new mean where inland overcasts desegregate." I'm not sure that's really that much easier to remember than the raw number.

  • Wait, Did the Democrats Just Win a Government Shutdown Fight?

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  • The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon

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  • Yeah, I think basically the only reason why Transport Tycoon is in the news now-a-days is because they're releasing a new edition of Transport Tycoon. And in preparation for that (basically to shut down who they see as "competition"), they're fucking over everyone they view as potential competition.

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  • Ah. That makes more sense than anything else I've heard. Thanks for that.

  • The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon

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  • I know the OpenTTD folks have been trying to deflect any ire from being directed at Atari, but man... fuck Atari for forcing them off of Steam and GOG. I really don't think they have any legal leg to stand on and are just saber rattling to scare the OpenTTD folks into submission.

  • Trump Votes by Mail But He Doesn’t Want You to Be Able To

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  • 34 felony convictions and still votes.

  • STAR TREK: STARFLEET ACADEMY Ends with Season 2, Wrapping Known Kurtzman-Era Productions

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  • What about this could there be to be happy about?

  • Could online age verification be done in a way that protects privacy and autonomy?

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