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  • All it needs to do is be at least as good as a human, and humans get tired, distracted, irritable, etc. so it's pretty easy to outperform humans.

    It's only looking for the word "yes". Literally any other sound and it routes to a human.

  • I'm actually married to the idea that the same thing could go wrong with a human, so from that standpoint it's a wash.

  • It would have to be a stroke during the time there was an ongoing scenario that resulted in higher than typical call volume about the scenario, and a stroke victim calling in who could only say "yes".

    Not impossible, but wildly unlikely.

  • Sure, usually, but compare like to like. If a human operator asked if the call was about an already known scenario and transferred people to an automated service if they said "yes", then the same exact thing could happen.

    You attemtped to craft a very specific scenario in which harm would result, when in reality it is wildly unlikely that someone would call in at that precise time and only respond with the word "yes".

    I can only speculate as to why you would do that.

  • A person would catch something was up even if they said yes.

    Besides "because it supports the conclusion I want to arrive at", what makes you believe this is true?

  • The requirements for cloud gaming revolve around having the hardware to drive the local monitor, and having fast enough internet with low enough latency.

    For example, here are Geforce Now's minimum requirements: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce-now/system-reqs/

    There is some overhead involved in streaming, but the RAM requirements are low and certainly don't change based on the game.

  • There was recently a study using human short stories and LLM generated short stories prompted to write a similar story. The participants where told which stories were AI generated, but sometimes they were lied to, and told a human-written story was AI generated.

    The study showed that people liked the AI stories more. It also showed that if someone has a negative bias against AI generated content, they'd claim the AI story was worse, even if it were actually the human story and they were just told it was AI.

    Also, another test was performed where they provided a story and asked them if it was AI generated or human generated. The participants could only tell the AI written story 45% to 50% of the time. Essentially, they were guessing.

    More info: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/05/ai-generated-stories-rated-better-quality-than-human-written-ones-study-finds

    I think many people have taken a mental snapshot of the quality of AI generated content from a couple years ago and just assumed it hasn't improved since then.

  • Off the Grid as well, I picked one of the recommended models, Gemma 4 EB4.

  • AI isn't going anywhere.

  • What were you trying to get across, because it came off as complaining that it didn't solve every problem.

  • Do you really believe that is any given bill doesn't solve every problem that it's not worth doing?

  • The models are tested, among other things, on their ability to turn vulnerabilities into exploits. The OpenAI scenario was exactly this.

    It is a very wise practice to test these things in isolation, especially when you're telling it to hack.

    I'm not completely sold on it being a publicity stunt, personally. The law was broken by these models, and I don't believe these companies want to start people and politicians asking the question about who is culpable when an AI breaks the law.

  • It's not clear what you mean when you say "on their own". It wasn't like the LLM was idle and randomly decided to start hacking. At least for the OpenAI one, it was being tested and given a task, and it determined that part of accomplishing that task was hacking another server. It was supposed to be isolated in a secure "sandbox" not connected to the internet, but found a vulnerability in some software running in the sandbox and broke out.

    Edit: I should add that there are credible accusations that these companies are intentionally making it possible to break out of their test environments for publicity.

  • I actually really like the technology that has been collectively lumped together as "AI". I think it's fairly useful now, and suspect we're at the beginning of the curve for this technology, and it will only continue to improve, even as it becomes more efficient. I understand this is a wildly unpopular stance in these parts, judging by the avalanche of downvotes I get for having this opinion.

    What I don't like is feeding tons of information about myself to a giant tech company. I run a local LLM on my phone and another on my (fairly decent) computer, and sometimes I use duckduckgo's front end, which anonymizes prompts.

    As for agents, it's pretty much as you say. I just am not ready to have an LLM take action without my direct supervision, because I'm confident that between flaws in the LLM and flaws in how I give it direction, something will go sideways.

  • Back when search engines were becoming a thing, people would search more or less using natural language, e.g., "I want to see cat pictures and also cute kittens." but early search engines performed poorly with that kind of query; it was much better to just type keywords, e.g. "cat kitten pictures". Exacerbating the situation was the fact that search engines weren't very good at the time, even if you used carefully considered keywords.

    It might seem silly now, but using a search engine effectively was a skill people had to learn, and a skill not everyone had.

    Using chatbots is the same thing, I think. They're not super reliable to begin with, and on top of that, I don't think people understand the importance of a well crafted prompt. The combination can make using them very frustrating.

  • I wouldn't mind if you elaborated on what you mean. I honestly have no clue what you're trying to say.

  • If your loved one is diagnosed with cancer early that would have been missed by a human, that's a fucking benefit, is it not?

    I'm sick of luddites.

  • If an ICE officer is found breaking the newly enacted PROTECT Act, they face exposure to state-level civil lawsuits, formal prosecution threats by state officials, and extensive auditing, but they will not be arrested by local police.

    Because of the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution and federal immunity doctrines, a local police department does not have the legal authority to physically handcuff and jail a federal agent who is carrying out an immigration enforcement action, even if that action violates state law.

  • I see. You would rather feel correct than be correct. That's not a wise strategy.

    The studies I allude to exist or don't independently from whether I spoon feed them to you.

    Good to know.