LostXOR

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[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Even so I think it would be totally reasonable for them to block web scrapers, as they provide better ways to download all their data.

[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 6 points 1 month ago

Sell it to the merpeople, they'll be happy to have a proper house for once!

[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 31 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The AI that we trained on racism is racist? Clearly it's the AI's fault, we're totally innocent!

[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago

Quantum entangled particles can't influence each other; they just allow you to infer information about one particle by observing the other. It's like if you randomly put a red and a blue ball in two different boxes without looking, then moved them far apart. Opening one box and seeing a red ball instantly tells you the other box has a blue ball, no matter the distance, but no information has been transmitted faster than the speed of light (because the boxes can only move slower than light).

[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago

Huh that's really interesting, you're right, and I learned a lot of new stuff about networking that I didn't know before.

[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 9 points 1 month ago (5 children)

If you're not on the same local network as the server and it's not configured to be accessible from the general internet, you need some sort of proxy to access it.

[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 7 points 1 month ago (16 children)

Yeah this seems fine; if they're proxying the stream through their server it's using their bandwidth which costs them money. It doesn't make sense for them to not charge for it.

[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago

True, my estimate for tokens may have been a bit low. Assuming a 7 hour school day where someone talks at 5 tokens/sec you'd encounter about 120k tokens. You're off by 3 orders of magnitude on your energy consumption though; 1 watt-hour is 0.86 food Calories (kcal).

[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Around a year ago I bet a friend $100 we won't have AGI by 2029, and I'd do the same today. LLMs are nothing more than fancy predictive text and are incapable of thinking or reasoning. We burn through immense amounts of compute and terabytes of data to train them, then stick them together in a convoluted mess, only to end up with something that's still dumber than the average human. In comparison humans are "trained" with maybe ten thousand "tokens" and ten megajoules of energy a day for a decade or two, and take only a couple dozen watts for even the most complex thinking.

[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 33 points 1 month ago (9 children)

I liked generative AI more when it was just a funny novelty and not being advertised to everyone under the false pretenses of being smart and useful. Its architecture is incompatible with actual intelligence, and anyone who thinks otherwise is just fooling themselves. (It does make an alright autocomplete though).

[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 10 points 1 month ago

"mostly unusable"

[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Making Win 11 even harder to install is a bold move from Microsoft. Most average users are content with using the OS that comes with their PC and upgrading it when necessary. But if the option is to either buy a new PC or fiddle with registry settings in hope that Win 11 will work, I think a lot more people will start looking at Linux instead.

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