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- Comment on All this bad AI is wrecking a whole generation of gadgets 2 weeks ago:
Companies don’t exactly highlight the fact that their AIs are prone to hallucinating.
Funny enough, if you question Gemini enough, it will eventually cave and admit that it’s answers aren’t always right and that it’s still improving. LOL
The problem is, as I suggested, you already need to know what the correct answer is in order to effectively cross-examine what it told you.
- Comment on All this bad AI is wrecking a whole generation of gadgets 2 weeks ago:
“yeah, but there’s a lot of incorrect information online anyway.”
Here’s the thing: before AI, most information came from an author or organization, who had to stake their reputation on the content they create. If the information they provided was false, low quality, misleading, etc… they paid a penalty for it in a loss of credibility (and even income).
But with AI, that doesn’t happen. You can generate 1000 articles at the click of a button, post it everywhere, and there’s no backlash because the author doesn’t exist.
I think in the near future, you’ll start to see certification for human-generated content. I know that movies have started to disclose whether AI generated content was used or not, so the trend is that people want to know.
- Comment on All this bad AI is wrecking a whole generation of gadgets 2 weeks ago:
I think what’s feeding all this hubris around AI is that it’s essentially tricking us into thinking it’s intelligent. It’s an incredible tool for compressing and organizing information, but it isn’t really smart.
My son has Apple assistant (Siri), and I have Google Gemini. For shits and giggles, we had them talk to each other… literally have a conversation… and it got stale very quickly. There’s no “person” behind artificial “intelligence”, so you can see just how limited it gets.
I’ve always said that if you know a lot about a topic, you can very quickly see how AI is really stupid for the most part. The problem is that if you ask it a question that you don’t know the answer to, then it for sure seems correct, even when it completely hallucinates the response.
The danger is that not everyone has enough critical thinking skills to question the correctness of an answer, so they hear what Siri or Gemini told them as fact… and then pass that knowledge onto other actual human beings. Like a virus of misinformation.
- Comment on All this bad AI is wrecking a whole generation of gadgets 2 weeks ago:
Alexa used to answer questions asked, which was a cute novelty, but now she tries to sell something or rambles on at length about related topics instead of answering the question and shutting up.
My wife still uses Alexa to play music on a smart speaker we have. Sometimes, I’ll ask it to play music from an artist, then she’ll come back with “you need the upgraded plan”, blah, blah, blah. I ask again to play music from the exact same artist, and there’s no problem…
When tech gets in the way of the task, it’s failed technology, IMO.
- Comment on All this bad AI is wrecking a whole generation of gadgets 2 weeks ago:
What really sucks is that many of these AI features rely on cloud-based servers to work. So when those servers shut down, your phone loses a bunch of features overnight!
If AI features were only handled on-device (which is completely possible with modern hardware), then I’d be way more accepting of their use. Some features like “unblur” or “remove person” when editing an image is truly magical.
- Comment on The first results from the world’s biggest basic income experiment in Kenya are in - Vox 1 year ago:
…it was asking a specific question, because that’s how research work.
“One of the big questions GiveDirectly is trying to answer is how to direct cash to low-income households.”
What I’m saying is that if they are excluding key demographics from those low-income households, then their study is bias. Nothing more, nothing less.
The conclusion they came up with regarding the purchase of alcohol might not even make sense, for example, if they gave money to a high-religious group of people who don’t consume alcohol. Is that making my point any clearer?
I was only suggestion caution based on how I know the other study was rigged.
Would you prefer it if they specifically selected drug addict and long term unemployed people?
Depends on the study’s objective.
Put it this way: If a study is trying to find out whether UBI would benefit a community, state, or country, it NEEDS to include an accurate representation of the demographics of those groups of people.
When you say it was rigged, you demonstrate that you don’t understand the question that was tested in the experiment.
I’m saying the other study was rigged. I can’t even see the methodology of this study because the link is broken. If I could see how they distributed this money, and whether any exclusions were presented, I could form a more accurate opinion.
- Comment on The first results from the world’s biggest basic income experiment in Kenya are in - Vox 1 year ago:
Just to put it out there, I COMPLETELY AND FULLY SUPPORT UBI.
That’s not what rigged means. And either you didn’t understand the selection process or you don’t want to understand it because you are against the idea of the UBI
My example of the (I think Canadian) study, was set up in a way that could only produce a positive result. In other words, they excluded people who would contradict the result that the study organizer was after. It was rigged in quite a few ways, not only in selection bias but also in publication bias, and researcher bias.
That particular study left me doubting other studies, which is why I think it’s important to acknowledge that these bias’ exist.
That’s not to say that this pilot wasn’t a huge success, as I do think it was!
But if you specifically omit alcoholics or drug users, then it’s hard to conclude that “The researchers found no evidence that any of the payments discouraged work or increased purchases of alcohol".
It’s a bit of a sham research in this regard, but that doesn’t detract from the fact that UBI can improve someone’s quality of life.
- Comment on The first results from the world’s biggest basic income experiment in Kenya are in - Vox 1 year ago:
Be careful of this conclusion. When a similar pilot project was done for homeless people (in Canada, I believe), the methodology was rigged. They made it so only people they felt would be most likely to give the pilot a positive result were selected. This created an overwhelming bias towards the outcome.
I’m not sure exactly what the methodology was for this Kenyan project, but I’m hoping that there was no selection bias.
- Comment on Woman who threw bowl of food at Chipotle worker sentenced to work 2 months in fast food job 1 year ago:
Judge Timothy Gilligan gave her the choice of a 90-day jail sentence or a 30-day sentence on top of 60 days working in a fast food job.
After watching the video of her assault, I think she got it too easy.
If Judge Gilligan believes that the trauma of being assaulted at work by a customer lasts only 90 days, perhaps she should try working in a fast food job, too.
- Comment on YouTube just made it harder to avoid ads with a tiny skip button 1 year ago:
My wife turned off her adblocker so she could watch some videos.
Within 20 minutes I heard tobacco ads, gambling ads, alcohol ads, and some ads that sounded like outright scams.
It’s a moral imperative to use an adblocker at this point.
- Comment on Difference between first and third world countries. 1 year ago:
I think you just proved my point.
18 months down to a few weeks. That’s great, for the company.
But, did anyone get 17 months off or get paid 17 extra months for doing the same work that would have taken 18 months? I don’t think so.
You got extra work but didn’t get paid for the extra time it would have normally taken to complete the task.
See, what Bill said can’t actually happen, because people are paid for the time or work they produce.
How would an employee be paid for something that AI did? Capitalism won’t let this happen.
- Comment on My PDF reader REALLY HAD to add a permanent "AI assistant" button that floats on every single file i open 1 year ago:
Oh, god. I’d switch to something else without a second thought.
- Comment on My PDF reader REALLY HAD to add a permanent "AI assistant" button that floats on every single file i open 1 year ago:
An adblocker that allows you to select and remove elements can be critical in helping to declutter websites, including those annoying floating windows.
- Comment on Difference between first and third world countries. 1 year ago:
I take all my vacation days to give my self several months of “4-day work weeks”, and it’s honestly so much better than working 5 days a week.
During those four days, I get the same or more work done, but it also gives me more time to work on my self-improvement, do more around the house, and get errands done. It also gives me an extra day to relax, if I need it.
I couldn’t imagine how my life would improve if a 4-day work week was the norm.
- Comment on Difference between first and third world countries. 1 year ago:
While Bill is right that AI could offload a lot of work off humans, it will never be used for the good of workers. EVER.
Companies will use AI to replace workers, not make the lives of their employees better.
This is what every technological advancement, from electricity to automation, has resulted in, and I expect nothing less from a capitalist society. Companies always win, CEOs always get richer, and everyone else loses.
- Comment on Difference between first and third world countries. 1 year ago:
I absolutely agree, but it looks like the folks who work at Microsoft get compensated way better than the average worker: www.cordantwealth.com/…/microsoft-compensation/