Aceticon
@Aceticon@lemmy.world
- Comment on this AI thing 6 months ago:
TL;DR: LLMs are like the perfect politician when it comes to output language that makes them “sound” knowledgeable without being so.
The problem is that it can be stupid whilst sounding smart.
When we have little or no expertise on a subject matter, we humans use lots of language cues to try and determine the trustworthiness of a source when they tell us something in an area we do not know enough to judge: basically because we don’t know enough about the actual subject being discussed, we try and figure out from the way others present things in general, if the person on the other side knows what they’re talking about.
When one goes to live in a different country it often becomes noticeable that we ourselves are doing it because the language and cultural cues for a knowledgeable person from a certain area, are often different in different cultural environments - IMHO, our guesswork “trick” was just reading the manners commonly associated with certain educational tracks or professional occupations and some sometimes and in some domains those change from country to country.
We also use more generic kinds of cues to determine trustworthiness on that subject, such as how assured and confident somebody sounds when talking about something.
Anyways, this kind of things is often abused by politicians to project an image of being knowledgeable about something when they’re not, so as to get people to trust them and believe they’re well informed decision makers.
As it so happens, LLMs, being at their core complex language imitation systems, are often better than politicians at outputting just the right language to get us to misevaluate their output as from a knowledgeable source, which is how so many people think they’re General Artificial Intelligence (those people confuse what their own internal shortcuts to evaluate know-how of the source of a piece of text tells them with a proper measurement of cognitive intelligence).
- Comment on Air: Where did that bring you? Back to me. 6 months ago:
As I pointed out further down in my comment, solids and liquids have a much higher heat capacity than air (or in other words, they can absorb a lot more heat before they warm up), so most of the heat dissipated to the river would end up stored in the Earth’s Crust and Oceans and very little of it in the Air.
- Comment on Air: Where did that bring you? Back to me. 6 months ago:
It depends on which part of the environment the heat is being exchanged with - if your watercooling system is releasing heat to the ground under your house or a somebody else suggested (which is even more effective) a river next to your house, it’s not at all equivalent to air cooling?
Further, the heat storage capacity of a material depends on both the kind of material and its mass, so almost all liquids have a higher heat sforage capacity per unit of volume than air (certainly water does) and solids even more (much more, given their much higher mass) so even in the big scheme of things (i.e. were will most of that heat end up in given enough time), even heat released by a watercoolong system to the air will mostly end up in tne Earth’s crust and oceans and only a tiny fraction of it will remain in the athmosphere.
- Comment on Pavlov's conditioning 7 months ago:
Cunning disguises!
- Comment on Bethesda Is Responding to Negative Reviews of Starfield on Steam 7 months ago:
Our survey of shit-enjoying-customers proves that more than 99% of them like our cake.