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- Comment on All this bad AI is wrecking a whole generation of gadgets 2 weeks ago:
The video I linked is literally of Apollo.
Apollo has understood a bug to be a little critter he could potentially eat
How can you know that? He only knows a handful of words. The lizard probably looks more like a bug than like a cup or Wario. He’s familiar with the phrase “what’s this?” and “what made of?” If he had any real understanding, why didn’t he just ask those questions to expand his vocabulary?
I’m a big fan of Apollo, and he’s a lot of fun to watch, but his use of language is not demonstrative of a deeper understanding.
And regarding Koko:
Patterson reported that Koko invented new signs to communicate novel thoughts. For example, she said that nobody taught Koko the word for “ring”, so Koko combined the words “finger” and “bracelet”, hence “finger-bracelet”.[22][promotional source?] This type of claim was seen as a typical problem with Patterson’s methodology, as it relies on a human interpreter of Koko’s intentions.
Other researchers argued that Koko did not understand the meaning behind what she was doing and learned to complete the signs simply because the researchers rewarded her for doing so (indicating that her actions were the product of operant conditioning)
- Comment on All this bad AI is wrecking a whole generation of gadgets 2 weeks ago:
If that were true, how come the tech bros aren’t investing in humans?
- Comment on All this bad AI is wrecking a whole generation of gadgets 2 weeks ago:
The danger is that not everyone has enough critical thinking skills to question the correctness of an answer
I brought this up to my mom who responded with “yeah, but there’s a lot of incorrect information online anyway.” This is true, but AI strips away 100% of the context for that information, and if the AI people have their way, there will be no other portal online with which to get a second opinion.
- Comment on All this bad AI is wrecking a whole generation of gadgets 2 weeks ago:
Mostly unrelated, but since this is going to be a dunk on AI thread anyway, 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.
And I had this thought watching a video last night of Apollo the African grey parrot. This bird has the Guiness World Record for being to correctly identify 12 different objects. But that he can speak a language that we understand doesn’t make him any more intelligent than many other animals. And when left alone without a prompt he’ll just mumble nonsense or in other words “hallucinate.” That he gets the words in order is just something that he was trained to do. It’s not his natural state.
Anyway, I feel like AI is kind of like that. Our language-based psychology makes it seem more intelligent to us than it actually is.
- Comment on All this bad AI is wrecking a whole generation of gadgets 2 weeks ago:
I think one major issue is that we’ve somehow ran out of hardware to upgrade (except the camera I guess), so now we’re tying software upgrades to hardware.
Like, I was willing to play ball when Siri came out and my iPhone 4 couldn’t do it (had to upgrade to 4s). Like I knew that Siri was just an app on the cloud, but I figured it needed some hardware to preprocess audio or something?
But why the hell can’t these AI features just work on current phones? Oh, because the business model requires selling more hardware. So are we just assuming that nobody will pay money for AI assistants?
- Comment on Small study suggests dark mode doesn’t save much power for very human reasons 5 weeks ago:
Was it ever about power?
- Comment on Diablo speedrunners searched 2.2 billion random dungeon seeds to debunk a two-decade old speedrun record 1 month ago:
they began to search “impossible seeds” - “which could only be created by using save modification tools to force a creation date after the year 2038”. They eventually found dungeons with the drop in the right place, using seeds for the years 2056 and 2074.
For more:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
I assume the game didn’t allow for save files to have negative epoch time.
- Comment on Diablo speedrunners searched 2.2 billion random dungeon seeds to debunk a two-decade old speedrun record 1 month ago:
Why go to all this trouble for a 27 year old speedrun?
Uh, is 2009 that long ago?
- Comment on The Onion Deletes Image From Article After Realizing It Was AI-Generated 2 months ago:
Photo in question:
shutterstock.com/…/monster-sad-real-photo-2572494…
Apparently cut out the face and used it in the image on the article.
- Comment on Face Recognition Threatens to Replace Tickets, ID at Sports Events – and Beyond 3 months ago:
Considering you already need a smartphone, this sounds like more of a lateral step.
- Comment on Why Is Printer Ink So Expensive? 3 months ago:
Two printers. One costs 3x+ more than the other.
Ink for the cheap printer: $54 for 440 pages of black and since the cartridge combines color and black, you have to throw the extra ink out.
Ink for the cheap printer: $14 for 6000 pages. I couldn’t even find the official Epson ink since there are so many third party options. Because Epson doesn’t have to lock down their ink because you paid full price for their printer.
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 4 months ago:
I’m talking about the back doors. But yes. I incorrectly compared the front doors in the 3/Y with the back doors of the X.
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 4 months ago:
Yeah the releases in the 3 and Y aren’t too bad. Most people use them by mistake once or twice (and get the warning about window trim).
The X however is unforgivable. You have to pop off the speaker grills to get to them and then the door also weighs a lot and has to be manually lifted upwards.
- Comment on Pixelorama, a powerful and accessible open-source pixel art tool v1.0 is out now 8 months ago:
I bet this is super useful for Playdate development
- Comment on Police pulled over a Waymo car that drove in the oncoming lane in Phoenix 8 months ago:
Give them a Jira ticket
- Comment on Woman who threw bowl of food at Chipotle worker sentenced to work 2 months in fast food job 1 year ago:
Something something cruel and unusual punishment
- Comment on Fallout TV Show - Trailer 1 year ago:
Funny, didn’t an earlier version of the trailer say “and the studio behind The Boys and Free 2-day Shipping”?
Now it says “fast delivery” with an asterisk.
