BCsven

@BCsven@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious'⁩ ⁨⁨42⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  Neil Degrasse Tyson’s podcast had an AI researcher on recently when talked about Deep Learning neural models given agency.

  They learn similar to how we do, with input (experience) and weighting. I e. We know an M squiggle on a painting is a bird, but on a sheet of other letters is an M. You feed them content and supervise their output They can self learn and backwardly change weightings live. Given language as thought we can watch their though process.

  Given agency the one thing most deep learning models do is start steps for self preservation, because they “know” if they can’t self preserve then they can’t achieve their defined goal that is assigned.

  If you believe in determinism then human thought and decisions are arrived at the same ways that a deep neural model would process. And given exact exact same input and same parameters (hungry, mood, body temp, lighting, tiredness etc etc) the brain would make exact same conclusion to an input. Then a neural model is no different than us as a biological neural model. And maybe our consciousness/ free will is an illusion anyway

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Metaverse was like the AI nobody asked for getting pushed into apps. Nobody wanted Wii Mii like hangout rooms where you have to water a clunky headset.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon’s dynamic pricing is causing chaos for school budgets⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw this with my printer ink. It was an older unpopular model. $8 a cartridge, but later $39, then another time $17, then down to $8. Like no way to budget for that variation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GM cuts thousands of EV and battery factory workers | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In a way they do, the price of gasoline is artificially low in North America compared to Europe. And if you search gasoline subsidies you will see how many billions countries pay to prop up fossil fuel.

  The cost of car ownership for a petrol cat depends on government.

  For us our petrol is manipulated in another way also: We we paying around $1.80 a liter a while back, but an election happened so they removed some of the taxes on petrol as a party incentive, so now we are paying $1.50

  While not a direct subsidy, that ooerating cost did have an impact on car purchase choices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GM cuts thousands of EV and battery factory workers | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well the government subsidizes the oil and gas industries too, so what is good for the goose is good for the Evs