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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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[–] justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io 52 points 4 days ago (7 children)

And the single biggest bottleneck is that none of the current AIs "think".

They. Are. Statistical. Engines.

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 7 points 4 days ago
[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

How closely do you need to model a thought before it becomes the real thing?

Need it to not exponentially degrade when AI content is fed in.

Need creativity to be more than random chance deviations from the statistically average result in a mostly stolen dataset taken from actual humans.

[–] themurphy@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 days ago

And it's pretty great at it.

AI's greatest use case is not LLM and people treat it like that because it's the only thing we can relate to.

AI is so much better and many other tasks.

[–] MashedHobbits@lemy.lol 4 points 4 days ago

Humans don’t actually think either, we’re just electricity jumping to nearby neural connections that formed based on repeated association. Add to that there’s no free will, and you start to see how “think” is a immeasurable metric.

[–] YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago

Markov chains with extra steps

[–] Xaphanos@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

You're not going to get an argument from me.

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 days ago

Maybe we are statistical engines too.

When I heard people talk they are also repeating the most common sentences that they heard elsewhere anyway.