Same thing as with blockchains in 2017/18
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Supports a genocide too. I don't know if I count in that 9000 statistic. But a lot of us have been fired for speaking out against it too. Fuck Microsoft.
They literally went as far as restricting emails with the word "Palestine" in them. Would take sometimes hours to arrive or not at all. Anyone that spoke out had their entire profile wiped within hours of being fired. This is the equivalent of a Facebook social media profile. You can go back a really long time and see past employees profiles and posts. Not when you get fired for pointing out a genocide though.
They are actively supporting and enabling a genocide; and may history judge it's leadership.
Absolutely. Sorry, I'm so close to this that I just forgot to explain. These are the things my coworkers and comrades got fired for speaking out against.
Ah man, what an absolute moron. History will remember this guy betting $4 Trillion USD on a dark horse and losing.
AI as it currently exists is a bust. It's less accurate than an average literate person which is basically as dumb as bears. The LLM models will never be able to reach human accuracy as detailed in studies publisbed by OpenAI and Deepmind years ago: it would take more than infinite training.
As it samples itself it will get worse. LLM and similar generative AI is not the future, it is already the past.
As it samples itself it will get worse. LLM and similar generative AI is not the future, it is already the past.
Could we start calling it 'degenerative AI'?
LLMs are actually really good at a handful of specific tasks, like autocomplete. The problem arises when people think that they're on the path to AGI and treat them like they know things.
Nah mate, its shit for autocomplete. Before LLMs autocomplete was better with a simple dictionary weighted to use percentage.
I've found it better than the weighted dictionary for prose, and way better for code. Code autocompletion was always really limited, but now every couple dozen lines it suggests exactly what I was going to type anyway. Never on anything particularly clever, mind you, but it saves some tedium.
It also sometimes halucinates entire libraries and documentation and is single handedly responsible for massive sector wide average vulnerabilities increase.
Did you make sure to subtract all of that negative value before you even considered it as "good"?
Oh, it's fucking horrible at writing entire codebases. I'm talking about specifically tab completion. You still have to read what it's suggesting, just like with IntelliSense and other pre-LLM autocomplete tools, but it sometimes finishes your thoughts and saves you some typing.
Hard agree. Whole codebase in AI is a nightmare. I think MS's 25% is even WAY too much, based on how shitty their products are becoming. But for autocompleting the line of code I'm writing? It's fucking amazing. Doesn't save any thought, but saves a while bunch of typing!
I don't think the aforementioned vulnerabilities were caused by the AI writing entire codebases.
Just because a hammer makes for a lousy screwdriver doesn't mean it's not a good hammer. To me, AI just another tool. Like any other tool, there's things it is good at and there are things it is bad at. I've also found it can be pretty good as a code completion engine. Not perfect, but there's plenty of boilerplate stuff and repetitive things where it can figure out the pattern and I can bang out the lines of code pretty quickly with the AI's help. On the other hand, there's times it's nearly useless and I switch back to the keyword completion engine as it's the better tool for those situations.
If you invent a hammer which reduces the average structural stability anywhere from 5% to 40% then it should be banned.
Dunno why the downvotes. I think it's useful for menial stuff like "create a json list of every book of the Bible with a number for the book and a true or false if it's old or new testament" which it can do in seconds. Or to quickly create a template.
Seriously, I think most rich people are mentally ill and are compelled to keep accumulating and hoarding until they own everything.
Carnegie became critically aware that J. P. Morgan would totally kill him to take his assets. Carnegie even wondered of such a monster lurked in his own heart. ( Narrator: Yes. Yes, it did. )
We don't know the point at which people get greedy and lose empathy with their subservient co-workers, but even small business owners are stereotypically mean employers.
Everyone stops talking when they get punched in the mouth.
Just a weird observation that sprang to mind
I know people like to get angry and kick things, but i guess it's not very effective. I.e., would that really improve the world long-term?
If not, then why do it? Shouldn't we focus on actual measures such as demanding tax reforms from our cities and local governments? Shouldn't we invest our power into researching workable economic plans for our community? Why waste it with anger, that is like a wind that soonishly turns into thin air.
Those are the types of measures that have been attempted for generations. It's how we got here. There is no hope changing a system from within that is designed to serve the interest of the wealthy. That system will only ever offer temporary measures when it feels it is within its own interests to maintain itself. Social security and Medicare were not some idea FDR came up with to help the working class. They were fought for a pressured for by socialist, communist, and trade unionists literally taking up arms and threatening capitalist production. These social programs were an offering to prevent the actions that threaten to tear it down. They were an offering to the working class to prevent full revolutionary change.
But, here we are again. Hoping for another FDR without any of the material threats to capital. An entire generation of workers uneducated in the history of working class struggle focused only on working within the system and criticizing those that rightfully point to the need for organized (and often militant) labor.
Nothing will ever be offered by the ruling class without a threat to its structures. Nothing will improve without organized labor having the means to defend themselves from the state violence that will be used when change is being demanded to the system.
There is no tax reform that fixes these inherently contradictionary interest between the ruling and working class. Because there is no reason for that tax reform to be offered in the first place.
The electoral systems in this country is a means in which the ruling class defends its own collective interest. It is impressively good at doing so too. Even at times realizing that offerings to the working class are needed to maintain it. But that is only ever if it feels threatened. None of them feel threatened today.
So whether you're a Marxist revolutionary, a socdem, or just a progressive dude that wants everyone to have healthcare. You need to learn what history tells us. History tells us that even simple reform of the system does not come about without that system feeling fundamentally threatened.
It is why even capitalism "reformist" like yourself should be in support of any form of working class struggle. The sweaty anarchist kids trashing ICE vehicles aren't hurting progress. The protestors blocking roads and impeding capitalist production are not hurting progress. They are your leverage and should be encouraged and supported fully if you want even a crumb of reform to be offered.
Edit: I'm not comparing the mostly unarmed and unorganized movements of today to the past. But sadly, the sweaty anarchist kid today is where working class militancy starts and ends. It is mostly non existent and entirely unorganized. It's why the ruling class feels no need to offer even the slightest reform.
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