Technology

I'm pretty sure most people I meet ammount to nothing more than a collection of stolen thoughts.

"The LLM is nothing but a reward function."

So are most addicts and consumers.

Gemini has imposter syndrome real bad

Weird because I’ve used it many times fr things not related to coding and it has been great.

I told it the specific model of my UPS and it let me know in no uncertain terms that no, a plug adapter wasn’t good enough, that I needed an electrician to put in a special circuit or else it would be a fire hazard.

I asked it about some medical stuff, and it gave thoughtful answers along with disclaimers and a firm directive to speak with a qualified medical professional, which was always my intention. But I appreciated those thoughtful answers.

I use co-pilot for coding. It’s pretty good. Not perfect though. It can’t even generate a valid zip file (unless they’ve fixed it in the last two weeks) but it sure does try.

That explains it, you can't code with both your arms broken.

It didn't. It probably was coded not to admit it didn't know. So first it responded with bullshit, and now denial and self-loathing.

It feels like it's coded this way because people would lose faith if it admitted it didn't know.

It's like a politician.

I remember often getting GPT-2 to act like this back in the "TalkToTransformer" days before ChatGPT etc. The model wasn't configured for chat conversations but rather just continuing the input text, so it was easy to give it a starting point on deep water and let it descend from there.

Pretty sure Gemini was trained from my 2006 LiveJournal posts.

I-I-I-I-I-I-I-m not going insane.

Same buddy, same

Damn how’d they get access to my private, offline only diary to train the model for this response?

Next on the agenda: Doors that orgasm when you open them.

It's trained on human code comments. Comments of despair.