anachronist

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[–] anachronist@midwest.social 2 points 4 months ago

American Psycho (Sam Altman) and his chorus have been hyping AI and the rest of the world's reaction has ranged from "these guys seem smart and chatgpt is impressive so what do I know?" to "isn't this guy a bitcoin bro?"

[–] anachronist@midwest.social 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I feel like customer support is one place where AI may actually be used going forward because companies don't really care if their customers get support. The only wrinkle is that if companies get held to promises the AI makes (there's that Canada Air incident from last year where the AI offered a refund and the company tried to walk it back).

[–] anachronist@midwest.social 7 points 4 months ago

Naw if they're publicly bashing it they've already dumped on all the downside risk onto their customers and now they're net short.

[–] anachronist@midwest.social 9 points 4 months ago

Game of Life has cool emergent properties that are a lot more interesting and fun to play with than LLMs. LLMs also have emergent properties like, for instance, failing classification due to the manipulation of individual image pixels.

[–] anachronist@midwest.social 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I suspect Intuit fired those workers for other reasons (free file) and are using AI as an excuse because to admit that free-file is an existential threat to their business is to admit that their company has no long term business prospects.

[–] anachronist@midwest.social 3 points 4 months ago

This is the same middlebrow dismissal that AI advocates have been using for years.

"It's just a stochastic parrot." "How do you know that you aren't just a stochastic parrot?"

Well we do know. There are experts on human cognition. They have been studying it for decades. We may not know enough about it to know how to make a computer do it. But we certainly know enough about it to know when a computer chatbot is not doing it.

[–] anachronist@midwest.social 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The space station's orbit has been adjusted continuously over its lifetime initially by attaching a shuttle to it and doing a burn of the shuttle's engines and later doing the same with progress modules.

My bet is the original expectation of the designers was to deorbit by attaching centaurs (or whatever) to the existing docking ports and rotate the beast to the right attitude for a deorbit burn.

NASA has more recently said they want the reentry to be as steep as possible to minimize the size of the debris field, and is using that to justify the development of a new specialized deorbit vehicle. No doubt SpaceX will declare that Starship is the proper vehicle for this, and then will plow the $800 million into the Starship program. The money they got for Artemus is already long gone and Starship has failed to demonstrate key components of the Artemus plan. Dear Moon has been cancelled so NASA and Artemus are the only customers they have left. NASA knows that without a cash injection Artemus is at risk.

[–] anachronist@midwest.social 13 points 4 months ago (9 children)

Honestly this seems like a way to back-door inject another $800 million into the failing starship program.

[–] anachronist@midwest.social 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I mean we're sitting here on the lemmyverse having a conversation..

But yeah creators should upload to peertube but they won't get any meaningful viewership there. The only way to break the network affect stranglehold google/youtube has over video content on the internet is making sure that if you do produce that content it's available via other channels.

[–] anachronist@midwest.social 1 points 5 months ago

This is true. The idea that housing-as-asset is a gift to middle-class elderly is a false promise. The middle class elderly will have all their assets stripped by the old-age industry regardless of how their home appreciated while they owned it.

[–] anachronist@midwest.social 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

baby murdering killers

As opposed to Israel?

[–] anachronist@midwest.social 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yeah the fediverse has lower engagement all around because the community is a lot smaller. This is especially true in "long tail" communities. However, the upside is that there are no bots, dark patterns, or manipulated feeds.

That being said, while I appreciate the chronological feed I do wish there was some way to "weigh" less active communities so that I can see their activity in my feed without them being drowned out by the busier communities. I've noticed that I've gone to communities that I'm definitely subscribed to, and seen that there were several posts that I missed because the posts were drowned out by content in busy communities like, for instance, technology@beehaw.org

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