huginn

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[–] huginn@feddit.it 26 points 10 months ago (22 children)

It's always funny to me when people wave away tap to pay like losing it is nothing.

It's my number 1 practical use case for my phone. My commuter card is stored there for example. I use it as often as I take photos at this point: I might take a dozen photos on the weekend but I commute every day.

[–] huginn@feddit.it 18 points 10 months ago

... Which makes it even less credible legally.

Unless you're getting C-suite level emails saying they're not going to do it, don't trust them.

And even then you should be ready to sue.

[–] huginn@feddit.it 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

ChatGPT also fudges "memory" by feeding in all previous prompts (up to a token limit) with whatever you've said latest, which improves the pattern matching.

[–] huginn@feddit.it 3 points 10 months ago

Sure: I get that they're not exactly the same. The ChatGPT issue is orders of magnitude more removed from humanity than a dog, but it's a daily example of anthropomorphic bias that is relatable and easy to understand. Just was using it as an example.

[–] huginn@feddit.it 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (8 children)

I think there's a second, unstated issue at play here: you're experiencing a very deep cognitive bias. An exploit in the human brain.

The human brain is a fantastically complex piece of meat but one of its many issues is the anthropomorphic bias: the tendency to ascribe human traits, especially agency and cognition, to things or animals that do not have those traits.

We tend to believe if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck it must be a duck. ChatGPT is a very complex and highly specialized algorithm that outputs data just like another online human... But 100% of it is just a model processing your input and returning it back out. It talks like a human but is more akin to notepad than it is to us.

To be clear: that bias exists in everyone. We all do this. Anytime I talk about my dog scheming to get my attention I'm hitting that bias. Anytime my robot vacuum interrupts me doing the dishes I talk at it and tell it to go away. I interact with the world around me as though most things are human.

[–] huginn@feddit.it 45 points 10 months ago

It's not developing a thick skin, it's developing compassion.

Never attribute to malice what can be reasonably explained by incompetence or stupidity. Similarly that which can be explained by happenstance.

Don't be a doormat obviously but assume they had a reason and be as gracious as possible in excusing their faults.

If anything what you need is to be more emotionally available not less. Empathy serves you far better than rage.

[–] huginn@feddit.it 10 points 10 months ago

Between my partner and I we've spent 850 hours playing BG3 since October.

That's more than basically any other "live service" or subscription based game I've ever played, especially for the time period.

Phenomenal game that made the team fabulous amounts of money and won awards while all the consumers left happy.

Definitely raises the bar for AAA

[–] huginn@feddit.it 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] huginn@feddit.it 1 points 10 months ago

Not terribly surprised. When I tried the app out I didn't really get the appeal. It was like adding a comments section to existing news feeds and didn't provide enough tailoring or algorithmic understanding of reading habits to be a compelling offering.

Besides the fact that they were using a chrome embedded browser, meaning I couldn't even ad block on the sites I visited: which made the reading experience nearly impossible.

[–] huginn@feddit.it 2 points 10 months ago

My view on it as an Android dev: it's a powerful language that has stripped back all the boilerplate and crustiness of Java into concise and expressive functional programming.

I dislike how much I write to say very little in Java.

It does mean that there is a lot more of a learning curve to Kotlin.

[–] huginn@feddit.it 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The problem is obvious and it's one that even the companies making the LLMs want to solve so they don't poison their models.

However the solution is absurd. Watermarking plain text is just not going to work. Any edits would change the signature.

[–] huginn@feddit.it 2 points 10 months ago

Model collapse is going to be a big deal and it doesn't take too much poisoned content to cause model collapse.

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