EnsignWashout

joined 3 years ago

I figure the engine swap business has got to be booming right now.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Was it pre-spyware? I'll pay extra for pre-spyware vehicles. I work in IT, so I value my privacy.

I kid you not, I bought a DVD player over this nonsense. Now my kids watch the same few used Disney movie and show DVDs however much they like, and I'm not paying these clowns monthly to be abused by them.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

As long as our health is perfect, of course.

"You're absolutely right. I did hallucinate sending an ambulance, more than once, earlier. Let me correct that and dispatch an ambulance to your location."

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Thanks. I think every data point helps people.

I can't say that particularly shocks me. I imagine that Chat GPT has probably swallowed dozens of Physics textbooks.

The bigger part of the problem is knowing where we are on the human knowledge novelty / training data available curve, or rather, when we need to get off of the ride.

Edit: Any chance your chosen AI has access to Wolfram Alpha as an MCP Tool? Because that would be very different, too.

If it's successful at math, there's likely much more than a learning model in play.

Which brings us back to the opacity problem. :(

If the answer machine has been cleverly rigged (and weighted) to pass off math questions to more capable software, things can be great.

But a person who just hears that AI can do math now can have a very bad time if they go blindly use a brute force pleasant answer machine on a math problem. :(

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 26 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

For simple math that could work, and as long as the question is close enough to an exact match with plenty of published examples to copy.

A good rule of thumb is that the script it will come up with is about as likely to be correct as blindly taking the highest voted answer to the most similar question on Stack Overflow.

If the question is simple and common, the odds are quite good. If the question is nuanced or rare, the odds of a correct result drop off aggressively.

Edit: Your mileage may vary - providing an API to these LLMs that can do math correctly for them is pretty easy. Getting the LLM to consistently detect when to use that API is more challenging.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

You've misspelled "Fuck JK Rowling" there, mate.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm beginning to suspect we're allowed to swear here...

Good one. The only worthy reply I can think of:

Spoiler for TitanicFuck JK Rowling

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