Thorry

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[–] Thorry@feddit.org 1 points 17 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] Thorry@feddit.org 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Nah it lacks the lemon company investing billions into the lemon stand, just so they can buy billions worth of lemons. And the lemon stand needs to set almost all of the lemons on fire and sell just a fraction of them at an extreme loss. Meanwhile the CEOs of both the lemon stand and the lemon company should shout at everyone and anyone: "LEMONADE IS THE FUTURE BRO, JUST ACCEPT IT!"

[–] Thorry@feddit.org 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why does the USB-A plug fit exactly in the RJ45 network port?

[–] Thorry@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

Impossibruh!

[–] Thorry@feddit.org 6 points 1 week ago

Yeah except this is a tiny little plane and a 737 is huge. So those comparisons don't make much sense.

[–] Thorry@feddit.org 32 points 1 week ago (3 children)

That's one of the things that frustrates me most about this whole AI thing. I fucking hate it and I want it to die, I wish it were never created in the first place. But from a tech enthusiast and a maths nerd point of view, it is super interesting.

Like the performance of these models is shit compared to a real person doing actual work. But if we think about what we are doing on a basic level, the performance is way beyond what I would expect it to be. I wouldn't expect it to be able to form a coherent sentence or scale as well as it does (even though the resources required to run these is still very high).

It could have been really cool shit people did studies on and played around with to explore the math. Cool little play models we could let go on a bunch of data and see what it did and how. Something for a small group of nerds and experts who are into that kind of thing, for the sake of learning and nothing else.

But no, somehow it got transmorphed into "AI". And marketed like this actual learning almost sentient computer system that can replace all workers. You can ask it anything and it will give PhD level expert answers. Oh and it's run by a handful of the most vile men imaginable who pour all of the world's money and resources into it, all so they get to be god emperor of the world. Fucking terrible.

[–] Thorry@feddit.org 6 points 2 weeks ago

I'm going to guess you have a "Don't thread on me" flag up, but also a "Thin blue line" flag at the same time?

[–] Thorry@feddit.org 42 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Even if it were all above board, it's just gambling and should be heavily restricted just as all other forms of betting.

[–] Thorry@feddit.org 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

A kidney? Psssh that's small potatoes, how much RAM do you have?

[–] Thorry@feddit.org 16 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Wasn't that whole gros michel story made up after the fact? Those bananas are still available, just more expensive. People who've eaten them have reported them tasting a bit more like the chemical banana taste, but not really the same. And the taste is highly dependent on how ripe the banana is. I think the actual story was the chemical banana was close enough and cheap and easy to produce. People also liked it, even though it didn't really taste like bananas. So it became the de facto banana taste. In small amounts the taste is a lot closer, but people prefer the higher amounts because of the more intense taste.

It even says as much on the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gros_Michel#%3A%7E%3Atext=The+Gros+Michel+has+a%2Cseeming+version+of+the+Cavendish

A food history myth is that artificial banana flavor was specifically developed from the Gros Michel, but isoamyl acetate is a simple compound and was not based on any specific cultivar.

[–] Thorry@feddit.org 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Or the economy crashes by AI replacing everyone and doing an absolute terrible job, causing stuff like supply chain collapse and communication/power outages.

I have yet to see someone explain how this whole thing actually works out. Just a dozen different scenarios that turn out terrible for almost everyone. The only scenario that works out is if a handful of people like Altman absolutely rule the world, become de facto dictators as they are the ones that control the few AI companies that run everything. And by work out, I mean it works out for that handful of people. For the rest of the world it's probably just about the worst case scenario. But you just know it's the scenario scammy Altman is hoping for.

[–] Thorry@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago

Honorable mention to The Terrible Thunder Lizards

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