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yeah that tracks.

Oh I’m barely a Julia programmer 😅 I learned it a couple of years ago just to check it out, started writing a personal project with it but got a bit irritated with how interfaces are defined informally and you have to dig through documentation to find out the methods you need to implement, and then just sort of drifted away. Will definitely use it in the future for eg. some signal analysis thingamajigs and so on though, it was a fun language to use with notebooks.

I usually prefer type systems that make me beg for mercy, heh.

Oh yeah definitely; a lot of the AI crap out there hasn’t gotten rolled out to the EU yet – some of it because of the GDPR, thank fuck for that.

I’d practically guarantee there’s a nonzero amount of suits out there who think it’d be a fantastic idea, and have at the very least tried to make it happen, and that it’s only a matter of time before one of them talks somebody into it if they haven’t already

Naturally I had to try this, and I’m a bit disappointed it didn’t work for me.

I can’t make that “Looking for specific info?” input do anything unexpected, the output I get looks like this:

Seems no, to me: a human lawyer wouldn’t, for instance, make up case law that doesn’t exist. AI has done that one already. If it had even the most basic understanding of what the law is and does, it would have known not to do that.

LLMs don’t have an understanding of anything, but that doesn’t mean all AI in perpetuity is incapable of having an understanding of eg. what the law is. Edit: oh and also, it’s not like human lawyers are incapable of mistakenly “inventing” case law just by remembering something wrong.

As to whether human intelligence is statistics, well… our brains are neural networks, and ultimately neural networks – whether made from meat or otherwise – are “just statistics.” So in a way I guess our intelligence is “just statistics”, but honestly the whole question is sort of missing the point; the problem with AI (which right now really means LLMs) isn’t the fact that they’re “just statistics”, and whether you think human intelligence is or isn’t “just statistics” doesn’t really tell you anything about why our brains perform better than LLMs

But it is, and it always has been. Absurdly complexly layered statistics, calculated faster than a human could.

Well sure, but as someone else said even heat is statistics. Saying “ML is just statistics” is so reductionist as to be meaningless. Heat is just statistics. Biology is just physics. Forests are just trees.

While I don’t disagree with that statement at all, I honestly have no idea how it’s related to my comment (probably because I’m an idjit)

iT’s JuSt StAtIsTiCs

It’s mostly just “eh, this seems to work I dunno let’s keep doing it and see what happens”.

Yeah, no.

Yeah like duh it’s right there in the name, how hard can it be to find her?

Okay then I clearly just don’t get your joke 😅

You mean single stage to orbit fans?

Honestly I’m surprised at the amount of people making SSTO jokes in the comments without knowing what that initialism stands for

single stage to orbit

Aww yeah they definitely deserve accessible options

That looks great, and your cat clearly likes the perch ❤️

Maybe it’d like a hangout spot even higher up? I saw a video a while ago where somebody had made a “cat path” high up on their wall with some sort of cylinders maybe 15cm (6") in diameter and max 45cm (18") long wrapped in twine, at maybe 1m (3’) intervals or maybe even a bit more, so that the “path” led to a hangout spot high up in the corner of the room. Of course you’d need to build that in a spot where the occasional falling kitty won’t land on your collection of priceless Ming vases and live land mines, or your 99" 4K OLED TV.

Wouldn’t even need all that much material. Could maybe use pieces of PVC pipe for the “path”, twine, that hammoc or whatever platform you’d want to have, and then the… uh, what’s the word in English… fasteners? Everything you need to attach all that stuff to the wall.

Yes, exactly. In general the whole notion and everything they claim is fucking idiotic from start to finish. Outright lies, misunderstandings, misrepresented partial truths, etc.

Those two friends of mine aren’t “gunpowder inventors” as we Finns tend to express it, ie. they’re… well, calling them stupid would be a bit too harsh, but they’re definitely not smart. I’m not surprised in the least that they fell down that rabbit hole, but fuck does it get tiring.

Did you read anything I said past that part or did you just want to get your petulant downvote in?

I literally fucking said the boom’s idiotic and there’s a lot of problems with the technology, but just blindly pretending everything about it is shit is as idiotic as is pretending they’re the good for everything. What is it with people’s inability to have a honest fucking argument; “their ‘sample data’ is nonsense” is bullshit and you fucking know it. “Sample data” isn’t even a fucking thing in this context.

I know hating ChatGPT is trendy, but while I think this AI boom is absolutely idiotic and LLMs aren’t suitable for a lot of the things people try to use them for, I think there’s a real tendency for people to make it seem like everything about them is garbage. Pretending that even their training data is “nonsense” is just silly