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Iconoclast

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  • Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

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  • Something being useful doesn't imply it's good or beneficial. Those terms are not synonymous. Usefulness describes whether a thing achieves a particular goal or serves a specific purpose effectively.

    A torture device is useful for extracting information. A landmine is useful for denying an area to enemy troops.

  • Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

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  • Which is exactly why LLMs are useless.

    800 million weekly ChatGPT users disagree with that.

  • Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

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  • I'm not here defending the practical value of these models. I'm just explaining what they are and what they're not.

  • Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

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  • It'll give you short response if you ask it to.

  • Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

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  • In computer science Artificial Intelligence refers to any system designed to perform tasks that would typically require human intelligence. That includes everything from playing chess to recognizing patterns, translating languages, or generating text.

    The first ever AI system was Logic Theorist written by Allen Newell in 1956.

    Trying to redefine terms is not helpful. GenAI is AI. It's not misuse of the term.

  • Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

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  • It's a Large Language Model. It doesn't "know" anything, doesn't think, and has zero metacognition. It generates language based on patterns and probabilities. Its only goal is to produce linguistically coherent output - not factually correct one.

    It gets things right sometimes purely because it was trained on a massive pile of correct information - not because it understands anything it's saying.

    So no, it doesn't "guess." It doesn't even know it's answering a question. It just talks.

  • Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

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  • Is cruise control useless because it doesn't drive you to the grocery store? No. It's not supposed to. It's designed to maintain a steady speed - not to steer.

    Large Language Models, as the name suggests, are designed to generate natural-sounding language - not to reason. They're not useless - we're just using them off-label and then complaining when they fail at something they were never built to do.

  • Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras | TechCrunch

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  • Soviets were allied with nazi Germany untill they turned on them.

  • Is the AI hype still on or have the models plateaued?

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  • The hostility just seems unnecessary and unproductive from my point of view. Unless of course your intention is to hurt - but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you'd rather change minds instead.

    It's a nuanced discussion, which is why I don't think either fanaticism or militant opposition is going to get us anywhere. This is a technology community - people should be free to have civil discussions about technology. Criticism is just as valid without the jabs and insults.

  • Is the AI hype still on or have the models plateaued?

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  • Those terms are not synonymous. LLMs are very much an AI system but AI means much more than just LLMs.

  • Is the AI hype still on or have the models plateaued?

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  • I don't get why you need to be such a dick about it.

  • Is the AI hype still on or have the models plateaued?

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  • I don't think AI means what you think it does. What you're thinking is probably more akin to AGI.

    Logic Theorist is broadly considered to be the first ever AI system. It was written by Allen Newell in 1956.

  • What is a relatively inexpensive item that offers entertainment beyond it's intented usecase?

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  • I've been meaning to get a jar of pond water and bottom mud on my windowsill for years.

  • What is a relatively inexpensive item that offers entertainment beyond it's intented usecase?

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  • And a model airplane with detachable wings.

    What?

  • What is a relatively inexpensive item that offers entertainment beyond it's intented usecase?

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  • Inspired by my own post about that butane torch I seem to find endlessly fascinating.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    Iconoclast @feddit.uk

    What is a relatively inexpensive item that offers entertainment beyond it's intented usecase?

  • How could we go about making a jurisdiction where advertising is illegal?

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  • Yeah, I have no clue how effective it is compared to other advertising methods, but it's worked well enough to keep me steadily employed.

    I don't really know what I'm doing here. I don't have any self-employed friends or anyone to copy business practices from, so I'm just winging it - trying to build the kind of service I'd personally want to hire. My flyer is designed by me and it shows. It's immediately obvious to anyone who sees it that this is just one guy working out of the back of a van, not some big corporation. Plenty of people have told me that's the main reason they reached out.

    Escape competition through authenticity

    • Naval Ravikant

  • How could we go about making a jurisdiction where advertising is illegal?

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  • Yeah, I always ask if it's a household I haven't dropped a flyer to yet. In these cases, the answer to "where'd you hear about me?" is almost always that they saw someone else asking about it on Facebook and someone recommended me in the comments. Interestingly, it's never the original poster who ends up contacting me - it's usually some third party just scrolling through the comments.

    A few have gotten direct recommendations from previous customers, but that's pretty rare overall. Most saw my flyer, and the rest mostly found me through local Facebook groups.

    Edit: I don't do targeted advertising though. Just physical flyers and I occasionally post pictures of my work to Facebook and Instagram.

  • How could we go about making a jurisdiction where advertising is illegal?

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  • I'm running a one person handyman business that would die instantly if I wasn't allowed to advertise. Nobody would even know I exist.

  • YSK What to do if someone’s choking: Evidence says begin with back blows

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