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  • It comes down to the “hallucination rate” which is a very fuzzy metric, but it works pretty well - at a hallucination rate of 5% (95% successful responses) AI is just about on par with human workers - but faster for complex tasks, and slower for simple answers.

    I have no idea what you’re doing, but based on my own experience, your error/hallucination rate is like 1/10th of what I’d expect.

    I’ve been using an AI assistant for the better part of a year, and I’d laugh at the idea that they’re right even 60% of the time without CONSTANTLY reinforcing fucking BASIC directives or telling it to provide sources for every method it suggests. Like, I can’t even keep the damned thing reliably in the language framework I’m working on without it falling back to the raw vendor CLI in project conversations. I’m correcting the exact same mistakes week after week because the thing is braindead and doesn’t understand that you cannot use reserved keywords for your variable names. It just makes up parameters to core functions based on the question I ask it, regardless of documentation until I call it’s bullshit and it gets super conciliatory and then actually double checks it’s own work instead of authoritatively lying to me.

    You’re not wrong that AI makes human style mistakes, but a human can learn, or at least generally doesn’t have to be taught the same fucking lesson at least once a week for a year (or gets fired well before then). AI is artificial, but there absolutely isn’t any intelligence behind it, it’s just a stochastic parrot that somehow comes to plausible answers that the algorithm expects that you want to hear.



  • Otherwise, the only way this makes sense if every dog is registered and must provide a sample preemptively

    That’s exactly what’s happening. I have a friend whose apartment complex has that as a requirement for dog owners to move in. If you leave shit in the grass, they test it, fine you and make you pay for the lab needed to prove it was you. It works pretty well, as she and I went outside one night in the dark with flashlights because I forgot a poop bag and couldn’t find it when I came back with the bag to make sure she wouldn’t catch the fine.



  • Nevertheless, there have been cases of brain dead people’s body adapting to the lack of central nervous system

    We’re they on life support, or do you have an example of it happening without any outside assistance?

    so the body is more independently alive than we tend to give it credit.

    Being able to biologically adapt to a different control mechanism is cool, but it’s not necessarily ‘alive’ depending on your definition. The biological mechanisms may still fire, but that doesn’t mean that you’re doing anything more than keeping a meat sack functioning while it otherwise atrophies.




  • known asshole lolcow.

    Anytime someone is referred to as a lolcow, I immediately assume the person in question is cool and the person using lolcow is a negative IQ 'gator/low rent 4chan troll.

    Calling people lolcows tells everyone you’re actually the asshole in the conversation, since you’re explicitly saying you think it’s cool to harass people for laughs.

    Thanks for the self report!





  • to wait (its not a matter of life an death, right? And if it was one better be contacting a doctor or the police)

    I had a friend person I knew who ghosted my wife and I randomly and she stopped showing up to the job they shared (that my wife helped her get). She regularly rode around town and had been clipped by cars more than once, so we were really concerned. After getting no response for weeks, and checking her place multiple times with no response, we did a wellness check. She was fine. I tried to get a few things back since we weren’t going to be friends anymore.

    You know what that crazy bitch did in response? Filed a restraining order against me with no additional communication. Made up a whole host of accusations of stalking and spying and shit. Thankfully, once I provided the screenshots of my call and chat history, the judge saw through her lies and dismissed the charge entirely. I’ve only ever seen her once or twice since then, and I made sure to turn around immediately because the last thing I wanted was for her psycho ass to have an opportunity to fabricate more lies against me.

    TL;Dr - police wellness checks aren’t super great when you’ve been ghosted







  • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldanother TUI
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    4 days ago

    Man, the shit you don’t know about this situation would fill one big ass book

    Beginning in 1909 and continuing for 70 years, California led the country in the number of sterilization procedures performed on men and women, often without their full knowledge and consent. Approximately 20,000 sterilizations took place in state institutions, comprising one-third of the total number performed in the 32 states where such action was legal. (from The UC Santa Barbara Current)

    Forced sterilization was policy in the US even in the 20th century, why are you naive (ignorant/uninformed) enough to think the current admin wouldn’t do it again?