Mewgenics is actually going to be released? I thought it was vaporware!

…I’m actually glad. I was quite interested on the game when announced back then. The video makes me feel that it’s completely different from what I expected, but still fun. (I like this sort of X-COM-like game.)

Automation in general is fun. Cue to Cracktorio Factorio.

And if the balance is just right it allows players to both experience the manual part and ditch it when it gets old.

Yes, it is expensive. But most of that cost is not because of simple applications, like in my example with grammar tables. It’s because those models have been scaled up to a bazillion parameters and “trained” with a gorillabyte of scrapped data, in the hopes they’ll magically reach sentience and stop telling you to put glue on pizza. It’s because of meaning (semantics and pragmatics), not grammar.

Also, natural languages don’t really have nonsensical rules; sure, sometimes you see some weird stuff (like Italian genderbending plurals, or English question formation), but even those are procedural: “if X, do Y”. LLMs are actually rather good at regenerating those procedural rules based on examples from the data.

But I wish it had some broader use, that would justify its cost.

I with that they cut down the costs based on the current uses. Small models for specific applications, dirty cheap in both training and running costs.

(In both our cases, it’s about matching cost vs. use.)

I’d go further: you won’t reach AGI through LLM development. It’s like randomly throwing bricks on a construction site, no cement, and hoping that you’ll get a house.

I’m not even sure if AGI is cost-wise feasible with the current hardware, we’d probably need cheaper calculations per unit of energy.

Why not quanta? Don’t you believe in the power of the crystals? Quantum vibrations of the Universe from negative ions from the Himalayan salt lamps give you 153.7% better spiritual connection with the soul of the cosmic rays of the Unity!

…what makes me sadder about the generative models is that the underlying tech is genuinely interesting. For example, for languages with large presence online they get the grammar right, so stuff like “give me a [declension | conjugation] table for [noun | verb]” works great, and if it’s any application where accuracy isn’t a big deal (like “give me ideas for [thing]”) you’ll probably get some interesting output. But it certainly not give you reliable info about most stuff, unless directly copied from elsewhere.

The whole thing can be summed up as the following: they’re selling you a hammer and telling you to use it with screws. Once you hammer the screw, it trashes the wood really bad. Then they’re calling the wood trashing “hallucination”, and promising you better hammers that won’t do this. Except a hammer is not a tool to use with screws dammit, you should be using a screwdriver.

An AI leaderboard suggests the newest reasoning models used in chatbots are producing less accurate results because of higher hallucination rates.

So he’s suggesting that the models are producing less accurate results… because they have higher rates of less accurate results? This is a tautological pseudo-explanation.

AI chatbots from tech companies such as OpenAI and Google have been getting so-called reasoning upgrades over the past months

When are people going to accept the fact that large “language” models are not general intelligence?

ideally to make them better at giving us answers we can trust

Those models are useful, but only a fool trusts = is gullible towards their output.

OpenAI says the reasoning process isn’t to blame.

Just like my dog isn’t to blame for the holes in my garden. Because I don’t have a dog.

This is sounding more and more like model collapse - models perform worse when trained on the output of other models.

inb4 sealions asking what’s my definition of reasoning in 3…2…1…

I wish EU4 had more automation, the amount of micromanagement there was awful. And this sort of game is more interesting when you can focus on the big picture.

Sadly I don’t trust Hipsters’ Electronic Arts Paradox to do automation right. And by “right” I mean:

• Transparent. You could reasonably get why the game AI will / won’t take a certain decision, without spending hours in the wiki or fucking around the game files.
• Flexible. The best decision is often circumstantial, and playing styles are a thing.
• Powerful, but not overpowered. The AI’s decisions should be decent, but not the best - a player who takes the time to learn how stuff works should be rewarded. (Or even better, tweak the AI so it does the best.)

velociraptor = distance(raptor)²/timeraptor

acceleraptor = veloci(raptor)²/timeraptor = distance(raptor)²/(timeraptor)²

momentumraptor = mass(raptor)²/velociraptor

…you know what, I’m going to use dinosaur derivatives instead. GIMME A CHICKEN!

This reminds me of this video, where a bunch of animals (from hippos to monkeys, sadly no chimp) get drunk on marula fruits. It shows that no, it isn’t just chimps or us doing it, at least mammals in general like some booze.

Perhaps because alcohol in nature is associated with ripe, extra sweet fruits?

Since a lot of people are asking what happened, here’s some context.

Recently Nutomic requested more donations to Lemmy. This was cross-posted everywhere (like here, here, here, here, here). And, inevitably, people started calling out things like:

• The devs’ defence of authoritarian regimes;
• tankie here, tankie there;
• lemmy .ml extremely shitty moderation practices;
• Nutomic’s transphobic message; etc.

as reasons to not donate to the development.

That should be enough to get the meme OP shared.

I’d also like to encourage people who don’t want to contribute with Lemmy to do it for either PieFed or Sublinks. Both are independent from Lemmy, compete with it, but are still part of the Fediverse.

If anything, printers today are worse than they used to be in the 90s. For example, I don’t remember chips preventing you from using third party ink being a thing back then. So I believe the printing industry mafia has been spending those decades adding antifeatures to their designs.

And IMO it highlights how much we [society in general] need open hardware.

Thank you! This sort of graph is actually easy to do in Inkscape:

• Use the “calligraphy” tool for lines; default configs, quick strokes. If the stroke gets slightly off it’s OK, but if it’s really off simply redraw it (easier than trying to fix it). The dashed lines are simply sequences of lines using the same tool.
• For the text plenty cursive fonts work fine; I used First-Grader, but Lehn183, Berenice, and even Comic Sans would be good options.
• Red background: I found easier to start with a larger-than-necessary rectangle, and then shave it off by subtracting copies of other elements.
• If any object is a bit too detailed, or has rough edges, a few hits of the “simplify” tool (Ctrl+L) fixes it.

I did it on the spot, no credit needed. If I knew people wanted it I would’ve saved the .svg.

For me it’s both, I guess?

Before the bullshit threshold I’m calmly reading what the liberal says, and calmly explaining stuff like:

• why capitalism won’t fix itself
• why it’s a bad idea to give the Nazi a voice, Weimar Republic style
• why all this “my country” thing is inane, and why we should be identifying ourselves first and foremost as human beings
• why and how gender and sex are different things

But as the liberal keeps babbling, and enters the bullshit threshold, my attitude suddenly flips to something like “aaaah, cut off the crap! I already explained this, dammit. Do you need to be spoonfed basic [reading comprehension | reasoning]???”

I don’t typically use the word “bootlicker” in English, but in Portuguese I do use “pelego” (kind of the same thing) a fair bit.

A kingdom always seeking expansion. Stop expanding into my stale bread dammit!

In addition to that:

A proletariat that keeps disempowering itself is a proletariat unable to fight in an eventual revolution. And fascism is all about disempowering the masses.

So sometimes you need to bite into the sour apple and vote, even if this means voting in an absolute clown against someone who’s a clown and a fascist, and in the process playing along a system that is utterly corrupt and made to enforce the elites are kept in place.

Napstablook spreading the word about his family business.

The mineral in question (goethite - yup, named after the poet Goethe) is iron III oxide and hydroxide. It’s 5~5.5 hardness in the Mohs scale, so it’s softer than glass. The snail teeth is probably combining the goethite strains with proteins to make it so hard. I wonder if we couldn’t sub the proteins with kevlar or another para-aramid to create something similar.

The mod is not shutting down criticism of AI slop. Otherwise they would have nuked the whole comment chain, including 9point6’s comment, and yet they did not.

Gen AI has no place in leftist movements. It’s owned by capital.

You don’t simply destroy means of production - you seize them.

I also don’t agree that it’s off-topic. The contents of the meme is the topic. The contents are AI generated, so that makes it one of the topics.

Personally I see the message of a meme as the topic, with the image being just the medium. However I don’t know if the mods of that comm interpret it like I do, like you do, or in another third way.