bcovertigo
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bcovertigo@lemmy.worldto Europe@feddit.org•Von der Leyen and Trump strike EU-US deal with 15% tariff for the blocEnglish10·10 days agoBuy it second hand. They can have their initial sale a decade ago and no residual income. I’ll buy it from you when you don’t want it or need some cash! Better burn a backup as well before it gets scratched. Don’t accidentally lose twenty backups at your friends houses though.
bcovertigo@lemmy.worldto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Introducing Lumo, the AI where every conversation is confidential | ProtonEnglish6·14 days agodeleted by creator
Genuine question, how confident are we that an LLM can actually be patched like a deterministic system through prompt and weight manipulation? Has the 95% adversarial success rate that was reported actually moved in the past year? I don’t feel like any meaningful progress has been made but I’m admittedly biased so I know I’m not looking in the places that would report success if there was any.
bcovertigo@lemmy.worldto Mental Health@lemmy.world•I'm depressed AF anyone want to chat shit in this thread to distract me? English4·2 months agoShe’ll be 10 next year! I just had a friend lose his rabbit at 13 and I hope she makes it that far healthy enough to have a good quality of life. She’s a much better pet for me than the iguana or tarantula I had when I was a kid, but I also like dogs. I think rabbits are my favorite now.
bcovertigo@lemmy.worldto Mental Health@lemmy.world•I'm depressed AF anyone want to chat shit in this thread to distract me? English11·2 months agoHi! I saw your post about moderating and I think it’s cool that you decided to carry that community for everyone. Thanks for doing that!
I’ve been taking care of my ancient wizened pet rabbit. She’s like 90 in bunny years (considering large breeds like flemish giants don’t live as long) but here’s an old and young picture of her huge dumbo ears.
I go to a restaurant store for her because they sell giant bags of cilantro and she mows through it among other things.
I’ve also been running a tabletop rpg system I wrote and built a setting for, and it’s going pretty well! It’s kind of a science fantasy thing and players are all humans, but they can be terran or from a colony world we build out together. That entails negotiating what adaptations the colonists originally gave their children to thrive on that world and so we ended up with a huge strongman character from a hot high gravity world for example. He has heat venting scales that look like a bush viper all over him and he’s the only one enjoying the desert they’re currently traversing while I throw creatures at them like a tamer version of Scavenger’s Reign.
Can you compare it to voidcrew if you’ve played that? I want to like a game like this but voidcrew never hooked me and I’m curious how you feel a few days in.
bcovertigo@lemmy.worldto Fuck AI@lemmy.world•'AI Is Not Intelligent': The Atlantic Criticizes 'Scam' Underlying the AI IndustryEnglish22·2 months agoHe’s right and this is why his comment is the artwork of the person replying to him. It’s no different from a keyboard. It’s a really advanced, very complicated keyboard.
But I know the same people who argue lemmings aren’t intelligent also don’t want to recognize generated comments as being the property of the user who generated it. It’s “shitposting” and thus should be subject to scorn, ridicule, and has somehow stolen from all commenters everywhere, who have ever lived or ever will live in the future.
bcovertigo@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•public services of an entire german state switches from Microsoft to open source (Libreoffice, Linux, Nextcloud, Thunderbird)English541·2 months agoConveniently, this could be a path to competence for those juniors in the long term.
bcovertigo@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Is there a non mentally ill version of lemmy?English4·2 months agoYeah just start your own instance on a different planet with situations that only provoke your preferred amount of existential dread!
Barring that you’re going to be stuck identifying the sources of this widespread misery and trying to help people overcome it. For most people that might be difficult but I don’t know your budget so I won’t assume. There’s also the option of interacting with machines that pose as happier humans but your goal overall seems contrary to growing that 80% by adding yourself unless I misread your intent.
Trying to come up with original memes for the community that gave you brain damage
bcovertigo@lemmy.worldOPto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•His name is Carcin and he loves toes 🤗English16·2 months agoHmm, I’m beginning to think this internet bullshit might not be the best way to get a crab.
bcovertigo@lemmy.worldOPto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•His name is Carcin and he loves toes 🤗English12·2 months ago✂️😡✂️
bcovertigo@lemmy.worldOPto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•His name is Carcin and he loves toes 🤗English15·2 months agoYou gain Crabshell x1. You’re still a little Hungry. You have become Lonely. You have saved $.65 on this order with your doordash subscription.
bcovertigo@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work?English4·2 months agoWhat about it specifically do you dislike? This type of setting definitely invites questioning by the audience and can break immersion, but I’m curious about your take on it.
bcovertigo@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work?English3·2 months agoIn dungeons and dragons there is a type of hybrid character you can play called an Artificer who treats magic more like technology, and there are a ton of examples in popular media that others have mentioned. I do think you have to determine how and if you’ll keep them distinct if that’s important to your plot, but if they developed alongside eachother maybe the technology of that world relies on magic to work.
Or maybe your magic relies on elder gods that don’t like the mortal hubris of critiquing the gods works so attempts to unravel magic gets you cursed or worse.
I think they can go together and the way you fit them can even become a plot point!
bcovertigo@lemmy.worldto Fuck AI@lemmy.world•If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?English31·3 months agoYes, we do care that it’s unintelligent because that’s the reason it can’t be trusted with anything important. This is not being pedantic. This technology is unreliable dogshit. We’ll still be having this conversation in 2030 if it hasn’t cooked us all or lost it’s undeserved hype.
(Adding Stellarst0rm’s example because I somehow forgot it https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/6gzfra/damn_wish/)
Do you notice how the original sketch version has very different facial expressions for the punch line (if simplistic sketch art) and the AI doesn’t clearly convey anything by the younger’s facial reaction because the model paints the same “angry/alarm” pattern on both characters? Why is the younger vaguely angry in the AI version? You can make something up like “that’s just the style” but…
There is no answer because there is no style because nobody made this. It’s just a copy missing a piece of the humor the source had that didn’t make it through as statistically relevant even though it DOES contain data for the punchline to observers. Do you see how the next model training on this will actually lose something that’s a concrete part of the joke? Let’s ignore “soul” and say that it dropped the ball on nonverbal communication in a way that’s meaningfully worse to the viewer.
It’s true that people will have a hard time articulating why modeling art and language are worse than actually making them, but I don’t think their concerns are unfounded. It’s slop in my opinion because it loses to napkin art despite having vast resources applied to it. I understand how the difference may seem like a grumpy nitpick but the models can’t train off their own output without a buildup of convolutional traces that poison their outputs eventually and break them according to current studies. It’s clearly missing SOMETHING intangible and whatever people call it, it’s real.
bcovertigo@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Prompt engineer : The Hottest AI Job of 2023 Is Already ObsoleteEnglish2·3 months ago“New York Life all said they’ve never hired prompt engineers, but instead found that—to the extent better prompting skills are needed—it was an expertise that all existing employees could be trained on.”
Are you telling me that the jobs invented to support a bullshit technology that lies are themselves ALSO bullshit lies?
How could this happen??
You’re doing a great job and you shouldn’t feel bad for being ignorant when you’re literally getting results and learning new questions to ask. Of course it’s not working perfectly! Of course you’re looking for help as you discover more options! You have the desire to learn something new to you, and you’ve made so many steps beyond the first already.
Here’s some emojis to copy and paste until you smash through that problem too. https://emojis.wiki/all-emojis/