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FaceDeer

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Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.

Spent many years on Reddit and then some time on kbin.social.

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Such training can be done in places where there's plenty of water to spare. Like so many of these "we're running out of X!" Fears, basic economics will start putting the brakes on long before crashing into a wall.

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Unfortunately they lost Karelia. It wasn't the great victory the memes make it out to be.

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I like his odds against the zombies. But if that's Murray shouldn't there be another tinier dot of a different colour inside his?

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Given the raging anti-science commentary that erupts whenever geoengineering experiments are proposed is it any wonder they're doing it quietly?

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How can you have evidence to support that position until testing is done?

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The subject of this thread is an experiment that is testing the efficacy of the process. Simply "sharing an idea" doesn't give you evidence of whether it works.

The problem is that it could bring more unpredictability to the climate.

Emphasis added. How do you know whether it will bring unpredictability without some kind of experiment or other data?

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So no point trying to attract it to Canada, then?

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That's the same thing.

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He must have to apologize to her a lot.

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Shouldn't the bond already be paid, though? If they won't accept an IOU from Trump himself why are they accepting an IOU from someone on his behalf?

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There are plenty of stand-alone LLM apps.

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Modern LLMs don't train during usage, they're pre-trained.

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If you don't want it, don't use it. If nobody uses it Microsoft doesn't make money from it. If Microsoft doesn't make money from it, they won't run it.

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Given that I have locally-run AIs sitting on my home computer that I have no plan to delete (until something better comes along), then yeah, it's never going to get worse. If all else fails I can just use the existing AI for as long as I want. It doesn't "wear out."

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Computers are general-purpose machines. You can run a computer program on any computer, it may just be faster or slower depending on the computer's capabilities.

The AIs I run locally are also open-source, so if future computers lose compatibility with existing programs they can be recompiled for the new architecture.

I suppose we could lose the ability to build computers entirely, but that strikes me as a much bigger and more general issue than just this AI thing.

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You're wildly wrong about the fundamentals of computer science here. I'd be starting from first principles trying to explain further. I recommend reading up on Turing machines, or perhaps getting ChatGPT to explain it to you.

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I run my own AI models on my own home PC. Am I an oligarch?

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You're providing a prime example of misunderstanding. The term AI has been in professional use for a wide variety of algorithms, including machine learning and neural nets like LLMs, since the Dartmouth conference in 1956. It's the people who only know what AI is like from Star Trek and other such sources that are misinformed.

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I don't know what you mean by "historical", because the stuff we've got now is what is historically known as AI.

If you mean the Star Trek stuff, though, then the specific terms for those are AGI (Artificial General Intelligence, an AI that's capable of doing basically everything a human can) and ASI (Artificial Super Intelligence, an AI that's capable of doing more than what a human can).

We don't have AGI yet, but there's no reason to assume we can't eventually figure it out. Brains are made of matter, so by fiddling with bits of matter we should eventually be able to make it do whatever a brain can. We have an example showing what's possible, we just need to figure out how to make one of our own.

ASI is a little more speculative since we don't have any known examples of naturally-occurring superintelligence. But I also think it's a bit unlikely that humans just happen to be the smartest things that can exist.

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I don't see what this has to do with the meaning of the term AI.

If a marketing department somewhere starts trying to push the slogan "ice cream for your car!" As a way to sell gasoline, would it make sense to start complaining that the stuff Ben & Jerry's is selling isn't actually gasoline?

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I have provided them.

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That's even more "wrong," though. Plenty of AI is deterministic, and plenty of nondeterministic computing isn't AI.

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The ship's computer could whip up an AGI (Moriarty) in response to a simple command. The Federation later systematized this in the form of emergency holographic officers.

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Make something up and try to get it popular enough to matter, if you refuse to use the terms that have already gained traction and that you're familiar with. As far as I'm aware there's just AGI and ASI.

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fedia.io is running mbin, which is a fork of kbin. It seems to be doing well, so you could switch to Lemmy/mbin if you don't want to include kbin any more but still want to show alternate clients are possible.

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