@Zeugs@social.cologne
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Zeugs

@Zeugs@social.cologne

Stuck somewhere between humanities, computers and data.

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RickiTarr, to random
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Could you be in an Open/Poly Relationship?

P.S. This is a place to discuss your own personal opinions about yourself and your choices, or ask earnest questions of others if they wish to answer. If you've come here to preach or degrade other's choices, that is a block from me.

Zeugs,
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@RickiTarr I am or was. Not being with other people lately, too lazy. Am I mono now? I don't know and possibly I don't care.

lilithsaintcrow, to random
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“‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says.”

Then fucking pay for it honestly or fucking perish, you fucking grifters.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/08/ai-tools-chatgpt-copyrighted-material-openai

Zeugs,
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@lilithsaintcrow In Germany there is the . They pay money to authors(professionals) and publishers. They collect the Money from a fee on photocopy units and blank CDs/DVDs.
So maybe 0,0001 cent per Word fee for LLM content? This could be an outcome of this.
I suspect you wouldn't be satisfied with this solutions.
In my impression this will be more likely than the American government will let this "future technology" die (at this point in time).

georgetakei, to random

This feels like a Star Trek episode.

Zeugs,
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@georgetakei That Voight-Kampf test of yours. Did you ever tried to take that test yourself?

cstross, to random
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NO FUCK OFF GET AWAY FROM ME YOU CREEP— https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/ai-comes-for-your-pcs-keyboard-as-microsoft-adds-dedicated-copilot-key/

Zeugs,
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@cstross But they have the Apple Key which is the equivalent of the Window Key and they use it for copy paste, don't they. So Apple already copied the MS Stunt... Or was Apple first? IDK,IDC... Boomer invasive tactics... Like the Pope that takes his Soul energy from telling you who to have sex with.
In the end they want to promote copilot which is now a clone of Bing Chat, which is a broken clone of GPT4. In the end everyone talks about the button and not about copilot not working. Success!

ErikJonker, to ai
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Basically Google had a year to catch up with OpenAI but until now i think they have failed. Their Gemini model is not really that impressive. Ofcourse a massive worldwide rollout and availability could change things and maybe some improvements will follow or Gemini Ultra will dazzle us next year, time will tell.
https://huggingface.co/spaces/lmsys/chatbot-arena-leaderboard

Zeugs,
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@ErikJonker Basically people talking about Google, because they are big.
Why is no one talking about Mistral?
They got an open source Modell playing in the top ranks, with less parameters etc. .
Big tech is not that innovative. I would not expect big things from big tech. They are good at buying. But Google is the only Big tech company in high ranks of LLM leaderboards.

Zeugs,
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@ErikJonker you can't discount big tech because of their power. You probably don't have to discount big tech for innovation. They never were that in innovative. They bought companies and pushed them with their power.
Also putting a legal time bomb like an LLM in a shell with so much money would potentially risk good running businesses.
Open AI probably has lots of books in their training data. If legal trouble comes up they go bankrupt. Would be worse for Google, they could acutally pay.

Zeugs, to scifi
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is not a for the future ... It's more like an embedding new tools in old story plots.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tech-billionaires-need-to-stop-trying-to-make-the-science-fiction-they-grew-up-on-real/

Zeugs, to FediPact
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Says it will block
https://fedipact.online/
People fear that it will "split" the Fediverse.
But it will only do what a net does, nodes and subgroups not being connected to everyone else on the net.
That already happens by usual blocking.
I think I would look at what comes from threads but I understand everyone that will block.

vagina_museum, to random
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OVARIAN INFORMATION: Most birds have two ovaries, but only the left one is mature and functional.

Zeugs,
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@vagina_museum is there an explanation?

john, to StableDiffusion
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I cannot get good results out of .

“A fox crossing a residential street. The fox has a human face. There are autumn leaves on the ground, terraced houses in the the background, and a slight mist.”

It's just ignoring most of my prompt (as well as really struggling with what foxes look like). I've tried many iterations and variations, they're all like this.

A street in a autumnal park. There isn’t even a fox in this one, and no houses.
A three legged fox with no torso standing on a road in an autumnal park. It hasn’t got a human face and there are no houses in the background.
Some sort of shrunken fox-adjacent thing on a road in an autumnal park. No human face, no houses in the background.

Zeugs,
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@john this is quite normal. What were you expecting? Dall-e 3 is a bit better, but in general that's how they do stuff...

Zeugs,
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@john yeah like I said it's a bit better. 🤷

Zeugs,
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@john depends on the randomly chosen random seed.🤷 Have you retried the same prompt like ... More often?

Zeugs,
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@PeterFalkingham @john @miekeroth

It's practically another random seed variation of this:
https://sauropods.win/@john/111455719352164697

Dall-e seems to have seen more residential areas than SD.
Maybe, in the end there is not that much differend stuff in there.

Zeugs,
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@john @PeterFalkingham @miekeroth
Looks like a fox to me. Source stable diffusion. 🦊🤷

Zeugs,
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@john @PeterFalkingham @miekeroth
This turns into: lets Google that for me with Stable diffusion. It just takes at least 60seconds longer than googling. First shot. Fox running no filters got the legs problem. The shape fits better than on your SD stuff.

Zeugs,
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@john @PeterFalkingham @miekeroth
In the end the hard truth about AI generation is that you should kill your darlings early. If the model doesn't hook it's pointless.
But look at residential cyberfox he also has back legs but here the model can compensate. It relaxes.

anderseknert, to OpenAI
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To the tech bros cheering on as Sam Altman is expected to return to the company after employees threaten to leave unless he does: you understand this is how unions work, right?

Zeugs,
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@anderseknert @michaelcoyote No a union fights for better conditions regardless who is the Boss. This analogy is screwed.

axbom, to random
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My son bought this book for me for my birthday (in June) but it didn't arrive until yesterday and he gave it to me when I came home from work.

Started reading it in bed and am halfway through as I'm continuing my reading at the breakfast table. I would never suppose it's a book for everyone but wow is it hitting me at the exact right time in my life.

"Turn your TV off. Throw your machines out the window. Save your excuses for someone who cares. Get to work."

😁

Zeugs,
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@axbom ... So I go outside and pick up my machines first, right? Can't work without my computer having a computer job.

Zeugs,
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@axbom "Struggel is good makes you strong, just like Conan turning the wheel in the dessert for years just to get the strongest of them all! "

Zeugs, to random
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Deutschland voll auf dem KI Bullshit trip. Dabei ist der Artikel noch einer der Kritischeren.
Nein! Halluzinationen lassen sich ganz sicher nicht durch "gute Prompts" verhindern. Dieses :"Du machst es nur falsch das funktioniert alles super" ist schlimmstes Tech-Gaslighting.
Auch irgendwelche Vektor Datenbanken, was richtig ist sind schwachsinn. Dann kannste schreiben was eh schon als Text in der Datenbank steht ... 😂🤦‍♂️

pallenberg, to OpenAI
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This will always be one of the best Elon Musk roasts of all time!

and I might have to print, frame and get it on my office wall 😀

Zeugs,
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@pallenberg Where do you think Musk et al got the name from?

cstross, to random
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New blog entry: We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus! (Text of a keynote talk from Next Frontiers Applied Fiction Day, Stuttgart):

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2023/11/dont-create-the-torment-nexus.html

Zeugs,
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@cstross Where do the positive visions of the future (and tech?) come from?

Zeugs,
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@cstross Is scifi deprecated?

axbom, to random
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The world would generally make more sense to me if instead of saying "I'm using an AI to do this", people would just say "I'm using computer software to do this."

The world won't be so lucky.

General-purpose machines? Yes. That's what a computer is.
I input data, it goes through software, and a brand new output comes out. Generative! My Sinclair ZX81 did this. Using BASIC.

Maybe there's is something else this new definition of AI adds?

  • The amount of energy and data needed to build the software
  • Unpredictability of what the output will be.
  • The unexaplainability of the software.

So what we are using is big-data, energy-intensive, unpredictable, unexplainable computer software. Also known as AI.

Sorry, just thinking out loud.

Zeugs,
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@axbom It's also unreliable. An important factor for technology. This is blindly taken for granted today. In my impression it's a the consequence of a society that lived and grew up in an age with, in general, very reliable Technology.

cstross, to random
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Public feel politicians invent or exaggerate culture wars as a tactic, poll suggests

Professor Bobby Duffy, director of the policy institute at King's College London says "evidence suggests" using culture wars "may not be a particularly successful approach to an election".

https://news.sky.com/story/public-feel-politicians-invent-or-exaggerate-culture-wars-as-a-tactic-poll-suggests-12998875

Zeugs,
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@cstross that's what the people say that they care about. Representing yourself as an "rational actor" could be a a thing. (Okay haven't read it, but details of studies can be tricky).

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