davidgro

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davidgro,

I think it’s about moderators

davidgro,

I believe true AI might in fact be an extinction risk. Not likely, but not impossible. It would have to end up self-improving and wildly outclass us, then could be a threat.

Of course the fancy autocomplete systems we have now are in no way true AI.

davidgro,

In your case that was a motor control issue, not a flaw in reasoning. In the LLM case it’s a pure implementation of a Chinese Room and the “book and pencils” (weights) semi-randomly generate text that causes humans to experience textual pareidolia more often than not.

It can be useful - that book is very large, and contains a lot of residue of valid information and patterns, but the way it works is not how intelligence works (still an open question of course, but ‘not that way’ is quite clear.)

This is not to say that true AI is impossible - I believe it is possible, but it will have to be implemented differently. At the very least, it will need the ability to self-modify in real time (learning)

davidgro,

What would convince me that we may be on the right path: Besides huge improvements in reasoning, it would (like I mentioned) need to be able to learn - and not just track previous text, I mean permanently adding or adjusting the weights (or equivalent) of the model.

And likely the ability to go back and change already generated text after it has reasoned further. Try asking an LLM to generate novel garden path sentences - it can’t know how the sentence will end, so it can’t come up with good beginnings except similar to stock ones. (That said it’s not a skill I personally have either, but humans can do it certainly.)

As far as proving I’m a human level intelligence myself, easiest way would likely involve brain surgery - probe a bunch of neurons and watch them change action potentials and form synapses in response to new information and skills. But short of that, at the current state of the art I can prove it by stating confidently that Samantha has 1 sister. (Note: that thread was a reply to someone else, but I’m watching the whole article’s comments)

davidgro,

This account. On a large instance that I don’t own. Not ideal in a pure sense, but the admins and mods do a lot of work that I don’t want to do, so I’m fine with it.

davidgro,

I know that song!

/s

Seriously though, nice image.

davidgro,

There will most certainly still be wasps and mosquitoes.

davidgro,

I wonder what historical events happened on the 2024th of March, year 00.

davidgro,

To make sure it doesn’t go public, because they are in it.

davidgro,

I think this might be the first of these I’ve seen where pretty much all the comments are just agreement.

davidgro,

Much of the same could be said of the EmDrive. This is one of those extraordinary claims which requires extraordinary evidence, especially given the recent history of the topic.

davidgro,

It will disappear when nobody else can replicate and it becomes clear that it never really worked to begin with.

davidgro,

I have a much more lighthearted answer.

This post contains some spoilers, but I consider it outside the statute of limitations for such things.

There’s this old movie where aliens are concerned about humanity developing a weapon that if used would Destroy the universe.

So the aliens use a really stupid plan to try and convince us to stop. And I guess this was after 8 other ideas either failed or were considered even worse.

Anyway at the end (of course) humanity wins and drives off the aliens. Wait, what was the aliens’ original goal? Something about the universe? Oh well, must not be important… The End.

And that was Plan 9 from Outer Space.

If you could take a single character out of a piece of media (book, film, TV show, video game, etc) who would it be?

They would lose any magical powers they may have had in the book, but anything they are, rather than can do, will stay. For example people from the His Dark Materials world would keep their daemons. You can take them out at any time in the story’s plot, but for all other people consuming the media, it will be shown that the...

davidgro,

Great answer… But now you’ve caused God to actually exist IRL!

davidgro,

Such a profound quote… About losing a video game.

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    davidgro, (edited )

    It would be ridiculous to say that All Star is from Shrek.

    It’s from Mystery Men.

    (Only partly /s. Especially given the music video)

    davidgro,

    So basically an office suite? Like Google Docs or MS Office?

    davidgro, (edited )

    As far as Windows goes, 95 was actually version 4.00.950 for the first version.

    98 was 4.1, 2000 was 5.0, XP 5.1, Vista 6.0, 7 was 6.1, 8 was 6.2, 8.1 = 6.3

    Then they jumped to 10 in both the name and internal version.

    Windows 11 is still 10.0.x though.

    davidgro,

    Fancy dinner party… in Innsmouth.

    davidgro,

    Wait, that’s not Mars Attacks

    davidgro,

    Because they can.

    davidgro,

    Been done IRL.

    ghostinfluence.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-prank…

    davidgro,

    There’s even proof:
    qntm.org/odd

    davidgro,

    Can’t be - they are closed on Sundays.

    I'd like to interject for a moment. (lemmy.ml)

    What you’re refering to as Windows, is in fact, GNU/Windows, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Windows. Windows is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another closed component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising...

    davidgro,

    As far as switching out Explorer goes, it’s not actually the window manager, that’s Aero since Vista - but it is the shell on desktop editions of Windows… But not all editions. Some server editions (“core”) and some specialized other ones have the shell set to literally just a cmd window. There’s no taskbar, no Start, no desktop icons, etc. There’s a cmd window that if closed triggers a reboot. Of course other things can be started from it.

    I’m not sure if there’s a setting that could be changed to make a desktop edition behave like that or vice versa.

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