The concern with LLM's as any sort of source of truth is that they have no concept of facts or truth. They simply read training material and then pattern match to come up with a response to input. There is no concept of correct information. And unless you fact check it, you will not know if it is correct or it's reasoning is sound. Using this to teach is dangerous IMO. Using the word reasoning is a anthropomorphising it too; it's just pattern matching.
Could we develop some adversarial system that fact checks it in the future? Possibly. But I don't know of one that's effective. Besides, good luck determining what is true when your training set is the internet. Or having it account for advances in understanding.
From the article you linked:
The incredible capabilities of large language models like ChatGPT are centered on how they have been trained on a vast corpus of knowledge. They provide us with an unparalleled resource for information and guidance. As your virtual professor, LLMs can guide you through the intricacies of each subject for deeper understanding of complex concepts.
That's a very naive take on LLMs. It assumes that because the training material is valid, it's output is valid. It is not!
I worry about the future where LLMs become the basis of information exchange because outputs "look right".
Show me a system that can guarantee correct answers and I'm 100% on board.
I have the same one. Mainly got it for temp control for white tea and figured having per degree control was a huge plus. Plus it's so nice artistically
It's crazy to me that we live in a world where money and celebrity implies influence, and credentials don't mean much on a general public stage. This man can tweet something insane and its taken as a serious discussion point.
Given that money can buy influence, it is a legitimate risk to society, I get that. But how crazy is that as a concept?
I know memory is fairly cheap but e.g. there are millions of new videos on youtube everyday, each probably few hundred MBs to few GBs. It all has to take enormous amount of space. Not to mention backups.
This is an article from 2015 where Facebook/Meta was exploring Blu-ray for their DCs. You're definitely right though. Tape is key as the longest term storage.
There are also techniques where data centers do offline storage by writing out to a high volume storage medium (I heard Blu-ray as an example, especially because it's cheap) and storing it in racks. All automated of course. This let's them store huge quantities of infrequently accessed data (most of it) in a more efficient way. Not everything has to be online and ready to go, as long as it's capable of being made available on demand.
Edit: Clarifying that tape medium is typically used for the longest term storage with the caveat that read is slow, so that used for the stuff that is least likely to be accessed. For things that are accessed infrequently but still need to be available relatively frequently you can have a "caching layer" which is what I was referring to with the discs. It's a tradeoff between speed of access and information density. Here's an article from 2015 where Facebook/Meta is discussing their design: https://engineering.fb.com/2015/05/04/core-data/under-the-hood-facebook-s-cold-storage-system/
Google has reportedly removed much of Twitter’s links from its search results after the social network’s owner Elon Musk announced reading tweets would be limited....
This is such a great example of the potential consequences of making a decision without understanding the landscape/context. It's obvious this would happen in hindsight.
It's actually pretty shocking. It seems so normal to struggle to buy a house, yet most of the last generation have one. It's going to be a rude awakening for society as this trend continues. At some point the older generation is going to pass on and free up houses. What is that even going to look like? Are they going to be jacked up too? It's just not sustainable if you project it out. There has to be a tipping point. People need homes and renting is so limiting.
An update to Google's privacy policy suggests that the entire public internet is fair game for it's AI projects. If Google can read your words, assume they belong to the company now, and expect that they’re nesting somewhere in the bowels of a chatbot.
There was an article recently about this (too lazy to search it). It's already starting to happen. If most of the content they train on is the internet and more internet content is created by LLMs without being tagged as AI generated content (can't be guaranteed by all actors), then it's inevitable. High signal training data is out the window.
Does everyone just think they can make a living playing games? Trying to search for Diablo 4 info gets you nothing but mountains of useless clickbait youtube videos. Gotta waste my time jumping thru the video just to find out the guy is dumber about the game than I am....
Attention spans. News content these days are moving to video I stead of text to better grab your attention. When everything is really engaging, you have to be more engaging than that to get seen.
The number of articles out about the latest and greatest game updates from a few hours ago which are rehashing patches released a week or more ago drive me nuts. How many times do I have to wade through multiple screens of preamble to find out that content is being recycled from week old news.
But yes, the ratio of low signal to high signal content is crazy in general. I get that people have to make a living and want to do it via communicating on YouTube/articles/... but I feel we've really lost access to high quality content. ChatGPT and other LLMs are going to make this wayyyyyyy worse.
Content recommendation algorithms push for length and frequency, which inevitably means meeting the quantity bar is more important than quality. Meanwhile we have really thought out high quality content buried in a mountain of clickbait and those creators both don't get as good monetization or exposure. It's a sad system :(. I want to see more ErrantSignal quality bar and less clickbait please.
I agree. I much prefer text stuff. It's hard deny the shift though. Looking at TikTok as an extreme example, a whole generation is getting their news from someone doing a dance while two other videos play of cutting playdough. I'm not saying it's wrong, but I do think it's really hurting our ability as a species to exist without attention hacking.
If you've managed to exist outside of that band of information exchange, I commend you.
I have very limited background in programming. I quite want to develop the game myself, or with only minimal help. Is there one language that is better than others for game development, or is more versatile?
If your goal is to create a non-commercial game I second python. Though you could probably find ways to make that work commercially as well if you package it correctly.
My first big programming project was writing a 2D game in python as a final project in an intro to computer science class. It's pretty quick to translate ideas into working code without having the language semantics getting in your way.
Btw the target platform also matters for which language would be the best (ex. mobile vs desktop). I believe all of @LexaPrime's suggestions assumed you are making a desktop game.
For those of you who weren’t diagnosed until adulthood (I’m in my late 40s), what was the diagnosis process like? Are you just given a written test, or does someone evaluate you more thoroughly? Do they try to understand your symptoms, or is it more of a checklist? If anyone has personal stories they’d be willing to share,...
I was recently diagnosed from a neuro-psych. Similar process of many hours of testing (~5h). My friend was also diagnosed recently from a psychiatrist through question answer, but no formal cognitive evaluation measure. The amount of clarity I got from the neuro-psych in terms of cognitive function and my specific circumstances was significantly more helpful than what my friend got from the psychiatrist.
After all the formal testing, I was given a thorough 17 page report including a breakdown of each aspect of cognitive functioning, any applicable disorders (with recommendation for therapy to investigate further and confirm), next steps, and treatment and coping mechanism recommendations. My friend was given a broad diagnosis of unspecified ADHD with no additional information.
If you are able to afford the neuropsych eval, it is well worth it.
An important distinction is that a neuropsych eval focuses on cognitive function. It works for ADHD because it is a cognitive function disorder and will show directly in testing as a deficiency in executive function (plus possibly other stuff, I'm not an expert). They also do the psych eval tests but they can normally point to broad things that you will need therapy to dig into.
The place i work in doesn't have an actual onsite manager, it's just me and my coworker. He's more physically capable, but computers are a foreign language to him; i can handle the physical work, but I'm slower than he is, but I'm much much better with computers....
Do you have a detailed list of duties? Ask for one. If you don't feel comfortable doing that look for duties of similar positions for different companies. If they are asking you to do these management related duties under some pretence that you'll be promoted to a leadership role, then that's one thing. I think it's fair to have a conversation with your manager about how you are feeling, what you are doing (make a list), what your career goals are, and how you can align that with the company.
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One of my summer favorites: Iced coffee + orange juice + ginger (lemmy.world)
The coffee sunrise post earlier reminded me of one of my summer favorites (I just suck at taking pretty pictures but I think you’ll get the idea):...
Started first ever activity log after diagnosis, and oh my god
It's amazing how much ADHD I've been fighting moment to moment without realizing it....
YSK: Don't use spray sunscreen on even a remotely windy day
Or ever....
Does kbin strip geotags in images?
And any other identifying information in image metadata? I would hope that it does so on image upload, but I'm not sure.
And I'll do it again! (i.postimg.cc)
My coffee station (lemmy.world)
Elon Musk supports eliminating voting rights for people without children (www.independent.co.uk)
How do social media companies like twitter or youtube not run out of space for posts?
I know memory is fairly cheap but e.g. there are millions of new videos on youtube everyday, each probably few hundred MBs to few GBs. It all has to take enormous amount of space. Not to mention backups.
Google decimates Twitter search results after Elon Musk imposes limits on reading tweets (www.rawstory.com)
Google has reportedly removed much of Twitter’s links from its search results after the social network’s owner Elon Musk announced reading tweets would be limited....
Incredible how nowdays it dosent seem a normal thing (lemmy.fmhy.ml)
Google Says It'll Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI (gizmodo.com)
An update to Google's privacy policy suggests that the entire public internet is fair game for it's AI projects. If Google can read your words, assume they belong to the company now, and expect that they’re nesting somewhere in the bowels of a chatbot.
The Diablo clickbait is unreal, is the enshitification of the internet reaching the gaming communities now?
Does everyone just think they can make a living playing games? Trying to search for Diablo 4 info gets you nothing but mountains of useless clickbait youtube videos. Gotta waste my time jumping thru the video just to find out the guy is dumber about the game than I am....
What programming language would be the best to learn to develop a game from scratch?
I have very limited background in programming. I quite want to develop the game myself, or with only minimal help. Is there one language that is better than others for game development, or is more versatile?
Adult ADHD Diagnosis - what is the process like?
For those of you who weren’t diagnosed until adulthood (I’m in my late 40s), what was the diagnosis process like? Are you just given a written test, or does someone evaluate you more thoroughly? Do they try to understand your symptoms, or is it more of a checklist? If anyone has personal stories they’d be willing to share,...
How do i judge if something is above my pay grade? At what point should i simply tell my boss, you aren't paying me to do this?
The place i work in doesn't have an actual onsite manager, it's just me and my coworker. He's more physically capable, but computers are a foreign language to him; i can handle the physical work, but I'm slower than he is, but I'm much much better with computers....