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[–] yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 5 points 32 minutes ago* (last edited 29 minutes ago)

I hate how Apple users feel the need to call their computer by the brand. It really makes me cringe.

It is called "a computer"

Maybe "PC"

"box" if you really have to flex that UNIX

They should treat their computers less like a sports car and more like a van

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 9 points 1 hour ago

I love so much that there are real, hilarious consequences for overzealous early adoption. You can't make this shit up.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The funniest part is this person job is AI safety.

[–] Matty_r@programming.dev 1 points 13 minutes ago

Maybe they'll take their job more seriously now?

[–] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 41 minutes ago

Oh surprise, an inexperienced person is doing stupid things and does not even know when to rather stfu, which is a stupid thing only inexperienced people do.

[–] RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Can someone explain to mr why these people are buying Mac Minis to run this in a "safe" environment and then they go on and connect it to the internet and give the AI credentials to all their cloud accounts? This seems excessively moronic to me? Am I missing something?

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago

They are slaves to trends and haven't thought about it even a little bit?

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 21 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

AI: I'm so sorry. You're correct I violated protocol. I'll make a note of this so it won't happen again.

Nurse: You gave my 5 year old patient 5000cc of morphine!

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 2 points 25 minutes ago

Now, that's on the Nurse if they didn't notice they were injecting someone with 5-liters of morphine.

[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 76 points 3 hours ago (5 children)

I love how these models apologize like they mean it. It doesn't mean it. It doesn't feel bad, and it will do it again.

Apologies mean "I made a mistake and I learned from it so it won't repeat."

Sure it claims it added more notes to it's config, but if it ignored the rules before, what makes you think that new rules are going to change anything?

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Apologies mean “I made a mistake and I learned from it so it won’t repeat.”

At best it might not make the same mistake again if that memory is in the current context. But more likely: It will not remember.

Although latest Gemini in particular has much more room for "remembering" things, still.

But "I made a mistake"? It is not self-aware in any way shape or form to the degree where "I made a mistake" carries any real meaning.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago

That MEMORY. md file won't do shit if the AI doesn't read it.

I give it 2 hours before it stops reading it until prompted again.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 29 points 3 hours ago

But it’s adding it to a text file that eats up a ton of tokens and routinely gets ignored!

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 hours ago

Apologies mean “I made a mistake and I learned from it so it won’t repeat.”

I beg to differ. An apology means that you feel bad about harm inflicted upon others. To prove the point: You apologize when you’re late due to circumstances that are outside of your control. Or when you accidentally bump into someone on the bus when the driver slams the break.

[–] frigge@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 hours ago

Apologies mean "I made a mistake and I learned from it so it won't repeat."

yeah enough humans don’t know that as well unfortunately. But yeah obviously LLMs don’t understand anything. That’s not how they work

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 47 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

If I was the director of AI safety, and I used AI to own and delete my inbox, I sure as shit would never tell a soul.

This is pure unbridled incompetence.

[–] violentfart@lemmy.world 1 points 29 minutes ago

They wanted to “eat their own dog food” but it’s closer to “eating their own dog shit”

[–] XLE@piefed.social 22 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

The whole "AI safety" field is this incompetent. These people that will tell you AI is on the verge of creating a bioweapon, and then run random code in a command line. Completely and totally unserious.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I don’t know what the hell has happened, but some of these people are basically human jellyfish. Big tech is full of them now.

No thought enters their mind, but they dodge the layoffs and the PIPs and get promoted like this.

I don’t fucking get it.

[–] GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 hours ago

It's just the natural progression of a disease that spreads outwards from Management. The bosses want yes-men, not people capable of independent thought.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 22 points 3 hours ago

If all the qualifications I need to be a security engineer for Facebook are

  • buy a Mac Mini
  • don't configure remote access
  • install untrusted software
  • leave

Then Facebook should hire me. I'll buy so many Mac Minis on their dime. I will run so many crazy things.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 hours ago

How come some 25yo person is a director at Facebook?

I mean, even if she is a child prodigy genius, which she obviously is not as she is face first fist deep into AI, how the frack do you have even enough life experience to become a director of any large organization at that age unless you somehow cheated your way in?

Then reading the hat she's doing and how she resolved it tells me she doesn't know shit about computers, she just know how to type commands into AI systems

Is this the future? Am I going to end up being one of those long bearded magicians that still know the old technology, that still can still save the day by using shell commands?

[–] MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip 67 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

The world's first opt-in computer worm. 🐛 🪱

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 41 points 4 hours ago (2 children)
[–] MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip 18 points 4 hours ago

No way, not my buddy!

[–] ZeDoTelhado@lemmy.world 8 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

At least bonzie was funny, unlike openclaw

[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 31 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

“The bot ate my homework” is quickly becoming more plausible than the customary canine culprit.

[–] borth@sh.itjust.works 30 points 3 hours ago

Nothing humbles you like telling your OpenClaw “confirm before acting” and watching it speedrun deleting your inbox. I couldn’t stop it from my phone. I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb

... Nothing humbles you like that?

[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

How come I can't find a job while an air-brain like this has a job title like that?

[–] Eximius@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

I think you should open up your orifice for certain fellatory services, perhaps, allegedly. Also maybe boobs.

Spacetime-bending ignorant-confidence helps.

[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 hour ago

I do have boobs, they're just not the right gender

[–] andyburke@fedia.io 4 points 2 hours ago

Because we have let the clowns be in charge and the stock market is full of monopolistic shitshows instead of actual competition.

[–] themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] wabafee@lemmy.world 15 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I like how it seems proud that the AI deleted her inbox.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 24 points 3 hours ago

I knew the rules. I did it anyway. And I’d fuckin do it again.

[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 hours ago

"The AI that actually does things" is a fucking hilarious tagline given the thing it actually did.

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 11 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Good, maybe you should run more OpenClaw so it can trash your shit and stop you from fucking up the world.

[–] myrmidex@belgae.social 3 points 1 hour ago

Give it time. All these big tech companies will have AI central to their operations in no time. I reckon the many problems over at MicroSlop lately are a result of this.

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 4 points 2 hours ago

Imagine how much a Director at Meta is being paid to be this fucking stupid. Jesus lawn mowing Christ.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I had ro RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb

So like... Fast, but not super fast because you're afraid of blowing up? 🤔

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 4 hours ago

What a dummy.

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago

Greatest excuse of all time.

[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 hours ago

If that's actually a picture of Yue, I have bunions older than her. How is someone with that little experience in charge of this shit?

[–] nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 hours ago

My wifes email box is full. How can i do this intentionally? /s

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 3 hours ago

Yeah Im ok using ai right now as a kind of assitant and a read only thing to summarize a doc but man I would not want it having any real rights to mess with stuff.