ALostInquirer

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[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, on further thought and as I mention in other replies, my thoughts on this are shifting toward the real bug of this being how it's marketed in many cases (as a digital assistant/research aid) and in turn used, or attempted to be used (as it's marketed).

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

perception

This is the problem I take with this, there's no perception in this software. It's faulty, misapplied software when one tries to employ it for generating reliable, factual summaries and responses.

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

It's not a bad article, honestly, I'm just tired of journalists and academics echoing the language of businesses and their marketing. "Hallucinations" aren't accurate for this form of AI. These are sophisticated generative text tools, and in my opinion lack any qualities that justify all this fluff terminology personifying them.

Also frankly, I think students have one of the better applications for large-language model AIs than many adults, even those trying to deploy them. Students are using them to do their homework, to generate their papers, exactly one of the basic points of them. Too many adults are acting like these tools should be used in their present form as research aids, but the entire generative basis of them undermines their reliability for this. It's trying to use the wrong tool for the job.

You don't want any of the generative capacities of a large-language model AI for research help, you'd instead want whatever text-processing it may be able to do to assemble and provide accurate output.

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

When I wrote "processing", I meant it in the sense of getting to that "shape" of an appropriate response you describe. If I'd meant this in a conscious sense I would have written, "poorly understood prompt/query", for what it's worth, but I see where you were coming from.

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee -3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

(AI confidently BSing)

Isn't it more accurate to say it's outputting incorrect information from a poorly processed prompt/query?

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 15 points 6 months ago (18 children)

Why do tech journalists keep using the businesses' language about AI, such as "hallucination", instead of glitching/bugging/breaking?

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 36 points 6 months ago (9 children)

...Does anyone have data on how many people still use checks?

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)
[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

What sets IceShrimp apart from the other Misskey forks in your opinion?

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

That's kind of what I was thinking may be the case, but I'm not sure if I'm asking this well enough or if I may be misunderstanding ActivityPub.

It's not clear to me how, without communication/searching outside of an ActivityPub instance, it would ever find other ActivityPub instances to connect to and communicate with.

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

When I hosted game servers: Depending on the game, you may have to fix something every few hours. Arma 3 is, by far, the worst. Which really sucks because the games can last really long, and it can be annoying to save and load with the GM tool thing.

Was that a mix of games being more involved and the way their server software was set up, from what you could tell, or...?

 

Sometimes it feels like the about pages/sidebars across the fediverse are underappreciated to the point of being underused, so I thought it might be nice to see what some most appreciate in those abouts/sidebars that are used.

For me personally? If it's something kind of niche or obscure, or even something basic but kinda ambiguous, I dig a concise little description like "[blank] is a [genre/type] [band/game/tv show/etc.], [additional relevant info]".

Although if it catches my interest enough I will just post and ask because how else might I figure out the secret arcana of the Deep Hobbies?

 

It kind of makes me think of how odd it would have been if many of the old forums named themselves like bookclub.phpbulletin.com, metalheads.vbulletin.net, or something.

There's nothing wrong with doing that, obviously, but it's struck me as another interesting quirk of fediverse instances/sites. Generally as soon as you visit them you can tell by the site interface or an icon somewhere what software they're using.

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