ALostInquirer

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[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago

Which word would you employ to address those seeking power through the scapegoating and targeted discrimination of minorities and vulnerable populations?

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Then you’ve got seamless integration with Vscode as a bonus, it’s more like why would you not use GitHub unless you have a specific problem with them.

Does GitHub still only permit one account? I remember looking into it awhile back and not wanting to get things mixed up between personal/professional arrangements and the one account policy put me off.

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

Thanks! I hadn't heard of this before, hydrogen fueled cars, sure, but not this. 😄

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

All that aside, the point is that people talking about how it’s not “real AI” often come across as people who don’t know what they’re talking about, which was the point of the image.

The funny part is, as I mention in my comment, isn't that how both parties to these conversations feel? The problem is they're talking past each other, but the worst part is, arguably the more educated participant should be more apt to recognize this and clarify or better yet, ask for clarification so they can see where the disconnect is emerging to improve communication.

Also, let's remember that it's not the laypeople describing the technology in general personified terms like "learning" or "hallucinating", which furthers some of the grumbling.

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Microsoft fucking sucks, but I want people to know ways around stuff so they aren’t wasting time and money if they don’t have to.

What is the way around Microsoft accounts during 10/11 setup?

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Which is a fair point, because AI has never meant “general AI”, it’s an umbrella term for a wide variety of intelligence like tasks as performed by computers.

Do you mean in the everyday sense or the academic sense? I think this is why there's such grumbling around the topic. Academically speaking that may be correct, but I think for the general public, AI has been more muddled and presented in a much more robust, general AI way, especially in fiction. Look at any number of scifi movies featuring forms of AI, whether it's the movie literally named AI or Terminator or Blade Runner or more recently Ex Machina.

Each of these technically may be presenting general AI, but for the public, it's just AI. In a weird way, this discussion is sort of an inversion of what one usually sees between academics and the public. Generally academics are trying to get the public not to use technical terms loosely, yet here some of the public is trying to get some of the tech/academic sphere to not, at least as they think, use technical terms loosely.

Arguably it's from a misunderstanding, but if anyone should understand the dynamics of language, you'd hope it would be those trying to calibrate machines to process language.

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

HHO generators

...What are these? Something to do with hydrogen? Despite it not making sense for you to write it that way if you meant H2O, I really enjoy the silly idea of a water generator (as in, making water, not running off water).

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Another big, lingering question is why Meta wants to do this in the first place. Lambert says Meta wants to give users more control over their posts and followers, with easier avenues to engage across platforms.

So will they be implementing a method to export this data in ways that could be imported to other platforms? Otherwise I don't see where federation fits in here all that much.

Extending reach isn't really the same as control imo.

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Might it be better in future to screenshot the post, quote the text and cite the author/poster, supposing one wants to avoid any linking to Twitter?

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 40 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

They're not also locked into Facebook? It seems like far too many public services communicate through these non-public platforms (i.e. often more easily viewed or sometimes only viewable with an account).

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Outside of the tech differences, given that it's for socializing and has fewer people you want to follow, what else keeps you using it? Are there some people/communities (besides aforementioned cryptobros) only on there that you've found of interest?

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But if nobody knows much of anything on the matter, how can anyone be sure they're being corrected and learning anything? 🤔

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