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[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If you can't imagine why this is bad, maybe read some Kafka or watch some Black Mirror.

Lmfao. Yeah, ok, let's get my predictions from the depressing show dedicated to being relentlessly pessimistic at every single decision point.

And yeah, like I said, you sound like my hysterical middle school teacher claiming that Wikipedia will be society's downfall.

Guess what? It wasn't. People learn that tools are error prone and came up with strategies to use them while correcting for potential errors.

Like at a fundamental, technical level, components of a system can be error prone, but still be useful overall. Quantum calculations have inherent probabilities and errors in them, but they can still solve some types of calculations so much faster than normal computers that you can run the same calculation 100x on a Quantum Computer, average out the results to remove the outlying errors, and get to the right answer far faster than a classical computer.

Computer chips in satellites and the space station are constantly having random bits of memory flipped by cosmic rays, but they still work fine because their RAM is error-correcting ram, that can use similar methods to verify and check for errors.

And at a super high level, some of my friends and coworkers are more reliable than others, that doesn't mean the ones that are less reliable aren't helpful, it just means I have to take what they say with a grain of salt.

Designing for error correction is a thing, and people are perfectly capable of doing so in their personal lives.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes, they literally are. Or maybe you haven't heard of human caused climate change?

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca -2 points 2 months ago

But a) they don't refuse, most will tell you if you prompt them well them and b) you cannot rely on them as the sole source of truth but an information machine can still be useful if it's right most of the time.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca -3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

My friends would probably say something like "I've never heard that one, but I guess it means something like ..."

Ok, but the point is that lots of people would just say something and then figure out if it's right later.

The problem is, these LLMs don't give any indication when they're making stuff up versus when repeating an incontrovertible truth. Lots of people don't understand the limitations of things like Google's AI summary* so they will trust these false answers. Harmless here, but often not.

Quite frankly, you sound like middle school teachers being hysterical about Wikipedia being wrong sometimes.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 months ago (4 children)

"Regurgitation without critical thought is fundamentally counter to the principles of science and engineering"

  • Jesus 4:12
[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Their office is downtown, go down and ask to talk to someone. Don't leave until they ask you to.

You have no obligation not to inconvenience them.

Search for the company on LinkedIn, click through its employees. Have them get a bunch of 'Appeared in Searches' notifications from LinkedIn. Make sure they feel seen by a bunch of their fellow citizens.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 103 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (8 children)

PC Gamer regurgitating the abstract of a random research paper makes baby jesus cry.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 months ago

Social media said Mark Zuckerberg was over and sadly I think neither are right.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I would rather a law that extends many of the properties of physical ownership to digital sales.

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