naevaTheRat

No, they can summarise articles very convincingly! Big difference.

They have no model of what's important, or truth. Most of the time they probably do ok but unless you go read the article you'll never know if they left out something critical, hallucinated details, or inverted the truth or falsity of something.

That's the problem, they're not an intern they don't have a human mind. They recognise patterns in articles and patterns in summaries, they non deterministically adjust the patterns in the article towards the patterns in summaries of articles. Do you see the problem? They produce stuff that looks very much like an article summary but do not summarise, there is no intent, no guarantee of truth, in fact no concern for truth at all except what incidentally falls out of the statistical probability wells.

That's my point. OP doesn't know the maths, has probably never implemented any sort of ML, and is smugly confident that people pointing out the flaws in a system generating one token at a time are just parroting some line.

These tools are excellent at manipulating text (factoring in the biases they have, I wouldn't recommended trying to use one in a multinational corporation in internal communications for example, as they'll clobber non euro derived culture) where the user controls both input and output.

Help me summarise my report, draft an abstract for my paper, remove jargon from my email, rewrite my email in the form of a numbered question list, analyse my tone here, write 5 similar versions of this action scene I drafted to help me refine it. All excellent.

Teach me something I don't know (e.g. summarise article, answer question etc?) disaster!

So super informed OP, tell me how they work. technically, not CEO press release speak. explain the theory.

Nah dude, every time I've checked my routing the rtt is basically speed of light. Like it's 200 ms give or take to LA. As the Crow flies that's 24000 km, which would be 80 ms RTT. idk the exact route but we can probably add say 30% in the distance cause those cables aren't dead straight and there's a bit of waggle around the actual network infrastructure.

like yeah maybe half is the processing but that fraction only gets smaller with distance and LA is like the closest English speaking hub.

edit: just ran a test now https://www.meter.net/ping-test/202404-92320-2f35.html that's theoretically 90 ms so yeah, even if that distance is accurate it's 60% light speed limits.

You might be interested in this: https://veloren.net/

Imagine breaking so many hearts with one hang glider trailer that you spawn an open source mmo.

Castle story was the other big horror show.

otoh depressive realism is a thing.

For example about a trillion probable sentients are killed every year mostly for pleasure and if you can contextualise numbers at all that rends your heart.

So genocide is the key word. A lot of conquest did not involve the displacement or extermination of entire peoples until colonialism.

Conquering a place was largely "so you pay tax to me now" prior to colonialism, at which point it became more "so you are subhuman and need to be exterminated or bread of of existence"

Colonialism is definitely a unique sort of evil. If you don't think that I'm sceptical that you're particularly broadly read.

The scale of atrocities committed is just beyond comparison, like the most hardcore genocide in ancient times (that we have evidence of) was against a single city. In colonialism we are talking about continents.

That fucking name is reason not to buy it already.

It's not even claw, it's CLAW grrrrr fear me and my pocket Cheeto dust.

It reminds me of when yoyos (yep I'm that old) were trying to be like "this is the spinanator 6000 XL Xtreme fireball mushroom cloud"

good sirs, is thou engaging in buggery if thou makes record of thine notions?

licensing your comments has the same energy as throwing salt over your shoulder.

Yeah that doesn't mean we're running on an alien projector. Science communication of theoretical physics is horrible.

Anytime you find yourself getting excited about some galaxy brain SciFi stuff just clap out some chalk board erasers and inhale the dust. That's about how pleasant and exciting theoretical physics is (and how worth doing, fight me you keyboard tapping nerds) and it should help you get in the mood for appreciating findings.