The Ai thread

[Yoused]

It is entirely because of crap like this that Frank Herbert foresaw the Butlerian Jihad. I have disabled a lot of the convenience features on my car because it is starting to feel in general like over-reliance on tech is the road to making us wall-e-soft.

 

[fischersd]

I still say - once all cars have self-driving (and it actually works), then car ownership for most will be a thing of the past. There's no joy in driving when it's really just a taxi at that point. And people will save thousands every year just by taking driverless Ubers everywhere instead.

People talk about the convenience of it...but they'll use AI to have a web of autonomous vehicles blanketing our neighbourhoods. You'll never have to wait more than a few minutes for a lift.

(and I daresay no one will feel guilty about not tipping a driverless cab)

 

[Eric]

I still say - once all cars have self-driving (and it actually works), then car ownership for most will be a thing of the past. There's no joy in driving when it's really just a taxi at that point. And people will save thousands every year just by taking driverless Ubers everywhere instead.

People talk about the convenience of it...but they'll use AI to have a web of autonomous vehicles blanketing our neighbourhoods. You'll never have to wait more than a few minutes for a lift.

(and I daresay no one will feel guilty about not tipping a driverless cab)

I agree in cities but not sure how well that will work out for rural areas, as it is getting an uber is cost prohibitive in most areas as the demand is low and distances far.

 

[mr_roboto]

I still say - once all cars have self-driving (and it actually works), then car ownership for most will be a thing of the past. There's no joy in driving when it's really just a taxi at that point. And people will save thousands every year just by taking driverless Ubers everywhere instead.

People talk about the convenience of it...but they'll use AI to have a web of autonomous vehicles blanketing our neighbourhoods. You'll never have to wait more than a few minutes for a lift.

(and I daresay no one will feel guilty about not tipping a driverless cab)

The realistic path to few people needing to own a car is to invest in walkable urban centers supported by good passenger rail networks. Tesla, Waymo, and the rest are not on a path that will ever deliver on the promises.

Besides which, cars sized for 1-4 humans are terrible if you care about trying to make progress on global warming. They are simply too energy inefficient compared to trains and busses.

 

[Cmaier]

AI Ruined Job Applications, So People Are Resorting to Dating Apps to Find Work

Networking has become the only way to get a job.

gizmodo.com

Bookmarking this for when my wife finds my tinder profile.

 

[Nycturne]

The realistic path to few people needing to own a car is to invest in walkable urban centers supported by good passenger rail networks. Tesla, Waymo, and the rest are not on a path that will ever deliver on the promises.

Besides which, cars sized for 1-4 humans are terrible if you care about trying to make progress on global warming. They are simply too energy inefficient compared to trains and busses.

Agreed. I bussed to college every day, and the local transit hub was a big parking lot surrounded by other big parking lots. Huge waste of the catchment area. Same with the fact that the Seattle Light Rail tends to be flanked on one side by I-5, cutting the usable development area around the stops in half.

And you can still have useful urban centers in the suburbs. Link the neighborhoods in an area to the local, walk-able, commercial center. Make it serve as the transit hub for the area as well, so there's plenty of connections to other urban centers. Can zone for multi-use so you get apartments on top of restaurants/etc. I'd also argue that B&M stores will find it easier to get foot traffic if they aren't dependent on people looking them up on Google/etc, and can be found more organically. Found a local computer place that I've started buying parts from when I can because I walked by it. Had no idea they existed before then.

 

[cbum]

In Basel (60s & 70s) I took the Tram (~ light rail) to go to school x8yrs.
30" walk from home to station, 5' walk to school downtown.

 

[dada_dave]

I mean LeCun has been pretty vocal before about his opinion on LLMs though maybe not about the internal politics of Meta.

 

[dada_dave]

Grok has been outputting revenge porn and even CSAM on request.




That’s bad enough but unfortunately when users asked it to “apologize” and it did so, some in our valiant press wrote about the apology as though Grok was responsible:





As Carl later goes into note the press did the same thing when it declared itself “mecha-Hitler”. It likewise makes it seem less though the apology was something more than a user prompted event that other users showed could easily be twisted:



This framing diverts attention away from the responsibility of Musk and Bier (xAI) who are very much not apologetic.

 

[dada_dave]

delete

 

[diamond.g]

Grok has been outputting revenge porn and even CSAM on request.




That’s bad enough but unfortunately when users asked it to “apologize” and it did so, some in our valiant press wrote about the apology as though Grok was responsible:





As Carl later goes into note the press did the same thing when it declared itself “mecha-Hitler”. It likewise makes it seem less though the apology was something more than a user prompted event that other users showed could easily be twisted:



This framing diverts attention away from the responsibility of Musk and Bier (xAI) who are very much not apologetic.

It seems like a slam dunk for the FBI to follow up on user generated CSAM queries.

 

[cbum]

It seems like a slam dunk for the FBI

For THIS FBI?

 

[dada_dave]

 

[Eric]

I keep getting offers from AI companies to collaborate on my Instagram, it's to the point that I don't even read the body of the email anymore.

I think it has its place in many areas, the medical field for example, but I also think it's dumbing us down as human beings at a frightening pace. Another example of the billionaire class competing to push their agenda for the sake of Capitalism.

 

[turbineseaplane]

For THIS FBI?

I was about to say ... this FBI probably has folks in the building making these kinds of queries.

 

[dada_dave]

Microsoft CEO doesn’t want people talking about “AI slop” – Reddit pushes back

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella argues that the term “AI slop” is unfair. In a blog post, he describes AI as a tool designed to support human thinking rather than replace it. However, his perspective has been widely criticized on Reddit.

www.notebookcheck.net

Very unfair

 

[dada_dave]

 

[throAU]

I started this project with claude at 8:15. it's now about 9am. I had to stand up a GitHub account and also went across the road to pick up a coffee in that time.

Also, it's the first time I've ever used GitHub, or connected claude to it. So that time included learning those things.

GitHub - 4grvxt9mrk-rgb/diskogram: Command line application for reporting on disk space consumption by time.

Command line application for reporting on disk space consumption by time. - 4grvxt9mrk-rgb/diskogram

github.com

You do the math ...

 

[Eric]

I started this project with claude at 8:15. it's now about 9am. I had to stand up a GitHub account and also went across the road to pick up a coffee in that time.

Also, it's the first time I've ever used GitHub, or connected claude to it. So that time included learning those things.

GitHub - 4grvxt9mrk-rgb/diskogram: Command line application for reporting on disk space consumption by time.

Command line application for reporting on disk space consumption by time. - 4grvxt9mrk-rgb/diskogram

github.com

You do the math ...

For this sort of thing AI is amazing, would this be considered LLM?

I know I've used ChatGPT a few times to help with both writing up documents for my business and it's amazing how smart it can be. It'll spit out an entire sentence and I'll just say "change xyz to abc and rearrange the wording to so and so and it does it flawlessly every sing time, as though it fully understands my intention no matter how I phrase it. Cool, but also a little scary lol.

I've also used it to help with coding some for this board and it saves so much time in digging around for the right files, syntax, etc.

 

[throAU]

For this sort of thing AI is amazing, would this be considered LLM?

I know I've used ChatGPT a few times to help with both writing up documents for my business and it's amazing how smart it can be. It'll spit out an entire sentence and I'll just say "change xyz to abc and rearrange the wording to so and so and it does it flawlessly every sing time, as though it fully understands my intention no matter how I phrase it. Cool, but also a little scary lol.

I've also used it to help with coding some for this board and it saves so much time in digging around for the right files, syntax, etc.

This was claude - paid account with Claude Pro sub.

Everything (and i mean everything) was written by Sonnet 4.5.

Including all the documentation; all i did was tell it what to make, and to write in cross platform C.

i'd never used github before (only local git), claude helped me connect the git repo to itself and publish to it.

the first version of the app was a 1 shot prompt. I added the feature for XML/JSON/CSV export and that was a one shot.

It was on the internet inside of 45 minutes as a cross platform app and that included me walking across teh street to go grab a coffee, sit back down at my desk and finish it.


Last year i did the same thing in powershell (without export formats) using chatGPT. Took a couple of hours of back and forth bugfixing and getting it right.

12 months later, its a 1 shot, tested, cross platform including upload to github with full user documentation.... in under an hour, including me learning to create the github repo and add it to claude...

• 2 years ago i would be looking for an existing tool, sorting through shareware paid stuff, etc.
• 1 year ago i got chatgpt to help and it took a couple of hours
• yesterday ... if i just wanted a tool to run locally and didn't care about publishing it... 15 minutes?

Claude pro costs like $20/month... its constantly helping save me time.