zeropointone @ zeropointone @lemmy.world

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What makes you think that using single letters as tokens instead could teach a stochastic parrot to count or calculate? Both are abilities. You can't create an ability only from a set of data no matter how much data you have. You can only make a model seem to have that ability. Again: All you can ever get out of it is something that resembles human language. There is nothing beyond/behind that, by design. Not even hallucinations. Whenever a LLM gives you the advice to eat a rock per day it still works. Because it outputs a correct sounding sentence purely and entirely based on probability. But counting and calculating are not based on probability which is something everyone who ever had a math class knows very well. No math teacher will let students guess the result of an equation.

As if a stochastic parrot could ever be able to count or calculate...

LLM work really well. You get something out of it that resembles human language. This is what it has been designed for and nothing else. Stop trying to make a screwdriver shoot laser beams, it's not going to happen.

It depends on your prefered type of humor. Do you like gallows humor?

What's the alternative to ignoring them? You can't make them smarter. You can't exclude them from voting without creating something similar to fascism. Not even removing warning labels helps because idiots don't read them anyway.

Roughly 90 % if I have access to plenty of data. According to others it's less than 10 %.

According to myself? According to others? Or the average of both?

Never underestimate the kinks of people.

I give this ragebait a 6/10. Could be worse, could be better.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_legislation

Getting detained and sent to a medical institution doesn't make suicide attempts a crime.

I suggest to not make the mistake of blaming it on AI. Humans (on average) aren't any smarter. Social media platforms (like Reddit) had a long history of ridiculous bans way before automods were a thing. It can happen at any time and it will happen at some point.

If you're a masochist or sadist, then yes, suffering (either your own or the suffering of others) gives your life purpose...

I only know one country where suicide (attempt) was illegal in the past (UK). Aside from that you get sent to a medical facility in most countries.

I'm struggling with focusing on finishing a few tracks I'm working on. Lots of stress. My health is also not the best which makes playing on my laptop's keyboard painful and slow. I only have 3-5 months left to finish something which adds more pressure. The heat wave doesn't help either.

Genetic links are no substitute for empathy or understanding though. You can be twins and still end up being completely different (and incompatible) persons.

We don't know if the next iteration will be better. It can also get much worse. Surveillance technologies, AI, greed, egocentrism, narcissism, psychopathy, racism, sexism (and so on) won't go away, just like climate change which creates more and more conflicts by itself. The last spirit of optimism was long ago (Space age), since then things only went downhill.

Would you like to give some examples?

Short-term homelessness (2-3 months) seems to be tolerable for most housed relatives if the homeless person can make up for it later. But after 6-12 months, the housed will all be gone no matter how close they were with the homeless because the poor individual is marked as lost. The lost status remains even if the homeless person makes it out much later. It's very similar to health conditions like cancer or depression. If you go over a certain threshold, it's over.

Most do. But it's hard to blame them considering how painful such memories can be. It takes enormous strength remembering your roots. Most people never develop that strength.

As much as you're not "allowed" to run a marathon without limbs. As much as you're not "allowed" to pilot an aircraft as a blind person.

I heard that "If my brother/sister/mother/father" story plenty of times. And it was never true. I've seen and heard too much while I volunteered in homeless shelters.