[-] backgroundcow@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

"I've created this amazing program that more or less precisely mimics the response of a human to any question!"

"What if I ask it a question where humans are well known to apply all kinds of biases? Will it give a completely unbiased answer, like some kind of paragon of virtue?"

"No"

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[-] backgroundcow@lemmy.world 64 points 8 months ago

Better yet, demand loudly to get a refund. When they say there is nothing to refund, insist that you have an email confirming a booking.

[-] backgroundcow@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago

Was this around the time right after "custom GPTs" was introduced? I've seen posts since basically the beginning of ChatGPT claming it got stupid and thinking it was just confirmation bias. But somewhere around that point I felt a shift myself in GPT4:s ability to program; where it before found clever solutions to difficult problems, it now often struggles with basics.

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[-] backgroundcow@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

"They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." // Carl Sagan.

[-] backgroundcow@lemmy.world 89 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.

A few things:

  • Unity is still bleeding money. They have a product that could be the basis for a reasonably profitable company, but spending billions on a microtransaction company means it is not sufficient for their current leadership. It doesn't seem wise to build your bussniess on the product of a company whose bussniess plan you fundamentally disagree with.

  • It would be the best for the long term health of bussniess-to-bussnies services if we as a community manages to send the message that it doesn't matter what any contract says - just trying to introduce retroactive fees is unforgivable and a death sentence to the company that tries it.

[-] backgroundcow@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Ärlig fråga: ni som är på team blå, hur tycker ni själva att det går just nu?

Jag är inte någon stor anhängare av endera av koalitionerna, men har inte sittande regering lämnat spelplanen? Bortkollring av elstöd (som enda land i Europa), kronan historiskt låg vilket spär på inflationen relativt andra länder, vars ökning också leds av stigande matpriser på tveksam grund (matkoncernerna gör storvinster), övergivna miljömål, ett försök att stoltsera med en kommande NATO-anslutning istället för att säkra den i det tysta först har placerat oss på en väg av olyckliga omständigheter mot koranbränningar, höjt terrorhot, och potentiella inskränkningar i yttrandefriheten. Har de faktiskt gjort något bra i all denna röra?

[-] backgroundcow@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

How can it not be b? Every situation in the Portal games is already exactly like this, but with the portal fixed to a slab that moves with the rotation of the Earth, whereas in the drawing the portal moves as the sum of earth rotation + the movement of the train.

[-] backgroundcow@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

Treating the question seriously, I think it is easy to think the one person is the right choice, because it just seems like less of a mess to deal with. However, I also think the end result is that you will never feel safe in your home again. You will always second guess if every squeak you hear is yet another person who somehow have made it into your house. This is the path towards slowly descending into madness.

[-] backgroundcow@lemmy.world 98 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Cortana is/was by far the best name of the digital assistants - probably because it was created by sci-fi story writers rather than a marketing department. They should just have upgraded her with the latest AI tech and trained her to show the same kind of sassy personality as in the games and it would have been perfect.

Who in their right mind thinks "Bing copilot" is a better name? It makes me picture something like the blow-up autopilot from Airplane!

[-] backgroundcow@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

No technology actually works, it is all a magical illusion. You may think a steam engine works with heated water and pressure; a computer with circuits and electrons; etc.; well, that is all gobbledygook, and what actually makes any of these things do things that occasionally seem useful is nothing but powerful illusion magic. If the assembly of mages decide to dispell the illusion, we'll be back in the middle ages. For one thing, it seems they never really got the illusion to work quite right for printers.

[-] backgroundcow@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

The industrial revolution is an illusion created by 14:th century wizards.

[-] backgroundcow@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

So, what you are saying is that by checking this trust API, we can filter out everyone running unaltered big-media approved browsers and hardware? We'd end up splitting the web into two disjoint parts, one for big corporate and sheeple - and one more akin to the web of old comprised by skilled tech people and hobbyists? A rift that could finally bring an end to eternal September? ... Are we sure this proposal a bad thing?

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