Semperverus

It is akin to the relativity problem in physics. Where is the center of the universe? What “grid” do things move through? The answer is that everything moves relative to one another, and somehow that fact causes the phenomena in our universe (and in these language models) to emerge.

Likewise, our brains do a significantly more sophisticated but not entirely different version of this. There are more “cores” in our brains that are good at differen tasks that all constantly talk back and forth between eachother, and our frontal lobe provides the advanced thinking and networking on top of that. The LLMs are more equivalent to the broca’s area, they havent built out the full frontal lobe yet (or rather, the “Multiple Demand network”)

You are right in that an AI will never know what an apple tastes like, or what a breeze on its face feels like until we give them sensory equipment to read from.

In this case though, its the equivalent of a college student having no real world experience and only the knowledge from their books, lectures, and labs. You can still work with the concepts of and reason against things you have never touched if you are given enough information about them beforehand.

Its almost as if the word “intelligence” has been vague and semi-meaningless since its inception…

Have we ever had a solid, technical definition of intelligence?

This problem is due to the fact that the AI isnt using english words internally, it’s tokenizing. There are no Rs in {35006}.

I still believe they have the ability to reason to a very limited capacity. Everyone says that they’re just very sophisticated parrots, but there is something emergent going on. These AIs need to have a world-model inside of themselves to be able to parrot things as correctly as they currently do (yes, including the hallucinations and the incorrect answers). Sure they are using tokens instead of real dictionary words, which comes with things like the strawberry problem, but just because they are not nearly as sophisticated as us doesnt mean there is no reasoning happening.

We are not special.

All of those options are to NIST-spec. MFA means multi-factor. It doesnt matter what they are as long as they are in different categories (something you know, something you have, something you are, etc: password, passkey, auth token, auth app, physical location, the network you are connected to). Two or more of these and you are set (though, location might be a weak factor).

winlator can run windows apps on android

Hey that sounds neat!

uses ubuntu as a base

Oh no…

MIT license

oh no

Have to install from github/no F-Droid build

oh no

This+Homeassistant web portal should make for a very nice little tablet-kiosk

We mostly use it like a regular coffee machine though, with the cups you can fill yourself. No DRM used here.

Iran suddenly added to the list huh? Wonder why…

Only if you are a coffee snob who spends entirely too much on coffee machines. Its all relative.

https://signal.org/bigbrother/cd-california-grand-jury/

Clean your keurig

It may also be my region. Its always been this way for me for at least the last 15 years or so.

Now, those squarepay terminals that suggest 30% tips or similar can eat rocks.

I dont think there is. There are, however, actual instant hot-water dispensers you can install as an extra sink faucet and they are amazing.

We have keurigs now 🤡

(They can dispense plain hot water)

There’s actually a loose set of rules to it. Im not sure where the specific numbers came from, but 22% of the bill as a tip is considered “excellent service”, 18% or so is considered “mid” or “acceptable” service, and anything below that is a sliding scale of how bad you think they did. 0% is either you being rude and/or saying “i dont believe in tips”, but giving a $0.01 tip is basically saying “fuck you, you piece of shit,” (because fishing out a penny or writing it in takes more effort than opting out).

Mozilla bought K9 mail. If you’re using K9, you’ve been “beta testing” Thunderbird for quite somd time now.

Thats kind of like saying Valve and Steam are not the same thing. Like, yea, Valve owns and develops Steam, but most people will understand someone who calls the company “Steam” (even if they sound a bit daft in doing so).

There is fairly substantial rumor that there may be a smear campaign against firefox lately because they are still supporting manifest v2, which our owning class does not care for.

Mozilla has made their fair share of stupid decisions lately, but they are still leagues ahead of Google, Amazon, and the other FAANG-type companies in ethics and trustworthiness. Definitely something to keep a pulse on, but nothing to throw the baby out with the bathwater over. And if it really bothers you, use LibreWolf/Fennec.

I am a neural network that can generate highly photorealistic frames of Doom that seem like real life. I have no output port so these images cannot be seen by others.