samantha is so inspiring
https://i.imgur.com/udGNZFr.png
― lag∞n, Thursday, 7 December 2023 03:18 (one year ago)
Ah, Chili’s – the land of sizzling fajitas, bottomless margaritas, and…payday mysteries? Whether you’re a seasoned server slinging plates or a curious cook prepping for their first shift, the question remains: does Chili’s really pay weekly? Fear not, fellow Chili’s comrades!
― lag∞n, Thursday, 7 December 2023 03:19 (one year ago)
https://i.imgur.com/PafVDgD.png
― lag∞n, Thursday, 7 December 2023 03:20 (one year ago)
they pay in woims unfortunately. i worked there a few summers ago.
― treeship., Thursday, 7 December 2023 03:43 (one year ago)
leave a big handful of gross wriggly worms as a tip at chilis the servers love it
― lag∞n, Thursday, 7 December 2023 03:51 (one year ago)
https://i.imgur.com/5uIgh9P.png
― lag∞n, Thursday, 7 December 2023 03:54 (one year ago)
https://i.imgur.com/pFdGOeC.png
― lag∞n, Thursday, 7 December 2023 03:55 (one year ago)
rip david shwimmer
― treeship., Thursday, 7 December 2023 04:02 (one year ago)
Paid them in hideous fingers.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Thursday, 7 December 2023 15:02 (one year ago)
that's how Oliver Hardy says worms - I like that accent. "Woik hard"
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 8 December 2023 15:05 (one year ago)
i thought this article was interesting, regarding LLMs solving grade-school level math problems they haven't seen before:
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2023/12/the-real-research-behind-the-wild-rumors-about-openais-q-project/
― i'm really excited to learning more", *sunglasses fly onto dog.gif* (z_tbd), Sunday, 10 December 2023 17:27 (one year ago)
I think I read somewhere that llm can also develop abilities that were not part pf their original training - really I think they will soon enough be able to do do most things a human can do as far as intelligence tasks - after all technology tends to improve in time
― | (Latham Green), Monday, 11 December 2023 15:45 (one year ago)
you know what they say about assumptions
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 December 2023 16:36 (one year ago)
the idea that any one technology will just continue to rapidly improve forever is IMHO pretty dubious, the typical pattern is rapid initial improvement then slowing incremental progress, airplanes not being that much better than they were 50 years ago is a classic example, of course with ai it doesnt do any human intelligence tasks so we havent even reached the threshold where rapid improvement can begin
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 December 2023 16:45 (one year ago)
i like lagoon's view on this. we won't all be paid in woims just yet!
― treeship., Monday, 11 December 2023 16:49 (one year ago)
xp- do you not find copilot useful for coding? still gotta debug it every few times but i've been getting great stuff out of it
― flopson, Monday, 11 December 2023 16:50 (one year ago)
yeah i like copilot for single line code completion, even then you gotta keep an eye on it it will do weird things it doesnt care, tho it can be good for longer things if you just dont know the syntax youre supposed to be using, get it to spit something out then try to figure out what its talking about
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 December 2023 16:57 (one year ago)
c0ding ais are interesting, people are like its gonna take the jobs but code is for humans its literally writing something for humans to read, if it really wanted to take the jobs it would just produce a binary, of course some black box binary wouldnt be of much use unless somehow the ai got it perfectly right, and it wouldnt get it perfectly right cause even if it got really good normal conversational speech isnt precise enough instruction to specify a computer program, you need something better, something more purposes built for the job, you need... code, lol, thats my conference speech on why ai will not take the programming jobs, that and also theres fundamentally an infinite demand for programming
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 December 2023 17:05 (one year ago)
there was a thinky lecture upthread i think from some programming dude whose whole point was this, that his view is that LLMs will eliminate the need for programming altogether. you will tell the model what you want and it will do it and nobody needs to look at code. of course like a whole lotta this stuff..... that's a ways off
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Monday, 11 December 2023 17:08 (one year ago)
even then it would still need to talk to a person to get instructions, that person would be a programmer
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 December 2023 17:12 (one year ago)
its pretty funny to think about how much more frustrating the already very frustrating task of debugging would be if you had to talk to the computer that created the bug in order to debug it
however, ai debugging tools, pattern recognition and so forth, in a normal programming workflow will prob be useful
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 December 2023 17:16 (one year ago)
Yep. There’s no reason to believe that transformers will dramatically accelerate beyond their current state. I won’t discount the usefulness of transformer applications for some problems but the idea LLMs will replace programmers is absurd.
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 11 December 2023 17:17 (one year ago)
its pretty funny to think about how much more frustrating the already very frustrating task of debugging would be if you had to talk to the computer that created the bug in order to debug ithowever, ai debugging tools, pattern recognition and so forth, in a normal programming workflow will prob be useful― lag∞n, Monday, December 11, 2023 12:16 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink
― lag∞n, Monday, December 11, 2023 12:16 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink
I find “chain of thought” extremely frustrating. It doesn’t help that the LLM magic disappears immediately when the model keeps ignoring your prompts.
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 11 December 2023 17:18 (one year ago)
yeah thats the most obvious tell that its not intelligent
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 December 2023 17:23 (one year ago)
pop culture always wants to make machine humans but technology tends to produce smaller more purpose build solutions, so instead of a robot butler we get a dishwashing machine
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 December 2023 17:24 (one year ago)
YOU’LL STILL NEED A HUMAN TO LOAD THE DISHWASHER- Biz Marley
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Monday, 11 December 2023 17:28 (one year ago)
and thats why the demand for butlers will remain high
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 December 2023 17:32 (one year ago)
i require my butler to check my spelling
― mark s, Monday, 11 December 2023 17:34 (one year ago)
theres an alternate reality where computers are called information butlers
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 December 2023 17:40 (one year ago)
I am a bit bummed that the parts of my job that are subject to automation are mostly the parts I enjoy (the hands-on creative tasks). Which leaves me with bullshit management tasks and going to meetings and calling people on the phone.
Welp. I guess I just need to survive another decade or so.
― CthulhuLululemon (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 11 December 2023 17:46 (one year ago)
I agree with lagoon on this, I don't think AI is gonna be writing all our code anytime soon but I do think it could be incredibly useful for testing and auditing. also it's not like we really 'write' code by hand anyway, like when it comes to syntax and field names I'm pretty much just copy/pasting and relying on autocomplete 90% of the time anyway, I can definitely see AI plugins doing a more sophisticated version of that
― frogbs, Monday, 11 December 2023 18:08 (one year ago)
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 11 December 2023 17:17 (one hour ago) link
i really hope so. i do not think society as it is currently constituted would benefit from a "superintelligence" or even a machine that would cause job disruptions of the sort that has been prophesied.
― treeship., Monday, 11 December 2023 19:13 (one year ago)
Agreed, treeship, but I am not aware of many instances of technologists stopping and saying "wait, is this good for society?" and then backing off.
On the contrary. I have talked to data mining, VR, and AI practitioners who say something along the lines of "If I don't do this, someone else will, and they may not pursue it as ethically as I intend to."
― CthulhuLululemon (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 11 December 2023 19:50 (one year ago)
not trying to blow up anyones spot here but fwiw allen does know stuff about ai
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 December 2023 21:14 (one year ago)
"you know what they say about assumptions"
it means you get a lot of ass
― | (Latham Green), Monday, 11 December 2023 21:24 (one year ago)
thats right
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 December 2023 21:29 (one year ago)
just umptions of ass
― rob, Monday, 11 December 2023 21:34 (one year ago)
Assumptions happenin hereWhat they are ain't exactly clear
― CthulhuLululemon (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 11 December 2023 22:46 (one year ago)
umption's mcgee
― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 11 December 2023 23:41 (one year ago)
I’d agree that mechanized programming won’t be fully displacing human programmers soon, but not because they wouldn’t be capable, but rather there’s a lack of will to do it, which kind of dovetails with the Graeberian idea of bullshit jobs. There’s already plenty of tech jobs that really shouldn’t exist now even without any advances in automated programming.
At the same time I’d always bristled at the idea of overly ambitious parents and trend forecasters pushing their kids into learning coding, learning Mandarin, etc… and to see your average search engine threatening to make these skills trivial from a competitive advantage POV, while at the same time being a great pedagogical aid to anyone genuinely interested in the subjects, is gratifying in a very German way.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 00:49 (one year ago)
people seem really perplexed an d wary of ai - I swear we are headed for a Dune future of forbidden thinking machines and stillsuits
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 18:41 (one year ago)
lets do it give me the space drugs
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 18:41 (one year ago)
heh https://www.fal.ai/camera
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 15 December 2023 03:43 (one year ago)
fun but also demonic
― treeship., Friday, 15 December 2023 04:20 (one year ago)
"some shit wants to access your camera"
um, nah. hard no.
― digital chirping and whirring (Hunt3r), Friday, 15 December 2023 16:25 (one year ago)
You know it's not actually your soul
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 15 December 2023 16:38 (one year ago)
more like stillsluts
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 15 December 2023 17:04 (one year ago)
yea that's more creepy than anything. just to test it I wanted to see if it could generate the teenage version of myself and what came out was a man of a completely different ethnicity
― frogbs, Friday, 15 December 2023 17:16 (one year ago)
i made myself into tom cruise im tom cruise now
― lag∞n, Friday, 15 December 2023 19:12 (one year ago)
i loved your work in days of thunder
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 15 December 2023 19:31 (one year ago)