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This is the technology worth trillions of dollars huh

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[–] brem@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Lol @ these fucking losers who think AI is the current answer to any problems

[–] arararagi@ani.social 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Third time's the charm! They have to keep the grift going after Blockchain and NFT failed with the general public.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

@arararagi@ani.social Don't forget Metaverse, they took a fuckin bath on that.

[–] brem@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

As long as there's something to sell for untalented morons to feel intelligent & talented; they'll take the bait.

[–] Yaztromo@lemmy.world 8 points 20 hours ago

GitLab Enterprise somewhat recently added support for Amazon Q (based on claude) through an interface they call “GitLab Duo”. I needed to look up something in the GitLab docs, but thought I’d ask Duo/Q instead (the UI has this big button in the top left of every screen to bring up Duo to chat with Q):

(Paraphrasing…)

ME: How do I do X with Amazon Q in GitLab? Q: Open the Amazon Q menu in the GitLab UI and select the appropriate option.

ME: [:looks for the non-existant menu:] ME: Where in the UI do I find this menu?

Q: My last response was incorrect. There is no Amazon Q button in GitLab. In fact, there is no integration between GitLab and Amazon Q at all.

ME: [:facepalm:]

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 56 points 1 day ago (2 children)

✅ Colorado

✅ Connedicut

✅ Delaware

❌ District of Columbia (on a technicality)

✅ Florida

But not

❌ I'aho

❌ Iniana

❌ Marylan

❌ Nevaa

❌ North Akota

❌ Rhoe Islan

❌ South Akota

[–] individual@toast.ooo 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 day ago

Everyone knows it's properly spelled "I, the ho" not Idaho. That’s why it didn’t make the list.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't think this gets nearly enough visibility: https://www.academ-ai.info/

Papers in peer-reviewed journals with (extremely strong) evidence of AI shenanigans.

[–] beveradb@sh.itjust.works 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks for sharing! I clicked on it with cynicism around how easily we could detect AI usage with confidence vs. risking making false allegations, but every single example on their homepage is super clear and I have no doubts - I'm impressed! (and disappointed)

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Yup. I had exactly the same trepidation, and then it was all like “As an AI model, I don’t have access to the data you requested, however here are some examples of…”

I have more contempt for the peer reviewers who let those slide into major journals, than for the authors. It’s like the Brown M&M test; if you didn’t spot that blatant howler then no fucking way did you properly check the rest of the paper before waving it through. The biggest scandal in all this isn’t that it happened, it’s that the journals involved seem to be almost never retracting them upon being reported.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

They took money away from cancer research programs to fund this.

[–] Burninator05@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

After we pump another hundred trillion dollars and half the electricity generated globally into AI you're going to feel pretty foolish for this comment.

[–] veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

Just a couple billion more parameters, bro, I swear, it will replace all the workers

  • CEOs
[–] jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

only cancer patients benefit from cancer research, CEOs benefit from AI

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Tbf cancer patients benefit from AI too tho a completely different type that's not really related to LLM chatbot AI girlfriend technology used in these.

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[–] hark@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

With enough duct tape and chewed up bubble gum, surely this will lead to artificial general intelligence and the singularity! Any day now.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 points 16 hours ago

Hurry MacGruber! We're almost out of...BOOM!

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

Connedicut.

I wondered if this has been fixed. Not only has it not, the AI has added Nebraska.

You mean Connecdicud.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 points 1 day ago

Connecdicud.

[–] dude@lemmings.world 30 points 1 day ago (13 children)

Well, for anyone who knows a bit about how LLMs work, it’s pretty obvious why LLMs struggle with identifying the letters in the words

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[–] Phantom_Engineer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

It ripped off this famous poem in the process:

Most States

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I would estimate that Google's AI is helpful and correct about 7% of the time, for actual questions I'd like the answer to.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 30 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Just another trillion, bro.

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 53 points 1 day ago (20 children)

You joke, but I bet you didn't know that Connecticut contained a "d"

I wonder what other words contain letters we don't know about.

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[–] mrductape@eviltoast.org 111 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Well, it's almost correct. It's just one letter off. Maybe if we invest millions more it will be right next time.

Or maybe it is just not accurate and never will be....I will not every fully trust AI. I'm sure there are use cases for it, I just don't have any.

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Yesterday i asked Claude Sonnet what was on my calendar (since they just sent a pop up announcing that feature)

It listed my work meetings on Sunday, so I tried to correct it…

You’re absolutely right - I made an error! September 15th is a Sunday, not a weekend day as I implied. Let me correct that: This Week’s Remaining Schedule: Sunday, September 15

Just today when I asked what’s on my calendar it gave me today and my meetings on the next two thursdays. Not the meetings in between, just thursdays.

Something is off in AI land.

Edit: I asked again: gave me meetings for Thursday’s again. Plus it might think I’m driving in F1

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[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Hey look the markov chain showed its biggest weakness (the markov chain)!

In the training data, it could be assumed by output that Connecticut usually follows Colorado in lists of two or more states containing Colorado. There is no other reason for this to occur as far as I know.

Markov Chain based LLMs (I think thats all of them?) are dice-roll systems constrained to probability maps.

Edit: just to add because I don't want anyone crawling up my butt about the oversimplification. Yes. I know. That's not how they work. But when simplified to words so simple a child could understand them, its pretty close.

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[–] sqgl@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

ChatGPT is just as stupid.

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[–] Djehngo@lemmy.world 60 points 1 day ago (49 children)

The letters that make up words is a common blind spot for AIs, since they are trained on strings of tokens (roughly words) they don't have a good concept of which letters are inside those words or what order they are in.

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[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Blows my mind people pay money for wrong answers.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Listen, we just have to boil the ocean five more times.

Then it will hallucinate slightly less.

Or more. There’s no way to be sure since it’s probabilistic.

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

"This is the technology worth trillions of dollars"

You can make anything fly high in the sky with enough helium, just not for long.

(Welcome to the present day Tech Stock Market)

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