CanadaPlus

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[–] CanadaPlus 4 points 2 years ago

They're not really likely to pass the West any time soon on that, though. We're still king when it comes to high tech and innovation, just as a byproduct of accumulated institutional knowledge and an economic system that prioritises fostering innovation over almost all else.

[–] CanadaPlus 6 points 2 years ago

Nah, it's the Middle East. "America" is reason enough to be embarrassed about it.

[–] CanadaPlus 22 points 2 years ago (3 children)

At this point, it feels more likely than not the Middle East is going to explode.

[–] CanadaPlus 7 points 2 years ago

So TL;DR it has no teeth really.

[–] CanadaPlus 0 points 2 years ago

Yeah. For reference, they made a model with a back door, and then trained it to not respond in a backdoored way when it hasn't been triggered. It worked but it didn't effect the back door much, and that means that it technically was acting more differently - and therefore deceptively - when not triggered.

Interesting maybe, but I don't personally find it surprising, given how flexible these things are in general.

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 2 years ago

Absolute chad.

(Mandatory disclaimer that I actually think the anti-GUI jerk goes too far)

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm absolutely fascinated if somebody can point me to that.

How well did it render most sites, compared to the other CLI browsers?

[–] CanadaPlus 5 points 2 years ago

Nice! I knew it had to be a thing.

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I mean, I've never seen a toucan, or even been close to one to my knowledge, but I feel like I understand them pretty well, at least at a basic level. I've also never known any bird except through smell, sound, touch, sight and so on.

They do still suck at physical tasks, and probably will until we find a totally different approach to the problem than brute gradient decent, but I'm not so sure that makes everything else they (appear to) know useless. I'm not convinced kinetic knowledge is the only kind.

[–] CanadaPlus 2 points 2 years ago

The human exceptionalism runs strong. At best, you can argue that this specific machine isn't thinking. Once you say no machine could do it, you're forgetting that you too are stardust.

I get accused of falling to the ELIZA effect, but I suspect some of the critics are driven by something like hubris.

[–] CanadaPlus 5 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Did you do much browsing? Lynx is a thing, but it can't do JavaScript.

Come to think of it, is there a CLI Lemmy client?

[–] CanadaPlus 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Blasphemy! And also I'm poor, although I guess if I really wanted to run spyware as my kernel I could pirate it.

But yeah, I'm getting the sense those are the two games in town, Linux-wise.

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