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Share and Enjoy! (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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(Go stick your head in a pig!)

Come to think of it, "share and enjoy" is exactly the way I would expect an AI-generated YouTube video to end.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think LLMs work just fine if you know how to use them and their limitations. Imo, they aren't ready for general use without a lecture in how they work and what to expect from them.

Personal computers were enthusiast devices in the 70s and 80s and users had to know how to write code to use them. It took a bit of time for their interfaces to become friendly for the general population. The internet in the early 90s was the same. It is a shame tech companies today want to push this AI down the throats of everyone without first figuring out what and how it should actually be used.

I think it would be a shame if we discard all LLMs today as they do have practical uses. We just shouldn't overuse them where they don't belong.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

They're excellent for fine-tuned use-cases that need digesting huge volumes of text- for example, legal and insurance industries. But having a hundred different AI models all trained on scraped nonsense and then hallucinating bizarre outcomes to prompts just isn't very useful to the average person. Especially as more and more average computer users are less and less computer literate. That writing is on the wall.

[–] [email protected] 119 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Wait, Musk thinks grok comes from the hitchhiker's guide? What a moron

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

People were saying, "I grok Spock" long before Douglas Adams used the word.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Yeah this whole time I thought he was a at least a Heinlein fan…

[–] [email protected] 57 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You assume he reads

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

Got a new laptop recently. Copilot pops up, so I asked it how to permanently disable Copilot.

It gave me a wordy non-answer, along with a "fun fact" about my local area

totally relevant and not creepy at all.

Then, after I demanded it tell me how to permanently disable itself, Copilot gave me a completely wrong answer.

After specifying the "app or service" I'm using (Windows, you fucking clueless piece of shit), it then gave me a half-baked answer that called commands which weren't installed by default.

I then used duckduckgo to figure out how to install the configuration tool copilot said to use but that Windows had decided to hide from me.

Good job completely wasting my time, you ai-loving fucks at Microsoft. I don't need new reasons to nuke your shitty software and install Linux, but now I have them. If Linux had native vst3 support, I wouldn't have even booted into Windows.

Edit: Stranger in a Strange Land is a great book, and being the sci-fi novel backgrounding hippie culture, I wouldn't have expected Musk to have read it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Would KX Studio's "Carla" help with VST3?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

I've heard that Carla is the way to go, but how much more overhead will it cost when basically all the plugins I use are vst3? At least one project on my tower pc is pretty much maxed out as it is with them running natively on Windows.

My other issue is simply time: this is already side project stuff that I do for a little extra money/learning/career development, and at this point, I simply don't have time to try alternatives.

If I was just researching and writing papers like I did back in grad school, Windows would be gone, but as it stands, the path of least resistance for the audio work I'm doing is just to deal with what I've got.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wouldn't have expected Musk to have read it.

Who said he actually did? The term "grok" is listed in The Jargon File / The New Hacker's Dictionary. Musk probably read it long ago. ...Like every proper geek. Nowadays, every time he drops an epic meme (as kids say these days), it's a hazily remembered reference to something nerdy from ages gone by, and it just demonstrates he has absolutely no idea about the context.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Maybe I misunderstood OP?

I don’t think I've ever read The Jargon File or The New Hacker's Dictionary, but I definitely read Heinlen for fun in college. My educational background is in the social sciences and humanities.

Good point about his lack of context though!

I just rewatched a show called Devs with a friend. One of the striking moments was when one of the characters recites some poetry and the techy boss didn't seem to care about how literature can inform and enrich our lives.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

This whole series of events feels very Hitchhiker's Guide.

Edit: Stranger in a Strange Land is a great book

Not going to lie, it was one of my least favorite Sci-Fi novels. Felt entirely too Just-So. The characters - particularly Heinlein's self-insert Jubal Harshaw - just came across as vapid, bigoted, and annoying. And so much of the book felt like a climax to an apocalypse everyone deserved (but not in a Douglas Adams funny way, just a deeply nihilistic "Everyone sucks and I hate it here" kind of way).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

Since I read it in college (a long-ass time ago), I probably didn't mind the nihilism too much lol

I definitely remember the book going in a completely different direction than what I expected, which I liked!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Windows 11 is fucking horrible.

The only reason I still have a windows machine is for PC VR gaming, and even that minimal interaction is annoying. Every major update seems exclusively be MS further enshitifying their OS. It's an hour of research and work into remove whatever new garbage they've added.

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I’d rather listen to Vogon poetry than use Elon’s AI.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"They're the same picture."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Vogon poetry isn't that bad

[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You don't want your doors to let out moans of excitement everytime you walk through them? You don't want a manically-depressed butler bot?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

Here I am with a brain the size of a planet and they ask me to pick up a piece of paper. Call that job satisfaction? I don't.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I mean... Marvin is highly entertaining.

But no, I wouldn't want him actually around me.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 days ago

"It's the people you meet in this job who really get you down. The best conversation I had was over 34 million years ago. And that was with a coffee machine."

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 days ago

"Your plastic pal that's fun to be with!"

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Weren't Sirius Cybernetics Corporation also the first against the wall when the revolution came?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago

Bunch of mindless jerks...

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