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bigbuppo
8mo ago
The better UX is that the google ai search summary is easy to ignore.
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8mo ago
The best thing about manufacturing in China is that they will make exactly what you specify. The worst thing about manufacturing in China is that they will make exactly what you specify.
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8mo ago
There are a lot of rules of thumb you can follow to avoid getting bitten by a rattlesnake, but the easiest way is to just not pick up random snakes. I don't know where I'm going with this, but I am going for a walk.
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The table had a rough life before it found its forever home. Sometimes it gets scared for seemingly no reason.
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No, but it rarely shits on the carpet.
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The systems recognized the pattern that it looks like a generic article on the internet asking whether someone should walk or drive and answered it exactly as expected based on their training data. None of this should be surprising. We are
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8mo ago
When did Microsoft release that chat bot that went full nazi in a couple of hours?
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8mo ago
Well, that means the AI is garbage. They'll eventually train it to answer this specific question, and then it will perform worse in some other aspect. Wash, rinse, repeat, and eventually they'll claim the new frontier model is the
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TFA explains that's not actually the case, not just an assertion, but actual studies that backed it up.
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Also... they don't make money by promoting things that are good ideas that make sense. That's why every lucky billionaire tech bro that gets into VC ultimately invests in smart toilets. Ultimately, they just keep putting money int
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How do you get domain experts?
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The bullshit people love the bullshit generators.
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How do we learn what a good output actually is?
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The meat wrote the tests. As I've been telling you, they're made out of meat.
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Yeah, sure, you could create a social media or photo-sharing site, but most people that want to share cat photos with their friends could just as easily print out their photos and stick them in the mail already.
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8mo ago
Do you have a source that isn't the anti-pickle alliance's statistics on anti-pickle laws proving why you should implement their anti-pickle laws?
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8mo ago
Let me guess, there's a link to his soundcloud or something else he's pitching at the bottom?
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8mo ago
Yet.
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And it will get worse once the UX people get ahold of it.
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And the most telling thing about most of these outages is that the provider later admits in their postmortem that they just didn't really understand how the system they made worked until it fell over and were forced to learn how it rea
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Children of the kubernetic line.
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Do you not remember crowdstrike?
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Yes.
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It's inevitable that one of the major cloud providers will irrecoverably delete all customer data with one single fat-fingered command. Though in google's case I'll also consider the prophecy to be fulfilled if they delete th
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Yeah, this could end up as the actual root cause of The Great Oops that I've been raving about for years. And Google probably would be the right company to fuck it up in the worst way possible since Google Knows Best In All Situations.
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One of the more recent "the UFO is coming" events were those people that sold their houses and traveled around in RVs because they thought the rapture was happening on a specific date... or at least that was the message. Turns out
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Wait until you find out most of the comments are shitposts.
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Put another way, the services need us more than we need them.
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Do they get more out of it than it costs, or are they still in the "people are just giving us money in the hopes that one day it turns a profit even though we're not charging nearly enough to make a profit" phase?
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8mo ago
I can assure you this has been talked about and is known and it's why you still find a headset port on devices handed out to government officials, though most of them ignore the advice to not use bluetooth.
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