*Saturn*

~ asexual ~ ~ addicted to fanfiction ~ ~ dan and phil ~ ~ marauders ~ ~ arcane ~ - whatever else my adhd brain decides to fixate on :) ~

[ina-cares]

"why aren't my headphones worki-"

MOVIES

[redstonedust]

for the record im not technially 100% anti-AI, in the sense that its a broad category of tech being lumped under one umbrella term so it feels over-zealous to say i hate all of it all the time forever. but i also think trying to discuss what it actually IS good for is difficult right now when i cant take one step without something trying to convince me to use chatgpt to summarize my life and speed up my hobbies and turn my friends into chatbots and optimize my life into oblivion. i am certain there is nuance to the topic but can we stop cramming the square peg into the round hole before you start trying to sell me on the legitimate benefits of the square peg. please.

[ralfmaximus]

Neural Nets have existed for decades and are genuinely useful. It's a form of AI that recognizes patterns, and can do stuff like identify cancer cells, tell whether an egg is fertilized or not, detect fraud, and optimize routes.

Those are Expert Systems, tuned to do exactly one thing. If you (say) ask a medical expert system a question about financial law, it's useless. The autopilot that flies a 787 has no idea how to drive a truck on the freeway. A Coulter Counter is excellent at identifying lymphocytes in a blood sample but can't predict the next card in a blackjack game.

And so on.

The problem with so-called generalized AI (AGI) is that we don't have that yet. It doesn't exist. It MIGHT some day, but AGI has been "10 years away" since the 1980s. The goals keep moving as we learn more about how people and machines process data.

But the current crop of AI techbros have been selling generative Large Language Model AI (LLM) as AGI because generative systems do a good job of faking it. There's no actual thought going on, merely the illusion of thought via predicting the next word in a sentence accurately.

If you let a human toddler listen to 800 hours of YouTube car influencer videos, that toddler might end up sounding like a car influencer. They'd parrot horsepower numbers and 0 to 60 times, mention EV range and MSRP numbers.

But they wouldn't understand any of it.

That's ChatGPT.

And yeah, it's worse than useless because it doesn't even know when it's lying or hallucinating. It just babbles convincingly until you stop it.

But for techbros to make money selling that as "AI"? It's the perfect scam, especially if you don't understand how it works.

I fucking hate it.

[cerulean-saturn]

I will literally have my masters in computer science with a focus in machine learning (and cybersecurity) in two weeks, and this is what I try to explain every time someone wants my opinions on AI. It’s incredibly frustrating that something so useful has been turned into this negative thing because the general public doesn’t understand the difference. I wholeheartedly agree with the point about the tech bros. I hope people realize when I talk about how I want to use AI for good, it means the exact opposite of whatever slop ChatGBT produces.

[petermustdie]

"im not even 100% committed to phil" you've been together for 16 years i actually dont want to hear it from you

[ravenwordsx]

“i'm a boy” “i'm a girl” ok well i'm a car speeding down the boulevard without a brake?? and i'm a heart made of wax and i'm melting in the sun??? and i'm a thread on your shirt that is coming undone???? have u ever considered that?!???

[phovaries]

collect your badge 🙏

[cerulean-saturn]

I DID IT I WON THE TICKET WAR

(i lost vip but it’s fine…)

[takemetoparisbaby]

you're pretty weird for a girl who tried to be normal her whole life

[chambergambit]

in the past i've described my experience of being an ace with a sex drive as being hungry with no appetite, but actually my experience is more like being hungry and never going out to eat because i always have all the tools and ingredients to make exactly what i want, exactly how i want it, at home. i don't want other people in my kitchen and i certainly don't want to be in anyone else's kitchen. love reading about fictional kitchens, though.

[rabbitheatedgrrrl]

Not wanting to have sex is NOT a problem. It doesn’t matter if you are asexual or allo, there is nothing wrong with not wanting sex. It’s just an activity. That’d be like saying that if you don’t like soccer, you need to go to soccer therapy to figure out why you dislike it and figure out how to like it because it’s for your own good. See how ridiculous that sounds? IT IS OK TO NOT WANT TO HAVE SEX AND IT IS NOT SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO BE FIXED!!!!!!

[ur-favorite-fishgirl]

sex is a distraction from your true purpose in life which is to go to the aquarium and look at the fish and go "wooooooaaah.... fishies". cmon guys we all need to lock in.

[inkwhelp]

people who are gay: yeah i’m gay

people who are straight: yeah i’m straight

people who are aroace: have you seen project hail mary

[talonboot]

take my mermaid quiz boy

If you were a mermaid, what animal form would your lower half take? Are you a slithery eel, a powerful shark, or maybe a colorful reef fish?

[thatstargazingaquarius]

Aroace Grace being the most accepted headcanon is so very important to me.

His life wasn’t worth less because he didn’t have a partner or kids. He loved the world and his work and just being alive. He had so much love to give even if it wasn’t in the way that was considered ‘normal.’ To live is to love, no matter the form it takes.

[kosmogrl]

[moonyisnotonfire]

Boo

Fucking

Hoo

Anyway, new post to help get the word out there that this trans man (he likes it when you specify, just calling him a man is an insult to him) is an abusive, racist, biphobic, lesphobic, misogynistic, misandristic grooming piece of shit who can rot in fucking hell.

If you want a longer explanation, right here. And if you have ever been victimized or made uncomfortable by him, please send screenshots or explanations in my ask box to help me spread the word about it.

In any case yall, please block and report to keep you and the people around you safe. We want this fandom to be safe.

Thank you

And Regulus, you creepy fucking stalker. If you want to play this game, know that it's mine, and you aren't going to fucking win.

[oliverr-gardenn]

fuck hussle culture, the toad to success is to sleep well, eat well and have fun

[oliverr-gardenn]

i meant road. road to success

[jellycreature]

Reblog the Toad of Success to sleep well, eat well, and have fun

[willgrahamscock]