so, imagine a wicker doghouse

covrilly | she/they | late-20s | this is my main account, it's mostly reblogs on here | also @electricgaunt

[aldescery]

cover entry for @pbskidszine !! i am whimsy maxxing :D

[kurulover]

I hate that when you’re stressed enough your body just starts falling apart. I think it should realize you’re already stressed and don’t need that and start functioning better actually

[kurulover]

[cloudabserk]

rocky is both touched by the sentiment and disturbed by human medical practices

inspired by this grace quote:

[kosmogrl]

[glowingghosty]

[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.

[3000s]

what the hell did i do

[3000s]

home goods blocked me

[3000s]

they told me to go Home cause i'm no Goods

[clarasghosts]

shot dead in the first minute

[labcorphehe-deactivated20260118]

me when they zap my shit to smithereens

[gutfug]

i am captivated

[lesbian-stick-handling]

Interviews with hockey players are fantastic, because it is a complex game that can be spoken about at length, but during the intermission they'll find the Wettest player imaginable on the losing team and for thirty seconds they'll ask them things like "what do you need to do to get more pucks in the net?" And the player (panting, haunted behind the eyes) says something like "well, we've got to get them in there"

[dryiffsrevitalizingtailholetonic]

the shitstains at youtube memoryhole’d propane genesis evangelion but I had already downloaded it because I know youtube is full of absolute cunts so here it is

[fial-inka]

the signal catcher 📡

[cloudabserk]

it wants to be close to me. probably because it is so cold and soft & it knows i am strong and warm

[gameofthronesdaily]

DANIEL INGS as Lyonel Baratheon A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS S1.01 ‘The Hedge Knight’

[fial-inka]

cicada radio

ko-fi | instagram | bluesky

[coquelicoq]

favorite thing about abe takaya is the feedback loop between his compulsion to control everything and his desperate need to be trusted and worthy of trust. second favorite thing is how hard he is trying to communicate with and understand and support his sports partner who happens to be his opposite personality-wise in basically every way. third favorite thing is how bad he is at communicating with and understanding and supporting mihashi despite how hard he's trying. fourth favorite thing is the contrast between how bad he is at that despite trying very hard vs. how good he is at playing diabolical mind games with his opponents without any effort. fifth favorite thing is that he thinks he's normal.

[werewolf-transgenderism]

rip king, truly nobody was doing it for weird sci-fi and fantasy obsessed nerds like you 💔