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gravityjunior

Starting a collection

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The dash is feeling Tennant-y tonight, I see.

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i found this ancient post from my blog so if you want to know what tumblr looked like from an ipod in 2010……

sigynpenniman

WOW

worddevourer

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happy 15 years to this post

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HELLO, I AM EXTREMELY ACTIVATED AND I SAW YOUR TAGS

iocaris

The Snoozie...

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.

fawnpalmer

quarterly reminder that if i reblog something ai-generated it is 110% and always an accident and for the love of god please tell me so i can delete it from my blog

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Day 204

jewish-joy

Last year, I befriended a Catholic seminarian. We've gotten to be pretty decent friends. Seeing as he was staying in town for the summer and I wasn't, I entrusted him with caring for my plant.

He did a wonderful job, but as he was returning my plant to my custody, he explained "I watered her every other day, I gave her new dirt, moved her into the sunshine, prayed the rosary-"

"What?"

He looked at me, confused. "Isn't she a plant you pray with?"

"No," I said slowly. "She's a prayer plant. That's the... colloquial name of the plant."

Upon seeing his stricken face, I realized something went wrong. Turns out, this entire time, he's been including my plant in on his prayers and leaving her near icons.

Listen, totally cool. My plant becoming Catholic is a great deal for her not dying over the summer. But now I must navigate this interfaith household. Keep me in your thoughts.

jewish-joy

#i love prayer plants but they're fussy so I don't keep them#can we have a picture op they're so pretty

Behold, Dorothea

(Naming my plant "Gift of God," and then giving her to a seminarian with just the explanation that it's a prayer plant? Okay, that's my bad.)

biglawbear

Oh my goodness she is so lovely and full! And she's flowering!! That's a happy maranta indeed

most-sane-classicist

He knows what's up

hunny--hunny

i feel like we should draw more trans dudes with phallo scars like how we draw them with top surgery scars

torturelabyrinth

i found the absolute hottest take of 2017

hyumjim

NO

blackshuckofficial-deactivated2

Me: feeds my hermit crabs bc I enjoy the hobby of their husbandry

Someone who got all their feminist theory from Tumblr: actually you’re doing that because of the patriarchy and it’s unpaid emotional labor :/ liberate yourself :/

pangur-and-grim

@whomever tf wrote that text, I’m truly sorry that your cats don’t love you

meow-of-cathulhu

It’s now problematic.. to like cats…?

the-golden-ghost

I read the article and apparently this person genuinely thinks cats have the foresight and mental capacity to manipulate people?

aerialsquid

We love cats because we understand something doesn’t need to obey us to love us. If we’re going to go all feminist about the situation.

aropride

humanity has existed for at least 5 years and we STILL havent invented a good way to store a toothbrush

whimsical-catacombs

my suggestion:

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homunculus-argument

Consider: An anthro opossum, koala, capuchin monkey, or anteater, who is wearing a t-shirt with a text on the back that says "if you can read this, I have no idea where that little fucker is".