Because Boomerangs

24. Transmasc butch lesbian posting from England. Occasionally 18+ so pls no minors.

[greatbigboots]

Potion of Three Day Headache

[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.

[wifegideonnav]

“bits to use in everyday conversations”

[bark-barkley]

I WANT TO LOOK AT THINGS MADE BY HUMAN BEINGS

[coffeeeandbaileys]

when someone dislikes an acclaimed movie i love: you just enjoy being a contrarian

when i dislike an acclaimed movie: i'm the only one who can see the truth

[greatbigboots]

get you a femme that will play viddy games at the punk n goth bar

[webdirt]

black #000000

[muppethole-deactivated20240312]

ursula k le guin was right

[muppethole-deactivated20240312]

all of it, more or less

[thisauthorisscreaming]

Does it count as 'sword in the stone' if it looks more like 'sword in the cairn'...?

[greatbigboots]

went to a drag show with my femme and ran into a couple of silver haired butches I'm Obsessed

[greatbigboots]

feminist debates happening on the streets of manchester

[identitty-dickruption]

countering the reactionary urge to cling to the biological as "real" and "natural" could be a real point of coalition for disabled, intersex, and transgender/transsexual politics and it really should be. "the natural body" as a construct does not serve us and we do not have to keep making concessions to it. what makes my disabled transsexualised body any less 'natural'? why are we using 'natural' and 'biological' as short-hands for 'real', 'normal', or 'good'? what is there that truly divides the social world from the natural/real world? what merit is there in divorcing the social body from some imagined from of non-social body? something to think about

[gnusnoteunuchs]

it's weird how whenever a neighbor's smoke alarm goes off it's because they're a talentless hack who can't cook, but when mine goes off it's because my culinary craft is being hamstrung by a draconian smoke detector that is far too sensitive for its own good

[maculategiraffe]

the thing is that every time they invent a new thing that everybody has to be able to do to get along in society, that also involves making some people disabled who weren't before, because they can't do the thing. and they never could do the thing, but it didn't used to be a disability.

driving a car. making a phone call. navigating the internet. getting a mortgage. you know? they keep adding new things that everybody has to be able to do or else there's something wrong with you. well maybe there's something wrong with driving a car. maybe it's a hideous activity. did they ever think of that

[greatbigboots]

project hail mary no spoilers

[seachick]

"The way that we did that was you take a filter out of the camera that's blocking the IR light and it made this beautiful pinkish-reddish color. We put Ryan on a stage surrounded by a bunch of chicken wire filled with infrared lights that were, like, sparkling. And then we had Greig [Fraser, Director of Photography] build an aquarium, a double glass window with a hose dripping water through it in front of a handheld camera and then he would stand around Ryan who going like this [reaching out and touching astrophage floating around] in a chicken cage, but he couldn't see anything because the lights are invisible to the naked eye."

-Phil Lord and Chris Miller on The Big Picture Podcast discussing the hardest scene to film

[clavainov]

Nikolai Gogol on Tumblr culture, from Dead Souls (1842), tr. by Donald Rayfield