computer baby

personal blog. i'm 30 and still on this website. failed theoretical computer scientist. posts about random stuff.

[trigona-necrophaga]

No I’m not “unhealthy,” no there’s nothing “wrong” with me; I’m simply paying the price for my vast and terrible necromantic capabilities

[bread-126]

they should replace the axiom of choice with ME. let me make the choice for you. i feel i'd be great at it

[lady-of-vitreous-sight]

it's nice how everything in the world can be described by well ordered and complete systems of rules that fully explain all possible perspectives and interpretations and can answer every question and account for [your phone rings, i hold eye contact with you, my grip on your hand tightens] don't pick that up. that's from godel. block that number.

[government-cy-op]

Just found 2 copies of a 19th century naturalism magazine and LOOK AT THEIR LITTLE ICON

[acchuli]

gut thing

[foone]

I hear in the next version of math they're nerfing multiplication

[rearte2]

by Kyohei Inukai, 1968

[wirelessmousegirl]

Your just saying that because your a sick pervert who gets off to themes and ideas

[sztupy]

Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers

A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previou

[ayeforscotland]

Let’s fucking go

[made-in-manetheren]

This is HUGE.

1. The court holds Google responsible for statements made by its AI, considering them Google's statements (search engines have limited liability for results in their engine as they're the words of other sites/companies/people), meaning when their AI lies/hallucinates they're liable for the defamation/harm resulting from those statements.

2. Google's defense that customers are generally aware of the lack of reliability and are responsible for fact checking was dismissed. As the court pointed out, that would "significantly diminish" AI Search's stated purpose and it can't be distinguished from Google's business practices/statements as a search tool.

3. Studies have found about 91% of Google's everyday AI responses are accurate, leaving millions of searches per HOUR with potential liability for falsehoods. 56% of correct responses weren't supported by the sources the AI listed. Both of which mean Google is now liable for a LOT more AI "errors."

4. Google was held liable for 80% of court costs in this case and this precedent is expected to reverberate around the world. This is a massive shift from the 3rd-party search provider role Google has previously played and it comes right as they've tied ALL searches to their AI search.

TL;DR Google reeeeeally stepped in it this time.

[hyenaswine]

i think people are starting to confuse class analysis with bioessentialism. like... no not all men do this, but Men as a constructed social class do do this. that's still okay to say. that is regular material analysis of the world around us.

[javascript-official]

Oh you see the world in black and white? Fuck you get dithered

[patheticguy43]

[yorickless]

science fiction works I have revisited in the last year and thought "man it's like they really predicted certain features of LLMs" which I think is more just that classic science fiction conceptions of "AI" are starting to actually exist:

accelerando

godzilla: singular point

[yorickless]

@wqu replied:

it pisses me off so much that we finally have ai worth the name, and it turns out that it is entirely plausible for a plucky hero to trap it in a loop with a natural-language logical fallacy, or make a moral argument that it needs to shut itself down. Years of thinking that was lazy writing from people who didn't understand computers (it was and they didn't) and history has proven them right anyway.

[witchycatwife]

to be clear, these are block comments

[fallout-lou-begas]

a lot of writing is just writing a draft and then making the characters about 30% less emotionally intelligent every time you revise it

[monidoll]

the solarpunk party is being torn apart by an ideological divide between the orthodox yogurtists and the progressive post-yogurtists

[monidoll]

[hellscabanaboy]

every three to five days there's a new big scary AI story and when you look into it it's always that the AI generated a piece of text that closely resembled its training data, but in a new situation because someone put it in a new situation. just the most dog bites man shit of all time. it's been three years

[hellscabanaboy]

billionaire gets into the most boring special interest of all time and entire population has to pretend it's revolutionary at barely metaphorical gunpoint. I honestly resent every brain cell I've spent on this shit that could have been spent on like 16th century weaving methods

[hellscabanaboy]

it seems to be taboo to say this even among the very critical but like. AI is the most boring thing to happen in my entire life. like of course it is causing major events that you have to be concerned with in order to protect yourself and be a knowledgeable participant in society but the fact that I have to spend my time, my brain power, knowing things about the statistically likely text machine? unforgivable. can we please have an energy crisis or something so that I have to know the exact inner workings of six different kinds of solar panel instead, please, I need a break, I need to let my brain run around in the field like a sheepdog instead being shackled in the dank grey twilight of the transformer mines

[hellscabanaboy]

if ten thousand guys can write posts like "of course there are massive externalities, but we must also consider that AI has made life somewhat more convenient for me personally" surely I too can be forgiven for posting that of course there are massive externalities, but we must also consider that AI has made life super boring and annoying for me personally