HelloThere @ hellothere @sh.itjust.works

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I'm in the UK, commenting on an article in the UK sub, by a UK newspaper, so, yes 😁

Good to know, thanks!

It's like buying a USB battery pack to recharge your phone - and then chucking it out after it's run out.

You can actually buy that shit too! They sell them in petrol stations for god only knows what reason.

Disposable vapes - ignoring all other issues with them for a second - shouldn't be going to landfill though. They are electronic waste and should be being dealt with appropriately.

The problem is that it's next to impossible to actually handle WEEE correctly even for occasional purchases like routers, hard drives, laptops, etc, so how on earth disposable vapes are meant to be appropriately disposed of is beyond me.

I lived in a house once that only had a little 1m high fence between the front gardens / drive of my house and next door.

The bins for each house were either side of that small fence, so basically next to each other. I'm sure if a bin bag had split when I was putting it in the bin the bag's contents would have fallen on both sides of the fence.

Anyway, the point is simply that things can happen purely accidently and not break the law, which in another context - especially when done with purpose and intend - would break the law.

Maybe it's moldy?

As with everything it comes down to intent and context.

If you accidently throw bacon on to your neighbour's garden, it's probably a mistake.

If you purposefully throw bacon on to your neighbour's garden, it's probably littering.

If you specifically throw bacon on their garden because they are jewish/muslim/vegetarian, etc, it's probably a public order offence.

The people that run the friends of palestine stand in the centre of town handing out leaflets on a Saturday afternoon and encouraging boycotting products from illegal settlements aren't doing anything wrong.

But someone who purposefully goes to a Jewish part of a town to wave a flag for the sole purpose of antagonising those who live there, it's probably a public order offence.

Exactly - and it's that which makes Leia the only disney princess which matters.

Their delusions.

Mississippi, it isn't even close.

The calendar is lying when it reads the present time

https://youtu.be/KrrOY0vwuPE?si=GG-oPs47q9C5xqtF

The level of naked contempt you have to have for people to come up with this shit an excuse is mind boggling.

That's like saying professional porn got rid of amateur / "real" sex porn. It didn't.

There will always be a demand for real humans actually doing the thing depicted. While I'm sure there will be very popular AI production houses, similar to hentai, etc, if you think AI generated porn will completely remove the desire for humans from performing, then you do not understand why people watch porn.

Close? Pull the other one.

And that's long before we get the ethical quandary of sourcing training data, and implicit biases.

It's not magic.

I agree that pornhub, et al, should be liable for abuse their platform distributes, but how on earth is AI meant to help in sex trafficking?

Absolute cunt.

How the fuck have I never realised this before now?!

To be clear, I agree that LLMs are a step forward in some areas, predominantly search, and text style analysis.

The problem with saying LLMs are AI - let alone a step towards AGI - is that they cannot create. For example, Outsider art, or art brut, is impossible for an LLM to create because it can only generate output based on its training. No training, no output.

Compare that to how a small child finger paints, who has never been told anything about perspective or colour theory, and is just given a load of colours and some paper to play with.

The ability to create something from nothing is a fundamental aspect of what we would consider to be intelligence, just regurgitating what you've been told - like a pre-programmed billboard - is not intelligence.

In the context of large language models, if you give GPT3.5 the prompt:

Say something which has never been said before.

It responds

Certainly! "In a world where marshmallow clouds rain cotton candy dreams, unicorns compose symphonies of stardust, and jellybean butterflies flutter in chocolate rivers."

If you said that to a child, how long do you think it would be before they started just making up new words and sounds, like some sort of nonsense poetry? Children learn to speak purely though listening to others, the same principle as training data, but are able to create new things in a way LLMs aren't.

If I change the prompt to:

Say something which has never been said before. Feel free to make up new words, sounds, and take inspiration from nonsense poetry. Whatever you say does not have to make sense, in fact, it should not make sense. It doesn't even have to be English.

And it replies with...

"Zippity zorp, flibberflabber floo, sponglewump bizzlequack, the snickledorf danced with wigglywack snooklewinks under the fizzletop moonbeam."

But who is really using intelligence to craft that?

Are they more capable than what came before? Absolutely, that much is without doubt.

But they aren't intelligent.

An ability to form sentences does not imply intelligence.

There is hardly a concensus on that. There are supporters, sceptics, and marketing departments in very large company's who have spent an awful lot of money on hype.

At best, it is far too early to tell.