"if you put in the wrong figures, will the correct ones be output"
To be fair, an 1840 “computer” might be able to tell there was something wrong with the figures and ask about it or even correct them herself.
Babbage was being a bit obtuse there; people weren't familiar with computing machines yet. Computer was a job, and computers were expected to be fairly intelligent.
In fact I'd say that if anything this question shows that the questioner understood enough about the new machine to realise it was not the same as they understood a computer to be, and lacked many of their abilities, and was just looking for Babbage to confirm their suspicions.
LLMs are also very good at convincing their users that they know what they are saying.
It's what they're really selected for. Looking accurate sells more than being accurate.
I wouldn't be surprised if many of the people selling LLMs as AI have drunk their own kool-aid (of course most just care about the line going up, but still).
The obvious example of lemmy-like federation is email.
There's lots of email servers, but all of them can send emails to each other (unless blacklisted, which would be the equivalent of defederation), and their users can read emails regardless of which server the sender has their account on.
I think if you're looking at a piefed or mbin/kbin community (magazine?) from lemmy you might be able to see replies from mastodon users through the magic of federation (mastodon —> piefed or mbin/kbin —> lemmy), and the other way around, even if mastodon and lemmy can't directly federate with each other...
Thanks, seems extremely irritating for a franchise that — except for the protomolecule (and related sufficiently advanced alien shenanigans) and the Epstein drive — prides itself on its realistic physics; you've convinced me to blacklist both the game and the publisher on Steam.
Having to work for a living is more than monstrous enough without asshats trying to make it "fun".
If you want to reward your employees give them better pay, and paid time off, and let them know you value their work (no bonuses or similar shit, though, that'll cause even more stress than the horror of having to waste most of your life working already does; if you want to give them more money, give them a raise, no fucking strings attached; or even better, pay them the same in total but reduce their work hours, so they bring the same amount home at the end of the month without having to work as much).
Yes. My worldview, morals, and ethics were pretty much fully formed before I even started using the internet.
Maybe I would've been slightly less cynical and nihilist and depressed, but the world outside the internet has let me down a lot more than the internet, even accounting for enshittification, so probably not.
I would definitely have less interesting fetishes, though.
Doesn't really show the friggin' massive wingspan of the damn things, though...