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Here is a list of some practical uses so far:

• Get a notification on the phone when the washer is done.
• Charge the car when electricity is cheap
• Turn on humidifier if sufficiently humid and no motion near it for a while
• Automatically lock the front door at night
• Toggle lights with a shortcut key on the keyboard
• Change target thermostats for different rooms and different time of day.

Also nice to learn about the house:

• Breakdown of electricity usage. (How much actually goes to heating, car, etc)
• Answer questions like "When did I really go to bed last night?". Etc

Filed under: "LLMs are designed to make convincing sentences. Language models should not be used as knowledge models."

I wish I got a dollar every time someone shared their surprise of what a LLM said that was factually Incorrect. I wouldn't need to work a day.

This has got to be the most peculiar downvoted comment I've seen on lemmy so far. A principled disagreement with collective punishment? Weird.

Edit: what am I missing? Or have I stumbled into a part of lemmy that is totally fine with stuff Nazi Germany did, and present day Israel and Russia are doing?

Bard is the same caliber of LLM as GPT, and both have a documented tendency to hallucinate.

It's all hallucinations, always, with only a few exceptions. The hallucinations just have some overlap with reality, that's all.

I don’t care if it’s welfare capitalism, UBI, socialism or fucking whatever.

Shouldn't you? I mean this is pretty basic fucking knowledge for some of the ways to go about it, and they are quite different. And it's also not like you have to go 100% all in one of them either. Seems like what you want, is also the core ideology of social democracy with a strong welfare system. Here's a thought: maybe that's what you want, and you should care? I'm guessing that you live in a country so completely fucked in all available directions of politics, and in that process forgot what workers rights were 50 years ago.

I live in Norway. People in otherwise underpaid professions such as teaching can afford to go on intercontinental holidays. Even more than once a year, if that's what they want to do. Though I will agree that staying at a 5 star hotel would be a silly expense. That stuff still requires the perks of exploitative capitalism, for which teaching is too useful.

Apologies if I'm being a bit rude. But the "I don't want to care about how stuff is and works, but how stuff is and works shouldn't be the way it is!" anti-intellectual attitude is annoying af.

What the actual fuck.

I'm tired of constantly running in to the basic lack of understanding that LLMs are not knowledge systems. They emulate language, and produce plausible sentences. This journalist is using the output of a LLM as a source of knowledge... What a fucking disgrace this should be for Forbes.

Imagine a journalist just quoting a conversation with their 10 year old, where they played a game of "whatever you do, you have to pretend like you really know what you're talking about. Do not be unsure about anything, ok?", and used the output as a source for actual facts.

If you use ChatGPT, or Bard, or any LLM for anything beyond creative output, or with the required comprehension to vet the output, just stop. Don't use tools you don't understand the function or limitations of.

I've already had to spend hours correcting a fundamental misconception someone got from ChatGPT, which was part of a safety mechanism of medical software. I've also had the displeasure of finding self-contradicting documentation someone placed in a README, which was a copy-paste from ChatGPT.

It's such a powerful tool and utility if you know what it can help with. But it requires a basic understanding, that too many people are either too lazy to make the effort for, or just lacking critical thought processes, and "it sounded really plausible", (the full extent of what it's designed to do) fools them completely.

I think it's a higher bar of actually reading one. Only around 20% of Americans read a book, any book, within the ages 18-29.

Why would you want to do that?

Genuine question.

Because if it is the hardware you want to keep and not the software, there are good android based options. And if what you want is control over the software, there are also good android options. I'd recommend a Pixel phone, and you'll always have the option to de-goggle it completely with either CalyxOs, GrapheneOs or similar ones.

Weirdly how well both aligned with Russian interests.

Elaborate?

Nice. Not often you see new styles like this.

I suppose that makes sense if you want to equate % of civilians. Which is certainly relevant for "how likely it is that I know or am related to someone who was killed".

Whichever way the numbers are measured, it is absolutely horrific what Israel is, and has been doing for decades.

Linux the past 15 years across 4 different companies. CentOS, Ubuntu, then Arch. Now I'm stuck with MacOS, and it's worse in every single way except laptop battery life of the M2. Which, is nice when moving around. I'd still prefer a more powerful desktop computer since I'm 99% of time time in one of two places.

Since no one answered your question. I'll assume you were just curious about the numbers. It's easy enough to answer.

Around 23k civilians in Gaza have been killed by Israel since October 7th. On 9/11 2001, around 2.6k were killed in those attacks. So, around 8.8 “worth” of 9/11s.

Given 94 days since October 7th, it would be a “9/11 amount of civilian casualties” every 10.6 days.

Or perhaps:

A “Hamas October 7th” every 5 days. For over 3 months straight.

Terrorism doesn’t mean “scary thing.”

It means a lot of things to a lot of people, in a lot of contexts. There are more than 250 definitions used in academic literature. More interestingly, it's consistently used by people with significant bias, and inability to understand it from the perspective of "the enemy". It is a word, after all.

Now, king of the red herring fallacy of which you are, I'll just point out that when a state commits war crimes against a civilian population, it's reasonably well accepted to be considered as "state terrorism". But, I'm sure you'll regally conjure a ignoratio elenchi response.

Not that this ever was a bar needed to pass in order to answer the rather simple question posed. So, to get back to where you sidetracked off from:

Around 23k civilians in Gaza have been killed by Israel since October 7th. On 9/11 2001, around 2.6k were killed in those attacks. So, around 8.8 "worth" of 9/11s.

Given 94 days since October 7th, it would be a "9/11 amount of civilian casualties" every 10.6 days.

But why not use a different unit of measurement. How about:

A "Hamas October 7th" every 5 days. For over 3 months straight.

But hey, it isn't terrorism if it's genocide, right? But, you're not sure about that last part. Perhaps it's not systematic enough to check that box? After all, it's not like they're carpet bombing a region with a population density twice that of of San Fransisco, of which half are children. Given the average of 10 civilians killed per Israeli airstrike. There is some randomness for it to not be on-the-nose genocide, but not too much randomness to be obvious acts of terrorism. Just that pleasantly tempered amount of killing of children to argue in bad faith.

Fuck "equally wrong". They've been marching way ahead since before 1949.

I'd be willing to bet good money that this is pretty fucking terrorising to the people who live in Gaza.

It's also predictable to see your username on every post about Israel doing evil shit. Always taking the apologetic tone. Not to wrap myself in tinfoil, but, you wouldn't be part of some propaganda machinery, right? Perhaps just a sucker for one?

Oh, and where were we on the "Do you condemn Israel for its genocide"? Ifs and buts, still, I presume?

Indeed. It's depressing growing up, and the only thing that changes is the severity of the prognosis. We still travel around the world because we're bored. Hours long roundtrip flights are sold at 20-30 USD, probably because of tourism subsidies. Not to mention the many business trips just to "meet in person".

We have all this technology to work from home, to reduce our footprint. But, we don't give a fuck. And this is just travel. Capitalism needs to be curtailed to factor in the long term destruction of the planet, or we'll head there as fast as profit margins allows.

Yes.... Meh. This is boring. You don't really understand what it is you failed to understand. But that's alright.

intially replied to made it clear that the death of the gunman happened after the gunman was

Oh? WokerOne made that clear? Incorrect. So.... Kinda invalidates your rude remark... And is the basis for my argument. Hence the repetition. Nor did the parent comment make that clear either. Certainly suggests it might be the case. But, when sommone follows that up with its own premise and context, and you ignore it, is on you. The usefulness of a conversation after that point is also lost. But again, that's on you.