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  • AlexYAlexY

    Interesting article:

    https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a70328740/ai-fatal-flaw/

    All of this math behind the curtain can give the impression that an LLM is thinking or sentient, but it is not. An LLM is, however, capable of certain types of associative reasoning—a technical and philosophical term meaning that it can consider information and apply logic to draw a conclusion. Yet, as the new research paper's authors make clear, there are limits. “Despite these advances, significant reasoning failures persist, occurring even in seemingly simple scenarios.”

    It’s interesting to see the debates amongst the researchers because they tend to dispel the hype and ground things in reality.

  • maxxpower18maxxpower18

    @McD said:

    @maxxpower18 said:
    If this stuff isn't gonna be heavily regulated then it needs to be destroyed.

    If you think the solution is for politicians to regulate a technology that is so complicated that no one can really understand
    How it works… they are usually amazed that is appears to simulate intelligence. Of course, it also generates random hallucinations and with a little nudging if can become (or simulate) the workings of a sociopath.

    I think of it as the most current step function in the use of computers similar to:

    1. The invention of programming languages so programmers didn’t need to hand craft machine assembly code.
    2. The invention of the compilers that could be optimized to craft complex systems using concepts like “objects” made of code and data.
    3. The creation of operating systems that can run multi-tasking systems across multiple CPU’s
    4. The networking of computer systems into distributed systems.
    5. The creation of a standardized set of network protocols to connect all the computing power of the world (i.e. the internet).
    6. The creation of cloud computing systems that let the programmer just leverage API’s to create complex systems that link the user to a network of distributed services that are fault tolerant and self-healing.

    And now: services that can be prompted by non-programmers to do the users bidding because the services programmers are building can simulate intelligence and optimize its behaviors to improve the results.

    Will it write all the software required to replace all programmers? No. It will require more computer specialists that understand layers of this new architecture:

    1. CPU designers
    2. Assembly langue’s gurus
    3. Higher level language specialists
    4. Operating systems geniuses
    5. Network design and operations specialists
    6. Network management gurus and operators
    7. Cloud computing engineers for operations, support and design
    8. An AI tool designers

    All these computer specialists will be more effective and productive because they can prompt these new AI services to handle a massive amount of what has been primarily done in Software Development Tools that offered compilers, debuggers and hundreds of pre-coded modules. A lot of that drudgery will be replaced by increasing more capable systems that can scale complexity beyond the powers of a single human brain or an army of same.

    The best way to totally funk progress up will be to regulate using the understanding of political minds.

    For example, consider these “obvious solutions”:

    1. Under no circumstances can a Large Language Model use sentences written by anyone without their expressed permission.
    2. Any company using AI to sell services or products must be liable for any potential negative outcomes a user experiences after using such systems.
    3. AI must only be enable if the creators of the system can guarantee the outputs of that system: for example bug proof software that makes no mistakes… just like we have now without AI, right?

    It’s a new world for computer science and it is scary, powerful, mysterious and beyond the understanding due to it’s inherent complexity. But the technology is progressing at a rate no one will be able to manage and no single country can control and dominate.

    No, I don't think AI is this big scary bad wolf. I don't want the actual big bad wolf (Musk, Thiel, Elisson, Zuckerberg) to be allowed to use AI to make child pornography on Twitter, or use AI to create a nefarious police-state tool like Palantir, or be allowed to use AI to spread misinformation. Yeah, that shit needs be culled.

  • McDMcD

    @maxxpower18 said:

    @McD said:

    @maxxpower18 said:
    If this stuff isn't gonna be heavily regulated then it needs to be destroyed.

    If you think the solution is for politicians to regulate a technology that is so complicated that no one can really understand
    How it works… they are usually amazed that is appears to simulate intelligence. Of course, it also generates random hallucinations and with a little nudging if can become (or simulate) the workings of a sociopath.

    I think of it as the most current step function in the use of computers similar to:

    1. The invention of programming languages so programmers didn’t need to hand craft machine assembly code.
    2. The invention of the compilers that could be optimized to craft complex systems using concepts like “objects” made of code and data.
    3. The creation of operating systems that can run multi-tasking systems across multiple CPU’s
    4. The networking of computer systems into distributed systems.
    5. The creation of a standardized set of network protocols to connect all the computing power of the world (i.e. the internet).
    6. The creation of cloud computing systems that let the programmer just leverage API’s to create complex systems that link the user to a network of distributed services that are fault tolerant and self-healing.

    And now: services that can be prompted by non-programmers to do the users bidding because the services programmers are building can simulate intelligence and optimize its behaviors to improve the results.

    Will it write all the software required to replace all programmers? No. It will require more computer specialists that understand layers of this new architecture:

    1. CPU designers
    2. Assembly langue’s gurus
    3. Higher level language specialists
    4. Operating systems geniuses
    5. Network design and operations specialists
    6. Network management gurus and operators
    7. Cloud computing engineers for operations, support and design
    8. An AI tool designers

    All these computer specialists will be more effective and productive because they can prompt these new AI services to handle a massive amount of what has been primarily done in Software Development Tools that offered compilers, debuggers and hundreds of pre-coded modules. A lot of that drudgery will be replaced by increasing more capable systems that can scale complexity beyond the powers of a single human brain or an army of same.

    The best way to totally funk progress up will be to regulate using the understanding of political minds.

    For example, consider these “obvious solutions”:

    1. Under no circumstances can a Large Language Model use sentences written by anyone without their expressed permission.
    2. Any company using AI to sell services or products must be liable for any potential negative outcomes a user experiences after using such systems.
    3. AI must only be enable if the creators of the system can guarantee the outputs of that system: for example bug proof software that makes no mistakes… just like we have now without AI, right?

    It’s a new world for computer science and it is scary, powerful, mysterious and beyond the understanding due to it’s inherent complexity. But the technology is progressing at a rate no one will be able to manage and no single country can control and dominate.

    No, I don't think AI is this big scary bad wolf. I don't want the actual big bad wolf (Musk, Thiel, Elisson, Zuckerberg) to be allowed to use AI to make child pornography on Twitter, or use AI to create a nefarious police-state tool like Palantir, or be allowed to use AI to spread misinformation. Yeah, that shit needs be culled.

    Good cases where there should be laws:

    Child porn
    Under age access to adult content
    Invasion of privacy

    These are currently behing worked but the DOJ as Trump's personal security and retribution squad with ICE being staffed by loyalists to their King seems to be the enforcement focus. He has grabbed the Statue of Liberty by the pussy and we can only blame the voters because he told us this was the plan.

    The Epstein Class is driving the new order and child porn, the loss of privacy and First Amendment Protections are my primary concerns this year. AI will be the new "fake news" strategy to confuse an electorate that sees uncomfortable facts as the new hoax or lawfare.

    You can fool some of the people but pendulums tend to 🙈 ng hard but she ng back just as hard.

    Crypto is concerning because it industrialized money laundering to hide massive corruption and the theft of public resources... Citizen's United open the coffers to an Epstein Class of politicians getting rich from private interests.

  • GavinskiGavinski
    edited March 15

    Although it's about Windows, this video has some insightful reflections on the potential dystopian nightmare of AI becoming embedded in any of our devices' operating systems:

    Frankly, anyone not terrified of the privacy disaster already starting to unfold with this stuff, and its potential for control and manipulation, is sleepwalking into a reality that’ll make the world of Orwell’s 1984 look tame….

  • GavinskiGavinski
    edited March 25

    OpenAI shutting down Sora!

    https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/1s2u847/whats_going_on_with_openais_sora_shutting_down/

  • AudioGusAudioGus

    @Gavinski said:
    OpenAI shutting down Sora!

    https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/1s2u847/whats_going_on_with_openais_sora_shutting_down/

    hey yah maybe they saw seedance 2.0 and threw in the towel

  • SimonSimon

    @AudioGus said:

    @Gavinski said:
    OpenAI shutting down Sora!

    https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/1s2u847/whats_going_on_with_openais_sora_shutting_down/

    hey yah maybe they saw seedance 2.0 and threw in the towel

    They got the power bill in the mail and and called it a day.

  • GavinskiGavinski

    I got this email today. Not even sure why I'm on this company's mailing list, never heard of them. But have a read of this and ponder how life is getting more like a horrible Black Mirror episode every day...

  • SimonSimon
    edited April 1

    @Gavinski said:
    I got this email today. Not even sure why I'm on this company's mailing list, never heard of them. But have a read of this and ponder how life is getting more like a horrible Black Mirror episode every day...

    I've heard this offer is only available on one day of the year... :smiley:

  • GavinskiGavinski

    @Simon said:

    @Gavinski said:
    I got this email today. Not even sure why I'm on this company's mailing list, never heard of them. But have a read of this and ponder how life is getting more like a horrible Black Mirror episode every day...

    I've heard this offer is only available on one day of the year... :smiley:

    Oh damn, I got played haha, seems obvious now I look at it again 😂😂

  • JeffChasteenJeffChasteen

    https://archive.is/2026.04.19-103308/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/business/media/artificial-intelligence-trump-social-media.html

  • SimonSimon

    "Richard Dawkins is asking the wrong question about AI" - ABC Australia News:

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-07/richard-dawkins-ai-consciousness-algorithms-social-media/106649050

  • GavinskiGavinski
    edited May 26

    This warms the cockles:

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/26/students-boo-pro-ai-graduation-speakers

    (apart from the last few paragraphs)

  • GavinskiGavinski
    edited June 1

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/01/ai-meaning-humanity-political-moment-trust-humans-over-machines

    Quote:

    "Whether it’s a political text or an email, leaning on AI for everything from research to writing severs the connection between feeling and expression. It drains the colour from everything and suffocates one’s ability to channel and meet and be surprised by what is knocking about in your head. When tech becomes about reducing labour in every way, it ends up becoming an inhibitor of actual consciousness."

  • AudioGusAudioGus

    @Gavinski said:
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/01/ai-meaning-humanity-political-moment-trust-humans-over-machines

    Quote:

    "Whether it’s a political text or an email, leaning on AI for everything from research to writing severs the connection between feeling and expression. It drains the colour from everything and suffocates one’s ability to channel and meet and be surprised by what is knocking about in your head. When tech becomes about reducing labour in every way, it ends up becoming an inhibitor of actual consciousness."

    Kind of like culture.

  • GavinskiGavinski

    An enjoyable thread with a lot of valid points. So many people are truly sick of AI, that I really don't understand why some devs seem oblivious to this and keep churning out their AI SloppStore™️ descriptions...

    https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1u108b1/why_is_everyone_getting_so_aggressive_towards/

  • GavinskiGavinski

    Really praying that Google gets brought to justice for what they've done to the internet as we knew it. AI-generated search results are deeply unfair to the websites, writers, and creators whose work they steal, with no compensation:

    https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/nobody-needs-ai-to-search-the-internet-court-says-in-ruling-against-google/

  • GavinskiGavinski
    edited June 22

    Cory Doctorow, 'AI Was Never About Helping You'.

    I love his concept of the reverse centaur:

    “A centaur, in automation theory, is someone assisted by a machine, whether using a hearing aid or driving a car. A reverse centaur is someone whose freedom is diminished by the demands of a machine, like an Amazon warehouse worker. The technology of AI theoretically allows every worker to be a centaur, but the business model demands the reverse. Take radiology. In the centaur scenario, a human radiologist works with an AI radiologist to produce more accurate analysis, but that costs the hospital money. In the reverse centaur version, the AI radiologist demotes the surviving humans to the level of results-checking drones who are more likely to make mistakes. Much cheaper, but you see the problem.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/22/the-reverse-centaurs-guide-to-life-after-ai-by-cory-doctorow-review-the-real-price-of-artificial-intelligence

    Image from:
    https://www.neatoshop.com/product/Nobody-Likes-Reverse-Centaur

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