Yeah, I remember the ML hype was SO hot back then. I got into it a little late, but I remember the fintech company I worked at making this ML powered “credit card approval checker” to see how likely you would be to get approved for a CC without doing a credit check.

Anyway, it probably worked fine. Actually legit ML actually works a lot better for that sort of thing than today’s LLMs, but I’d bet it’s “ai powered” now.

Lol like we’re going to have computers then. I’ll be happy if we get to keep indoor plumbing

It’s funny because if he had actually turned into a cool person I bet this would retroactively have become a kind of fun campy picture. But really it’s just a reminder of what a disappointment he’s turned out to be.

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I thought it was neat at first too, but yeah, have definitely lost interest. I’m surprised when I see people at work actually using it like on purpose.

Yeah… The certainty that this very conversation will be scraped and monetized is a real bummer. Makes me less likely to share my real self online.

Even if this total lie were somehow true, that there was something about Arab culture or Semitic people that magically made them unable to “produce culture” uhhh they’re still people?? Like they deserve exactly as much dignity and respect as any other people.

But it’s also obviously a stupid racist lie.

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

Thank you for your service.

I also mod a couple communities on another account. Turns out if you just post things you’re interested eventually other people will join in and then you can just sit back and enjoy.

Ugh discovery. I also get it, but also there’s a thing called surfing the web: you just click around and keep surfing from one link to the next and before long you have enough follows to satisfy even the most voracious scroller.

Yeah I feel like with lemmy you could just move to a smaller network/graph of federated servers. Actually I think some splintering of the fediverse would be a good thing if its numbers keep trending up.

Also the fediverse is crazy cheap to access. Like I’ve got a $8/mo CAD server running a dozen websites and a snac2 instance and it doesn’t choke even a bit.

Never thought this would be a badge of honour but I’m also proud I wiped my comments and deleted my account before they inevitably banned me for posting a 🍉 or something.

I would’ve seen their point maybe a couple years ago, but I can’t remember the last time I got to the bottom of the all feed here. And sister, I can scrrrroll. Like I start to grow mushrooms and I’m pretty sure my cat partially melds with me.

What do you mean by reactions, like the badge things, or conversations?

Valve may just have to grit their teeth and actually hire people to do community work 😞 RIP. Where will they get the money??

Because if they don’t they get banned which makes their shoveling harder.

That would indeed suck. Very paperclip maximising. Doesn’t even have to be malicious, really.

But yeah I was just reading about yet another critical CVE this morning. The third this week. And wondered to myself if I was seeing the end of the open internet.

Like will there be a day where it simply isn’t safe to leave a device just passively connected to the internet or any broadly distributed network? Like I’m behind two firewalls at work, surrounded by highly capable network and cybersecurity PhDs and still one of our systems got low-key pwned just this month.

So Google uses something called “federated learning” which is not as fun as it sounds. It’s where they load a small model onto your device, train it on all your data, then send the resulting training data back to headquarters.

So it’s totally cool! Because your actual PII never leaves your device! Just everything about you statistically that might be useful to advertisers or governments! Really, whoever can pay!

Yeah, “taxing.”

Yeah 2 out of 100 headlines about LLMs are worth getting excited about. Like uses in developing new drugs, diagnosing cancers — that sort of thing.