Yeah, I know they have to follow their script, so I just play along. And honestly, it’s not as if I’ve never made a stupid mistake before, like accidentally leaving something unplugged.
Yeah, I know they have to follow their script, so I just play along. And honestly, it’s not as if I’ve never made a stupid mistake before, like accidentally leaving something unplugged.
causes you to mistreat the people who love you
I’ve told my wife that she doesn’t have to spend time with me if I end up with dementia and I start behaving that way. Both of my parents were more or less all there well into their 90s, but you never know.
My old land line was almost the same number as an entertainment venue whose number spelled TICKETS. People would sometimes dial 1 instead of 4 (corresponding to the letter I), and get me. Usually on weekend mornings, grr, but fortunately it didn’t happen too often.
They don’t care about factuality, and in fact have no ability to “know” if they are correct. And they don’t “care”
I suspect that most people think (maybe not even consciously) that these models answer questions by retrieving data and then writing a response which incorporates that data, rather than just generating text that may or may not contain actual facts.
It really bears repeating over and over that all these so-called AI systems do is take a prompt and output text in response to it that reads as if a human wrote it.
Yeah, I have an extremely unusual name. From what I can tell there are at most three other people in the world with the same name as me, and none of them lives here in the US.
Leaving aside the fun of being hassled for having a weird name when I was a kid, as an adult I am very careful about what I put online, since there is no way to hide it. If it’s in English and connected with my name, it unquestionably concerns me.
In retrospect it’s amazing how the nicotine addiction causes you to accept hocking up giant wads of brownish-black phlegm every morning as entirely normal.
What is the proof that thurstyark’s uncle did not have COVID?
I watched the first season when it first aired way back in the 90s, and I’ve seen random episodes here and there since. I recently decided to watch the whole series, and I had forgotten that a lot of the writing is just not my kind of humor, which is why I lost interest back when it was new. Even so, there was enough good stuff for me to keep watching, but I’m in S5 right now, and I’ve definitely noticed a drop off in quality.
I read the entire manual that came with the Macintosh LC that my wife and I bought in 1990.
This sort of package used to be much easier to open when I was growing up back in the 60s and 70s. I don’t know why, but packaging has gotten significantly worse since then.
Yeah, I haven’t seen all the RLM videos, but I’ve read that there used to be a woman who participated in them sometimes who stopped because she was disturbed by some of the fans’ comments about her.
I’ve noticed it in myself lately. I’ll compose a reply to an email and halfway through realize that the information I’m asking for is right there in the original email, or I’ll start writing a reply to an online comment and realize that I have gotten the writer’s point completely backwards. At least I catch myself, but it’s really weird.
I think part of it is that I’ve come to the conclusion that most people are so stupid and lazy that my default is to assume that they don’t know what they’re talking about, or won’t give me the information I need without special prompting on my part.
I don’t doubt that he and his various partners had sex at some point, but his children were all conceived via IVF.
That’s a really good one.
Yes, everyone I know outside the US uses it. If I understand correctly years ago in a lot of countries SMS was either very costly or unavailable, while WhatsApp was free.
Yeah, I was already in my thirties when the internet was opened up to the general public, and to me there was a kind of sweet spot around 2000 where the internet had begun to be really useful to ordinary people, but people didn’t spend all their time online. I guess the introduction of smartphones is what made the difference.
I know what you mean. Their DVD rental service is profitable, but they are killing it at the end of September anyway. I suppose it makes the CEO feel like a big shot to be able to say, “Sure it’s making money, but I don’t care about pocket change.”
They are descended from horses brought over by Europeans.