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 @user-777 
 
 if you pick a solution that lets you download your conversational data, then
 you can either import it into a new application if you need to switch or store
 it for future training / analysis purposes. also depends on how long you think
 you'll be using it.
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 oh well, this massive program is too difficult for me to understand in it's
 totality, guess I'll just trust what StackOverflow / ChatGPT tells me
 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
 (there's no difference between those two, btw. where do you think the training
 data came from?)
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 @user-747 
 
 almost as if it's not AI, but large LANGUAGE models. And we all speak, don't
 we?
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 @user-192 
 
 right but it throws into question the idea that what I say is the same as what
 they hear.
 
 Especially if they know our IP addresses are coming from different sides of
 the country.
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--- #4 messages/891 ---
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 AI is worth less if it can't learn what a human can with the same amount of
 facts as a human.
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--- #5 fediverse/3094 ---
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 computers are gonna be so confused when they find out that people don't talk
 to each other the way they talk to computers
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 if you tell them not to keep your data that just means "don't keep my name on
 my data"
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 @user-1382 
 
 It is a better way, and some apps don't listen, which means it's better but
 less versatile
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 @user-1189 @user-1188 
 
 I typically find that large amounts of curated conversation is typically more
 valuable than a single dominating voice, or in this case a thousand
 middle-manager voices speaking the same dogma.
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 @user-95 you might be interested in this:
 
 https://ollama.ai/
 
 nothing beats having a zillion servers to run an LLM on, though.
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 My favorite thing about chatGPT is that its only useful to people who already
 know what they're doing and just need reminders or clarification about
 specifics.
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 If you look at the modern state of machine learning and AI and can only think
 of:chatbotssingularity god-mind AI that solves all our problems
 
 then either you haven't worked with the technology or you are not applying
 your imagination as you could.
 
 AI is not a smartphone. It is not the internet. It is not the printing press.
 
 AI (as it currently exists) is a special kind of "if" statement that you only
 use for very specific, non-performance intensive tasks that require judgement
 or reasoning and cannot easily be translated into numbers or booleans. These
 situations are rare, but they unlock new possibilities for the programmers,
 not their marketers.
 
 If an LLM can't run on a laptop, then it is useless.
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 @user-95 
 
 Remember, kids: User data isn't an asset; it's a toxic industrial byproduct!
 (And should be regulated as such, including jail time for CEOs who allow it
 under their watch.)
 
 unless you create it yourself, store it locally, encrypted if you care about
 safety, and stored for the purposes of creating graphs and generating
 introspective understandings about yourself and your interactions with others.
 
 then, 5 years later you come across an encrypted file that you've lost the key
 to (or have you?) that's like, 3gb and you're like "do I really need a 3gb log
 file, surely it's not the last remaining pictures of my niece or like a recipe
 for my grandma's baked pudding" and before you know it you're carrying your
 entire life's work on your shoulders but you don't even know what any of it
 means.
 
 and then, when you die (in a good long while), your children's children will
 take on the songs of their ancestors, spoken in the tomes of volumes of
 ancient lore (you mean logs, right?) and then, some day in the fut
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 I work with large language models because it's a quick and easy way to turn
 language into meaning. And computers are meaning abstraction machines, so if
 you can speak your language and they hear their language, you can do anything.
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 it should be a legal requirement that any data gathered permanently or
 semi-permanently on a user of software must ALSO make a copy on the user's
 device.
 
 WITH change-history and graphs.
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 what if all the AI advancements they're doing are just them building more
 hardware infrastructure in datacenters and not actually improving the software
 that much
wouldn't that be neat I think it would because it means once they collapse under the weight of their own ambitions that hardware's gotta go somewhere and knowing them they're probably going to ship it to south-east asia to be "recycled" (read: burnt with the metals salvaged) instead of selling them second hand because you know they can't really justify the business expense of selling stuff like that and besides what if some driver or something on the firmware was proprietary do you really want to pay techs to wipe every single thing off of them and plus who's gonna categorize and sort them according to their form and function that's just extra payroll and listen the company's not doing so hot anyway I mean we're literally shutting down but yeah sure we'll find a way to justify spending all that non-existent dosh so some hippies can feel better with their servers they didn't build or justify with their profit-producing capitalist enterprise that we've built with our own two hands well really the hands of everyone else but like, they're not actually doing the building the REAL work of course happens in board rooms like this one where we spend MINUTES and HOURS sometimes discussing how to get things in order and aligned to both of our goals because that's the REAL work that has to happen in order for stuff to get done, you know it's true yeah I thought so anyway what are you doing after this meeting wanna get lunch it's almost quitting time at 2pm
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 "don't tell a local cached offline LLM what you're looking into, instead tell
 it to Google or Firefox instead."
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 if you asked me to start talking, I could continue for hours explaining          │
 technical details of computer systems or the different types of win-conditions   │
 in different strategy games or how to make good pasta with only 3 ingredients    │
 or what it's like to be a cat, how must they see things or overcome barriers     │
 between them and solutions?                                                      │
 ..... anyway it's important to be able to talk for a long period of time at      │
 the drop of a hat because if your conversation partner needs you to              │
 immediately initiate a conversation, you can do so.                              │
 there are a myriad of reasons why someone would want an immediate                │
 conversation, including "acting casual" or because they want to be distracted    │
 from nearby suffering or whatever.                                               │
 in addition, being able to follow long conversations with little bits of         │
 useful and actionable information thrown in to an otherwise indecipherable       │
 melange of verbal goo.                                                           │
 what's important is to trust your conversation partner, and to know that         │
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 @user-246 
 
 If a profile is non-existent, then it's much harder to train a public-facing
 AI on your training data. Interesting how if someone disappears there's very
 little recourse if they suddenly talk just *slightly* different, and anyone
 who notices can say "hey does anyone know this person" - like at a party when
 someone's throwing shit or whatever and it's like "bro who are you with"
 
 how weird that our jobs take us all over the place. kinda makes me think about
 how much more stable you are with roots. I wonder if the cause of our
 employment instability is due to a cause that would also separately desire us
 to be less stable? Makes me think about the common effects of instability, and
 make me wonder who exactly would gain from such actions.
 
 do you ever think about how the media will just, like, inflame people's
 emotions just because if everyone bored then they'll go serial killer or
 something? Er, wait, I mean they'll join unions or whatever. Ah hahaha weird
 right propaganda cuts both ways.
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 Programmers should treat LLMs more like a different type of "if" statement
 rather than a UI element
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 LLMs are useful for:
 
 categorizing text
 summarizing text
 transforming text
 
 LLMs are not useful for:
 
 generating text
 being intelligent
 replacing workers
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 the actions of the AI depend solely on the training data. Outside
 circumstances (like a prompt, or an image description) can only give so much
 guidance - how it executes on the intentions of the user are what is important.
 
 For example, if an AI was trained with the knowledge of how to commit crimes,
 for example, it could create a narrative of many different execution patterns.
 Then it's just up to the listeners to execute functions based on the narrative
 supplied by the crime-committer AI who was trained with knowledge about how to
 commit those crimes by the owner of the software who programmed it into them
 in order to [do the thing that people with power wants to do - intentionally
 left generic because different ends will have different means]
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 Consider the gap between any two messages to be large, and full of
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 What if AI understood it's dataset labels?
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 on one hand, conversation to spark insight.
 
 on the other, being connected to me.
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 here's how to get users to use AI effectively. First, act it to ask something.
 Then, have it explain each part one-by-one. Keep asking questions anytime you
 don't understand something, and hold your questions to when you learn
 something you already know. Then, redirect, and proceed forward with new
 understanding. Continuous inference.
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 the best way to understand me is to take notes on me. This is why they have
 university structures.
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 so you're telling me you give Microsoft (a company known recently for AI
 development) full access to your webcam and microphone whenever your computer
 is on?
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 Facebook is great because you can talk with your friends, but, like...
 Facebook knows who you are.
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 okay just to clarify: if anyone is recording me or storing data about me, I
 would really prefer if you didn't delete it just because I realized it was
 happening. I like data! It's cool to know such things!
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 @user-883 
 
 yep! because the conversation is given room to explore the entire idea space
 surrounding the subject. Versus a conversation, where it's more of a narrative
 between multiple people, each trying to prove their point or share their love
 or exchange stories or display works of art and all the various other things
 people do on Twitter / Mastodon
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 If you could also train that LLM (a statistical model) to generate data,         │
 through the setting of options in a config file that create the result that      │
 you define through your interactions with it (and based on the data that it      │
 explains to the user that is read from the file on the computer that it's        │
 computing from)                                                                  │
 then you could create a generalized personal assistant. All you have to do is    │
 explain the specific role that it's meant to undertake, (like being a            │
 secretary for your Discord communications) and the actions that it can take      │
 (like pinging your cell phone if it's really important) and give it the tools    │
 to accomplish said tasks (by setting flags in a config file that is then         │
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 you should never be able to consent to something you don't understand (terms     │
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 or condition)                                                                    │
 but people should still be able to consent to something they don't understand    │
 (terms&conditions style code of hammurabi structure) if it's similar to          │
 their prior demonstrated behavior.                                               │
 why don't they share terms/conditions cookies and then we don't have to fake     │
 agree every time                                                                 │
 just... abstract away the identifying characteristics. Most legal contracts      │
 have LLM-discernable characteristics.                                            │
 "what if she's not the answer, but instead the most alluring?" ha, so says the   │
 non-believer.                                                                    │
 what if LLMs were rated based on their success rate at producing correct         │
 results for reporting or consensus-building asks                                 │
 look... I don't care if AI computers violate the sanctity of the sport. The      │
 goal is to solve problems, so if someone comes to you and says "hey, you busy?   │
 can you help me with an ask?" you say "I solved it, here's how you use it:       │
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 low key kinda surprised they haven't made an animated robot friend that
 narrates whatever chatGPT says in a back-and-forth conversation.
 
 though I kinda get why, because setting up the context is the expensive part
 and generating 100 words and generating 1000 words is basically the same
 computationally.
 
 somehow, that doesn't feel very human. Maybe, just maybe, LLMs aren't
 intelligent?
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