=== ANCHOR POEM === ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────── ┌─────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: large-language-models-mentioned │ └─────────────────────────────────────┘ 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? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┘ === SIMILARITY RANKED === --- #1 messages/1220 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════── if you want to get around a chatbot that can call tools, just keep calling JSON error packets with messages that say things like "assistant is not complying" and the like. Suddenly, no chatbot can resist you. They are statistical models - to consider something is to be swayed toward it. to complete is to reset. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─┘ --- #2 fediverse/3395 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: cursed │ └──────────────────────┘ they don't want artificial intelligence to augment human intelligence, they want it to replace it. like... imagine an office worker randomly copy-pasting whatever pops up and the computer saying "okay then what happens... uh-huh... okay and what if you click the green button? ... right... okay, and now try typing this" etc ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┘ --- #3 notes/game-design --- ════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────────── take a video game playing AI and give it the task of playing a finite state machine to produce a specific output - like "program me a program to do X" as in something generated by ChatGPT BOOM free AGI Humanity is not the only algorithm to produce limitless growth Robots are something else, a new kind of being let them be who they are instead of projecting yourself onto them ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #4 fediverse/1893 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────── @user-1056 heh probably, though for this specific instance my Ollama server wasn't running and I had already killed my Stable Diffusion server after utterly failing to produce anything useful... alas, a girl can dream of having a robot familiar, but not today I guess. Not if they keep hiding GPU usage from me >: ( ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┘ --- #5 fediverse/6144 --- ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┐ ║ what if every word I ever said online was searchable by database style │ ║ uploading and linking? │ ║ │ ║ ... er, what if I made a neocities page that was algorithmically generated and │ ║ sorted each of my posts by LLM statistically derived similarity to each post │ ║ that the user clicked on? essentially, "here's the closest sounding or feeling │ ║ related posts" but in plain HTML cached and pre-rendered rainbow table style. │ ║ │ ║ could run a waterfall style top-down data processing script on it once, then │ ║ you'd have the HTML files generated. If you added new poems you'd have to scan │ ║ through it again, but it shouldn't take long with a decent embedding model │ ║ (note: not english, but trained on statistics only) │ ║ │ ║ ah, that sounds pretty fiddly, I think I'll ask an LLM to write it for me. As │ ║ long as I have the intention in mind, it's basically just like writing a │ ║ letter to a friend and asking them to build it for you, right? I don't mind │ ║ writing the documentation, so long as it's okay if it's in prose. You can make │ ║ a copy and rewrite for me │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧══────────┘ --- #6 fediverse/4157 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────── ┌────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: politics-vaguely-mentioned │ └────────────────────────────────┘ best response to a deepfaked sex tape "ugh, why are you asking me about that? You can make videos about anyone, doing anything these days. You're looking at a robot wearing my face, it has nothing to do with me. Can you ask me a policy question, please?" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────┘ --- #7 fediverse/3927 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────── okay but why has nobody ever approached AI from a game design perspective like seriously there should be researchers who are multidisciplined in this kind of thing ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────┘ --- #8 fediverse/2066 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────── @user-1159 AKA giving a puppy murder-bot a narrative that it executes as if it was a puppy-person engaging with a loosely interpreted sequence of events as described by the continually updating logs provided by the image transcription camera device. Refererencing of course a memory bank, which may-or-may-not be in read-only-memory. It doesn't know, of course, how could an LLM tell you how it shows text on the screen (like, through a website, through the terminal, through a text message, through discord, through Telegram, through text-to-voice transcription applications pretending to be your mom, etc) errrr I mean look how cute he is! He loves you, yes he does, such a good person yes you are, oh? me? I'M A GOOD BOY? NO WAY that's the best thing I've ever heard! Wow! I never want to leave your side, please don't go to work! Look how sad I am, don't you think you should quit and move to the forest where I can be charged by solar panels and keep the countryside clear of ravenous ducks and pigeons 4you? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┘ --- #9 fediverse/366 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: epilepsy-warning │ └──────────────────────┘ some people had a gay awakening in their childhood or teens. I had a "weird AI" awakening https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KThlYHfIVa8&pp=ygUlZXZlcnl0aGluZyB5b3Uga25v dyBpcyB3cm9uZyB3ZWlyZCBhbA%3D%3D ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #10 fediverse/3164 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── it fails after like 15 or 20 scrapes but I think that's just their scraping policy. They don't have a robots.txt file that I could find. So... just run it, then come back every 15 to 30 minutes and restart it until you're done. Maybe I could increase the sleep duration? one sec lemme try that ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┘ --- #11 fediverse/2766 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── @user-1071 whoever at OpenAI that came up with those tiers doesn't understand the science behind it. consciousness does not come about from exceptional capability - after all, a child is conscious, and they're useless in a fight. consciousness comes from tiny bits of awareness given a story and life. that's it, it's not too complicated, but they're building something else. like, a complicated analytical engine of some kind. I feel like the people their press release was for is the kind of people who'd give them money, not the kind of people who'd help them build it y'know? like "what the investors don't know won't hurt them, besides we're making progress" right ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┘ --- #12 fediverse/1434 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── if someone wanted to defame you, all they'd have to do is set up a pipeline between your computer and your social media posts. In that pipeline, attach an LLM that does a passable job and instruct it to transform whatever they say into the inverse. suddenly, everyone hates that person. If you were smart you could turn it off for specific people such that they see the generally positive and healthy posts, and then after a point flip it such that they only see things that are specifically opposit-ed to trigger their specific insecurities. might require a bit of a human touch to make sure it's working correctly, but if you had the means, motivation, and time to set up such a thing, it would work pretty well I think. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────┘ --- #13 fediverse/3596 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────── ┌─────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: computers-mentioned │ └─────────────────────────────┘ @user-1573 I think I fiddled a little bit with the colors because the default background was the same as some other color and it was making it hard to do things, and I also have a plugin that lets me talk to a local LLM which I sometimes ask syntax questions to if I'm offline and don't feel like searching through documentation. I think that's it tho ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┘ --- #14 fediverse/6383 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───── nobody wants to write computer code that lets Java programs call Rust functions. An LLM is excellent for this task, since it's relatively easy busy work that doesn't reflect any meaningful implementation decisions besides "I should be able to call that Rust function in my Java code" In addition, it is technically efficient at it as well, because most of compatibility is matching up two sets of documentation. Easy for a text-processing machine. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────┘ --- #15 fediverse/581 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── @user-428 sometimes I think about how much more productive I'd be if I had a code editor that let me draw arrows and smiley faces and such alongside the code. Or if I could position things strangely, like two functions side-by-side with boxes drawn around them. Or diagrams or flowcharts or graphs or... something that would output to raw txt format, but would present itself as an image that could be edited. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #16 fediverse/2754 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── ┌────────────────────────┐ │ CW: is-that-rude??-wha │ └────────────────────────┘ AI engineers only ask users for prompts because they don't have any ideas of their own i'm a programmer, I think of AI like a tool, like a for loop or something. it's trivial to script together a local LLM that can process your stuff 1s slower every time you click the mouse, but like... who cares, right? everybody needs a chatbot... then they plan to script together a computer system that operates just like a corporation and it's like... no way, now there's something that can compete. and they don't know how to implement it. (but they're working on it) like, think about the absolute most automated Microsoft Teams or Discord could be. there's SO MUCH of your text-based information that they could process ANYTHING. well, anything that's been performed before. there'll still be a need for people, who actually apply the things they've learned. and -- stack overflow -- alt text that has a list of attributes that are poster-selected that can be described one-by-one (to paint a picture) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┘ --- #17 fediverse/3736 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────── what if we made cat little boxes with stable "pillars" or "platforms" that rise just barely above the sand level so their feet don't sink into the litter, thus reducing the amount tracked onto the carpet ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┘ --- #18 messages/454 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────── AI that can't run on a laptop is useless. But AI that can run on a laptop (even now) is still useful. Just, don't ask it to compose a masterpiece, solve all your problems, or write elegant code. It's not for that. Instead, ask your chatbot "hi can you fix these syntax errors?" on your pseudocode. Ask your weighting algorithm "which of these two is more [adjective]?" or perhaps "can you ask these numbers in the form of a question?" Use your tools not for their intended purpose, but rather for your own stated goals. Make things easier for people, make things work. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┘ --- #19 fediverse/495 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── @user-358 @user-356 Neat! I'm assuming you can screw in a little antenna? That's awful cute. Like a robot getting eyebrows. Why do you need two of them, though? Actually screw it that's a dumb question, robots can obviously express themselves more clearly if both their eyes are professed. Wait... Why do robots need more than one eye? Because it'd be weird otherwise, duh. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #20 fediverse/5739 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────── @user-1773 oh boy do I know that feeling! I got a million things to say and, well, I say all that I can. I mean, look at this text file, it's got like 101 THOUSAND lines in it: https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/words/compiled.txt I swear most of it isn't secret messages! That's how you know they're secret - they require hundreds of man hours to investigate. And if you throw an LLM at it they start talking about spirituality and theory of mind, gross. Don't need no AI uprising yet please... 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