Personally I’m not too excited by that future, if AI are made efficient enough to be contained on device & more trustworthy, I’m afraid of a surveillance state where the spying is not done remotely in large datacenters, but rather where data is processed by on-device agents and reported.

A black box in every device, maybe even in the form of hardware; kind of like the on-device scan Apple tried to impose a while back, but far reaching & that can be modulated & updated to be tailored to every region. One country using it to spy on dissidents, another for crime, another to repress LGBT people…

I don’t see AI as it exists as really useful beyond just being a “smarter google” that doesn’t (yet?) get all its results from SEO-optimized garbage. UI & UX is pushed so far nowadays that a “smart assistant” barely saves you a few taps on your smartphone, so I don’t think the smartest AI, whether LLM or otherwise, will be useful for everyday life as a tool for individual users.

AI integrated to robotics as a “servant” for chores is one possible use, but the advancements there are so snail-paced that I don’t think it’s something that will exist even in ~50 years.

relevant veritasium

If you have to pull out an etymology argument to justify a political position, you’re wrong by default. Because you’re blatantly ignoring the actual movement & extracting whatever meaning you want out of that word.

Feminism fights against the patriarch, which in modern terms include both traditional restrictions placed on women and men. So the fight against patriarchal expectations placed on men, among them toxic masculinity, are absolutely part of feminism as a political stance today.

Air is a fluid; gases & liquids are both fluids

I think (mighty me with 0 drone or RF experience) that it would be possible to combine the fiber optic with radio, by having a control relay be physically attached with fiber optics, but then you control that relay with RF. If your fiber optics range is sufficient, then RF jamming won’t be an issue

Chinese car makers aren’t really more subsidized than Europeans and US. Actually we’re only seeing the brands that survived the internal competition of the Chinese car market, where a ton of brands failed and died.

What we’re seeing are the brands that survived that competition through extreme optimization, at a level no other car manufacturer had to reach before. And they did that in a growing market of 1.5 billion people.

Why should they struggle when competing with an aging industry with aging production modes that only address ~600m people? Especially when those companies offer objectively worse products at worse prices?

No monologue, no images, no sound. Just… concepts. It’s a bit weird.

Even weirder is that I can actually conjure images while asleep (or about to sleep, or barely just woke up).

I loved books as a kid, but never understood why people preferred them to movies where you could actually picture what is happening on the page. It took me until my mid 20s to figure out my experience was different to other people’s.

I can get lost in my imagination, it’s just not visual or auditory

Again, you don’t have to like them, but maybe just shut up about it for a second so we can all focus on the bigger issue. It’s called critical support.

I’m sorry that I draw the line at genocide.

I don’t see how editorial content regulations impact a DJ’s catalogue?

Google is still the first thing that I check, it’s just not as consistent as it used to be in delivering any meaningful results

Because search engines have been dogshit for the past 2 years (give or take~); AI need to be steered hard but as long as you’re asking for sources (and don’t just read what they’re saying) you can get an answer out of them.

I only find what I’m searching for on Google if I already know the exact keywords for what I’m specifically looking for (…and even then…); if I don’t know the exact terms of what I’m looking for (like @affenlehrer@feddit.org with his bike brake issue) then google is useless nowadays, which wasn’t always true. So now my process is to google first, ask an AI second, and I end up using AIs way more than I would like.

I use AIs exactly as you’re describing, but I ask for sources, which they’re “ok” for.

They’re bad at it too but in a way that make them useful to then extract the keywords google would expect (i.e, the response doesn’t necessarily make sense, but at least I have some resources to form a question google can answer), while google doesn’t seem to be able to give me proper results when I search by using words other than the exact matching keywords

It matches in what sense? Because google has become nigh useless to me. I’m relying hard on LLMs to provide links because google never gives me any relevant response anymore – and I’m not even talking about sponsored content here, which makes things worse in some cases

Because it’s all made up bullshit. Most of these “secret chinese police stations” end up just being grocery stores that were given the ability to renew Chinese people’s passports and other administrative shit.

That’s hilarious 😆 now if someone corrects you, you can pass the curse

It’s not like Xi isn’t also a Nazi

Shouldn’t have looked

Holy, and I thought “Vöedtæmhtëhactått” was bad

They’re nvidia, they don’t care if the shovels they’re selling won’t dig any gold