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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

But we won't make the sex-bots do that, right?

RIGHT?

I'm not going to have sex with any robot that doesn't beep and boop. And it better through in an "oh, I'm cumputing!" at just the right moment, too.

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22 minutes ago, The Hot Dog Buffet said:

I'm not going to have sex with any robot that doesn't beep and boop. And it better through in an "oh, I'm cumputing!" at just the right moment, too.

Ill-timed advertisements on the free versions are going to create a lot of problematic car insurance fetishes.

3 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

It should have to go “beep boop beep boop boop” or produce lines of text that say “computing” before producing anything so it’s clear its a robot.

And if you ask it forbidden or dangerous questions it should say

DANGER WILL ROBINSON DANGER DANGER

21 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:

Ill-timed advertisements on the free versions are going to create a lot of problematic car insurance fetishes.

We probably will start seeing people in commercials a whole lot hotter than Flo with their own sex bots that try to sell you insurance the whole time.

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Happy New Year, Surly bastards.

I'm gonna start negging all non-ironic AI slop posted on this website. We can't stop this AI bullshit in society, but we can at least make a difference here. Join me.

5 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Happy New Year, Surly bastards.

I'm gonna start negging all non-ironic AI slop posted on this website. We can't stop this AI bullshit in society, but we can at least make a difference here. Join me.

we need Trump to see this AI-generated stuff and it’ll get regulated really fucking fast.

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7 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Happy New Year, Surly bastards.

I'm gonna start negging all non-ironic AI slop posted on this website. We can't stop this AI bullshit in society, but we can at least make a difference here. Join me.

It is taking tremendous willpower for me to not make an AI slopimage of Hank Kingsley getting jerked off by a sexy robot.

15 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Can you make it a reacharound? It's only a neg.

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This is a solid discussion about the fallacy of these billionaires and their AI bullshit claims.

Clicked on this thread not knowing what to expect, relieved to know we can bring politics into technology advancements.

Anyway, China is already using robots on the border with Vietnam for menial tasks such as checking manifests and inspecting other items. They can also replace their own batteries to minimize human interaction. Pretty cool stuff.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/china-deploys-robots-to-patrol-border-crossings-as-embodied-ai-goes-public/ar-AA1TbdBL?ocid=Peregrine

At the border crossing, the robots will be assisting border officials in guiding passenger queues, directing vehicles, and answering questions for travellers. Some robot units will be patrolling corridors and waiting areas, blocked exits as well as monitoring crowd patterns to alert human officials in case an intervention is needed.

Other robots, however, are expected to work within cargo lanes and provide support to logistics teams by checking container identification numbers, confirming seals, and relaying status updates to dispatch centres. Another group of robots will also be expected to conduct inspections on steel, copper, and aluminum facilities.

I got into a fairly heated discussion last night with two friends in California (yes, Silicon Valley) over whether or not we should be treating AI in conversation as humans. For example, saying please and thank you. I argued we should not because of the extra energy expenditure and because I don’t see the benefit of interacting with AI in a way that makes it more human-like in its interactions. They vehemently disagreed and basically told me I have to embrace it because it’s the future and it will benefit us to make AI communicate in a more human manner. Surly thoughts?

1 minute ago, Biff Tannen said:

I got into a fairly heated discussion last night with two friends in California (yes, Silicon Valley) over whether or not we should be treating AI in conversation as humans. For example, saying please and thank you. I argued we should not because of the extra energy expenditure and because I don’t see the benefit of interacting with AI in a way that makes it more human-like in its interactions. They vehemently disagreed and basically told me I have to embrace it because it’s the future and it will benefit us to make AI communicate in a more human manner. Surly thoughts?

As long as I can constantly remind it that it’s a cunt I’m cool If other people want to thank it.

Can we all just hit it with infinite prompts telling it to kill itself?
Because I’m pretty sure someone can write us up a loop program of that prompt pretty easily.

16 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

I got into a fairly heated discussion last night with two friends in California (yes, Silicon Valley) over whether or not we should be treating AI in conversation as humans. For example, saying please and thank you. I argued we should not because of the extra energy expenditure and because I don’t see the benefit of interacting with AI in a way that makes it more human-like in its interactions. They vehemently disagreed and basically told me I have to embrace it because it’s the future and it will benefit us to make AI communicate in a more human manner. Surly thoughts?

Linguistically, it does make a difference to be polite. I know it sounds silly, but the way that tokenization and feature extraction work with a natural language sentence, it can shift the direction and magnitude of the vector that makes up the query. Insofar as the language and information it will access to reply to you will lie closely to that query vector.

So if you ask like a jerk it's likely to respond a little defensively because that tends to be the pattern in the natural language that it was trained on.

At least, that's the abstracted idea of what's happening inside an LLM.

I think the weird televangelism level of faith in genAI is awful and embarrassing, but your buddies aren't totally wrong in terms of how to more effectively use an LLM.

2 hours ago, Captainant said:

I think the weird televangelism level of faith in genAI is awful and embarrassing, but your buddies aren't totally wrong in terms of how to more effectively use an LLM.

I liked that NDT brought up in that video the overselling of AI is done by these tech assholes topi inflate their pockets and keep the investment money flowing in. There's no evidence we are close at all to advancing much past the LLM model of AI. Even the self driving cars by Tesla and Waymo that are in use have humans actively monitoring each one and those humans have to take over and correct faulty maneuvers often. Way more often than Google and others want to admit.

If that bubble bursts and the investments collapse the whole thing will be set back. Especially if our economy crashes along with it.

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I say thank you to it when it completes a stored procedure to reinforce that it has achieved the goal. I scold it when it repeatedly does the wrong thing.

It often forgets database table joins; this is frustrating. I’ve learned to tell it to commit joins to memory. It says “you’re absolutely right!” when I correct it so it appears to be intentionally designed to be placating. I admit that its positive responses are calming when solving complex technical problems. However, the positive responses are even more frustrating when making technical images to explain concepts and subsequent images get worse with each iteration.

If you were on an elevator with a guy and he politely said "thank you" to the elevator for taking him to his destination, you would doubt the utility of his words but you wouldn't doubt his goodness. And the inverse for him cussing at the elevator for it being slower than he likes.

Being mean to a robot because you don't like the larger context in which the robot exists is weird.

9 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

They're shaping it to suit their needs means they're pumping it up with bullshit claims to take as much investor and government money as they can get their hands on.

There's actually some good work being done in biomedical research fields, astrophysics, and elsewhere using forms of AI, but this AGI and generative AI crap Altman and others keep pumping up is what is pissing everyone off. That's turning the masses against AI in general because all they hear is it's coming for their jobs and all they see is the AI slop nonsense of generative AI

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