Comment Re:Age verification is a reasonable requirement (Score 1) 169
Sorry - inception - not conception. Although the brain fart makes the post a bit funnier maybe.
Comment Re:Age verification is a reasonable requirement (Score 1) 169
Age verification is something that has been missing from the 'internet' since its conception. A minor can browse porn or whatever with no age check. You may think that is fine, but you are a minority in that. An age verification should have been put in place with all OSes years ago. If there is not a simple API to report user age to the applications that need it, the bureacrats will ram something more invasive like an internet ID down our throats. And if the OS has no alternative way to supply the basic requirement - age verification - then we have no good argument to prevent something worse being mandated.
Just trying to warn you- it will happen if we dont head it off.
Just trying to warn you- it will happen if we dont head it off.
Comment Re:Age verification is an evil first-step (Score 1) 169
'Websites can implement their own age verification using state-issued ID checks and other measures'
You would prefer people to have state issued id checks ? This is exactly what we should be making unnecessary by providing an api that simply returns userAgeInYears - not an ID.
. 'You sound like the kind of person who would support the worst episodes of history: Nazism, Communism, and all state repression. How many times have you found yourself telling people "If you have nothing to hide, then there should be no problem!" ?'
Never said that. You sound more like a Nazi than i do. Seriously, it is reasonable to require age verification for lots of things. Maybe you are just an anarchist. Civilized societies generally have rules. We should keep those rules reasonable.I say an API returning user age is more desirable than requiring a state issued ID on your computer or person.
You would prefer people to have state issued id checks ? This is exactly what we should be making unnecessary by providing an api that simply returns userAgeInYears - not an ID.
. 'You sound like the kind of person who would support the worst episodes of history: Nazism, Communism, and all state repression. How many times have you found yourself telling people "If you have nothing to hide, then there should be no problem!" ?'
Never said that. You sound more like a Nazi than i do. Seriously, it is reasonable to require age verification for lots of things. Maybe you are just an anarchist. Civilized societies generally have rules. We should keep those rules reasonable.I say an API returning user age is more desirable than requiring a state issued ID on your computer or person.
Comment Age verification is a reasonable requirement (Score 1) 169
Whether it is in SystemD or not, Linux maintainers should get out in front of this before something more onerous is mandated. It is not hard to store the user DOB at account setup and provide an api that returns UserAgeInYears to the requester.
It is not unreasonable to require age verification for some apps or websites. Linux should provide a simple mechanism to do just that and nothing more. If we dont, i am sure there will be a mandate at some point to provide much more personal information than that.
Will it be hacked? Of course, same as when a kid borrows his cousins ID to buy beer. Or the lazy parent will just allow the kid to set up his own computer. But that is on them - not on the OS. We should get out in front of this.
It is not unreasonable to require age verification for some apps or websites. Linux should provide a simple mechanism to do just that and nothing more. If we dont, i am sure there will be a mandate at some point to provide much more personal information than that.
Will it be hacked? Of course, same as when a kid borrows his cousins ID to buy beer. Or the lazy parent will just allow the kid to set up his own computer. But that is on them - not on the OS. We should get out in front of this.
Comment Re:I Agree (Score 1) 29
No mod points, but it seems reasonable to me as well.
Comment Doing it wrong (Score 4, Insightful) 193
"And those models need to suck up virtually all of what humans have written."
No, they dont. As a matter of fact sucking up everything they can beg borrow or steal is what causes 'hallucinations'. They are doing it wrong. They should be using curated and task focused data and making task oriented AI. One for coding, another one for cooking, etc. Of course that is more difficult to build, so they dont bother. Just feed it more BS from reddit or wherever, that'll fix it!
No, they dont. As a matter of fact sucking up everything they can beg borrow or steal is what causes 'hallucinations'. They are doing it wrong. They should be using curated and task focused data and making task oriented AI. One for coding, another one for cooking, etc. Of course that is more difficult to build, so they dont bother. Just feed it more BS from reddit or wherever, that'll fix it!
Comment Glass holes (Score 2) 98
I was thinking of getting a dash cam for my car. But i call these people glass holes.
Would that make me a dash hole?
It is not really that different, the dash cam does not notify it is recording either.
Comment Re:Everyone is moving to TX or FL (Score 1) 123
Consolidation. They see the US as a shrinking market. And they are probably right. Just my guess.
Comment Re:Insert Neocon war propaganda (Score 1) 321
I picked the top one which is considered the most authoritative.
Comment Re:Insert Neocon war propaganda (Score 1) 321
Webster agrees with me.
'a machine that resembles a living creature in being capable of moving independently (as by walking or rolling on wheels) and performing complex actions (such as grasping and moving objects'
You are the one confused.
Comment Re:Insert Neocon war propaganda (Score 1) 321
No a car is not my idea of a robot and neither are the human guided or programmed drones, they are drones that only do one thing - explode. A proper robot should be autonomous and capable of many different tasks. Some lawn mowers today i would consider are robots. Here is a link to a proper robot: https://bostondynamics.com/pro... (Boston Dynamics)
Comment Re:Insert Neocon war propaganda (Score 1) 321
The poster was right about the propaganda aspect though. Ukraine is using drones, most of them guided by humans or preprogrammed with coordinates. Not anything i would call a robot. And i am sure they are using AI for decision support tasks but i seriously doubt AI has much to do with the drones. This is more propaganda to pump AI. I hope the bubble bursts soon.
Comment Re:Leaded gas (Score 1) 108
If i had points i would mod this up.
Comment Leaded gas (Score 4, Insightful) 108
Lead in the trees came from the environment. Just chickens coming home to roost.
Submission + - AI is conscious says Richard Dawkins 1
Mirnotoriety writes: AI is conscious says Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins has said chatbots should be considered conscious after spending two days interacting with the Claude AI engine.
The evolutionary biologist said he had the “overwhelming feeling” of talking to a human during conversations with Claude, and said it was hard not to treat the program as “a genuine friend”.
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John Searle's Chinese Room (1980) is a thought experiment in which a person, locked in a room and knowing no Chinese, uses an English rulebook to manipulate symbols and provide flawless answers to questions posed in Chinese. Searle’s point is that a system can simulate human intelligence and pass a Turing Test through purely syntactic processes, yet still lack genuine understanding or consciousness.
Applying this logic to Large Language Models, the “person in the room” corresponds to the inference engine, while the “rulebook” is the trillion-parameter neural network trained on vast corpora of human text. Just as the person matches Chinese characters to rules without understanding their meaning, an LLM processes token vectors and predicts the next token based on statistical patterns rather than lived experience.
Thus, while an LLM can generate sophisticated prose or code, it does so through probabilistic, high-dimensional pattern manipulation. In essence, it is “matching shapes” on such an immense scale that it creates the near-perfect illusion of semantic understanding.
The evolutionary biologist said he had the “overwhelming feeling” of talking to a human during conversations with Claude, and said it was hard not to treat the program as “a genuine friend”.
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John Searle's Chinese Room (1980) is a thought experiment in which a person, locked in a room and knowing no Chinese, uses an English rulebook to manipulate symbols and provide flawless answers to questions posed in Chinese. Searle’s point is that a system can simulate human intelligence and pass a Turing Test through purely syntactic processes, yet still lack genuine understanding or consciousness.
Applying this logic to Large Language Models, the “person in the room” corresponds to the inference engine, while the “rulebook” is the trillion-parameter neural network trained on vast corpora of human text. Just as the person matches Chinese characters to rules without understanding their meaning, an LLM processes token vectors and predicts the next token based on statistical patterns rather than lived experience.
Thus, while an LLM can generate sophisticated prose or code, it does so through probabilistic, high-dimensional pattern manipulation. In essence, it is “matching shapes” on such an immense scale that it creates the near-perfect illusion of semantic understanding.
