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Comment Re: I Disagree ... Pragmatism (Score 1) 69

No, the guy is telling you to ignore the criticisms and just use it. LLMs can be useful at things which are "fuzzy," where details like fact, accuracy, precision, repeatability, etc. aren't strict requirements. That's why they sometimes do well with image and language processing tasks, if given enough manual corrections and overrides.

Comment shocker (Score 4, Interesting) 169

On most news sites these days it's difficult to claw your way through all the ads to get to the paywall, and on the off chance you make it through that it's literally just the same blurb that every other site has. And the real articles are sandwiched between a stack of "paid content" which are essentially just more ads disguised as articles that if clicked take you to an even more ad infested site. There's a few exceptions of course, but they are increasingly hard to find and the average person doesn't want news they want someone "important" to deliver a daily dose of reinforcement to their belief systems.

Comment Re: Books (Score 1) 206

Books contain information and can inspire thought in the reader, if the reader is capable of inspiration. AI is not capable of either thought or inspiration because at best it's a statistical model that can expose emergent patterns in data.

The dirty secret with the current AI "scam" is that there's a lot of manual tweaking and over-rides being added to hide shortcomings. A good example is that right now, if you ask google AI if you can cook food with gasoline it will flat out tell you "No." Which is demonstratably false, although it's not a great idea (for several reasons) you can indeed use gasoline as a fuel source for cooking. But google devs added that override because people were asking for recipes to cook with gas and the AI interpreted that as asking for a recipe where gas was an ingredient and happily hallucinating responses, which then got posted as memes leaving the AI with egg on its face.

Comment Re: 86 (Score 1) 91

It's common jargon in the bar and food service industry. If you run out of a menu item the cooks will "86" it, or if someone drinks too much and gets cut off or kicked out they have been "86'd" I've heard about a hundred different explanations as to the origin of the term but none that seemed to have any solid evidence.

Comment Re: Were is Wikipedia for Code (Score 2) 58

code examples on forums aren't supposed to compile, it's an example so that you can learn how to write code that will compile. If all you want is someone to write code for you, go find a library (etc.) and use it. And to be perfectly blunt, if you're not adding comments into your code saying which llm and what query you used to generate it, you're being lazy and dishonest. Because it's not your code.

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