I feel exactly the opposite way. Multiple monitors cause all kinds of problems. They're just often awkward at best. One big monitor is so very much better. Inevitably I want some applications to scale differently from others if I have multiple monitors and it's never convenient.
Most people don't have two screens, and if they do, they support the same refresh rates. These days you can get big displays for reasonable money, so there's almost no good reason to get multiple displays. It's limited to tasks like video production.
Last time I looked you could get rid of the snaps in Ubuntu, e.g. getting Firefox from the official PPA instead. (I think there is a Firefox repo now which is not a PPA.) I am using Devuan, telling repos I'm using trixie, and so far so good. Software is even surprisingly modern.
This is why, when I use AIs, I try to use 5 or 6 that operate in sufficiently distinct ways and are trained by different people with different data sets. If all of them agree, when instructed specifically to find defects, that something is valid/good, then I can be reasonably confident that this conclusion isn't a result of a specific defect in training or process but has some level of path-independence.
This does NOT mean that the conclusion actually is correct, it just means that a NN will likely reach the conclusion that it is regardless of any of the mechanisms involved.
I have developed 5 different engineering projects this way. None of them have actually been examined by a real engineer yet. I would love to have a real engineer look at them, precisely because this will give you detailed insights into what an AI system actually can do and what it can't.
You are absolutely right, and the likely response by said officials will be "oops, have a scandal to divert your attention".
And Ukraine is only a problem area because those same officials don't take anything seriously unless it impacts their promotion prospects.
*has terrifying flashbacks to the recentish Celestial Toymaker episode.
Apple's mistake was building *privacy* into their AI model. Nobody else did that, and it crippled Apple's solution. Apple pushed 5GB of AI model data to everyone's phone, and everyone complained about the space usage. Next up their AI is slow because it is using resources on the phone instead of big data centers. Apple did what everyone asked for, but users were ultimately unwilling to accept the compromise.
Personally, I liked the Apple solution better. On Android, if I lose internet for 2 seconds, and say to my phone "Call Bob Smith" it sits there for several minutes then times out with "try again later". BUT IT GETS WORSE: The local hardware transcribed the text perfectly. So there was no need for a server to be involved at all!
Apple's old approach was the right one, so it is really sad that they botched it.
The behavior, known in the research community as sycophancy, stems from how these models are trained: reinforcement learning from human feedback, or RLHF, rewards responses that human evaluators prefer, and humans consistently rate agreeable answers higher than accurate ones.
No, it's because in the training corpus most of the responses to "are you sure" that anyone bothered to record will involve someone being corrected.
If that were meaningful, studies wouldn't show that hedge fund managers only make a profit around 1/3 of the time. If the people who actually work in the industry and know every aspect of it better than I know machine code or C still can't get anything useful out of their work 2/3rds of the time, then the theory simply isn't important.
How about all the woman who accused Bill Clinton?
You can have Bill Clinton. We don't give a fuck. He was a rapey piece of shit which many of us have been pointing out, check my posting history. That pales compared to the Trump-Epstein child rape and cannibalism consortium, but still, you can have him too.
It's depressing to me just how many so-called "nerds" around here are little more than shelled out muppets repeating the party line.
You mean the "global warming is a myth" party line deliberately created by Big Oil and spread among the "I'm such an individual I get all my information from youtube videos" flock of fuckheads?
Regulators should be afraid of weaponized Ai. So should censors. So should monopolists.
All of the things the State has done in the past 500 years has been corrupt and bureaucratic and caused harm. All. Not most, but all.
All of the people who supported it, from monopolists to lobbyists to activists caused harm.
Ai is undoing it all. Not piece by piece but all at once.
I, for one, can't wait to see folks zapped for restraining voluntary behavior.
Depends on what they are bred for.
Okey dokey coward. Run along and let the adults have a conversation now, I hear your mom calling me.
The oil and gas companies you mean? All of it, and all of our lives as well.
MAC user's dynamic debugging list evaluator? Never heard of that.
