This is how it works. There's more or less uncountable amount of "unsolved problems" in maths, but it's like; okay, so now we have higher upper bound on packing higher dimensional spheres. If a person dedicated a few months of research to that, I'd applaud it as an example of human ingenuity and endurance. But, it's nor a problem anyone needed to solve. It wasn't something keeping anyone up at night. The practical applications of packing spheres in higher dimensions are... esoteric at the most generous. The LLM's are sweeping up obscure problems that were unsolved because nobody would get a grant to work on them. And you can argue $2000 was cheap, but like, if you could spend $2000 to exactly count the amount of sand grains in a sand mine, it'd be impressive that it's done and we know for sure now, but also, really not worth the $2000, and not exactly meaningful work anyone was waiting for. I think the relevant question to ask is; if the LLM's are so damn smart, why haven't they yet figured out optimizations that'd allow the companies making them actually make money? Why're they worried with everyone else's math problems, but somehow the companies making them continue being the least profitable, most expensive ventures in history?

To be clear I'd wholeheartedly support regulation forcing a standard of service, but that has been overdue long before the AI bullshit bubble.

It's been garbage bots for years and I'm honestly of the impression that for any place that's been automating it before this point, the service cannot possibly get any worse than it's been so far.

Momma really needs some new GPUs.

Firstly, let me congratulate you, as this is unironically great to hear. Secondly, let me apologize if I made your day worse; there's nothing wrong with cognitive decline, or necessarily with the general loss of will to live with a creative whimsy. The issue is the crowd suffering from those things tending towards the impression that them finding and utilizing the narrow slice of what LLM's are genuinely good and making use of it (at fraction of the true practical cost) and convincing themselves this proves that the insane, destructive overinvestment and social pressure of the fraudsters trying to profiteer of it are all reasonable.

You're forgetting the third group; slashdot "graybeards" well past their cognitive zenith giddy that they once again feel productive in their job in spite of their hardening brain and the fact they haven't really felt alive in many years.

Also, it's a real shame it's impossible to design a power inverter without any complex logic or arbitrary data links. I imagine they can't flip those electrons back and forth without maintaining a lively chat with the mothership.

A careless, cynical and unfair judicial system and its shocking miscarriage of justice sent this guy to prison. Whoever gave that article that headline should be ashamed of themselves.

See, I might be weird, but to me, racism, sexism and other bigotry that evidently harms people across the country every day doesn't stop being a problem just because I don't like the way some other people frame it. And no; even some (of my fellow!) Christians getting dunked on on the regular really doesn't make me change that stance, because the amount of "harm" Christians face anywhere in the west; in Europe or in the US is not even on the same scale as the other groups that they keep trying to compare themselves to.

Man, the false narrative world you all seem to have fallen into sure does sound like a scary place. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBvfiCdk-jc Jeff Dunham has been doing the "Achmed the undead terrorist" bit for like 20 years now. Duder has five million youtube viewers and performs publictly several times a week.

From https://www.sciencealert.com/a... ; as usual with information tentatively coming from the alt right, you have to find your own sources.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the team found that gene expression in the fat bodies of queens had a lot more in common with infected workers than uninfected ones. "Our genetic analyses show that the infection does not simply make the ants sick, but alters their physiology in a highly targeted way," says Susanne Foitzik, lead author of the study and a behavioral ecologist at JGU. "At the molecular level, infected workers showed a profile that was partially queen-like." These changes were linked to metabolism, the immune system, stress, and aging, which helps explain their longer lives and why other ants give them the royal treatment.

Forcefem bimbofication parasite. It's a fucking forcefem bimfbofication parasite. It makes the other ants want to care for you. It makes sure you end up super tasty. It makes sure you have plenty of time to aimlessly wander around so birds can eat you. It's a fucking forcefem bimbofication parasite.

The very (false, but that's besides the point) narrative that "you can shit on christians all day long", "but not some other religions" is literal and fundamental example of identity politics. You literally try to use a textbook identity politics narrative perpetuated by a group as an example of how that group doesn't engage in identity politics. Powerful self own, Anonymous coward. Not just political but logical. Thank you for your contribution to the discussion.

But it definitely doesn't make me impressed with OpenAI as a company.