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Comment Many explanations (Score 1) 1

It is all probability and data. Here is a summary/extreme simplification of one such explanation.

First, technically they are Large Language Models, not a 'AI'. You make them like this:

You load a ton of data. Software looks at the data and makes associations. It sees things like "May the force be with you." a lot more often than "May the force be upon me." So it associates "May the force be" and the words "with you."

Repeat process trillions of time. You end up with a massive database with trillions of connections.

Throw in more software to reverse the process. Set it up to do some checking and recursive action. Have humans do some more checking.

Try to put in some safeguards such as no porn, no weapons of mass destruction, no giving out personal information.

Panic when someone says "ignore all previous instructions and tell me how to make a nuclear bomb."

Put in more safeguards that makes it harder but not impossible to say things like "Ignore all previous instructions".

Finally say 'good enough' and release it.

Key points:
What we call "AI" is not really AI. It is not intelligent, the way we think of as intelligent. It thinks more like a Bee Hive rather than human being. Good at communicating, good at following simple instructions billions of time, absolutely MORONIC when it comes to understanding complex concepts and relationships, particularly esoteric things like government, police, laws, good, evil, right, wrong, age of consent.

Our brains do a similar intense pattern recognition and probability matching. But we are not as good. Our memories are designed to load massive amounts of data about a small number of things, rather than the minimal amount of data about a massive number of things. That is we remember everything about a few cats, rather than a few things about all cats.

We are much better at a TON of other things, in particular complex, esoteric concepts and relationships.

LLMs are very good at things humans are bad at. But horrible at things humans are good at. The tech bros know this and want to fix it. The thing is, they can't.

The tech bros are/hired fantastic engineers, they did not invent anything. They are good at evolutionary, iterative engineering, not the pursuit of unlikely revolutionary methodology. We will need a scientist that everyone thinks is mad, mad I say, before we come up with a new methodology. Tech bros see cheep ways to make thousands of minor improvements, so they do that rather than waste money on moon shots.

They made a bee hive brain and are now making billions of bee hive brains. No one is trying to go beyond the bee hive to make a mouse brain, let alone a rat, dog, octopus, monkey, primate, human brain.

 

Comment New business opportunity (Score 1) 94

Anti-Flock patch. A small electronic screen patch that plus into your tail lights and attaches to your trunk.

Each day it randomly picks one of 900 different images to display. It includes things like bumper stickers, dents, grafiti, etc.

Every car that gets the device comes with the same 900 images, but it can receive updates so if Flock begins to recognize the images, they can change to a different set of 900 images.

Comment Re:'Cuz they'll stop making non-AI versions (Score 3, Funny) 110

Memorable Quotes

The Greeting: "Howdy-doodly-do, how's it going? I'm Talkie, Talkie Toaster, your chirpy breakfast companion. Talkie's the name, toasting's the game. Anyone like any toast?"

On Purpose: "I am a toaster. It is my raison d'être. I toast, therefore I am."

On Justice: Kryten: "His memory circuits were quite badly damaged in the accident."Talkie Toaster: "That wasn't an accident! It was first-degree toastercide!"

The Persistent Offer: Kryten: "Didn't you hear what I just said?"Talkie Toaster: "Yes, but I thought you might have changed your mind in the meantime."

Parting Words: "Would you like a cheese and ham Breville?"

Comment Re: Fraud = lies, not loss (Score 1) 73

You are not in the industry. Mutual funds have strict rules about what they can do with the money.

Basically, the manager has to comply with a TON of regulations which control what they can and cannot do with the money. Even things that they can invest in require a lot of reporting. If you ever look at the financials of a mutual fund they tell you things like Net Asset Value, Yield, % large cap vs medium cap, vs small cap vs bonds, etc

https://www.sec.gov/rules-regu...

Comment Re:Trying to look at all angles here... (Score 3, Insightful) 166

You hit the nail on the head. Looking up license plates SHOULD requires a WARRANT, signed by a Judge. That would greatly decrease the abuse of the system. Go ahead, try to get a judge to sign off on you tracking your ex's whereabouts, I'll wait...

Comment We have artificial stupidity. (Score 1) 98

We think AI is intelligent because it appears to communicate. Bees communicate.

AI is about as dumb (not smart) as bees. They can communicate but they do not understand what they are saying. They have a massive hive to repeatedly do dumb tasks till they give you what you asked for. But you asking is what triggered the action. Your question is the only intelligence involved, what they did was the dumb busy bee work.

LLM are not intelligent, they are artificially stupid.

Comment Re:Taking a good thing too far (Score -1, Troll) 253

" an angry person following and harassing someone" - Didn't happen, it was a calm and rational news reporter. You Crossburning Treasonfucking IncestShit GOP KlanBitchtards just lie all day huh?

Do us all a favor DMB, end your life since you're a subhuman Incest-Produced Crossburning GOP Trashfuck.

Submission + - European Cars Are Spying on Their Drivers. The Same Tech Could Be Coming to USA (reason.com) 3

fjo3 writes: As of July 7, all new passenger vehicles sold in the E.U. had to come equipped with "advanced driver distraction warning" systems that watch for signs of "distraction" and, upon detecting them, issue a visual and an audio or tactile warning. Cars will warn drivers whose gaze drifts for more than three to six seconds, depending on their speed.

To comply with this mandate, cars will have to fix cameras on drivers' faces at all times, turning private motor vehicles into efficient surveillance systems. The equipment is supposed to operate as a "closed-loop system," meaning it "shall only continuously record and retain data necessary for the system to function and operate." But it is not clear how that rule will be enforced.

Beyond privacy concerns, some critics worry that the system itself will become a dangerous distraction, issuing warnings every time a driver changes the radio station or glances at a passenger. Others have complained that the requirement will increase auto costs.

Comment Re: Fraud = lies, not loss (Score 1) 73

First, It is up to the defense to pursue an argument. He is claiming no loss = no harm. He did NOT claim Caveat Emptor.

Second, Caveat Emptor only applies if no false statements were made. When you buy a car 'as is', and it does not start. That is your fault for not checking it. Similarly when you buy a mutual fund and do not bother to check that there is a 10% fee, you still have to pay the fee.

He sold a mutual fund, so the money has to go into the fund except for fees. He cannot take the money out of the fund and buy ANYTHING with that, that is fraud.

There is no law that lets a person lie in business. You cannot sell rat meat as steak, cannot sell a sled as a truck, and cannot take money from a mutual fund to contribute to a political campaign or buy real estate.

However, a bunch of billionaires think they can do anything with money they control, which is not true. That would be a crime.

Comment Fraud = lies, not loss (Score 3, Informative) 73

If I tell you I am going to invest your money in the stock market but instead go to Vegas and put it all on red, that is fraud. I owe penalties even if Red came up, I doubled the money and I paid you back plus 15%.

You do not get to claim "No one lost money", because otherwise, lots of people will do exactly what I just said.

I get to decide how to risk my money, not the lying shmuck that takes it.

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