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Comment Re:At least they are consistent (Score 1) 48

If I ask it for the lyrics to "Silver Springs" and it spits the lyrics out, that means it got the lyrics from one of the million+ websites it crawled or did audio recognition on a copy of the song posted someplace, either one isn't probably licensed by Warner Brothers or whoever... and I'm sure that WB didn't license OpenAI for this.

Nor did they need to.
AI training is already ruled fair use, which is logical, because you can't reasonably argue that the resulting network isn't just about as transformative as you can make it.

In the end, it boils down to... LLM-AI is quite a bit like the predictive text on your cell phone when you text someone (I type "I was going to say", and it gives me some possibilities for the next word)... just the LLM-AI is doing that on a much larger scale, referencing not just the last few texts I sent, but entire books and encyclopedias and whatever else you want to name.

No.
Text prediction is usually done with a simple Markov chain.
The LLM references precisely nothing coming up with your answer.
Your input tokens led to a path through the latent space to lead to the progressive generation of those tokens.
You could literally never hope to extract any sequence of tokens from that network without providing the correct input tokens and running the network.

Yeah, someone is gonna say there's hundreds of layers to it... it all boils down to predictive text. It's not intelligent, it's a big database of everything they could steal from every website out there that gets referenced for each user.

Wrong.
You can keep repeating yourself, but you'll never not be wrong.

Comment Re:Exhaustive? (Score 1) 58

What can I say, there are a few folks here who really like to literally fucking make shit up in order to push a point they believe in.

In the case of gweihir, there is no iota of intellectual honesty he won't sacrifice to convince you all that AI is criminal, illegal, fake news, and murdering babies.

Comment Re:Exhaustive? (Score 1) 58

That's actually not relevant in the slightest in the eyes of the court. If you logged it, whether between you and a party, or between 2 parties unrelated to you- it can be pulled in discovery.

However, the right to discovery is not infinite.
Abuse of it is what is called a "fishing expedition", and it's prohibited by Federal law in Federal courts.

Comment Re:Testing? (Score 1) 65

It looks a lot like Elon Musk's Optimus. Same limitations like not being able to be unbalanced at any time, resulting in that squat and awkward "walking".

You can tell when a robot is shit tier because the good ones use balance as a tool. Humans basically fall when they walk forward, and then catch themselves with a foot out in front. That also helps them stay upright on slippery and uneven surfaces, climb stairs, deal with being bumped into and so on. The crap ones need to be balanced at all times, and fall over if they are not.

Comment Re:No (Score 2) 80

There are plenty of good Android tablets.

If you want pen input, Samsung are a good bet. Way better than an iPad. You can scribble anywhere and it just works. Handwriting, drawings, selections, it's all seamless and supported in every app. Last time I checked, iPads don't have that kind of basic functionality for their pens.

For other stuff, Xiaomi are a good option. Very nice screens, good speakers, fast processors, and a lot of models to suit every price point. Battery life is generally excellent.

Of course they all support side loading and alternative app stores, so you aren't locked in to Google Play/Apple Store.

Comment Re:Amateurs (Score 1) 65

The proper way to do this is 1) fake it and 2) when queried, lie about it. I mean, this has been the traditional approach in all things AI and at least the LLM pushers know how to do it. I would have thought that Russians, off all people, understand this approach in a more general way. Apparently not. Some people will probably get an extensive "vacation" sponsored by the state now.

They did fake it. The "robot" was a guy in a robot suit, unfortunately, the guy in the robot suit got completely shitfaced.

Comment Re:Yes, there are good android tablets (Score 1) 80

Great fucking tablet (non-FE was, at least) - only problem is no DV :(
Ended up getting a Lenovo for that... but it's a flat-out inferior tablet compared to the Galaxy.

There is no Great Tablet That Does All The HDR Goodies My iPad Does, sadly.

The biggest damn shame on the Galaxy, is that gorgeous ass screen is wasted by only being able to do HDR10+

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