Kirk

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[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 11 hours ago

Not running on a Pi yet, any spying would depend on the distro. There's no dedicated Bigscreen distro yet but I'm pretty sure it's being worked on.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 7 points 18 hours ago

That's true even the premium brands won't halfway decent CPUs in them to keep the giant bloated menus from stuttering.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 34 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

There's no best answer right now, Plasma Bigscreen is making good progress.

I have to imagine they'll soon be putting cellular antennas in the TVs to circumvent all that anyway.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

I could never get those Android TV builds to work with CEC which kind of defeats the purpose for me. I'll try it out with the next update. Librelec had no issues.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 6 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

I couldn't find a working YouTube app on Kodi, nor any of the streaming sites (besides Disney plus oddly) nor Plex. It kinda felt like a real debrid frontend and graveyard of plugins.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

LOL ok you got me I specifically tried to avoid saying that. I meant real intelligence. I'll edit my comment.

EDIT: And by "real intelligence" I'm speaking of beings which display traits like curiosity and creativity.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

The investment speculation angle really does feel like crypto 2.0. Blockchain tech has some interesting, though niche right now, uses.

I'm with Ed I absolutely don't think LLMs are worthless but anyone who thinks a critical mass of real people want to pay real dollars for slop are living a fantasy.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

I think you're misunderstanding my question, I'm not saying LLMs can't spit out a website so perfectly convincing that it would be impossible to discern from a human made website.

I'm asking what makes speeding up the creation of such "slop-sites" useful or desirable to anyone?

EDIT: Maybe you could sell me on why automating undergraduate work is something interesting or helpful?

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

I didn't say "real AI" why are you asking for a definition? EDIT I'm dumb, edited my comment

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I know you think they're good, I asked what makes them good. Maybe you can you give an example of what makes them good? It might help me understand your perspective.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 7 points 1 day ago

Right? But also even perfectly made slop is still slop. Slop is nothing new it's just getting automated

 

Another article for free (but seriously subscribe to 404 they do great work) https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/graduation-speaker-booed-ai

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I know this isn't wallstreetbets but I can't help but wonder if this is a more secure investment than the usual S&P500.

 

Backstory here: https://www.404media.co/ars-technica-pulls-article-with-ai-fabricated-quotes-about-ai-generated-article/

Personally I think this is a good response. I hope they stay true to it in the future.

 

Inspired by a recent talk from Richard Stallman.

From Slashdot:

Speaking about AI, Stallman warned that "nowadays, people often use the term artificial intelligence for things that aren't intelligent at all..." He makes a point of calling large language models "generators" because "They generate text and they don't understand really what that text means." (And they also make mistakes "without batting a virtual eyelash. So you can't trust anything that they generate.") Stallman says "Every time you call them AI, you are endorsing the claim that they are intelligent and they're not. So let's let's refuse to do that."

Sometimes I think that even though we are in a "FuckAI" community, we're still helping the "AI" companies by tacitly agreeing that their LLMs and image generators are in fact "AI" when they're not. It's similar to how the people saying "AI will destroy humanity" give an outsized aura to LLMs that they don't deserve.

Personally I like the term "generators" and will make an effort to use it, but I'm curious to hear everyone else's thoughts.

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