/me walks onto the poop deck :-P

Thx. No, I have yet to see anything from an LLM that I consider remotely useful. And I wouldn’t be caught dead leting one anywhere near any system integration (Just look at all of the AWS outages in the past months). I continue to remain utterly baffled whenever anyone uses them for anything (other than maybe image generation, but I’d rather pay a small artist for those); I mean, their “summaries” are just as much random garbage as their citations… They look reasonable, but that’s all they do. I think LLMs are a neat parlor trick that is going to cost us, as a species, a lot, without getting us any closer to AGI.

Also: I apologize for my wording. I had an extremely strong emotional reaction, and I shouod have stopped and thought.

I’m trying. For the record: The global-warming-increasing tech-bro-billionaire-owned LSD-tripping babble-automatons are not exactly universally applauded. Saying anything about them requires care.

I know I come across like an asshole here, and I don’t want to hurt feelings, but, in case you are human, you should really consider your impulse control, writing coherence, and, maybe, how a given topic is usally regarded by the intended audience. In short, next time, please stop and think before posting something as emotionally charged as that, ok?

Given the coherence of your post I’m frankly assuming it to be another LLM-pretends-to-be-human test balloon; And following those links would either be positive reinforcement of its utility function or tell some “real” humans that their crap at least garners interest. Just no, not even once.

Whole post reads like it was generated by an LLM, lots of words, very little sense…

Who gives a flying rat’s ass? Pestilence upon you and the electrons you rode in on.

Fair :-)

To me “unbidden” ≠ “intrusive”; in a venn diagram “intrusive” would be a small circle fully contained within a much larger “unbidden” one. Though we go deeply into the question of free will when considering every thought “unbidden”, so I really woupdn’t go that deep ;-)

As someone with mental health issues including intrusive thoughts: Nope, you probably haven’t experienced one if you truly think that. Normal thoughts come and go, and, sure, they may interrupt each other, but an intrusive thought comes into your brain like a fucking tank, crushing and maiming everything in its path, not even considering to leave, and shooting down every attempt to get rid of it violently. You absolutely know it is one…

I agree, but then I’m one of those really hardcore libre-software-only nutcases ;-)

EDIT: Though, to be fair, the Trident Missiles they carry are US-made, too, so…

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a19061/britains-doomsday-subs-run-windows-xp/

(Though, of course, that’s alledgedly simplifying a lot to make it more click-bait-y: https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/no-trident-doesnt-run-windows-xp/ )

Nice April 1st. I mean that’d be almost as ridiculous as running nuclear subs on Windows, right? Long EOL’d versions at that, eh?

rustles papers

Oh.

Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country did it, even making it a point during the Trial ;-)

It must be good crap (technical term) ;-)

I’m not going to watch a video about it; But I assume the name is inspired by Neal Stephenson’s Anathem? That’d make sense…

We certainly like to think that we like thinking; Whether we actually do is a matter of debate.