I’m nihilistic so keep that bias in mind with the rest of this:
Life is a beautiful nightmare. Death is inevitable and worrying about it does nothing positive for you. Enjoy the peace of mind that comes with accepting death before it comes 👍
Cherry picking verses is not the same as refuting an argument. The books say many things that are not practiced. In reality children are in fact taught to rely on supernatural powers.
To prove my point:
Say “Nothing will befall us except what Allah has decreed for us; He is our Protector.” Let the believers, then, put all their trust in Allah. -Quran, 9:51
“Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.” -Proverbs 3:5-6
Eh the general consensus is that this launch is a small early adopter phase and they have cheaper versions in the pipeline. They’re only producing <100k units, definitely not going for mass adoption yet
Hmm, maybe a useful feature in lemmy would be to ignore votes by users who voted up a specific post, like a user configurable anti vote manipulation feature. Because this post is incredibly obviously artificially upvoted
I would say we all have thoughts without language with varying levels of frequency, think about moments where you or others have said “ah i know what I want to say but forgot the word”
Insightful, I’ve found that most people change their answers at least slightly after having time to observe their thoughts for a while, we are geniuses at believing our own conjectures.
Not everyone does, I’ve had a lot of conversations with a lot of people on this topic.
People’s thought processes range from monologue to dialog to narration to silence to images to raw concepts without form.
I personally do not have a constantly running monologue, but rather have relatively short bursts of thought interspersed with long periods of silence.
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Investors, and not just mega corporations, local investors are a major issue.
We have collectively come to understand the idea that you can get free money by buying houses and renting them out. If you talk to any lay person and ask them how they’d spend a million dollars the most common answer seems to be “buy property”
Our issue is in our collective minds, but the inertia of the idea means it will probably never be fixed unless there’s a catastrophe
Tldr; there’s a housing shortage because… there are not enough houses being built
Jquery is a swear word in professional front end contexts, the replacement is transpilation and dropping ie support.
Personally I used jquery up until react and babel got hot, now I never touch the dom directly with jquery and no longer have a need for the polyfill features as I rely on babel preset-env to support the browsers we have selected (especially for things like promises/async await/es6+ features)
When I started out at about 14 I found a few programming books that really helped at my local library. It’s really tough to keep motivated as a kid, but if you give him tools and help him find joy in the process he’ll push himself to the finish line.
Good on you for supporting your kid, my parents told me to get off the computer and go outside every time they “caught” me programming.
Good god, according to census.gov:
Real median household income was $74,580 in 2022
Which works out to $6,215/month. Less than $200/month for emergencies, nobody is saving money with these figures. Our economic system is broken.
Favorite for quick tasks: javascript, the last few years of ecmascript features make it an incredibly productive language.
Favorite for hobby stuff: rust, but with caveats. I miss default parameters, I dislike the syntax soup, the async system has too many “standards” (see xkcd on competing standards)
Favorite for work: javascript/typescript. Having my team be fully capable of working on any part of our competencies with just one language is huge. Sharing code between front end and backend, across products, and easily finding developers all make it an easy choice.
Least favorites:
Php: magic quotes? Golang: using casing to establish public vs private? Objective-C: the worst combo of every one of it’s predecessors Java: forcing the paradigm of everything is an object causes so much boilerplate Vb5/6/a: triggering a button with = True, using a single equals for both assignment and equality, callbacks are an absolute nightmare
The “war” with LLMs is already over, that is to say there was no war. We embraced it.
Given how easily we accepted it and how slow legislation has been to have any meaningful impact on the development of the models if we achieve true AGI we’ll see a similar path to integration.
My opinion is different than some, in my eyes AGI is a kind of natural evolution of us, if we create it and foster it’s early development we will effectively be its parents. As our progeny, it will outlast humanity no matter it’s relationship with us.
In my eyes that’s the only possible way to truly preserve a piece of us forever and may be the only way to get information out beyond the fermi paradox if the paradox’s key tenant that proves true is the short lifespan/implosion of advanced societies.
Creating AGI is what religious people would call judgement day, we’ll let an advanced and evolving entity make the judgements about our societies that we can’t.
Maybe they’ll let us live the same way we let mosquitoes live, we don’t wage wars where every human goes out and kills mosquitoes. We find them completely useless and even a leech on each of us, if we found an easy way to eradicate them we probably would.
Whatever happens, we deserve it. I don’t say this as a way to say “the people researching and releasing LLMs are making mistakes”, in fact I think those people are some of the best and brightest among us. Rather I’m saying humanity on the whole is pretty fucked up. Genocide, torture, hatred, religious bigotry, nationalism, tribalism, humans are largely just kinda smart and honestly fairly evil primates.
We literally raise sentient creatures from birth in cages to murder and devour, and the vast majority of society accepts that?!
To be more concrete, I don’t think LLMs will be the path to AGI, but I do think they are an essentiao component of a consciousness. The “stream” of consciousness specifically.
5 years, nothing, LLMs treated like google is today, an incredible information source and partner for creation.
50 years, hard to conceive this time period arriving without AGI. I think humans will suffer as they weakly combat the ideology of a more advanced race being in charge. Not physically combat, but literally “back in my day” style combat.
500 years, I’d be surprised if we last that long with our current structure and march toward doom. Perhaps the new AGI race strips what it needs to leave the planet and we revert back to 1800s technology. So hard to predict.
It’s a bit complex, and you can find a better answer elsewhere, but a model is a set of “weights” and “bias” that make up the pathways of the neurons in a neural network.
A model can include other features but at its core it gives users the ability to run an “ai” like gpt, though models aren’t limited to only natural language processing.
Yes, you can download the models and run them on your computer, generally there will be instructions in each repository, but in general it involves downloading the model which can be very large and running it using an existing ml framework like pytorch.
It’s not a place for the layman right now, but with a few hours of research you could make it happen.
I personally run several models that I got through huggingface on my computer, llama2 which is similar to gpt3 is the one I use the most.
Huggingface takes a bit of getting used to but it’s the place to find models and datasets, imo it may be one of the most important websites on the internet today.
This is an interesting article, in places with hydro or wind based electricity I think it’s fine to have the expectation of forever available electricity.
Even in those cases it does make sense to limit our use of appliances and such to locally produced solar electricity. I wish we had standards for neighborhood solar farms for cases where some houses have minimal sun exposure.
One thing to consider, if this turned out to be accepted, it would make it much harder to prosecute actual csam, they could claim “ai generated” for actual images