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Can you draw Vin Diesel from memory (and post the result in the thread)?
there he is. Vinny.
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Can you draw Vin Diesel from memory (and post the result in the thread)?
there he is. Vinny.
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AI layoffs
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Shareholders: why not all three?
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Trump says he is open to restrictions on contraception. His campaign says he misspoke
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This shit sucks for men too. I don't understand why anyone is against contraception.
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Meta's AI display glasses reportedly share intimate videos with human moderators
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I assume it's people making (hopefully consensual) POV videos.
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ChatGPT is leaking passwords from private conversations of its users, Ars reader says
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Well tbf chatGPT also shouldn't remember and then leak those passwords lol.
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Oof
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It's a very confident blanket statement about an individual they know nothing about, delivered with that signature Reddit snark that just always manages to piss me off lol. It also completely misses the joke they were setting up about how it's hard to explain quantum mechanics, which is ironic considering the topic.
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Oof
Every time I see this, that "women are smarter than you are" reply annoys me just a little bit.
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"The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew" - Veritasium
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I think you're being pretty reductive here.
I agree his videos are usually mediocre, but as a cyber security professional I actually think this one did a good job of simplifying and explaining computer security fundamentals at a level that most can understand.
You and I have a ton of extra context that the average person does not, so that Wikipedia article might suffice, but the video covers far more than that Wikipedia article.
They clearly did more research than just reading that article, and they went to the trouble of reproducing some of the steps in the attack to demonstrate the danger it posed. This isn't just a brainless regurgitation of the Wikipedia article as you're implying.
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Just use Firefox
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Lol. I have no idea how Microsoft convinces these companies that they're the "secure" option. My workplace has banned any AI except copilot, because Microsoft told them copilot is secure.
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Leaked Documents Show Nvidia Scraping ‘A Human Lifetime’ of Videos Per Day to Train AI
I feel like the amount of training data required for these AIs serves as a pretty compelling argument as to why AI is clearly nowhere near human intelligence. It shouldn't take thousands of human lifetimes of data to train an AI if it's truly near human-level intelligence. In fact, I think it's an argument for them not being intelligent whatsoever. With that much training data, everything that could be asked of them should be in the training data. And yet they still fail at any task not in their data.
Put simply; a human needs less than 1 lifetime of training data to be more intelligent than AI. If it hasn't already solved it, I don't think throwing more training data/compute at the problem will solve this.
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Moderna’s mRNA cancer vaccine works even better than thought
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Sure would be nice if capitalism didn't exist 🤪
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"The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew" - Veritasium
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That's fair enough. If you lead with this I wouldn't have commented. I agree his recent videos have been more sensationalist, I just thought this one was pretty good, especially for the non-technical crowd.
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Hold on!
fuck it, an meme
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Why is it so lonely in the fediverse
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They would get anything the activity pub protocol gives them, which I can't imagine is much. I'd have to look into it but I assume they're pretty much only sharing the stuff you see.
... Ok so I looked it up (couldn't leave it on the assumption lol). https://activitypub.rocks/implementation-report/ Have a look at the standard here if you like. The only privacy related one I can see is the location header, but it's optional and not implemented by most fediverse apps.
That's not to say it will never become possible for Facebook to get more info. They will absolutely try to throw their weight around if they gain traction in the space, and could, in theory, require more info be shared for fediverse instances that want to federate with Threads. This is why it's important that fediverse admins don't get too chummy with the zucc.
Meta will absolutely try to appear friendly at first, perhaps offering open source development assistance, consulting or training, but it will be a farce to gain power in the space.
Meta are ruthless in the social media space.
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murder is murder
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You're taking the argument at it's most basic level, assuming that we would kill the billionaires and then sit around twiddling out thumbs. I don't think it's much of a leap to assume we'd change how the system works as well lol.
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Stop, you fools!
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Plato's allegory of the cave, basically some prisoners chained down in a cave who can only see a cave wall. They mistake the shadows on the cave wall for reality. OP is drawing the obvious comparison.
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Tesla exaggerated EV range so much that drivers thought cars were broken
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I wonder how much of this is fulfilment of old orders (prior to Musk ruining his public image). It'd be interesting to see a chart of the amount of orders they're getting rather than cars they're shipping.
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Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1
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It's more of a satire of them but sure.
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Dev boots a PC from Google Drive cloud storage — a storage-less laptop becomes a truly cloud-native computer
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This is different (and far less practical than Apple's approach). This one doesn't download the OS and store it, it pulls the files from Google drive every time they're accessed, so it's incredibly slow by comparison, but is technically running from the cloud. The Apple one downloads everything it needs and stores it, then pulls from that local copy.
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Electric cars: The equivalent of switching from binge drinking whiskey to binge drinking wine.
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