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Daily News Stuff 24 May 2024

Eaten By A Grue Edition

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  • Google promised better search - now it's telling us to put glue on pizza. (The Verge)

    AI - the LLM version of AI, which is all that makes the news these days - requires human input to learn. It only takes a few iterations of training AI on AI output for it to turn completely to shit.

    Yes, even more than usual.

    Which is why OpenAI and Google made deals with Reddit to train their respective AI engines on that vast trove of human-generated data.

    Only problem is, Reddit is Reddit:
    Imagine this: you've carved out an evening to unwind and decide to make a homemade pizza. You assemble your pie, throw it in the oven, and are excited to start eating. But once you get ready to take a bite of your oily creation, you run into a problem - the cheese falls right off. Frustrated, you turn to Google for a solution.

    "Add some glue," Google answers. "Mix about 1/8 cup of Elmer's glue in with the sauce. Non-toxic glue will work."

    Google will literally tell you to do this, because it found that answer in a ten year old Reddit thread.

    Obviously it's a joke. Obviously it's a bad idea. But AI doesn't know those things, because AI doesn't know anything except, statistically, which words are likely to be found together.
    Look, Google didn't promise this would be perfect, and it even slaps a "Generative AI is experimental" label at the bottom of the AI answers. But it’s clear these tools aren’t ready to accurately provide information at scale.
    They work just fine if you don't care about the answers. They work just fine if an answer that looks right, is right.

    That's why AI is advancing rapidly in image generation (and in producing astoundingly mediocre music) but is absolute garbage at anything that requires a factual answer.

    It's not a bug. It's baked in to the design.


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Well, Fuck Samsung Then Video of the Day



It's nothing Apple hasn't done, but it's shit no matter who is doing it.



Disclaimer: I shall most likely kill you in the morning.

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1 A foldable laptop that could be used as a larger screen, with a stand to hold it up like we have for tablets, and an external keyboard in front of it, like we do with tablets, could be pretty nice.  What the picture shows--which I think is just someone's speculation--is stupid.  One hopes Apple doesn't descend to that level of stupidity--or worse, makes the bottom of the screen be an OSK.

Posted by: Rick C at Saturday, May 25 2024 01:25 AM (BMUHC)

2 The speculation is likely correct; there are several PC laptops available now that work exactly like that.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, May 25 2024 08:48 AM (PiXy!)

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Apple pies are delicious. But never mind apple pies. What colour is a green orange?




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