• jsomae@lemmy.ml
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      17 hours ago

      I’m not claiming that the use of AI is ethical. If you want to fight back you have to take it seriously though.

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        17 hours ago

        It cant do 30% of tasks vorrectly. It can do tasks correctly as much as 30% of the time, and since it’s llm shit you know those numbers have been more massaged than any human in history has ever been.

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          17 hours ago

          I meant the latter, not “it can do 30% of tasks correctly 100% of the time.”

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                4 hours ago

                Tjose are people who could be living their li:es, pursuing their ambitions, whatever. That could get some shit done. Comparison not valid.

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                  3 hours ago

                  The comparison is about the correctness of their work.

                  Their lives have nothing to do with it.

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              16 hours ago

              yes, that’s generally useless. It should not be shoved down people’s throats. 30% accuracy still has its uses, especially if the result can be programmatically verified.

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                4 hours ago

                Run something with a 70% failure rate 10x and you get to a cumulative 98% pass rate. LLMs don’t get tired and they can be run in parallel.

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                  4 hours ago

                  I have actually been doing this lately: iteratively prompting AI to write software and fix its errors until something useful comes out. It’s a lot like machine translation. I speak fluent C++, but I don’t speak Rust, but I can hammer away on the AI (with English language prompts) until it produces passable Rust for something I could write for myself in C++ in half the time and effort.

                  I also don’t speak Finnish, but Google Translate can take what I say in English and put it into at least somewhat comprehensible Finnish without egregious translation errors most of the time.

                  Is this useful? When C++ is getting banned for “security concerns” and Rust is the required language, it’s at least a little helpful.

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                  16 hours ago

                  Are you just trolling or do you seriously not understand how something which can do a task correctly with 30% reliability can be made useful if the result can be automatically verified.

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                    16 hours ago

                    Its not a magical 30%, factors apply. It’s not even a mind that thinks and just isnt very good.

                    This isnt like a magical dice that gives you truth on a 5 or a 6, and lies on 1,2,3,7, and for.

                    This is a (very complicated very large) language or other data graph that programmatically identifies an average. 30% of the time-according to one potempkin-ass demonstration. Which means the more possible that is, the easier it is to either use a simpler cheaper tool that will give you a better more reliable answer much faster.

                    And 20 tons of human shit has uses! If you know its providence, there’s all sorts of population level public health surveillance you can do to get ahead of disease trends! Its also got some good agricultural stuff in it-phosphorous and stuff, if you can extract it.

                    Stop. Just please fucking stop glazing these NERVE-ass fascist shit-goblins.