Steampunk then: What if we combined real Victorian craftsmanship and tech with imagined advanced machines.

Steampunk now: What if I glued two plastic gears to a cheap vinyl corset.

How alaming!

He always looks like he just trusted a fart he shouldn’t have.

Huh, never tried it, and never done it by accident that I noticed. Makes sense though. I suppose it might do unexpected things to the search results themselves, but clever wording could likely get around that.

I see an unusually yappy hellhound, flames flickering in its empty eye sockets and the blood of the damned dripping from its cute little snout.

AI doesn’t have the ability to critically think

That is absolutely correct, and the deeper problem is it typically “writes” in a tone that fools people into feeling like it can do so.

just outputs what it can find on the internet

That is what this one, the Google search overview, is set up to do. Other LLMs don’t, or may only do so when prompted to.

What they all do is analyze the patterns of all the words that have already been input, such as the initial system prompt, the user’s prompt, any sources it’s referencing and any replies it’s already generated, and then it uses that to predict what words ought to come next. It uses an enormous web of patterns pulled from all of its initial training data to make that guess. Patterns like a question is usually followed by an answer on the same topic, a sentence’s subject is usually followed by a predicate, writing tone usually doesn’t change, etc. All the rules of grammar it follows and all the facts it “knows” are just patterns of meaningless symbols to it. Essentially, no analysis, logic, or comprehension of any kind is part of its process.

This is the Google search overview AI. It just reads the top results and summarizes them together. You don’t directly prompt it, it’s already prompted to just do that. The problem with that arrangement, as demonstrated here, is it will confidently and non-critically summarize parody, idiotic rambling, intentional misinformation and any other sort of nonsense that the search algorithm pulls up.

One of the reasons I switched to a PieFed server. I’ve been happy with the switch though, it feels generally smoother in my browser as well. That’s the beauty of the Fediverse. Even on a whole different platform, I’m still able to participate in this discussion hosted on a Lemmy server.

“AI should always be a choice—something people can easily turn off." “It will evolve into a modern AI browser and support a portfolio of new and trusted software additions.”

How does he not get how contradictory these positions sound. Really a missed opportunity to brand themselves as the browser without AI bullshit and gain users who want to get away from that crap. Sure, they promise it’ll have an off switch, but even if that’s true, they’re still wasting a lot of their very limited budget pursuing it. Really shows where their priorities are.

There’s absolutely no reason to put Kevlar in football pads. Against blunt impacts, it’s no more protective than any other cloth, and a whole lot more expensive. They’re just using the term to be dramatic.

No, most cheese is just clumped milk solids. Also, American cheese isn’t dried cheese sauce, it’s cooled off cheese sauce.

My high school only had one pay phone. It had a bad connection in the hand set, so sound cut in and out constantly. People rarely ever bothered making calls on it. The coin return also had some sort of obstruction inside it. If you inserted a quarter and then hit the coin return lever, you’d hear it fall, but it didn’t actually come out. When enough quarters built up though, they would all flood out into return tray at once. Naturally, it got used as a slot machine. Drop in a quarter, pull the tiny lever, and see if you hit the jackpot.

It’s a reference to the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, the joke being a misunderstanding of this use of the word Trans to be short for transexual, when in this context it’s actually meant to modify Siberian, as the band’s name is a reference to the Trans-Siberian railway.

If all 6 got the same answer multiple times, then that means that your query very strongly correlated with that reply in the training data used by all of them. Does that mean it’s therefore correct? Well, no. It could mean that there were a bunch of incorrect examples of your query they used to come up with that answer. It could mean that the examples it’s working from seem to follow a pattern that your problem fits into, but the correct answer doesn’t actually fit that seemingly obvious pattern. And yes, there’s a decent chance it could actually be correct. The problem is that the only way to eliminate those other still also likely possibilities is to actually do the problem, at which point asking the LLM accomplished nothing.

This is why all capital 'i’s should have bars on the top and bottom. It is my strong opinion that disambiguating serephs should not be considered optional, even in sansereph fonts.

I’m American, and in my experience anyone with actual training on canoeing technique would stay on one side like you’re supposed to, but plenty of people also go canoeing who don’t know any better and switch sides to attempt to steer. I grew up canoeing and immediately was annoyed by the forward turn section of the diagram.

There is no lie. It’s just tough to admit that it’s fairly accurate.

“They’ve been saying so many bad things about him for decades, and nothing stuck. He says he’s innocent, so who should I believe, the man I trust, or the lying media and the deep state? They just have it out for him because he tells it like he sees it.” You can point out all the inconsistencies in what Trump says, but they’ve tuned out already. They already know what they need to about him, or they just aren’t detail people at all. Some are so far gone, they think, “He’s a good person, therefore whatever it was he did was a good thing.”

Dumpster concerns aside, I think these count as feral yeast.

I particularly enjoyed Adobe® Creative Commons™ software and Microsoft Minecraft® Bedrock™ for Workgroups™.