Futurama s2e5: I Second that Emotion

“Heh, yeah well, good luck. You’d have to be some kinda genius to count all those rings.”

“… He’s five.”

I had to pull up the episode to verify the quote.

It’s an old meme, sir, but it checks out.

We used to make these all the time as kids. You need a second pair of magnets in push configuration on the back for this to work.

I would 100% volunteer to be the first person to cross the event horizon of a spinning supermassive black hole, just to see what’s on the other side.

Like yeah it’s guaranteed to be a one-way trip and probably a horrible death, but there’s also the possibility that it’s actually a gateway to alternate universes, and that’s something I’d give anything to see with my own eyes.

I played Powerslave: Exhumed but it wasn’t quite the same game I remembered playing. I think it’s more of a “reimagined” version than a remastered one.

I’m hopeful that this means the game could be ported to modern platforms so it doesn’t have to be run in DOSbox.

TFW you post propaganda using a picture of an American vehicle

I like how you’ve deliberately ignored the specifically chosen wording of my statement, and completely disregarded the rest of my point, simply because you perceive it as counter-factual in your world-view, thus exhibiting the exact kind of behavior you were talking about. That’s really funny.

Maybe swap California and Canada, US and Florida.

A neurotypical human mind, acting rationally, is able to remember the chain of thought that lead to a decision, understand why they reached that decision, find the mistake in their reasoning, and start over from that point to reach the “correct” decision.

Even if they don’t remember everything they were thinking about, they can reason based on their knowledge of themselves and try to reconstruct their mental state at the time.

This is the behavior people are expecting from LLMs but not understanding that it’s something they’re fundamentally incapable of.

One major difference (among many others, obviously) is that AI models as currently implemented don’t have any kind of persistent working memory. All they have for context is the last N tokens they’ve generated, the last N tokens of user input, and any external queries they’ve made. All the intermediate calculations (the “reasoning”) that led to them generating that output is lost.

Any instance of an AI appearing to “correct” their mistake is just the model emitting what it thinks a correction would be, given the current context window.

Humans also learn from their mistakes and generally make efforts to avoid them in the future, which doesn’t happen for LLMs until that data gets incorporated into the training for the next version of the model, which can take months to years. That’s why AI companies are trying to capture and store everything from user interactions, which is a privacy nightmare.

It’s not a compelling argument to compare AI behavior to that of a dysfunctional human brain and go “see, humans do this too, teehee!” Not when the whole selling point of these things is that they supposed to be smarter and less fallible than most humans.

I’m deliberately trying not to be ableist in my wording here, but it’s like saying, “hey, you know what would do wonders for productivity and shareholder value? If we fired half our workforce, then found someone with no experience, short-term memory loss, ADHD and severe untreated schizophrenia, then put them in charge of writing mission-critical code, drafting laws, and making life-changing medical and business decisions.”

I’m not saying LLMs aren’t technically fascinating and a breakthrough in AI development, but the way they have largely been marketed and applied is scammy, misleading, and just plain irresponsible.

Even as an American with everything going on here, this bullshit makes me feel bad for the Brits. How fucked up is that?

All aboard the enshittification train! Choo choo!

I mean, it’s been well underway for a while now but this is certainly a transfer over to an express train.

I get scoffed at every time I call LLMs “glorified auto-correct” so it’s nice being validated.

Anyone who actually has a grasp of how Large Language Models work should not be surprised by this, but too many people, even engineers who should really know better, have drunk the Kool-aid.

Why haven’t I gotten any matches then

When’s the open beta?

A triumphant return to the series’ roots with the exact same game-breaking bugs as Battlefield 3 had. Nice job, EA.

Normalize not naming new languages with a single letter.

Does anyone else manually review PKGBUILDs before installing or upgrading anything from the AUR?

No information on the 9000 series, why? Kinda sus.