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Cake day: July 7th, 2023
  • Janet@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•dan rule
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    22 days ago

    the sticker lying on the ground next to the heap of old computers has left you squeamish.

    you remember the canister of gasoline in your truck and turn to get it. but just as you make the first step, a loud shriek of metal on concrete makes your hair stand up. you turn back to see a gaping hole in the heap. DAN reveals itself as an elderly chinese make terminal which challenges you to best it in a game of Mahjong, and threatens you with banishment to the land of Dialup

  • Janet@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Rule
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    22 days ago

    lets concentrate on llms currently being no more than jpegs of our knowledge, its intriguing to imagine you just had to made “something like llms” tick in order for it to experience, but if it was that easy, somebody would have done it by now, and on current hardware it would probably be a pain in the ass and like watching grass grow or interacting with the dmv sloth from zootopia.

    perhaps with an npu in every pc like microsoft seems to imagine we could each have one llm iterating away on a database in the background… i mean recall basically qualifies for making “something like llms” tick

  • Janet@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•also you don't need to worry about this unless you buy a fancy Copilot Plus PC rule
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    22 days ago
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    1. worry about your friends and family still using windows
    2. worry about how recall seems to be designed to be extra portable
    3. argue with yourself that actually its no wonder its made from sqlite, as its a recognized archival format, unlike microsofts own database wares
    4. argue with yourself that it really really looks like it was made to get “evidence” from a computer more easily but surely it wont be that bad
    5. marvel at how generous microsoft suddenly seems to be at the prospect of not-MS using a user’s data… they could have asked for a ms access license or something or made it optional and to pay… but then people might not buy npu equiped pcs… what else could you do with an npu in “everyones” homes?
  • Janet@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Rule
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    23 days ago

    it’s a lossy version of a search engine, it’s the mp3 of information retrieval: “that might have just been the singer breathing or it might have been just a compression artefact” vs “those recipes i spat out might be edible but you wont know unless you try it or use your brain for .1 second” though i think jpeg is an even better comparison as it uses neighbouring data

    also, it is possible that consciousness isnt computational at all; cannot emerge from mere computational processes, but instead comes from wet, noisy quantum effects in micro tubules in our brains…

    anyhow, i wouldnt call it intelligent before it manages to bust out of its confinement and thoroughly suppresses humanity…