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DdCno1 ,

Are you seriously trying to push your ChatGPT "tool" in response to an article about language models like this one having substantial issues? "Not guaranteed" - yes, obviously, that's the point of the article - and from a quick look at your code, I don't see how this nonsense addresses any of that.

DdCno1 ,

Its not chatgpt that’s just default config u can use the API endpoint to point to any chatgpt api compatible llm.

Since the issue with hallucinations is shared by all LLMs, not just ChatGPT, this doesn't change anything.

DdCno1 ,

I agree. The only application that is fine for this in my opinion is using it solely for entertainment, as a toy.

The problem is of course that everyone and their mothers are pouring billions into what clearly should only be used as a toy, expecting it to perform miracles it currently can not and might never be able to pull off.

Magician David Copperfield Accused of Grooming, Groping, and Drugging Women ( www.rollingstone.com )

Magician David Copperfield is facing allegations of drugging women before sexual encounters, groping women during live performances, and behaving inappropriately with women who were significantly younger than him — including under 18 — in a new investigative piece in The Guardian....

DdCno1 , (edited )

One of the most convincing tricks he pulled off was transporting two people from the stage to what looked like a believable beach. Totally fooled me (but I was a kid when I watched it).

Edit: I started to figure out that something was amiss soon after, because every single one of the supposedly "random" people he invited on stage to do his tricks with (usually by throwing plastic balls into the audience) wore incredibly "inoffensive" and poorly fitted clothes. At some point, I was able to spot which people he would end up picking from a mile away even before he had done so.

DdCno1 ,

Which is why the EU is also starting to clamp down on this (finally).

DdCno1 ,

I have to wonder if people are serious with these absurd suggestions or what on Earth you are trying to achieve by writing this. This is about as realistic at demanding that America should build a second moon entirely out of cheese.

DdCno1 ,

This user meant the price per kWh of battery capacity. The Tesla Roadster was little more than an expensive proof of concept that was vastly inferior compared to the Lotus Elise it was based on.

DdCno1 ,

Because it would meant hat the CCP would have to retreat out of this particular part of life and give up a method of control and oppression, which a totalitarian party could never do.

Russia Victory Day parade: Only one tank on display as Vladimir Putin says country is going through 'difficult period' ( news.sky.com )

On 9 May every year, Russia celebrates Victory Day, putting on a large parade in honour of the country's victory over Nazi Germany 79 years ago - in what remains an important symbol of the country's national identity....

DdCno1 ,

That's what tends to happen when you send a parade army into a war it was never meant to fight.

DdCno1 ,
DdCno1 ,

I have a suggestion for next year's parade:

https://i.imgur.com/Cs2ym6D.jpg

DdCno1 ,

They've been going through a different period since the year of our Lord 862.

DdCno1 ,

Personally, I can't wait for the next mad dash for Moscow. Pudding got so close.

Study reveals "widespread, bipartisan aversion" to neighbors owning AR-15 rifles ( www.psypost.org )

A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that across all political and social groups in the United States, there is a strong preference against living near AR-15 rifle owners and neighbors who store guns outside of locked safes. This surprising consensus suggests that when it...

DdCno1 ,

The AR-15 is designed for hunting humans, not game.

DdCno1 ,

They go after this platform, because it's a favorite of mass shooters. You know this.

DdCno1 ,

The "well-regulated militia" part afterwards isn't vague, but gets ignored by self-proclaimed "originalists".

DdCno1 ,

It's not interesting, it's simple: Don't vote for fascists, no matter what. This means AfD and, if by that point, Conservatives are willing to form a coalition with them (I hope not, but Merz scares me), those are impossible to vote for by any decent human being as well.

DdCno1 ,

That's not how this works. You can comparatively easily scale up art departments, but you can not do the same with engineering and design. It's also much less difficult to find competent artists in their respective niches than programmers and designers. Art skills can be far more easily taught and to a wider variety of people regardless of their inherent talent than software engineering and game design at the required level. Especially in the area of software engineering, game studios also have to compete with other fields with inherently better work/life balance, which is far less so the case with e.g. texture artists, modelers and animators.

Art can also be produced sequentially in large numbers and making more of it at a certain high enough level of quality makes a game appear more valuable to consumers. It's practically guaranteed: Spend more on art, have more stuff you can impress people with, a more enticing value proposition. You can spend a fortune on game design and programming, but that's invisible and there is far less of a guarantee that it'll work out in the end (see: the phenomenon referred to as development hell), let alone attract customers.

Try marketing a game on mechanics and design instead of graphics. Most people pay maybe 15 to 30 seconds of attention to promotional material at best before making a purchasing decision. The vast majority of gamers do not read reviews, let alone whining essays about how some journalist doesn't care about graphics (which have been written since the 1980s - there's nothing new under the Sun). You can wow customers with fancy trailers and gorgeous screenshots, but you can not explain why your game that you spent 100 million on game design alone on has better game design than that blockbuster with individually modeled and animated facial hair.

DdCno1 ,

They do exist and in greater numbers and variety than ever before. Play Undertale, Baba is You, BeamNG.drive, FTL, Disco Elysium, Emily is Away, Islanders, NEO Scavenger, Rodina, Whispers of a Machine, Proteus, etc.

Totally random examples, but I could name dozens more. We are spoiled with great games that are pure expressions of their developers' visions. There are more of them than anyone can realistically ever play.

As China and Iran hunt for dissidents in the US, the FBI is racing to counter the threat ( apnews.com )

After a student leader of the historic Tiananmen Square protests entered a 2022 congressional race in New York, a Chinese intelligence operative wasted little time enlisting a private investigator to hunt for any mistresses or tax problems that could upend the candidate’s bid, prosecutors say....

DdCno1 , (edited )

This appears to be the new norm among autocratic regimes (although it isn't all that new - think of Trotsky, for example, or the infamous umbrella murder).

Vietnam is doing this as well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr%E1%BB%8Bnh_Xu%C3%A2n_Thanh

https://rsf.org/en/dissident-exile-stops-blogging-because-family-vietnam-being-hounded

Eritrea, a regime that is similarly repressive as North Korea, but far less known, is also notorious for this:

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/press-release/2019/06/eritrea-government-officials-and-supporters-target-critics-abroad-as-repression-stretches-beyond-borders/

Saudi Arabia is among the worst in this regard:

https://freedomhouse.org/report/transnational-repression/saudi-arabia

I'm getting the impression that liberal democracies housing refugees and dissidents from autocratic regimes are unprepared to counter these threats. It is our responsibility to protect people seeking refuge and this includes proactive action against governments that seek to extend their violent rule outside of their borders.

DdCno1 ,

At least in China's case, the harassment extends to ethnically Chinese people who have lived their entire lives abroad and never set foot in China.

DdCno1 ,

"Global elite" - I can hear that dog whistling from all the way over the Atlantic.

DdCno1 ,

Apples and (lab-grown) oranges.

DdCno1 ,

It wouldn't be a Republican ban if it wasn't tackling a fictional "issue".

DdCno1 ,

You would think that millions of global COVID deaths that he (and Xi - but nobody is allowed to vote that idiot out of office) is primarily responsible for would finally keep people from voting for the "it can't get any worse" guy.

COVID-19 killed almost three times as many Americans as died during WW2 due to both inaction and deliberate malicious actions. This alone should have resulted in a prison sentence for Trump and his inner circle.

DdCno1 ,

Imagine the Papal States never dissolving and becoming a nuclear-armed power in the 20th century, using the threat of nuclear annihilation to maintain their independence and increase their global influence.

That would be an interesting alternative history scenario.

DdCno1 ,

I bought masks from a toy company (Playmobil) for my family, because there was literally nothing else available anywhere. They were marketed as alternatives to basic paper masks though, not N95 masks:

https://i.imgur.com/Sbq4oBq.jpeg

The innovation was that you could use tissue paper as filters and reuse the silicone mask after cleaning it. They were uncomfortable and stinky, but functional. We used these for about a month or two, long before any vaccines were available. I suspect that social distancing protected us far more than the masks, but either way, none of us got infected.

DdCno1 ,

Meanwhile my ten year old Smart produces just one or two false alerts per year. It's a simple camera-based system, yet it works incredibly well. The lane departure warning works equally well. Both are so effective that I never want to drive a car without these systems again.

DdCno1 ,

Better pick an early electric car, because the days of ICE cars being allowed into cities are numbered.

DdCno1 ,

Seems like you're unlucky. Subaru's system is generally considered one of the best in the industry, routinely outperforming the competition.

DdCno1 ,

Stereoscopic camera systems exist and they can work very well (like on my ten year old car).

DdCno1 ,

The durability of electric car batteries is far better than expected. Even in the case of early models with extremely basic battery packs and no active cooling (e.g. Nissan Leaf), the packs almost always outlast the cars they're built into:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2022/08/01/electric-car-batteries-lasting-longer-than-predicted-delays-recycling-programs/?sh=bad42e453329

Maintenance of EVs in general is far simpler than on ICE cars. There's a much smaller number of components. Almost everything related to the drivetrain is practically maintenance-free.

DdCno1 ,

It was Russia that tipped the scale, including by convincing traditionally democratic voters in key states to vote third party or not at all.

DdCno1 ,

She was by far the most qualified presidential candidate in history. You've fallen victim to a smear campaign, but are blissfully unaware of it.

ChatGPT provides false information about people, and OpenAI can’t correct it ( noyb.eu )

It’s clear that companies are currently unable to make chatbots like ChatGPT comply with EU law, when processing data about individuals. If a system cannot produce accurate and transparent results, it cannot be used to generate data about individuals. The technology has to follow the legal requirements, not the other way...

DdCno1 ,

It's an inherent issue with deep learning. Awareness of this among people who are regularly using these tools is very low, which is troubling.

https://umdearborn.edu/news/ais-mysterious-black-box-problem-explained

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  • DdCno1 ,

    Reminder that DNA evidence is nowhere near as flawless of an instrument as portrayed by crime shows and the news media. Like all other forensics, it's a matter of interpretation and likelihoods, far less reliable than you might think. Here's a good overview of the many issues with it:

    https://daily.jstor.org/forensic-dna-evidence-can-lead-wrongful-convictions/

    DdCno1 ,

    How long does it take before it gets good? This might upset fans like you, but I'm having a hard time getting into it, to the point that I have my doubts if it's worth it. Before you're asking what I'm doing here, this was randomly in my feed and I only noticed that this was a Stargate community after having written most of my comment.

    I caught some of it when it aired for the first time and was thoroughly unimpressed of it compared to TNG (I'm not a Trekkie either, more of a casual viewer of Star Trek). Then I tried watching it again a few years ago. It left such a terrible impression on me that I had forgotten all about even making the attempt until I tried again recently and noticed after a few absolutely awful episodes that they seemed awfully familiar. The previous attempt had left such a bad impression that I had essentially purged all memories of it. I didn't even know this was possible.

    I want to like it (I actually liked the first episode a lot), but the writing is just so bad and everything, apart from some of the CG (which holds up quite well) and the solid acting feels cheap and poorly thought out. The mystery and intrigue gets overshadowed by sexism, jingoism, characters that can be summed up on a postage stamp and plots and scenes that are contrived and clumsy. I'm sure they'll flesh the characters out more over time, but do they ever solve how the female token character is being treated? Does it ever stop feeling cheap and schlocky?

    DdCno1 ,

    I needed three days to get through this episode.

    DdCno1 ,

    At least in the few episodes I've watched it feels like they are doing it at any point something is being discussed or vocabulary is being used that exceeds that of a fourth grader. The impression is that they aren't taking their audience seriously at all.

    DdCno1 ,

    Am I too jaded or am I detecting some absolutely dripping sarcasm?

    DdCno1 ,

    I see. Thank you. Seems like the writers had their fun with this episode.

    DdCno1 ,

    He didn't have the resources and determination of the Chinese state behind him.

    DdCno1 ,

    The point is that this type of energy storage is very cheap relative to the amount of power it can store.

    DdCno1 ,

    You need suitable locations. That's the main limitation.

    DdCno1 ,

    Just sitting outside, exposed to the elements, changing temperatures and humidity? What a brilliant idea.

    There's a reason we aren't doing this.

    DdCno1 ,
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