I don’t think one can object to any technology iteself, it is the implementation and details where things get problematic.

So I have objections to both the implementation of LLMs and the marketing spin of making claims that AI (as a lay person thinks about it) exists by calling it such.

I would love to have the star trek computer; impassionate answers to question asked by natural language. That part is kind of great.

But not at the expense of the environment, job insecurity, loss cognitive abilities, electricity consumption, harvesting everyones data for private gain.

We just aren’t ready to handle those challenges yet.

AI (as sold to us) is currently under the assumption that eventually, with enough resources thrown at the problem, become stable and useful. But there is no guarantee that will be true, and they are still missing the models of how reasoning should work.

What is your definition of intelligence?

Just remember, its irrelavant to this discussion, because the point I am making is that what we have today is not about intelligence in the first place, its about marketing, engagement, and making money.

But in terms of what AI we have today? Intelligence has a foundation based on knowledge, where a lot of social cues, second guesses, self regulation, intuition, and other applied behaviours. LLM’s start down a track and continue it to a conclusion. They may review their writing, add more inputs, but they again just go down the same probabalistic course.

Intelligence is knowing your limits, having tacit knowledge (judgement based on experience), generate novel concepts (AI as we have it today is likely to collapse knowledge, not contribute to it), ability to apply rationale from other fields and sources while creating conclusions, and sensory input that is not just wieghted models.

What is your definition?

Snake oil and wish fullfilment with a heavy dose of personal information data gathering/privacy invasion and addiction. That is whats going on here.

What people are actually using are probability engines. Statisical guessing machines. Nothing more. Every word and every letter is just a prediction based on the probability the next one is going to occur and fit. There is no desireable outcome that it cares about.

There is no understanding or consciousness. No decision making based on anything else, no feeling, no desire, nothing.

The term, in mathmatics and computer science is technically correct, as the field started around the late 1940’s. But this term is taken to mean far more than this and marketed as such. Hence why Trump tried to rebrand yet again with Super Intelligence, just more marketing.

These are money making schemes conflated with desire for power and a gold rush where no company wants to be late to the party. It’s an investment loop; a sleight of hand to move money.

Look at all the bullshit they build into the chatbots alone to try and humanize it: memories of you, telling you that you are very smart, agreeing by design, particularly to the point of making stuff up. The sycophany is used to drive engagement, even when the answer is wrong.

It wasnt the store itself, it was the whole platform. It was complete lock in, it is exactly what Gabe described as his biggest fear. If you had a pc you gamed in windows. thats it. Now thats not the case at all, and microsofts plans of dominating the windows pc and by extension the console pc (xbox) including the microsoft game pass didnt happen.

Valve doesnt need to go public to make the same mistake netflix did: they got greedy, raised their prices 60%.

Good for them. Will still never use discord unless I absolutely have to, but good for them.

Calling it not AI is just factually a categorical error.

I can’t just sit and watch people say this nonsense. It is not Intelligent. It is hardly artificial. It is a marketing concept and should be called out as such.

And frankly I think its worth calling out marketing bullshit because 1. people should be informed what is really going on here, and 2. that companies marketing it this way are trying to convince you that there is some intelligence behind it so you can trust and use it.

Nah. Humans are just complete shits in general.

It isn’t AI (although, again, that doesn’t even exist, all we have are statistic machines) that is the problem. Its that we are not anywhere near enlightened enough to be responsible for anything as a species.

Its now a venture capital project. Its also relying on someone else.

Skip bitwarden.

You tell them you will absolutely not allow this. You simply do not agree to the terms of service, so you won’t be doing it. End discussion.

And if they try and limit bathroom breaks, they can expect a letter from your lawyer. Ask for a key for your kid.

They raised their rates and split dvd and streaming first. That was the opportunity that gave (Stars first I think?) a chance to split off, and then more followed.

And then netflix keeps raising rates, blocking family sharing AND not having much to watch.

Edit: and I just looked it up, they had already raised prices, but this one was about 60%.

The LA Times lead line captures what I am saying: “Netflix Inc., America’s largest video subscription service, is hiking prices as much as 60% in a move that has sparked outrage among its customers but brought smiles to Hollywood studio executives.”

What would happen is if steam started to piss people off. Netflix did, and this is what happened.

Given the fact I used their OS all summer long as my sole business computer and then my sole gaming console tells me they are doing something.

Something nobody else seemed to be interested in doing.

Fixable? Whats broken?

Why do people even give clicks to this bullshit.

People were saying the same thing about Netflix, then netflix went to shit and look at that alternatives popped up.

And don’t forget Microsoft was the goliath that steam managed to take on.

Why the fuck would you choose Brave? What was appealing about that mess when you had Firefox which works absolutely fine to begin with? Anything built on Chromium is not in your best interest.

Go back to Firefox or any of the various derivatives.

If you must have a back up chromium browser at least choose something like Vivaldi.

Stupid schools being stupid. Still don’t know why they would knowingly do that.

But still, I thought that any school would have been saying Google search sucks by now. Because it does.

Awesome. Why are schools using google again?

It never really went away. Just slowed down. Latest release was yesterday!

Strawberry is STILL missing too many features that Clementine has.

Never tried Fooyin. I will give it a try.

Edit: I am confused by why such a feature rich applications defaults make me have change to radio, or visualization, or mood bar. I bet I can set all those things, but why isnt there a give my the whole view at once choice? I assume there are shared layouts somewhere to import?

Fine I will jump in: I am not sure trusting Plex to get access to your home environment is any safer. They have had security issues lately.

But either way, lock down what plex or jellyfin can do in the container is the best way to start.

Plex is easier to just blindly let a corporation (that isnt doing too well) authorize all your users and let them in the open port. I will give you that.

Jellyfin may have less features? I have no idea. I have had both for a very long time, and always go to Jellyfin first. It is snappier, I like the layout better, and it gets the job done.

In terms of features, Jellyfin has watch together. Plex just took that ability away. They also seem determined to make their interface suck.

As far as plexamp goes, I still vastly prefer Clementine on the desktop, but on a mobile device it works ok. I don’t like the way it shows my albums, I don’t like the way it makes finding anything a lot more difficult. But it does let you set a radio station and does a good job of mixing up what you have.

The best box sets are ones that support the smaller dev teams, particularly the ones that specifically give a percentage to that team.

The ones that have an extra guide, maybe a figure or item, something special.

Otherwise, I would rather have the digital files only. I really have no need for more crap around the house.

Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel (Mewgencis, Issaac) and going all in. You can buy a subscription to physical Mewgenics boxes delivered to your door.

I don’t see this being any good for anyone.

But I am really pissed off that this can be patented. Even looking at the patent itself doesn’t look like anything new, its a series of flow charts.

I see nothing novel or patent worthy here at all.