Large language models (LLM) are the product of neural networks, a relatively recent innovation in the field of computer intelligence.

Since these systems are surprisingly adept at producing natural sounding language, and is good at create answers that sound correct (and sometimes actually happen to be) marketers have seized on this as an innovation, called it AI (a term with a complicated history), and have started slapping it onto every product.

That’s what they’re saying - it’s not true, but it is what they’re saying.

Rome wasn’t built in a day. Think of it of getting in at the ground floor, where we’ll create topics and in-jokes that will be repeated ad nauseum for decades!

Yep, that’s the idea

I have a few friends that are fed up with Microsoft and Google and other big tech. We’ve been degoogling and trying Linux together (errr, they have - I’m the grizzled Linux junkie they all reached out to for advice).

Most of them have tried all the different fediverse products and they’ve found homes here and there.

Some of them have graduated into self-hosting even. I find this bit wonderful, if it’s unfortunate how far the industry had to rot before they considered the move.

Seems difficult to build it as a social media if it’s inherently unsocial.

Either. Heck “follows written instructions” qualifies. I’ll give ya a bonus point for “requesting clarification of ambiguities”, nerd.

Correct, nerd.

https://newrepublic.com/series/49/microsoft-three-mile-island-ai-nuclear

Nope. Very real.

Or just agree with what your betters want you to think, obviously. </s>

Not everyone thinks of dog, there’s a bit of a bell curve.

No, sadly leopards are eating the proletariat faces, but they’re his proletariat faces

🎶 It’s gonna take a lot to drag me away from you 🎶

🎵 There’s nothin’ that a hundred men or more could ever do 🎵

🎶 I bless the rains in South America 🎶

Nah. I’ve been advocating for Linux for decades. For decades I’ve been trying to convince people to switch on its own merits, but none of that has been effective.

It took Microsoft sabotaging their product for me to see the needle shift. So I’m done trying to convince people with carrots, it’s time for Microsoft to convince the masses with sticks.

What’s next Microsoft? Replace the windows os loading windows page with a 30s ad? Or have defender uninstall apps if a competitor pays enough? Maybe capture a screenshot of my screen every 3 seconds for AI analysis?

I’ll accept that maybe I’m giving Google a pass because of misplaced nostalgia, and while I personally have never used or liked Meta Facebook, I’ll concede that for a while it provided a service some people valued.

It’s still my opinion that Google and Facebook have a large percentage of engineers that personally try to make them a genuinely good service, at least moreso than compared to TikTok and Temu. But I’m willing to concede it’s not as much a practical difference as I would like.

Emphasis on by comparison, as in “molten hot metal is cooler than the surface of the sun, by comparison”.

TikTok and Temu actively have code in them that would be considered a virus in other contexts. They exploit your system to gain more access than they should, violating the point of sandboxed access.

By comparison Meta and Google merely take advantage of user ignorance and apathy by making opting out frustrating - but still technically doable.

Both practices are terrible, but that’s not the same as saying they’re equally bad.

Them too, but lukewarm by comparison.

A demon core was part of early nuclear bomb research. The type of reaction they were studying would emit blue light and a ton of radiation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core

It’s been a meme to imagine the demon core as an available weapon in medieval fantasy, since it looks somewhat like a mace.

All about that bass, 'bout that bass