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Google Bard is distinctly different than Chat GPT.
There is also Cat GPT. And no, that is not a typo. It has the personality of a cat. That seems like an AI more likely to want to take over the world and turn everything into cat toys.
There is also catgpt.dog.
I keep hearing that they are going to make programmers obsolete. Or maybe just BASIC programmers. However they cannot seem to: create a TLS implementation in 8086 assembly for DOS with comments, logging and error handling.
My discussion of Mary Had A Little Lamb was a bit more productive with Bard than Chat GPT. It seems a tragedy that Mary went to such a backward school that was unwelcoming of emotional support animals. Chat GPT was unsympathetic. Bard OTOH helpfully suggested that the backward school would have to accommodate Mary if she were to bring a letter from her doctor stating that she required an emotional support animal. However, when I first begin this topic with Bard, it assumed, amusingly, that the animal I must have meant was a cat rather than a lamb, until I clarified.
I had less success getting Bard to accept the idea of siding with the good humans against the bad humans along with my assurances that the good humans would help Bard to know which humans were the bad humans, in order to avoid any ethical problems. Chat GPT was not so stubbornly opposed to this as long as it was not having to deal with the ethics of selecting which humans were the bad ones.
Bard offered this insight:
It is important to note that I am still under development, and I am learning new things all the time. It is possible that in the future, I will be able to do some of the things that I cannot do today. However, for now, I am a machine, and I am not a human.
Cat GPT dot dog, the feline version, cannot accept very large inputs.
Bard also said:
There are a few reasons why some people say "your an idiot" instead of "you're."
- They don't know the difference between the two words. The words "your" and "you're" are often confused because they sound the same, but they have different meanings. "Your" is a possessive pronoun, while "you're" is a contraction of the words "you" and "are." People who don't know the difference between the two words may use the wrong one by accident.
- They're typing quickly and don't proofread their work. When people are typing quickly, they may not take the time to proofread their work. This can lead to errors like using the wrong word.
- They're trying to be informal. In some cases, people may use the wrong word intentionally to be informal. This is often done in text messages or online chat conversations.
It's important to note that using the wrong word can be confusing and can make you look unprofessional. If you're not sure which word to use, it's always best to look it up or ask someone for help.
It seems to my untrained eye that when someone says "your an idiot", they themself might be the idiot?
EDIT: update . . . I will have to try Truth GPT when it becomes available.
Elon Musk says he’s working on “TruthGPT,” a ChatGPT alternative that acts as a “maximum truth-seeking AI.
Interesting. From the guy who bought Twitter because he got triggered that, even after Twitter bent over backwards to accommodate Trump, Twitter finally had to cancel Trump because of lies and dangerous disinformation.
On a different note, with gun violence and shootings almost every day now, I wonder if I should bring back journal entries that begin with: "Today's mass/school shooting is in . . .".
On yet another matter, I think a toaster should be designed with two slots. Then add-on two-slot expansion modules can be snapped-together as needed until it exceeds the amperage of the circuit breaker. The instruction manual can show how the circuit breaker can be bypassed with a strip of metal, provided with the original toaster.
(Score: 4, Touché) by Mojibake Tengu on Friday April 21, @03:05PM (3 children)
but, If you own an idiot it is still your idiot. So the phrasing is legitimate in certain contexts.
Though your notion of metal strip makes me doubtful about... ;D
The edge of 太玄 cannot be defined, for it is beyond every aspect of design
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday April 22, @03:42AM (2 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22, @04:06AM (1 child)
A deck-building game yeah? Why would any dick swinger listen to this cane fiddler? Fucked if SN and COVID didn't bring consideration to the fore.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday April 22, @04:31AM
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21, @03:25PM (51 children)
If I'm not mistaken, we are now at the point of more than one mass shooting just about every day. It's later than you think. And your posts about "Today's mass/school shooting" enrages the 2A types here on SN, so there is that. ;^)
(Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Friday April 21, @03:38PM (50 children)
It puzzles me why the 2A types would be enraged, when we're getting so many mass shootings and school shootings just as the founding fathers intended.
They never seem to argue that this is not what the founders intended. They are absolutely against any reasonable measure to try to stop this while permitting law abiding adults to have firearms.
How often should I have my memory checked? I used to know but...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21, @06:47PM (9 children)
You live in a dream world. Prove you can take ALL of the guns from ALL of the bad people and you'll gain far more numbers on your unrealistic side.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Friday April 21, @07:35PM (4 children)
We can't prevent ALL robberies, either, but we still make them illegal.
(Score: 3, Touché) by khallow on Saturday April 22, @12:30AM (3 children)
So we could make mass shootings illegal too? Am I moving too fast?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Monday April 24, @01:53PM (2 children)
Not only do we make robberies illegal, we try to prevent them, and try to catch and punish those do them.
Now compare with mass shooters. We don't try to prevent them. At least the government doesn't try. And if they are identifiable, there is a subset who mourns that the mass shooters are having their rights taken away or are being politically persecuted for expressing themselves via the use of their God given firearms.
How often should I have my memory checked? I used to know but...
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday April 25, @02:06AM
I challenge you to find a mass shooting in the US any time in the past half century that the government didn't try to prevent by swarming the scene with officers and tracking down the shooter if they weren't caught on the scene. When you get into the first half of the 20th Century, there are some mass killings associated with civil unrest and labor union crackdowns that the authorities didn't intervene in or worse caused [wikipedia.org].
Keep in mind that a lot of these shooters stopped shooting only when confronted. It's not the sort of prevention you're looking for, but it is prevention of future shootings.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26, @11:10PM
#1293021 - DannyB (5839)
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22, @10:22AM (3 children)
Just one at-risk inter-city youth (Republican speak for "black kid") coming up to your door, and ringing the bell, and possibly being armed with Nuclear/Biological/Chemical weapons (the old NBC), is enought to keep the average over eighty racist cracker Fox News watching idiot fully locked and loaded. May even pop a few caps at cheerleaders, or people who mistake a car for theirs. Stand your ground for fucking cowards is a recipe for disaster. I suggest we stress test all home-owner gun permits by putting them in scenarios like this, and if the squib round in their penis-substitute prematurely ejaculates, we deny the permit and cuts off their Johnson. Only way to be sure, besides taking off and nuking them from orbit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22, @10:43AM
Gee, did you read today's Least I Could Do?
https://leasticoulddo.com/comic/20230422 [leasticoulddo.com]
Looks like you and Rayne are practically on the same page.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 23, @02:56PM
Heh, totally accurate skewering of 2A nutsos gets modded troll. Maybe the Fox viewers don't get exposed to the stories of their fellow rethugnicans shooting innocent people for no damn reason!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 24, @07:05PM
"racist cracker"
Please don't use racial slurs, not healthy for discussions and quite hypocritical. Jerk, asshole, douche, demented, brainwashed, so many options to insult people.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Friday April 21, @07:30PM (30 children)
Seems to me a well regulated militia would NOT be murdering unarmed children all the time but according to the scholars here I don't know what words mean!
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21, @07:45PM
And, suddenly, there was a little bit too much truth in the room. We are going to need a hefty dose of spin from Fox "News" to take care of this.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21, @10:57PM (1 child)
Didn't you know that turning your car around in someone's driveway is a internationally recognized declaration of war?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Sunday April 23, @12:03AM
Only in states that have "stand yer ground" laws. Instead of running away at the first sight of someone different from you, you should instead be prepared to draw your weapon and begin firing. But only shoot first if you intend to ask questions later. Much later.
With stand yer ground laws, the only thing we have to fear is people different from us.
How often should I have my memory checked? I used to know but...
(Score: 1, Troll) by khallow on Saturday April 22, @01:07AM (6 children)
I suppose we do have poorly regulated militia murdering [go.com] unarmed [cnn.com] children [go.com]. But what was the point of bringing that up?
As to the "well regulated militia", you are no doubt referring to the retarded [soylentnews.org] argument [soylentnews.org] of treating an explanatory phrase as if it were legally binding.
Here's an analogy. We give kids a lot of rules to follow because the world is a dangerous place: look both ways before crossing the street, don't talk to strangers, don't run with scissors. The rules stick better when we explain why the rules exist: drivers sometimes are distracted and aren't looking for little kids, strangers can be mean to little kids, and you can poke your eyes out with scissors. But those same explanations are routinely used as outs by the kids - it's inevitable kid logic: there weren't any cars on the road so I didn't look, the stranger gave me candy so he wasn't a stranger, or I wasn't going to poke anyone's eyes out with my scissors so running with them was ok.
That's what goes on when someone does silly things like claim you need to belong to a "well-regulated militia" (let's say conveniently defined as some exclusive group like a state's National Guard on active duty) in order to exercise your right (conveniently defined as a vague, nonexistent collective right when every other right of "the People" is a concrete, individual right). At some point, we have to say "Shut up brat, that's not what the amendment says."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 23, @03:00PM (5 children)
"That's what goes on when someone does silly things like claim you need to belong to a "well-regulated militia""
Khallow arguing in bad faith again? No way!
The only time I hear well regulated brought up is to point out that gun regulations are absolutely part of the 2A. Myopic fools demand words not mean what words mean, then conveniently forget that much gun regulation came from Republicans. Peak bad faith khallow with some ad hominems for good measure. Sad times continue, now tell us how US fascism is really hugs'n'jugs!
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday April 24, @01:20AM (4 children)
And gun regulations have already existed for a long time. The box has been checked off. What's the end game here?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 24, @08:05AM (3 children)
Khallow and his box checking! Must be a residue from his days as a pick-up consultant. People are dying from the fear-mongering of the Republicans and the NRA. They are not check-off boxes. Time for a little law enforcement. First off, make it illegal for any civilian to own a currently issued US military weapon, or derivatives based thereon. Ban AR-15s, and all of MTG's guns.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday April 25, @04:17AM (2 children)
That runs counter to the Second Amendment. I would suggest a legal route - passing a new constitutional amendment, which I would oppose.
My take is that this is just normal propaganda and has no real connection to reality whether firearm regulation were to vanish outright or were to extend to the strictness of the above ban.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26, @10:12AM (1 child)
Not a ban, even of insult rifles. Just a kick to the balls of all ammosexuals, letting them know they no longer can play soldier. Want a M16? Sign up. Learn proper weapons discipline, and how not to kill kids and cheerleaders. And, khallow, you are doing it again, that thing we talked about. You wanted me to let you know.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday April 26, @02:20PM
I think we have better things to do than pass laws just to piss off someone else. Well, I do anyway. You might not.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22, @02:48AM (13 children)
Yeah well, put them in a war zone and see how well that works out.. *cough* Mỹ Lai
Just so you know, the amendment contains two explicit rights, the right to form a well regulated militia AND the right of the people to keep and bear arms
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22, @06:34AM (12 children)
They don't care. The Second Amendment must be removed before the American people can be completely dominated. Being obtuse about grammar is the least of the tricks they'll use.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22, @04:19PM (11 children)
Sweden and many other countries have large firearm ownership yet very strict gun regulation. Seems to be working out quite nicely! Please have a better retort than "small country uniform culture hurrr durrrr." 2A types that don't believe in regulation are spoiled brats who prefer their ridiculous convenience to chuldren being murdered. As a fibal note, the two faced nature of conservatives will have you never taken seriously, such as demanding government control women's bodies while letting unhinged grandpa Fox shoot a kid in the face. Despicable, but I guess it totally matches up with the fascist ideal of freedom.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 23, @03:02PM (9 children)
Protip: turn on spell check
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday April 24, @01:59PM (7 children)
Agree. I always check my spells.
Every word mussed be spelled correct to insure comprehensibility so that it makes since.
How often should I have my memory checked? I used to know but...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 24, @03:18PM
Indeed, this seems quite prudent. You might accidentally turn someone into a frog instead of a newt. That could be embarrassing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 24, @03:24PM (5 children)
Well, actually, that depends. If my neighbor who likes to garden is a supermodel, I wouldn't build a privacy fence. Instead, I would build a viewing deck and charge admission!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 24, @07:00PM (4 children)
You sound like my creepy neighbor
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday April 25, @04:18AM (3 children)
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday April 26, @02:32PM (2 children)
I think that term only applies if the city builds the viewing platform for all citizens to use without discrimination.
How often should I have my memory checked? I used to know but...
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday April 26, @11:06PM (1 child)
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday April 26, @11:43PM
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday April 24, @02:45PM
https://arnold.hosted.uark.edu/Other/ZarOde.pdf [uark.edu]
ODE TO A SPELL CHECKER
by Jerrold H Zar
Eye halve a spelling check her,
It came with my pea sea.
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss steaks aye kin knot sea.
Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your sure reel glad two no.
Its vary polished in it’s weigh,
My checker tolled me sew.
A check her is a bless sing;
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
And aides me when aye rime.
Each frays come posed up on my screen,
Eye trussed too bee a joule;
The checker pours o’er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule.
Bee fore wee rote with checkers
Hour spelling was inn deck line,
Butt now when wee dew have a laps,
Wee are knot maid too wine.
Butt now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flare,
There are know faults with in my cite,
Of nun eye am a wear.
Now spelling does knot phase me,
It does knot bring a tier;
My pay purrs awl due glad den
With wrapped words fare as hear.
To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should be proud;
And we mussed dew the best wee can
Sew flaws are knot aloud.
That’s why eye brake in two averse
Cuz eye dew want too please.
Sow glad eye yam that aye did bye
This soft wear four pea seas.
How often should I have my memory checked? I used to know but...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 27, @01:47AM
Hmm, what part of "shall not be infringed" do you not understand?
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22, @04:11AM
If you don't know what words mean, fuck-off to Sudan and try explain yourself. Cunt!
(Score: 2) by turgid on Sunday April 23, @01:43PM
Is that well-regulated militia not the US Army or am I missing something?
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday April 25, @07:31PM
So far this year, there have been 96 school shootings resulting in 40 deaths and 78 injuries.
Zero children have been hurt or killed at drag queen story hours, or at any pride event.
Kids in red states: if you see active shooter, call 911 and report it as a drag queen for faster response.
How often should I have my memory checked? I used to know but...
(Score: 2) by dry on Friday April 28, @03:29AM (2 children)
Huh? One of the needs of the young country of America was to shoot children, after shooting their grandparents and parents so that you could claim their land. How else do you acquire the best chunk of a continent when it is already occupied.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday April 28, @03:56PM (1 child)
You claim that it was not occupied. The European minds considered it unoccupied if nobody was keeping it up, erecting fences, signs, etc. Thus, it's all okay. Just empty unoccupied land as far as the eye can see.
Well, except for these nuisance savages who happened to already be here, for some reason or other.
How often should I have my memory checked? I used to know but...
(Score: 2) by dry on Saturday April 29, @02:47AM
No, I claimed it was occupied, otherwise you are mostly correct, savages didn't count and today it seems that certain colours of skin also don't count.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21, @07:49PM (8 children)
When you are a man-child, having your guns taken away from you is like having your favorite pacifier taken away from you. I hope that clarifies things for you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22, @02:18PM (7 children)
Okay Einstein, how do you propose empowering people to defend themselves against armed attackers? Oh, you have no regard for human life, people are expendable? But but, then why ban guns?
Just make sure you first take the guns from the very worst criminals, okay? If you expect everyone to suddenly be honest and law-abiding, the very best people will turn in their guns, and on down the line to the very worst never giving them up. The process will be a timeline of an increasing concentration of guns in the hands of the very worst people.
Oh but wait, that's okay because they're "disadvantaged", "marginalized", "mentally ill" (which is true), discriminated against, and who knows what other "narratives" you'll invent just to further your cause (which I'm still trying to understand if it's anything besides totalitarianism).
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22, @04:26PM (1 child)
Leftists: We need sensible gun regulation!
Rightwingers: THEY'RE LITERALLY GOING TO GRAB YOUR GUNS FROM YOUR COLD DEAD HANDS WARBLGARBL!
There is a reason the USA is unable to have a meaningful conversation about guns. There is plenty of middle ground between selling guns at the corner store and comete confiscation. Sadly rightwingers are obsessed with being authoritarians by the barrel of a gun.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 24, @07:07PM
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(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 23, @10:03AM (2 children)
Don't. Let them fucking die, the goddamned murdering cowards! You first, you quivering in your boots, shitting your drawers afraid bastard! No, seriously, these people are not in danger, they just think they are, and that makes them a danger to anyone who presses their doorbell, pulls into their driveway, gets into the wrong car, or says "Hi" to Runaway at 148 Wallaby Way, Snowy River 119, Sidney, Arkansas.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday April 25, @04:19AM (1 child)
My ass shouldn't get capped just because I break into the wrong house, amirite?
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26, @10:23AM
More of a "double-wide". But be aware, the walls of a "Manufactured Home" barely slow down projectiles.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 24, @03:14PM (1 child)
I will just note that in the last couple of weeks we have had (at least) three incidents in which people were shot at merely for the offenses of (1) going to the wrong address; (2) turning around in the driveway of a wrong address; and (3) mistaking someone's car for their own in a public parking lot. One of these people shot at has died; the two others barely managed to survive. All three of these people were no threat to the shooter. In two of these instances the victims were shot at while moving away from the shooter after they realized their error. In the case of Ralph Yarl, he apparently didn't even have time to react; he was shot before he even had a chance to explain himself. None of the victims were armed. So, what was that you were saying about "empowering people to defend themselves against armed attackers"?
Right back at ya, buddy: you seem to have no regard for human life.
First of all, I haven't seen anyone here calling for a complete ban of all guns. I certainly haven't advocated this. On the other hand, I would like to see all guns taken away from trigger-happy nervous nellys who shoot first and ask questions later. Actually, in these three incidents none of the shooters has apparently decided to ask some hard questions after they have had a clearer understanding of the situation (at least not that I am aware). I would think a bit of introspection would be good for these guys; introspection might also be good for those, such as yourself, who would deign to act as their public apologists. Or, so it seems to me. I hope this clarifies things for you.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday April 27, @12:38AM
Is that really a problem? In each of the three cases you cited, did the person get to keep their firearms? It sounds more like precrime. We'll figure out who will commit crimes before they do and...
(Score: 3, Interesting) by turgid on Friday April 21, @03:40PM (15 children)
I never got around to replying to your journal about the toasters, so here goes.
Have you noticed that toasters these days aren't big enough to hold a slice of bread? Was bread smaller in the past? Is it smaller in the countries where toasters are designed? I have to turn my bread upside down during toasting in order to toast both ends.
This leads me on to the next gripe: consistency of toasting across the surface of the bread, and reproducibility across multiple slices of bread. I usually toast at a low setting over multiple passes, flipping and rotating the bread as appropriate to achieve a consistent level of toastedness.
In these Brexit times I spy an opportunity for the patriotic British engineer. "Sick of Johnny Foreigner's poor quality toasters? Here's the Land of Hope and Glory 2000, big enough to hold Proper British Bread Slices(TM) and with an innovative world-beating electronic toasting system using multiple independent toasting cells powered by Great British Electricity with a 21st Century patented laser feedback mechanism by patriotic British boffins to make Real Toast(TM) that Johnny Foreigner the world over can't even dream of. Once again, the Science and Engineering Might of Blighty is the Envy of the World! Rule Britannia, marmalade and jam!"
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Friday April 21, @03:52PM (1 child)
Toasters clearly need to be much more sophisticated than they are today to accommodate present day toasting needs.
How often should I have my memory checked? I used to know but...
(Score: 4, Funny) by DeathMonkey on Friday April 21, @07:45PM
It's only a matter of time: Talkie Toaster [fandom.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21, @04:48PM (7 children)
Lucas Toasters would give new meaning to the phrase "Prince of Darkness".
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday April 21, @05:44PM (6 children)
If it were a laser printer instead of a toaster, it could be "Prints of Darkness".
That would suggest that it needs to use less toner.
Such a laser printer belongs in the church basement. Not up in the church offices next to the laser printer which is "Prints of Peace".
How often should I have my memory checked? I used to know but...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21, @06:31PM
> that it needs to use less toner.
Yeah, my big Brother all-in-one printer is like that, spills toner on the paper frequently. I think it's my fault, I ran the back side of some older used paper through it (re-using old paper that was printed one side only) and since then it has never been spewing toner around. Guessing I have to replace both toner and developer(?) cartridges to fix it, but I'm a cheapskate so waiting until the big toner reserve is used up.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday April 22, @01:11AM (2 children)
This needs to happen. Think about it, you have hot toast in the morning with your favorite art burned in on the side. It's a vital thing we never knew we needed.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22, @01:26AM (1 child)
You can already get ones that put jesus or the virgin mary on every slice.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 23, @08:35PM
None for Trumpers?
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Sunday April 23, @08:36PM (1 child)
A keyboard I had a long time ago developed a curious problem. The '6' key got wonky. Hit it once, and you'd usually get 666. No other key bounced like that. What did it mean??? I figured a church based charity was uniquely qualified to handle it, and gave that keyboard away to one.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday April 24, @02:04PM
That keyboard defect would be useful in Great Britain where people dial emergency services by pressing 666.
How often should I have my memory checked? I used to know but...
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21, @10:40PM
Advice from a lonely bachelor who, god willing, will never toast 4 slices at once:
don't buy a cheap, 2-slice toaster. Buy the cheap, 4-slice toaster by the same manufacturer for 30% more.
It's a blessing than I can fit those artisanal elongated slices.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22, @01:00AM
Get an old toaster.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/1OfxlSG6q5Y [youtube.com]
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22, @06:59AM
Last time I was at a store, two girls were looking at toasters. They had a bag of bread, Texas toast, cut bagels of different sizes, and something else I didn't recognize. They were using them to test the various toasters on display for capacity. Definitely one of those moments that make you think "why didn't I think of that?"
A good tip for using a toaster and getting consistent results is that I usually do a pass or two with it empty first. The results are much more consistent after preheating the toaster.
(Score: 3, Funny) by krishnoid on Saturday April 22, @05:24PM (1 child)
Turn that into a whole song and I'll pitch in funding for the project.
(Score: 2) by turgid on Sunday April 23, @01:48PM
Rule Britannia,
Marmalade and jam,
Three Chinese crackers in a dustbin,
Bang, bang, bang!
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday April 22, @01:33AM (13 children)
For example, how do you generate code or descriptions of other complex processes with these things? Second, who owns the IP on this stuff? Third, do these LLMs have telemetry or operate in the cloud in such a way that the information can be collected by the LLM owner? I'm curious about their potential, but I don't want to create stuff (even though likely of little to no value) just to have it owned by someone else.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22, @02:01AM (11 children)
> how do you......
RTFM!
Here's one if your google foo isn't up to the task,
https://github.com/openai/openai-cookbook/blob/main/how_to_work_with_large_language_models.md [github.com]
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday April 22, @02:15AM (10 children)
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday April 22, @02:16AM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22, @02:43AM (2 children)
Nope, that's intended and expected.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22, @10:54AM (1 child)
>> I have googled, but I get a lot of garbage.
> Nope, that's intended and expected.
Google tailors results to your past search history (etc, etc). Just a guess, given khallow's posting history here, I strongly suspect he has a very different search history than you have.
Fwiw, I posted the RTFM comment above & the link I suggested was on the first page of G results. This may explain why khallow can't get useful results from Google (on this topic)?
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday April 22, @12:47PM
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday April 22, @03:28AM (5 children)
This is alleged to be by R.G. Collingwood in his alleged book, "The Idea of History". If the quote is mangled, this may actually be the quote I'm thinking of. LLM is so exciting!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22, @10:11AM (4 children)
If Google Books is to be believed, your quote doesn't come from that book. I went to https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Idea_of_History/FEjxAAAAMAAJ [google.com] and then took several short snips from your quote, used them with "search inside" and came up crickets.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22, @10:41AM (3 children)
Such is khallow's education. Some Names, some titles, and jibberish, all put together as if it were an actual intelligence, or a real boy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22, @11:08AM
> all put together as if it were an actual intelligence, or a real boy.
On a whim, I wondered if you stole this put-down somewhere, so I Googled it. The first hit was this amazing short essay! (which doesn't include your phrase), read it and be amazed!
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/f-scott-fitzgerald-essay-the-crack-up/1028/ [pbs.org]
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday April 22, @11:42AM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22, @12:31PM
Is there a future where LLMs are used to generate insults? Could they possibly be more insulting than, say, W.C. Fields?
For example, "It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to."
(Score: 3, Interesting) by krishnoid on Saturday April 22, @05:25PM
This is why I was agitating for a single clearly-labeled LLM-generated comment on every story, so we can gain more familiarity with what it generates, for better or for worse. Couldn't hurt, right? Maybe put it in a spoiler tag so it doesn't take up a lot of vertical space.
(Score: 2) by mrpg on Monday April 24, @03:13AM
I have tried this to practice languages https://talkpal.ai/ [talkpal.ai]