Rhaedas

Well, you’ve messed up my claim. Yes, some cats are totally like that, and would never survive on their own. Others wouldn’t give their past human servants a second thought if they found themselves outside. Still, they are not right wing.

Not true. All cats are members of the same anarchy organization. He just duped them into thinking he is in alignment with them.

The different LLMs do vary in abilities. What I find amazing is how bad Copilot is compared to any of the others. Not just on complex stuff, but basic requests. I’ve had local models do better, years ago.

Not developing AI. We’ve been working on and with ANI for a very long time, and constant research on what might make AGI possible. What side railed everything is some companies found out they can do lots of amazing things with LLMs, a subset of AI science, and investors will pay them to make better versions. They talk a lot about how what they’re doing will lead to AGI, but these people (or the scientists doing the actual work) know better than that. LLMs can possibly be part of what AGI uses, but it’s on the wrong branch. And they’ve given up following the other branches because this one is paying off.

So in short, we could have done better (both ethically and core results), but once again money got in the way.

The schools don’t care. A lot of the teachers do, but jesus, what a system to try and do your underpaid job in. Actually, now that I think about it, it’s much like most work environments. Asked to do tasks in not enough time to do it, not given the resources to do it, criticized if there’s any complaints about the work or the pay. Oh, and it’s got that retail mix in where you are customer-facing and take the heat for what the school is making you do.

But paying and asking for permission first would have been costly at the start and slow. They made a decision, maybe at the beginning, maybe as they realized ethical would mean lost time and placement in the race, and they said screw it, let’s go. They also sidelined any AI safety research they were doing (some were making an effort on a difficult problem, but again, $$$ wins).

Ah, the CATCHA, that makes sure you’re a cat.

I was trying to reply to this, bringing up the controversy that erupted when image generators were able to use prompts with artist names to simulate their style, and how that shows how blurry the copyright line is. As I wrote it, I realized how complicated the issue really is, and how little I understand current copyright laws. Some may argue there isn’t any vagueness, an artist’s work in any format is theirs and shouldn’t be copied for other use, training or otherwise. But we all use other people’s work in our own, don’t we? There is no solid line where one is ethical and one isn’t. Plagiarism without proper attribution has always been wrong, but if you take the same content and tweak it a bit, it’s not. LLMs can and do that, through statistical randomness, while using someone else’s material, just like human brains would.

The compensation issue is definitely a problem and where the ethics come into play. Even if many people freely read a book in a library, it has been bought at some point. But how do you determine who was unfairly “stolen” from? Isn’t it basically everyone at this point?

You’re making the assumption the penguin is correct in knowing it’s in Ohio.

xkcd 2347: Dependency, only in the worst possible way.

Sometimes I look at it and think, huh, that’s right? Then I look a bit more and it looks even more wrong. So I check it online, yep, it’s right.

I was hoping that there was a metric baseline for this paper size, but it still bugs me that the dimensions aren’t “even”. 297mm? That’s no better than 8 1/2 inches.

Was my first thought too, the final panel pull back to show the name.

My wife moved from WordPerfect (pre-Corel) years ago to Word strictly because all her clients were using Word and she got tired of converting things to work on their machine, especially when printing it out. Not because it was a better choice. This is Microsoft’s only power, dominating the market. Brilliant business strategy, I’ll give them that. Why they don’t use it to be better at the same time baffles me.

Rescues are tough because you don’t know the full trauma they might have been through. But you rescued them, it’s in the name. They recognize that. I could tell stories about a few of ours, but this isn’t the place. Just to say that while the anxiety and fear doesn’t fully disappear, it becomes more in the background covered by the love you give, and they are better for it.

I’m sure somewhere in time a cat has been partially responsible for deleting a database. It’s just another thing to knock over.

Either way, get the shot if you’re in the age range. Shingles is no joke.

Took me decades to break out of the “on the bus but can’t get to the front to get off at my stop”. Now I’ll probably have a relapse thanks to this reminder. But the late/missed class, those dreams suck.

“Once again, weird.”

I think she’s doing it to have a reason to go to confession.

Wait, is this a repost, or is Netanyahu up to it again somewhere else?