That is indeed exactly my point. LLMs are just a language-tailored expression of deep-learning, which can be incredibly useful, but should never be confused for any kind of intelligence (i.e. logical conclusions).

I appreciate that you see my point and admit that it makes some sense :)

Example where I think pattern recognition by deep learning can be extremely useful:

• recheck medical imaging data of patients that have already been screened by a doctor, to flag some data for a re-check by a second doctor. This could improve chances of e.g. early cancer detection for patients, without a real risk of a false detection, because again, a real doctor will look at the flagged results in detail before even alarming a patient to a potential diagnosis
• pre-filter large amounts of data for potential matches -> e.g. exoplanet search by certain patterns (planet hunters lets humans do this as crowdsourcing)

But what I am afraid is happening for people who do not see why a very simple algorithm is already AI, but consider LLMs AI, is that they mentally decide to call AI what seems “AGI” / “human-like”. They mistake the patterns of LLMs for a conscious being and that is incredibly dangerous in terms of trusting the answers given by LLMs.

Why do I think they subconsciously imply (self-)awareness / conscience? Because to not consider as (very limited) AI a control mechanism like a simple room thermostat, is viewing it as “too simple” to be AI - which means that a person with such a view makes a qualitative distinction between control laws and “AI”, where a quantitative distinction between “simple AI” and “advanced AI” would be appropriate.

And such a qualitative distinction that elevates a complex word guessing machine to “intelligence”, that can only be made by people who actually believe there’s understanding behind those word predictions.

That’s my take on this.

I’m not blindly hating. I despise the asshole responsible for the choice being taken away from me for many major distros and I wish him the plague for his manipulative approach in getting there.

AI did boom, but people don’t realize the peak happened a year ago.

A simple control algorithm “if temperature > LIMIT turnOffHeater” is AI, albeit an incredibly limited one.

LLMs are not AI. Please don’t parrot marketing bullshit.

The former has an intrinsic understanding about a relationship based in reality, the latter has nothing of the likes.

found the incel!

systemd

and a giant “fuck you” to Lennart Poettering for that. Not for creating an init system option - but for lobbying it into major distributions, instead of letting the users decide what they prefer. May he forever stub his toes on furniture.

If the AI boom is a dud,

Whaddya mean, “if”? Emperor wears no clothes…

beyond root processes, none that I am aware of. Hence I configured all my internet applications and steam to run in a jail :) firejail & bubblewrap come as native packages, unlike the flatpak contents

Yeah, after posting it occurred to me how I would describe the two different ways in which I use the word:

1. “one way or another”, “that being said” / “further” -> your example “Anyways, I’ll say goodbye now […]”

2. “despite that” / “nevertheless” -> “Junk food is not healthy, but I’m gonna have a burger anyway[s]”

to which you added a third meaning(?) which, now that I try to describe it in other words, also appears to me as best translated with 3) “one way or another” / “this is happening independently of what is currently being discussed” -> your example “I was going there fore Drag Queen Story Hour anyway”

interesting that etymology of the word explains the origin of both forms - “in any way” vs. “any ways” - which makes sense to my ears, as “in” only fits a singular way “in a way”, not “in a ways”.

Which also means that both are grammatically correct but it makes it understandable how some people would prefer the “anyways” form with the “in” word no longer being used.

Confusing I guess, I always assumed “anyways” to be a different word (grammatically) without ever having a clear idea with one being an adverb, what the other could be… clownface

See the other reply - I could only answer for the store I use on my google-free phone. F-Droid is just an alternative (free) app store that you download as APK & install, which does not require your phone number or payment info like fcking google pieces of sht

isn’t flatpak by definition relying on a second software source, hence 2x as much risk as relying on a single source (your OS repo)?

Not a native speaker, but shouldn’t the word in this meme be anyways?

It’s available on F-Droid at least.

Warning: highly addictive :)

The Last Door (1 & 2)

Darkside Detective

Thank me later.

I love everything about this story.

Oh, so this is why she makes these loud muauw sounds even an hour after eating her full ;) (No, she actually wants to play then)

N00b. True pros accomplish O((n^2)!)

May I suggest you spend time with your cat & not online? All the best!

to me, that clearly sounds like the best way to do it. ^^