zappy

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[–] zappy@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 years ago

So I'm a reasearcher in this field and you're not wrong, there is a load of hype. So the area that's been getting the most attention lately is specifically generative machine learning techniques. The techniques are not exactly new (some date back to the 80s/90s) and they aren't actually that good at learning. By that I mean they need a lot of data and computation time to get good results. Two things that have gotten easier to access recently. However, it isn't always a requirement to have such a complex system. Even Eliza, a chatbot was made back in 1966 has suprising similar to the responses of some therapy chatbots today without using any machine learning. You should try it and see for yourself, I've seen people fooled by it and the code is really simple. Also people think things like Kalman filters are "smart" but it's just straightforward math so I guess the conclusion is people have biased opinions.

[–] zappy@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do you ever pretend to be a robot just to mess with people?

[–] zappy@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

That's true, also at some point the human will go "that's too much work, I'm not going to answer that" but the ai will always try to give you it's best response. Like I could look up the unicode characters you're using but I'd never actually take the time to do that

[–] zappy@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

All these models are really terrible at following conversations even chatgpt, I can only get it to reliably remember about 2 responses. If I can't get what I want in two then I need to restate info or edit the past prompts.

[–] zappy@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

First years have max word counts now, not minimums. That's more a highschool thing.

[–] zappy@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Generally, very short term memory span so have longer conversations as in more messages. Inability to recognize concepts/nonsense. Hardcoded safeguards. Extremely consistent (typically correct) writing style. The use of the Oxford comma always makes me suspicious ;)

[–] zappy@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

There's more bar soaps than ever. You can even get special hair shampoo and conditioner bars or shaving cream as a bar

[–] zappy@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

You mean the plastic ones or the real ones? The plastic ones you can hand wash but I wouldn't stick it in a washing machine (you probably could if you used a laundry bag and put it on low spin)

[–] zappy@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Soap bar bags are the superior option, they save you money too

[–] zappy@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

I use soap bar bags... I can't figure out if that qualifies as barehanded or not

[–] zappy@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm glad I'm not the only one who was wondering what on earth OP was taking about

[–] zappy@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

People told me that but most places won't take you before you're 20 (but it changes, I remember I had to wait 2 years after my last prescription change but was told just 6 months after I had waited those 2 years ofc)

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