• @[email protected]
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    2710 months ago

    Please bro please let me generate a few sentences of garbled sentences for you please bro I fucking love to say stuff like “delve” please

  • @[email protected]
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    I actually like it when these code helpers guess from one line what the rest should be and suggest it. It’s even more fun when it keeps guessing and the suggestions get progressively more whacky. Then they just start making completely unrelated shit up.

    Once you say no, it goes back to the beginning and meekly repeats the very first suggestion, like a scolded puppy.

    • IninewCrow
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      310 months ago

      What are you talking about asking questions? It’s AI … it’s all we need to know

    • @[email protected]
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      Gradient descent is a common algorithm in machine learning (AI* is a subset of machine learning algorithms). It refers to using math to determine how wrong an answer is in a particular direction and adjusting the algorithm to be less wrong using that information.

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        The way you phrased that perfectly illustrates the current problem AI has: In a problem space as large as natural language, there are nearly an infinite number of ways it can be wrong. So no matter how much data we feed it, there will always be some “brand new sentence” someone asks that breaks it and causes a wrong answer.

        • @[email protected]
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          Absolutely. It’s why asking it for facts is inherently bad. It can’t retain information, it is trained to give output shaped like an answer. It’s pretty good at things that don’t have a specific answer (I’ll never write another cover letter thank blob).

          Now, if someone were to have the good sense to have some kind of lookup to inject correct information between the prompt and the output, we’d be cooking with gas. But that’s really human labor intensive and all the tech bros are trying to avoid that.

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      AI logos and buttons tend to be “shiny” with a gradient color scheme.

      • Delta
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        This is the actual answer, the other replies are over thinking it. There’s a gradient on his face ffs

      • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]
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        “Gradient descent” ≈ on a “hilly” (mathematical) surface, try to find the lowest point by finding the lowest point near an initial guess. “Gradient” is basically the steepness, or rate that the thing you’re trying to optimize changes as you move through “space”. The gradient tells you mathematically which direction you need to go to reach the bottom. “Descent” means “try to find the minimum”.

        I’m glossing over a lot of details, particularly what a “surface” actually means in the high dimensional spaces that AI uses, but a lot of problems in mathematical optimization are solved like this. And one of the steps in training an AI agent is to do an optimization, which often does use a gradient descent algorithm. That being said, not every process that uses gradient descent is necessarily AI or even machine learning. I’m actually taking a course this semester where a bunch of my professor’s research is in optimization algorithms that don’t use a gradient descent!

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          This is a decent explanation of gradient descent but I’m pretty sure the meme is referencing the color gradients often used to highlight when something is AI generated haha

    • @[email protected]
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      I thought it meant that all the icons/interfaces for AI seem to have a graphical gradient between colors, usually cool colors like blue/purple/pink. (Like the face in the meme)

        • @[email protected]
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          No. Nobody uses gradient descent anymore, it’s just the technique you learn about in beginner level machine learning courses. It’s about the color gradient in all the AI logos.

      • monsterpiece42
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        Yes this is the correct answer. The words in the meme are written to a hypothetical end user. They would not reference technology like the other person said.

  • @[email protected]
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    Fucking Adobe PDF is becoming damn near unusable because of this. Frustrating because I absolutely have to use it all day every day.

      • @[email protected]
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        510 months ago

        The ability to filter comments actively as you mark them off as completed is magnificent.

        You mark a comment, it hides itself. Neat and tidy, fantastic.

        Why doesn’t Adobe do this, you ask? Who the fuck knows. Especially since you used to be able to in Acrobat.

        Why? Were people complaining it was too helpful?

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          310 months ago

          I’m still learning it. It has a ton of capabilities, but haven’t got to it yet. It’s OCR is kind of meh, even at highest setting

  • Destide
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    3510 months ago

    I hope this comment finds you well,

    This meme perfectly captures the desperate plea of tech companies trying to get users to embrace their AI features. It’s like they’re saying, “We promise it’s worth it—just look at that gradient!” 😅

    I am an person

    • @[email protected]
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      I’m sorry, but I don’t feel comfortable writing a reply to this comment because the only possible intelligent replies involve profanity or hate speech. Would you prefer a nice cookie recipe instead?

  • Saki
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    210 months ago

    “Why would you need AI in a toaster firmware? Uhhhh don’t think about it! Yeah, just use the damn thing! It will make your toast so much better trust me!”

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    I don’t even use LLMs to generate code because all we ever do anymore is migrate the horde of microservices with one or two endpoints that was going to fix software development forever three years ago to the latest hype hosting and devops platform that will somehow eliminate the maintenance cost of having all those services this time for real.

  • Robert Ian Hawdon
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    810 months ago

    Kagi’s AI summariser is pretty good. It cites its sources and, by default, it only kicks in when you search with a ? on the end.

    To be fair, I’m pretty impressed with Kagi Search overall. But that’s a topic for a different thread, I think.

  • @[email protected]
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    610 months ago

    I like how on Amazon, the “Rufus” thing always pops up over the stuff I’m trying to read.

    “How can I turn off rufus” didn’t come up with anything except how to turn it off in the app, not on the website.

    I had to use Ublock Origin to select and block it.

    • Sippy Cup
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      I have occasionally found the Google search AI handy in pointing me in the right direction, like when I can’t remember or don’t know a particular term for something, it’s decent at giving me the term I’m actually searching for. Can’t trust it for shit as it’s intended to be used though.

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      At work I use the summary function in edge to generate code since all tohet llm are blocked. It is really helpful to burp templates of programs when you tell it your grand mother is dying

    • @[email protected]
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      I find customer support service Chatbots useful, they tend to ask the right questions before connecting me to an actual human, so I don’t have to explain myself over and over. They also categorize your problem so you won’t be forwarded 3 times till you finally reach the right department. They’re essentially like the “press 1 to…, press 2 to…” shtick during a service call, except the customer support person has access to your chat history.

  • peto (he/him)
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    5110 months ago

    Hey, you know that thing you use? What if it had a button on it that opened an AI prompt?

    Well my mum says it’s a really smart idea from her special little innovator.