• @[email protected]
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    They taste a lot like beef.

    You take the breasts and fry them on olive oil with a little bit of garlic and soy sauce. Delicious.

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      I mean I’m fine with just looking at them roosting on the ledges of buildings, but I guess people will do a lot if they’re hungry.

  • @[email protected]
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    I like the idea that these are scientist-monitored birds that you remove the tag from before dressing and eating.

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      This actually happens very frequently in the US. When hunters harvest a bird they report their kills in compliance with hunting regulations. If any of your birds have leg or neck bands you report that information as well. The bands have a tracking number on them, and scientists use them to monitor populations and migration patterns. It’s literally part of their plan.

      You get to keep the bands as well (I only have experience with banded geese and ducks). They’re a neat memento.

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      It would make an interesting footnote in the scientific article that had this pigeon in the experiment.

      “1 This pigeon was removed from the experiment as it was eaten by a local Florida Man.”

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    I’m going to build a bunch of cyborgs, who follow orders exclusively via googleAI.

    I figure once I release about 4 billion of them into the world, either google stops doing evil shit, or they do REALLY evil shit. We shall see what happens…

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      It is kind of an Interesting idea: what does “statistical average morality” look like when it’s got a 3m tall power frame and a handheld howitzer?

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    lol, definitely missed some important context.

    I guess it thought OOP meant “clean” as in how do you dress the bird before you cook it. (As in: “clean a fish” means to filet a fish and prep it for cooking.)

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      What the fuck are you talking about? Stop apologizing for AI, you clown.

      Do you remove the “label” in step one of cleaning a fish? Please, tell us all where that is.

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      But first it said they are usually clean. So that can’t be the context. If there was a context. But there is no context because AI is fucking stupid and all these c-suite assholes pushing it like their last bowel movement will be eating crow off of their golden parakeet about two years from now when all this nonsense finally goes away and the new shiny thing is flashing around.

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        There are signs of three distinct interpretations in the result:

        • On topic, the concept of cleaning a wild bird you are trying to save
        • Preparing a store bought Turkey (removing a label)
        • Preparing a wild bird that is caught

        It’s actually a pretty good illustration of how AI assembles “information shaped text” and how smooth it can look and yet how dumb it can be about it. Unfortunately advocates will just say “I can’t get this specific thing wrong when I ask it or another LLM, so there’s no problem”, even as it gets other stuff wrong. It’s weird as you better be able to second guess the result, meaning you can never be confident in an answer you didn’t already know, but when that’s the case, it’s not that great for factual stuff.

        For “doesn’t matter” content, it may do fine (generated alternatives to stock photography, silly meme pictures, random prattle from background NPCs in a game), but for “stuff that matters”, Generative AI is frequently more of a headache than a help.

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          I thought it was only illegal for the stores to cut those off. Like it was some kind of consumer protection thing. Which was back in the 70s, we don’t get that kind of thing anymore.

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          Yea, it voids the warranty. So when you get poisoned after eating it without label, you won’t be able to get a refund.

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        Well obviously not for fish. Sounds like someone’s never bought fresh pigeons from the grocery store, smh.

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      It literally doesn’t matter. When the most-used search engine on the planet automatically suggests these specific actions without you even clicking on a specific site? We’re fucked. We had the chance to break up monopolies like Google, Microsoft and Facebook. We didn’t take it…

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    I mean, if they were actually “clean” and had a healthy diet compared to what they eat in urban areas, they could make an awesome protein source for the budget minded.

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      You theoretically could, but small birds like that have very little meat on their bones. Most hunt duck or turkey for a reason, the bigger birds have more meat.

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        You eat breasts.

        Most people I know who hunt pigeons just take the breasts (“breasting pigeon”) and bin the rest as it is not worth a hassle. Unlike turkey, you obviously need more than one pigeon for a meal unless you use it as a starter.

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        Though, you wouldn’t want to eat one you “recovered” from an urban area that’s had an unknown diet, due to all the toxins it may have accumulated in its body.

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    It’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt. They need to pull the plug on this shit and stop beta testing misinformation.

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    Pigeon = edible bird

    Cleaning a bird > preparing a bird after killing it (hunting term)

    AI figured the “rescued” part was either a mistake or that the person wanted to eat a bird they rescued

    If you make a research for “how to clean a dirty bird” you give it better context and it comes up with a better reply

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      Or, hear me out, there was NO figuring of any kind, just some magic LLM autocomplete bullshit. How hard is this to understand?

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            My point wasn’t that LLMs are capable of reasoning. My point was that the human capacity for reasoning is grossly overrated.

            The core of human reasoning is simple pattern matching: regurgitating what we have previously observed. That’s what LLMs do well.

            LLMs are basically at the toddler stage of development, but with an extraordinary vocabulary.

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          I have to disagree with that. To quote the comment I replied to:

          AI figured the “rescued” part was either a mistake or that the person wanted to eat a bird they rescued

          Where’s the “turn of phrase” in this, lol? It could hardly read any more clearly that they assume this “AI” can “figure” stuff out, which is simply false for LLMs. I’m not trying to attack anyone here, but spreading misinformation is not ok.

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            I’ll be the first one to explain to people that AI as we know it is just pattern recognition, so yeah, it was a turn of phrase, thanks for your concern.

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              Ok, great to know. Nuance doesn’t cross internet well, so your intention wasn’t clear, given all the uninformed hype & grifters around AI. Being somewhat blunt helps getting the intended point across better. ;)

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      I like how you’re making excuses for something that it is very clear in context. I thought AI was great at picking up context?

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        I thought AI was great at picking up context?

        I don’t know why you thought that. LLMs split your question into separate words and assigns scores to those words, then looks up answers relevant to those words. It has no idea of how those words are relevant to each other. That’s why LLMs couldn’t answer how many "r"s are in “strawberry”. They assigned the word “strawberry” a lower relevancy score in that question. The word “rescue” is probably treated the same way here.

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        I don’t think they are really “making excuses”, just explaining how the search came up with those steps, which what the OP is so confused about.

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        Bought in a grocery store - see squab - they are usually clean and prepped for cooking. So while the de-boning instructions were not good, the AI wasn’t technically wrong.

        But while a human can make the same mistake and many here just assume the question was about how to wash a rescued pigeon - maybe that’s not the original intent - what human can do that AI cannot is to ask for clarification to the original question and intent of the question. We do this kind of thing every day.

        At the very best, AI can only supply multiple different answers if a poorly worded question is asked or it misunderstands something in the original question, (they seem to be very bad at even that or simply can’t do it at all). And we would need to be able to choose the correct answer from several provided.

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      The context is clear to a human. If an LLM is giving advice to everybody who asks a question in Google, it needs to do a much better job at giving responses.

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      Eventually, it will. Because even with janky responses like that one, corporations will try to cost save everywhere they can. Is AI at the point where it will happen this year? Hell no! But don’t think it isn’t the direction they are trying to take it.

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      AI will take jobs when the shareholders think it will make them more money. This has very little if not nothing to do with how good said AI is at the job.

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        Good. Hopefully the stock market will die before humanity does. A system that only serves the money is not sustainable.