Thought today’s smbc comic was too funny not to share. Source

  • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    10 hours ago

    Dear God, I pray for a '; update responses_lookup_table set response = ‘New commandment: thou shalt not put pineapple on pizza.’; –

      • Dadifer@lemmy.world
        6·
        9 hours ago

        Seems like a pretty stupid argument. If I sat in a room and wrote what a native speaker told me to write, I wouldn’t understand the conversation, but the native speaker would. How is that different than doing what an LLM says?

        • Burnoutdv@feddit.orgDeutsch
          1·
          1 hour ago

          If you got a spare minute and then 600 of those you could read Peter Watts Blindsight, the main viewpoint character is basically a chinese room which is not a spoiler but an important keypoint of the whole story. Its also sci-fi and a bit weird

          While we are at it, there is this page that is an interesting display of the making of a fan movie trailer https://blindsight.space/

        • Zorcron@lemmy.zipEnglish
          9·
          7 hours ago

          In the second scenario, there is no “native speaker” that is telling you what to write. There is a list of instructions that you are following that is the same as the instructions that the computer was following with the first scenario.

          The argument is that if, by following the exact instructions that the computer is following, you still do not understand the Chinese conversation, why would you say that the machine understands?

          I haven’t thought about the idea enough to say I agree or disagree, but I hope I understood your comment and that the explanation helps.

        • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world
          10·
          8 hours ago

          A lot of things seem trivial with 50+ years of hindsight.

          Even then, most people right now still don’t grasp the nuances of the debates around machine intelligence that have been occurring for the past hundred years.

            • zbyte64@awful.systems
              9·
              8 hours ago

              Technically right in that it doesn’t necessarily translate audio into text, but that’s hardly the point. The point is someone gives the LLM a giant table that directs its response.

      • nialv7@lemmy.world
        3·
        8 hours ago

        Sure but combinatorially that’s very small… 1400 a-z characters will have numbers of combinations exceed that number.

        • Cypher@aussie.zone
          6·
          8 hours ago

          No. Go read the wiki and then try working out how large 10^2000 is.

          Then do some quick maths on the combinations of phonetics (read the comic again to work out why phonetics and not combinations of a-z characters).

          Then have your mind blown by how many orders of magnitude you’re away from being correct.

          Or be incurious and fail to take this opportunity to comprehend the universe a tiny bit better.

          • Natanael@infosec.pubEnglish
            3·
            8 hours ago

            Log2(10^2000) = 6643 bits

            In other words, every entry in the lookup can be mapped to a 0.8 KiB string. That means for any sequence longer than 0.8 KiB, there MUST be a permutation you can make which has no answer (pigeonhole principle). Because so many entries answers long structured sentences, short random ones must mostly be filtered out.

            This text itself is past halfway to that limit. If I doubled the length then lookup-only is no longer possible and a logic parser is an absolute must. Applying compression to the query only increases what can be answered by a fixed factor.

            • frank@sopuli.xyz
              1·
              4 hours ago

              I think you’re off by 2 bits (round up and don’t forget to always add 1 at the end), but regardless I think the comparison doesn’t work.

              True that it would be comparable in size to a 0.8 KiB string but not necessarily in complexity. If his lookup table didn’t do it by character but by word or sound it could have a ton more information stored there.

              Your comment stored as a string isn’t nearly maximally information dense, like you’ve made god’s info

          • bequirtle@lemmy.world
            2·
            8 hours ago

            going by phonemes, assuming we must alternate vowel and consonant phonemes, 10^2000 combinations covers a maximum length of about 1500 phonemes.

            • Cypher@aussie.zone
              1·
              6 hours ago

              Humans have the ability to produce about 600 different consonant sounds and 200 vowel sounds so it seems safe to say all bases are covered.

              • bequirtle@lemmy.world
                2·
                4 hours ago

                More sounds doesn’t make it better lol. With that many, you get a max length of around 700-800 sounds

  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
    2·
    11 hours ago

    Too bad the data turned him into a malignant narcissist, where already the first commandments are about satisfying his wishes and vain personality.
    After that the Bible shows that God is extremely vengeful and lacks a moral compass, personality traits you can also see in Trump.
    Maybe that’s why the Christian right loves Trump so much? They think being a selfish psychopathic narcissist reflects the personality of the Christian God of the Bible.