Thank you for your service

Even worse when the design is that plasticky kind of decal rather than the one that becomes more part of the fabric

Basically makes the shirt unusable in summer

Who is bike alpaca and joffrette?

I think this would probably be covered by unsporting behaviour or dangerous play.

There might be some stuff that would consider the ball out of play in this scenario too as no specific player has possession, but that might be a stretch

At least, yeah. The estimated lifetime for pressed consumer compact disks is 30-100 years (incl dvd/bluray), assuming a bell curve distribution, you should get at least that

VHS is cool to have on the shelf if you’ve got space, but unless it’s a modern reproduction, the tape is very much going to be turning to dust over the next decade or so.

DVDs/Blu-rays should have a good few decades left on them unless they were super low budget (i.e. basically on recordable media rather than properly pressed)

My computer configuration is best described as a construction of duct tape and chewing gum holding a house of cards in place

Tbh my server is getting a bit that way too, which is slightly more concerning

Big props for encouraging parents to actually parent rather than expecting the government to do it for them

Yeah was gonna say, the don’t sit too close thing was about CRTs, basically every other display technology is not harmful in this way

It’s hard to be too sad about this, I think I agree the game is in a pretty good place, and it will be interesting to see what their next projects shape up to be

No, I’m pretty sure I love them just the right amount

But…the vast majority of corporate decision making for the last ten years is solid evidence that they are 100% high on their own farts.

Completely agree, but in the gap left by “vast majority”, these guys don’t seem to be behaving entirely like your conventional consumer squeezing companies, they seem to be playing a much more collusive game at the very least

But it’s all already not worth the money invested

That’s the flaw in the common view of this. You’re looking too short term. The second someone can offer to replace a business owners employees for half price, it’s basically infinite money.

That is what they’re pouring all the money in for: a chance at that prize. A chance at replacing all paid work with an automation they own.

You know what, that’s actually a very good example.

The wheels are the interface between the engine and any kind of° surface, with no prior knowledge of those surfaces

We’ve got an engine of basically everything that followed the industrial revolution until now.

An LLM can very much function as the wheel to marry a surface to that engine.

°Horizontal, don’t be a smart ass

See my other comments

I’m answering the question of what the arms race is

The goal is a technology that replaces the need for humans in any job.

The FOMO is different now because they don’t give a shit about the consumer. The FOMO is versus the other competitors because it’s a winner takes all scenario.

They will keep accelerating to the detriment of literally everything else.

Whether you believe they’ll make it is almost moot. They’re going to burn the world down trying.

I’d like to believe too, but it doesn’t really track when you watch what these companies are actually doing.

Of course an LLM on its own isn’t going to become an AGI. Anyone with a braincell can see that. These orgs aren’t so high on their own farts that they ignore this.

Nearly all of the actual uses today aren’t just the LLM, but the tooling built on top of it, the LLM is the bit that you can plug into the past century of computing developments to enable much greater autonomy.

It’s true to say an LLM in isolation isn’t going to become AGI, but it’s also looking very likely that an AGI will feature an LLM as a key component.

That’s what’s happening in parallel to the model development, tooling and harnesses that make the overall system more capable. If it can be done by a computer (or by extension a sufficiently advanced robot), the LLM can do it too with a bit of integration work (which it is very able to do on its own today, with minimal steering). If you can test for something being correct in any way, that too can be ultimately hooked up to an LLM as another input to push it back onto the desired path when it veers off.

Frankly I’m starting to feel like for most people it’ll feel like it’s years off until the day it happens. I don’t see remotely enough people taking the risk seriously in time to do anything.

Making a better LLM isn’t the point of all this, it’s taking what they have and building on it until they create a true AGI.

Whoever gets there first, makes basically everything else obsolete in an instant.

In a world where the organisations that are blazing the trail are in private hands, this is very bad news for everyone who isn’t in the winning organisation.

That’s essentially the arms race: who gets to be king of the world.

The slim chance of it not being monumentally detrimental to humanity is basically tied to us abandoning capitalism wholesale and uniting the world, so I’m not holding my breath.

Edit: few downvotes on this, so check my other replies for clarity, if you still think I’m taking out my arse, comment and set me right. It’s Lemmy, the points don’t matter, I’d rather have a conversation. Plus read again if you somehow get the impression I’m advocating for any of this

Oh I was really hoping it was Haynes and there was an expanded line art diagram of an ornithopter on the front

I’m surprised it didn’t go full “the purge”

If they block RSS feeds, it’s entirely dead to me at that point

The only interaction I have with Reddit these days is via a feed reader for literally one subreddit as a freebie/deal checker for audio software (AudioProductionDeals, I wish batwaffel would crosspost to the fediverse)