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Cake day: July 27th, 2023

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  • Electrical engineering. My mentioned coworkers are competent but more junior in the field. We did a miniature internal study and found the best models provided accurate, relevant information on the first prompt about 90% of the time when asked to explain or verify concepts. The remainder consisted of hallucinations or misunderstood queries.

    They struggled with questions that instead required complex problem, providing some mixture of appropriate solutions, overly complex but still functional solutions, and hallucinated shite.

    I recommended that we do not move forward with adopting AI in any capacity. While it has some utility for basic information retrieval and fact checking, it still required someone with sufficient knowledge to be able to quickly evaluate the quality of its output. Helpful for someone who knows what they’re doing, dangerous 10% if the time for someone who does not. I also highlighted the ethical concerns, many of which my peers were unaware.



  • Unpopular Opinion Incoming

    I was assigned at work to evaluate a few LLMs for potential adoption, so I spent a solid week doing so.

    Most of the “AI is broken and doesn’t work” on here is solid echo chamber cope. It’s more competent than several of my coworkers, though it’s thankfully not ready to replace knowledge workers as it requires a knowledge baseline to best direct it and evaluate its answers.

    I still advised against using it for multiple reasons, including ethics, but much of Lemmy is playing make believe about the actual capabilities of LLMs.




  • You don’t get it. Here’s how it works.

    My husband really loves me. Once we went on holiday and had a marvelous time. I had to save and pay for it, but I think that’s fair: just like he says, he can only be a good husband if I support him. He’s often gone for weeks and leaves me to care for everything, but he’s doing the best he can. He just gets so much flak from his brother at the family business that he can’t do any better! The company is doing well but my husband says that money needs to go to their investors, so I’m working two jobs to support us. He’s asked me to start an OnlyFans so he can afford a car to help his new lady friend! He’s so sweet.

    Not all of his family is as great as him, though. His brother treats me poorly, taking money from our home and telling me I need to submit to my husband and home school the children from the Bible. My husband told me that his brother is going through a hard time and if we pushed back too much it could wreck the family business. He told me I need to try harder so he can try to protect me and that if I don’t support him no matter what, it’ll get worse and I’ll have nobody to blame but myself. His friends and family all agree. They’re so smart!

    I’m trying harder. It seems worse, but he says we’re almost there and I just have to give it my all! When it seems too difficult, I remember that glorious holiday. He surprised me with a stay at one of America’s finest luxury resorts: the Motel 6 in Jacksonville, Florida! They even had a pool! My favorite memory was when he brought me a gourmet meal made by Ronald McDonald, an American celebrity chef, and let me stay all by myself while he went boating with his mates. I even saw in his email that they paid a real escort service to take them! I saw on its website that even the fishing guides are beautiful in America. He came back tired, sweaty, and smelling of fish. He said they lost the catch, but they tried again the next day, this time with different guides! My man never gives up!

    I know things will be better like that again. Someday. I just have to try even harder, no matter what.




  • Republicans are putting people in work camps. Democrats are collectively doing scarcely little about it.

    CLEARLY these groups are bitter rivals, fighting tooth and nail, not at all just one acting as controlled opposition. You all just have to vote harder next time, right? Then they’ll try harder!

    I can’t believe you lot can’t see this. The rest of us do and my decade in your land just drove the point home. Do they not teach you about the events that led up to Nazi Germany?


  • I already have, but thanks for making a response based on assumptions you couldn’t possibly know.

    I lived in your country for years. It’s not hard to see this from the outside, but so many Americans are clearly indoctrinated into simping for their team. Their “improvements” during that time were solidly center to center-right policy, which was then systematically picked apart thereafter.

    You’re all like abused children with two manipulative abusive parents. Just because one makes dinner on occasion doesn’t mean they’re any good, only that they’re placating you before you do anything effective about their behavior.




  • Given they absolutely do not fully leverage what power they have when they have it, I fail to see how giving them more power consistently over the years would have changed anything. They’re sponsored by the same corporate interests as the Republicans.

    They’re basically the same party, but with a nicer face. They’re the good cop to the bad cop, but they’re both cops. You’re not going to get improvement if you just keep electing the nice cops. They’re still just cops.