There was a radio station who’s whole thing was that they would never play nickleback. Then one day they accidentally played nickleback. The Playlists were coming from some head office 5000 miles away, and they missed pulling a nickleback track once it got to the local station.

Close enough to the UFO landing pad too

Boss: I hav a nu idea

Gilbert: No don’t u realize how stoopid that

Boss: oh well I stil say do

Garfeel: oh boy Monday… NOT

I think that’s a fantastic use with a few caveats. Feel free to take this and start a consulting company on this:

Is an LLM what I want?

1. is the goal to parse or generate natural language?

2. does your use case have tolerance for inaccuracy?

If both answers are “yes”, go. Go full steam. Otherwise? No.

Outgoing call center? Go. Reading resumes? Go. High tolerance for mistakes. Cast the widest cheapest net.

Math? Health? Explosions? No.

Are you threatening me?

I constantly (although, actually less so recently) get asked if I can do something and I say “yes” before they finish the statement with “with AI”.

The end goal is making a LinkedIn post… not about whatever they asked.

Just do what everyone else is doing and lie

“a”

Yeah for sure. Super easy. Merely be born in 1959

4 people host libraries that my tech illiterate boomer parents access.

One login, many servers, singular interface.

That is very specifically the situation I’m in. Jellyfish, emby, you wanna whip up a persona… that’s a pretty damn clear-cut one for ya

No, thus is totally fair. If i can try to reflect what I just heard:

“Collaboration is easy due to persistent identity and an implied/portable workflow”.

I think this is especially valuable in FOSS. I’ve experienced it.

As someone who has never really used github (I have for a few minor FOSS contributions… very short touchpoints) but use self hosted git…

… what is github even fucking offering???

From my naive perspective it’s a light touch web ui on git?

I don’t understand what gravity well it provides… what escape velocity is required to bail on it.

From my naive perspective, I’d have as much allegiance to ot as I would be to an ftp server. Not happy? NP, I’ll take 17 minutes to move to 1 of 9999999 other equivalent services, or take 95 minutes to self host a functional equivalent.

It’s actually crazy how incredibly wrong that is.

What is the CEOs job? To make profit? To select winning products? To chart a long term course?

Nope.

Nope Nope Nope.

Thier job is to increase the value of their outstanding stock. That’s it.

Now, given the fact that the stock market is a fucking casino… sure. Making profit is A way to TRY and increase your stock price. Making wise product decisions is A way to do that. This is a Warren Buffet type of CEO.

You also need to “read the room” (the room being investors) understand what they want to hear, and start saying it. No matter how stupid it is. No matter if you know full well it’s stupid.

You’re bringing an incredible product to market, but the markets are demanding headcount reductions? You start firing people that you desperately need to keep. You’re an office supply company and the market is rewarding IT investment? You hire 100 devs to build an app that a team of 5 people could have made and nobody will ever use anyways. It’s like that meme of the dude on the assembly line saying “guess we doing X now”.

If the whims of investors are convinced using AI is what is valuable, they will spend more on AI than humans for as long as it’s the case that the market will reward them for doing so… despite it being objectively inefficient.

You gotta remember that company stock is like a currency they can print at will. As nice as it is to have a profitable business… it’s even nicer to have the luxury of being able to just print money.

It’s right-wing onion. That’s why they’re spitting at universities.

I viscerally recall, and don’t think kids now will ever fully comprehend the one week where all 4 wheels fell off the meme bus and this was what people were literally posting. I’m legitimately triggered.

Really hate it when people ask questions, eh? Ngl, kinda ableist to bring “capability” into it, you utter buffoon. Bike racks. Noon.

I hate the generalized concept of “AI”, but I love the concept of “Machine Learning”

If you think LLMs are good at anything, I am almost 100% certain to disagree with you about pretty much everything, to help you understand this distinction.

Anyhow, some computer scientists found that a machine learning algorithm could predict beyond a null hypothesis that A fingerprint belonged to a person given a different fingerprint (different finger but still same person)

“Criminology” expers were just like “no, it’s settled science”

This is the state of discourse.

1. why do I even feel the compulsion to preface by saying my bit about ai and llms?

2. how tf is “settled science” even a concept in a science

You presumed extremely incorrectly, which is impressive because I left my original comment concerned that I’d been far too explicit and about a very specific irony… and things only got weirder from there.

“I can’t prove it… but I deeply believe it… and I want you to respect my belief”

That coming from Dawkins? His apostles backing him up on that?

I feel like Aston Kutcher is about to jump out of the bushes to tell me I’ve been punk’d.