Lauren Weinstein
Brambleminster Gollyhatch@lauren To be fair it said according to "a" calendar, not "the" calendar. Could be last year's.
@gollyhatch I didn't ask if it ever was 2024, or if some random calendar somewhere said it was 2024. I asked a question any child could answer: IS it 2025. It's a binary question, answerable by 99.999% of the people on this planet, I would suspect. No excuses.
Frank Heijkamp@lauren @gollyhatch It is not an excuse but it is a possible explanation. "According to a calendar" is technically not a lie, that can indeed be 'any' calendar. LLM's are based on mathematics, it just spits out words according to a bunch of complicated formulas. It does not understand anything, there is no #actualIntelligence in there.
David Mitchell 
@alterelefant @gollyhatch @lauren
Nothing an LLM says is “technically a lie” … that requires comprehension of semantic content, a thing you’ve just explained LLMs don’t have.
The bigger concern is why people who *do* comprehend insist on using bullshit machines to provide ‘answers’ to questions and keep sticking them into every available crevice of our digital lives, and the answer to that one is beyond me.
@DavidM_yeg @gollyhatch @lauren The fun part is that the internet is now full of content that is generated by LLM's which is a massive problem for training new neural networks. Because garbage in is garbage out. Maybe the problem will solve itself faster than we think? I hope people realise that it is all useless 'technology' and invest in their own capabilities instead of relying on some dodge piece of kit called LLM's.
@alterelefant @gollyhatch @lauren
There is a very significant percentage of people who seem to *prefer* comforting bullshit over truth in many areas… this is a significant impediment to the fight against the bullshit machines.
@DavidM_yeg @gollyhatch @lauren We always ask ourselves what brought down the powerful Roman empire. We already know what it is that will take down civilization as we know it.