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@Strandjunker Godwin's Law in action.

The parallels here are paltry at best. Trump is a geriatric spoilt playboy more prone to being used by the machine than any charismatic, energetic powerful leader (which all the fascists had some claim to) and he doesn't have control of the military or interior police (FBI and more). He has no desire to recapture lost lands, only to build a wall and isolate. He has no desire to purify the racial stock of one of the most genetically diverse nations on earth. He's just a bumbling egotistical nincompoop who happens to appear to be to many the only escape they have from "the system" and "business as usual". I say "seems to many to be" as all of politics (most saliently in democratic contexts - and don't come the fool and play that foolish old, "it's not a democracy it's a republic" card) is about image management. And it speaks volumes for the entrenched oligarchs (you sure you don't have another Bush, or Clinton or Kennedy to elect?) and their cohort that a bumbling misogynistic self-centred rich-kid turned senile geriatric actually poses a popularity threat to them. Might be time they woke up, what?

@Strandjunker I wonder if that's because it's the brain that feels shame. Or the emotion we call shame in any case. Perhaps dysmorphia is the body's analogy to shame, its shame of the brain 🤔
@jimw They wouldn't be hiring for someone to work improving on their website or? That would be ironic.
@blue_fenix SME? Small to Medium Enterprise?
@denisbloodnok @noybeu I beg to differ. AI simply scans data much as your eyes do and need not retain it, in fact the whole point is not to, to extract patterns from it. And to argue it is not emulating humans strikes me as disregarding the very evolution of neural networks, LLMs and AI in general. It is at bare minimum inspired by humans and targeted at interfacing with (interacting and communicating with) humans and I don't know what part of "emulating" you think is missing.... Perhaps the physical? Even there robotics is doing an awful lot of human emulation ... And animal emulation... Etc.
@theconversationau This is the first Conversation article I've read that was on the style of the Daily Mail and so many other online news aggregates. Short choppy repetitive paragraphs, mostly of one or two sentences. Mildly disappointing.
@theconversationau What puzzles me is the abundant examples, of which this is one, that evolution is an observed, ongoing fact, fail to sway all the anti-evolution fundamentalists out there. The degree of wanton blindness is gobsmacking.
@craigduncan @theconversationau I think it an appropriate metaphor in the case of cockroaches, do you not?

@theconversationau Brilliant idea. Also a shot in the arm for the economy. Imagine the boom in demand for cat proof fence kits...

I'd go one further I admit and acknowledge that dogs are very social animals and leaving them alone for many hours at a time is what causes the suburban barking choruses that costs us some peace and sleep.

@denisbloodnok @noybeu It may be, though that itself works be surprising, given humans do it all the time. Perhaps all this "I have a right to my opinion" people uttering untruths across the internet need to lobby for AI to have that same right 🤣. It is after all emulating us ... That is the goal.

That said, to me the article read like people were indeed surprised at the fallibility of AI. And this is an issue, the quality of language emulation achieved in LLMs can and does lull people into thinking the model is smart.

Ironically , well spoken humans have been all over that since the dawn of language and it's an accepted explanation for the complexity of modern languages (evolving to maintain grading bars so that elocution can serve as a proxy for measuring credibility).