Apparently I just landed in the wrong country… 🤦
Pier Fumagalli
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Sometimes I write code!
Jeff Atwood"I’m more comfortable calling “AI” a “pattern synthesis engine” (PSE). You tell it the pattern you’re looking for, and then it disgorges something plausible synthesized from its vast set of training patterns." Yep. This. There's no "thinking" or "intelligence" here, just sophisticated pattern matching on a vast, vast sample size called "all the crap we put on the Internet" https://redeem-tomorrow.com/retrospective-4-what-comes-next/
Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉I had enough troubling discussions with tech people that believe that these language models think and we are within moments of sentient computers.
Many variations on “we are just like the machines; we read and speak statistically valid sentences”
Folks are quickly dismissing that turning your complex inside thoughts into words is usually an art that requires work and practice.
These models are great tools, but I feel the cringe creep up when folks bless these models with supernatural powers.
Just “inherited” a bunch of Cisco 2701 access points (in a frozen warehouse at -25C, I’m not going to swap them out until they die) and suddenly remembered why for the past decade I only used Ubiquiti…
The software stack (controller and device os) is seriously a pile of 💩, it’s like being stuck in the 90s: c’mon, who thought that TFTP would have survived till 2023???
The virtual controller runs only on Ubuntu 14, and even with that it needs serious hacks to run the network in “legacy” mode… 🤦
iainthomson
Ryan CavanaughThis four-year-old child might seem sentient, but the reality is that they are merely a complex inferential network that was trained on petabytes of audiovisual stimulus, and are just regurgitating your own words back to you, over and over again in an increasingly annoying voice, instead of eating their dinner. Think less "person" and more "Furby with a God complex".
Ricky MondelloI’ve written up a blog post with my personal thoughts on Twitter restricting SMS 2FA to Twitter Blue subscribers.
My post explains what 2FA is, why SMS 2FA is actually awesome, why Twitter did this, how Twitter can restore some security benefits to its users, and why passkeys will ultimately be the solution for account authentication. https://rmondello.com/2023/02/18/twitter-sms-2fa/
Dgar
Gee… My “C” is rusty A.F.!!!
Fatih AygünCan we please standardize JSONC already? I just want simple data, trailing commas, comments, and nothing else. I hate YAML and TOML with a passion.