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  • There’s also the fact that they can’t tell reality apart from fiction in general, because they don’t understand anything in the first place.

    LLMs have no way of differentiating fantasy RPG elements from IRL things. So they can lose the plot on what is being discussed suddenly, and for seemingly no reason.

    LLMs don’t just “learn” facts from their training data. They learn how to pretend to be thinking, they can mimic but not really comprehend. If there were facts in the training data, it can regurgitate them, but it doesn’t actually know which facts apply to which subjects, or when to not make some up.



  • That is some serious “capitalism can solve anything and therefore will, if only we let it”-type brain rot.

    This “solution” relies on so many assumptions that don’t even begin to hold water.

    Of course any utopian framework for society could deal with every conceivable problem… But in practice they don’t, and always require intentional regulation to a greater or lesser extent in order to prevent harm, because humans are humans.

    This particular potential problem is almost certainly not the kind that simply “solves itself” if you let it.

    And IMO suggesting otherwise is an irresponsible perpetuation of the kind of thinking that has led human civilization to the current reality of millions starving in the next few decades, due to the predictable environmental destruction of arable land in the near future.









  • We already do?

    DXVK and VKD3D have been translating DirectX 9-12 to Vulkan for a while now, allowing DirectX games and applications to run on hardware and/or operating systems that don’t support DirectX.

    Intels ARC GPUs don’t even support DirectX on a hardware level, like it’s just straight up not there. Intels drivers instead just translate it to Vulkan, and their at times insane FPS boosts from driver updates was due to them improving that translation and getting closer to 1:1 performance.




  • My initial reaction to the announcement clips was that of disgust.

    Like auditory uncanny valley. The result is impressive, but holy fuck hearing it speak makes me cringe, I want to shut it up asap.

    Unplug it before it can ask if I want to kill myself, as if it actually cares, and isn’t a million coin tosses away from acting on some random training data to encourage me to do it instead of not.

    To interact with humans with such sycophancy, I am viscerally creeped out imagining the design objectives.

    The worst part is, it’s being presented with the same false confidence that LLMs themselves exhibit… Even as they confidently explain how simple it is to prove the earth is flat when you ask.

    Fucking hell, the tech is amazing, but can we not handwave away the limitations and irresponsibly apply it to literally everything, as if just a few more yottabytes of training data means it’ll stop making mistakes “aaaany second now”.