It means AI can recite information from a domain that PhD-level people are concerned with. This doesn’t mean it can draw correct conclusions, rephrase emails properly or do any heavy-lifting like come up with computer code beyond boilerplate templates and tech-demos. It’s mainly just hype. AI is useful. But not very bright as of today.

And how does the “manmade” tie into that? Did we make the photons? Exert the force or did we do something that brought force into existence?

I guess we can’t answer OP’s question, then. That’s too unspecific. Something gets exchanged, true. Is that man-made? Likely false, but depends on what we’re talking about.

Ja, deswegen verwunderte der Artikel mich etwas, der wie früher, komplett auf frühkindliche Ereignisse fokussiert ist. Wenn sich seit Freud etwas getan hat, fände ich es ganz nett das irgendwie einzuordnen.

So, what would it be a medium of, then? I mean money is a medium of exchange. And by your logic, energy is a medium of ____ ???

I think it’s a waste of time. It doesn’t really add anything. If you don’t want to lose your subscription in the unlikely event that your server/instance goes down forever, just use the export feature to make occasional backups. You can always create a new account after something happened. No need to invest that time otherwise.

You’re free to use sockpuppets though. Or if you’re moderating stuff or participate in instances/communities who don’t federate.

Hat Freud vor 120 Jahren auch schon gesagt.

Well, it’s a mass-produced, embedded device, designed to do one specific task. I guess lots of the video related stuff is assisted by hardware and they usually strip down the embedded Linux to the minimum needed. Because every Megabyte of storage costs extra and they need to hit some 99,- or 89,- price point. Furthermore, they don’t want it to boot for 20 seconds, so these devices generally don’t contain any extras. Similar things happen on wifi routers, the ones below $100 usually contain similar amounts of memory (or less). At least the last time I bought one.

Google the product name and Linux. If nothing turns up, you need to find the name of the SoC / processor and google that. Find out if it’s supported by Linux and what other people did to install Linux. You might need additional hardware though, like a serial or JTAG adapter and a soldering iron. Plus the required expertise. And I must warn you, that thing has 1 GB of RAM and 256MB(!) of flash storage. You won’t be able to do much with those specs. Like a slow FTP server or one small website or a few other tiny services which don’t use a lot of resources.

Sure, go ahead. Technically it’s not 100% correct. I mean lemm.ee wouldn’t be your provider, it’d be the people operating the server who provide the service to you… But I think it’s close enough. Only issue I can see is the term “provider” usually being used with commercial services. Like a cellphone provider or ISP. So I’m not sure if people start to think this costs $10 a month or something and is run by for-profit businesses… But we also use the word “provider” for free things, so I’m not entirely sure about that. But generally speaking I think we use different terminology because we don’t think of the Fediverse as a product.

I think Baikal or Radicale would be the usual contenders for that

Well, they learn from the training material and then they apply what they learned. That’s not exactly copying. Like me learning to code with textbooks and then being able to do it myself. LLMs are supposed to do something similar, generally they don’t reproduce their training material verbatim. But it’s complicated. And I believe we have some court cases and the legal system needs to find out how to apply copyright. Plus the big companies just steal stuff. It’s not like me buying the books for university, Meta just downloads all of them via bittorrent. Which is definitely illegal. But i think the difference between learning, copying, being inspired by something is more nuanced. And if something like “fair use” applies, there isn’t much an author can do. I guess LLMs are able to memorize stuff as well. And I don’t think that is okay. I’m not sure if we have examples of that happening, that’d make a copyright case a bit easier.

I often recommend Mistral-Nemo-Instruct. I think that one strikes a good balance. But be careful with it, it’s not censored. So given the right prompt, it might yell at people, talk about reproductive organs etc. All in all it’s a job that takes some effort. You need a good model, come up with a good prompt. Maybe also give it a persona. And the entire framework to feed in the content, make decisions what to respond to. And if you want to do it right, and additional framework for safety and monitoring. I think that’s the usual things for an AI bot.

Is memory that small, connected externally, or does that SoC just end up being a large package, with that much RAM on it?

Fair enough. I’m a bit unsure whether that happens on Lemmy. My old posts and comments rarely get any votes, interactions or corrections after say two weeks. These people must either be completely passive, or no one reads it after that. With a few minor exceptions. But you’re right. This has happened to me, too. So you have a point here.

I halfway agree, but the issue with that is, that’s not what happens in reality. In reality these things don’t run on renewable energy. And not utilizing datacenters at capacity is just a waste of resources. And they could find people who donate their voices, which would be fair… But they’re not doing that. So I think half the arguments still apply. It is innovation though, we shouldn’t be opposed just for the sake of it. It needs some proper argumentation.

I kind of dislike it. I mean it’s a good thing if they read it. If not, it just takes 5 minutes out of my day if I come up with a good nuanced answer here, and that’s time I’m not going to spend answering other people’s Linux questions. But it’s alright, you made it completely transparent that this is a re-post. And it’s a good thing to diversify. People often just ask in one big community, or even discuss everything in the super big technology communities even we have dedicated ones for certain specific tech topics.

Why re-post this? I hope bpt11 reads the answers here or it’s kind of a waste of time.

What kind of models are you planning to use? Some of the LLMs you run yourself? Or the usual ChatGPT/Grok/Claude?

It is like I said. People on platforms like Reddit complain a lot about bots. This platform on the other hand is kind of supposed to be the better version of that. Hence not about the same negative dynamics. And I can still tell ChatGPT’s uniquie style and a human apart. And once you go into detail, you’ll notice the quirks or the intelligence of your conversational partner. So yeah, some people use ChatGPT without disclosing it. You’ll stumble across that when reading AI generated article summaries and so on. You’re definitely not the first person with that idea.