• Re: ai sucks

    From Mike Powell@618:250/1 to KURT WEISKE on Sat Mar 30 09:27:00 2024
    Soon, they will be just as good at spewing out misinformation as any human could imagine to be.

    I read that one of the AI scientists was concerned that LLMs (what
    we're calling AI) rely on quality information to feed the language
    models. Now that we're flooding the net with AI-generated content, some
    of which is wholly inaccurate, or at the very least wildly
    apocryphal, that information is seeding the LLMs to create more
    innacurate AI content, and so on, and so on.

    I did not even think of that... that the AI bots are also picking up stuff
    that other AI bots have generated, which is making the misinformation
    consumed and generated only grow. That could have exponential results!

    It is hard enough to get a good answer out of a group of people. Throwing ai in there to pool a lot of information (good and bad) to
    spew out answers won't help.

    We saw that on DOVEnet with a LLM that answered support questions.
    Sometimes it was spot on, other times it was way off.

    Now that you mention it, I do remember that. Interactions with it could
    prove quite interesting, but often not so informative. ;)

    Mike

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  • From Mike Powell@618:250/1 to KURT WEISKE on Sat Mar 30 09:14:00 2024
    Transportation issues -- the largest school system in Kentucky hired a company that used AI to help them with bus routes. The result was a "staggered start" system where kids start and end school at different times. I forget when the last end time was supposed to be, but it was before 5pm. On the first day, there are some kids that didn't get home until after 9pm. The system cancelled school for a week, promising
    that they'd fix it.

    I haven't seen a public bus system that worked effectively with my two
    kids, and we're talking about a small district (which should be a
    cake-walk). My son ended up having to get to a bus stop over an hour
    before school, and he was one of the last stops on the route!

    This happened in the district I used to go to school in back in the
    1970s-80s. We lived on the outskirts of the district
    for my high school. For the mornings, we did have to get out awful early
    and for at least the first couple of years we'd usually get to school about
    45 minutes before school started. Afternoons seemed to work pretty
    efficient, though. Getting us to the outskirts depended on traffic that particular day, but we got home in plenty of time to do homework (not that
    I didn't find plenty of time to goof off and not get it done!).

    I actually liked getting there early vs. other years/other schools where I
    got there real close to starting time, but 45 minutes was pretty early.

    Something else I found out is that at least elementary school kids are not getting any homework any more. The school system says it is because there
    are too many kids who don't have English as a first language but I suspect
    it is the result of the bus schedule screw-up, considering that the no
    homework policy also started just this year.

    A bus route seems like a place where a human would outperform an AI.
    We're not at tha point where a LLM can come up with a solution without
    human intervention.

    I cannot see how they didn't do it without some human intervention. I
    think (but don't know!) that they are blaming the AI and the company to
    gloss over the fact that the school system also had some hand in it. At
    the very least, we know they approved it.


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  • From Mike Powell@618:250/1 to KURT WEISKE on Sat Mar 30 09:28:00 2024
    Back in the 50s, the fully electric kitchen was a thing. Manufacturers
    electrified everything, because they could, and because it was part of
    The Future.

    When's the last time you saw an electric can opener? They didn't stick,
    and kitchen appliances are appropriately electric.

    Seems like they were still the rage in the 1970s but, yeah, I think my generation (that grew up in the 1970s/80s) sort of abandoned them. When
    the one we had forever when I was a kid finally quit working, my folks
    replaced it with hand-operated ones. I've never had anything but
    hand-operated ones.

    Mike

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  • From Jas Hud@618:250/1 to Mike Powell on Sat Mar 30 22:24:30 2024
    To: Mike Powell
    Re: Re: ai sucks
    By: Mike Powell to KURT WEISKE on Sat Mar 30 2024 09:27 am

    We saw that on DOVEnet with a LLM that answered support questions.
    Sometimes it was spot on, other times it was way off.

    Now that you mention it, I do remember that. Interactions with it could prove quite interesting, but often not so informative. ;)


    actually it was wrong EVERY time. It however did a great job at looking like it was correct part of the time. Even when Rob corrected it, it would apologize and then crap out another bad answer.
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  • From Mike Powell@618:250/1 to JAS HUD on Sun Mar 31 09:28:00 2024
    Now that you mention it, I do remember that. Interactions with it could prove quite interesting, but often not so informative. ;)

    actually it was wrong EVERY time. It however did a great job at looking like
    was correct part of the time. Even when Rob corrected it, it would apologize d then crap out another bad answer.

    That is correct, and that is what made it interesting. You never knew if a message from it would be correct, half-correct, or way off base, even
    though it seemed pretty confident of itself each time.

    You also had to sit and wonder if anyone actually tried following some of
    the bad advice it gave.

    Mike


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  • From Kurt Weiske@618:300/16 to Mike Powell on Sun Mar 31 08:36:00 2024
    Mike Powell wrote to KURT WEISKE <=-

    Seems like they were still the rage in the 1970s but, yeah, I think my generation (that grew up in the 1970s/80s) sort of abandoned them.
    When the one we had forever when I was a kid finally quit working, my folks replaced it with hand-operated ones. I've never had anything but hand-operated ones.

    And, so the same with AI. It'll stick where it makes sense, and
    AI-powered Smart hair dryers will dissapear.



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  • From Jas Hud@618:250/1 to Mike Powell on Sun Mar 31 11:41:00 2024
    To: Mike Powell
    Re: Re: ai sucks
    By: Mike Powell to JAS HUD on Sun Mar 31 2024 09:28 am

    That is correct, and that is what made it interesting. You never knew if a message from it would be correct, half-correct, or way off base, even
    though it seemed pretty confident of itself each time.

    You also had to sit and wonder if anyone actually tried following some of the bad advice it gave.

    I doubt anybody tried anything it suggested.
    luckily most of the synchronet askholes are gone now.

    when i say askhole i mean someone that just asks a question and never follows through or really does what they are asking about.

    bbs people are weird.

    Anyways, apparently people are using this junk to write code.
    I hope they are getting what they paid for, or maybe they are just telling stories and aren't really getting useful code.

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  • From Jas Hud@618:250/1 to Kurt Weiske on Sun Mar 31 20:22:54 2024
    To: Kurt Weiske
    Re: Re: Electric can openers
    By: Kurt Weiske to Mike Powell on Sun Mar 31 2024 08:36 am

    From Newsgroup: micronet.chat.general

    Mike Powell wrote to KURT WEISKE <=-

    Seems like they were still the rage in the 1970s but, yeah, I think my generation (that grew up in the 1970s/80s) sort of abandoned them.
    When the one we had forever when I was a kid finally quit working, my folks replaced it with hand-operated ones. I've never had anything but hand-operated ones.

    And, so the same with AI. It'll stick where it makes sense, and
    AI-powered Smart hair dryers will dissapear.



    well we don't really have electric can openers because a lot of cans are now pull tops. Electric can openers take up countertop space and i guess some brands failed after a few years.
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  • From Mike Powell@618:250/1 to JAS HUD on Mon Apr 1 08:59:00 2024
    And, so the same with AI. It'll stick where it makes sense, and
    AI-powered Smart hair dryers will dissapear.

    well we don't really have electric can openers because a lot of cans are now p
    l tops. Electric can openers take up countertop space and i guess some brands
    ailed after a few years.

    That is also true. Pull-top cans aren't just for pudding any more. ;) I
    have seen them on soups and even canned vegetables.

    Mike

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  • From Arelor@618:250/24 to Jas Hud on Mon Apr 1 17:08:13 2024
    Re: ai sucks
    By: Jas Hud to All on Wed Mar 27 2024 11:40 pm

    i know i talked about this at another net that totally hates having me there


    I think it is a beta product they are hyping and rushing into production, for the most part.

    I have seen some impressive work done. For example, they created a full video with AI that featured the TV anchor Iker Jimenez reading a famous post from Forocoches (the largest Spanish web forum). You'd laugh your ass off watching this famous guy talking about hot Latinas in all seriousness. Still I think this sort of thing is still the exception rather than the rules for now.

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  • From Arelor@618:250/24 to Mike Powell on Mon Apr 1 17:15:47 2024
    Re: ai sucks
    By: Mike Powell to JAS HUD on Thu Mar 28 2024 08:45 am

    I think it could be dangerous in the long (and even short) run. As you point out, many of the ai engines are scraping the net, which means they
    are probably getting some good data and a whole lot of noise. Soon, they will be just as good at spewing out misinformation as any human could imagine to be.

    Linux Magazine published a great article about deliberate data poisoning that could be used to mistrain an AI. It featured a practical example/tutorial. THey made the point that you can make it obey hidden data inputs.

    For example, if you are training the AI for recognicing handwritting, you usually give it multiple samples. Now imagine all the "Rs" you show to it have a hidden feature, like a particular ink color, or a small stain on the border of the sample. THe machine would learn that all the letters with that hidden feature are an "R". Then, in the wild, you could purposedly break the AI results by presenting it a "C" that displayed the hidden feature and it will be interpretated as an "R".

    Now imagine the AI system is used to process bank checks and you can make it mistake 0s and 1s for 9s.

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  • From Arelor@618:250/24 to Jas Hud on Mon Apr 1 17:26:04 2024
    Re: Re: ai sucks
    By: Jas Hud to Mike Powell on Sun Mar 31 2024 11:41 am

    Anyways, apparently people are using this junk to write code.
    I hope they are getting what they paid for, or maybe they are just telling s


    A friend of mine works somewhere where his boss tries once and again and again to produce code from an AI and incorporate it into a product. It never works.

    THe company is doing very badly as a whole and I expect it to hit bankrupcy as soon as the next key employee leaves.

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  • From Jas Hud@618:250/1 to Arelor on Mon Apr 1 22:28:29 2024
    To: Arelor
    Re: ai sucks
    By: Arelor to Mike Powell on Mon Apr 01 2024 05:15 pm

    usually give it multiple samples. Now imagine all the "Rs" you show to it have a hidden feature, like a particular ink color, or a small stain on the border of the sample. THe machine would learn that all the letters with that hidden feature are an "R". Then, in the wild, you could purposedly break the AI results by presenting it a "C" that displayed the hidden feature and it will be interpretated as an "R".

    Now imagine the AI system is used to process bank checks and you can make it


    we're going to have to do some urban warfare on AI soon or just become slaves. I heard that people could get juggalo tattoos to confuse AI recognition systems.

    Also you can identify someone by their gait. I have a unique walk from just wrecking my body and because I am big and I move so fast. They had an example of gait detection on the punisher tv show.

    We'll have to wear 4 inch heels on one foot.

    did you ever see that shit where in china it reads your face and if you go against the crosswalk it detects who you are by facial recognition and does a little shame video of you on a screen?
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  • From Mike Powell@618:250/1 to JAS HUD on Tue Apr 2 08:43:00 2024
    did you ever see that shit where in china it reads your face and if you go agai
    st the crosswalk it detects who you are by facial recognition and does a little
    shame video of you on a screen?

    That actually sounds sort of cool, if it works.

    Mike

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  • From Arelor@618:250/24 to Mike Powell on Tue Apr 2 12:56:07 2024
    Re: ai sucks
    By: Mike Powell to JAS HUD on Tue Apr 02 2024 08:43 am

    That actually sounds sort of cool, if it works.

    Mike

    I find this sort of stuff sends a chill down my spine.
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  • From Jas Hud@618:250/1 to Mike Powell on Tue Apr 2 16:50:59 2024
    To: Mike Powell
    Re: ai sucks
    By: Mike Powell to JAS HUD on Tue Apr 02 2024 08:43 am

    From Newsgroup: micronet.chat.general

    did you ever see that shit where in china it reads your face and if you go agai
    st the crosswalk it detects who you are by facial recognition and does a little
    shame video of you on a screen?

    That actually sounds sort of cool, if it works.

    Mike

    chinese people are all concerned about face, so i guess it works. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOxMWn0kEEw
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  • From Jas Hud@618:250/1 to Arelor on Tue Apr 2 16:51:20 2024
    To: Arelor
    Re: ai sucks
    By: Arelor to Mike Powell on Tue Apr 02 2024 12:56 pm

    From Newsgroup: micronet.chat.general

    Re: ai sucks
    By: Mike Powell to JAS HUD on Tue Apr 02 2024 08:43 am

    That actually sounds sort of cool, if it works.

    Mike

    I find this sort of stuff sends a chill down my spine.

    the social credit system is the real scarey shit.

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  • From Kurt Weiske@618:300/16 to Jas Hud on Wed Apr 3 07:11:00 2024
    Jas Hud wrote to Arelor <=-

    we're going to have to do some urban warfare on AI soon or just become slaves. I heard that people could get juggalo tattoos to confuse AI recognition systems.

    We should all go back to wearing surgical masks.

    Also you can identify someone by their gait. I have a unique walk from just wrecking my body and because I am big and I move so fast. They
    had an example of gait detection on the punisher tv show.

    One of the "how to attend a protest" guides I read suggested putting a
    pebble in one shoe to throw your gait off. That came in handy at the
    "Blood-drinking Tranny Pedophile Lives Matter" protest I went to in San
    Francisco, because, you know, they're everywhere.




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  • From Mike Powell@618:250/1 to JAS HUD on Wed Apr 3 08:44:00 2024
    That actually sounds sort of cool, if it works.

    chinese people are all concerned about face, so i guess it works. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOxMWn0kEEw

    I am generally for anything that would cut down on jay walkers, as well as several other traffic violators that cause accidents.


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  • From Mike Powell@618:250/1 to JAS HUD on Wed Apr 3 08:49:00 2024
    I find this sort of stuff sends a chill down my spine.

    the social credit system is the real scarey shit.

    Indeed it is.


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  • From Jas Hud@618:250/1 to Mike Powell on Wed Apr 3 18:21:50 2024
    To: Mike Powell
    Re: ai sucks
    By: Mike Powell to JAS HUD on Wed Apr 03 2024 08:44 am

    chinese people are all concerned about face, so i guess it works. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOxMWn0kEEw

    I am generally for anything that would cut down on jay walkers, as well as several other traffic violators that cause accidents.


    well in china if you report a bad driver and you show proof, you get a little bit of money. that might be helpful over here.
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  • From Jas Hud@618:250/1 to Kurt Weiske on Wed Apr 3 18:25:20 2024
    To: Kurt Weiske
    Re: Re: ai sucks
    By: Kurt Weiske to Jas Hud on Wed Apr 03 2024 07:11 am

    we're going to have to do some urban warfare on AI soon or just become slaves. I heard that people could get juggalo tattoos to confuse AI recognition systems.

    We should all go back to wearing surgical masks.


    they probably have computer programs that can accurately simulate what
    you look like under the mask.


    One of the "how to attend a protest" guides I read suggested putting a
    pebble in one shoe to throw your gait off. That came in handy at the
    "Blood-drinking Tranny Pedophile Lives Matter" protest I went to in San
    Francisco, because, you know, they're everywhere.


    in SF you will be walking funny on the street anyways. you are stepping in human shit, or stepping over it. also there's the drug users and needles you need to step over.

    SAD!
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  • From Kurt Weiske@618:300/16 to Jas Hud on Thu Apr 4 06:34:00 2024
    Jas Hud wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

    in SF you will be walking funny on the street anyways. you are
    stepping in human shit, or stepping over it. also there's the drug
    users and needles you need to step over.

    Walking through the mounds of feces and medical waste are nothing
    compared to trying to get past the false narrative.

    All cities have their good areas and bad areas. Painting all of San
    Francisco with images of the bad areas is disingenuous at best and
    projecting at its worst, when meant to smear a political party and their policies.

    Go ahead, tell me when the last time you were in San Francisco was. I'm
    going into The City tomorrow.


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  • From Kurt Weiske@618:300/16 to Mike Powell on Thu Apr 4 06:37:00 2024
    Mike Powell wrote to JAS HUD <=-

    the social credit system is the real scarey shit.

    Indeed it is.

    It was worthy of an eye-opening Black Mirror episode with Bryce Dallas
    Howard. I'll need to re-watch that one.



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  • From Jas Hud@618:250/1 to Kurt Weiske on Thu Apr 4 16:48:12 2024
    To: Kurt Weiske
    Re: Re: ai sucks
    By: Kurt Weiske to Jas Hud on Thu Apr 04 2024 06:34 am

    Walking through the mounds of feces and medical waste are nothing
    compared to trying to get past the false narrative.

    All cities have their good areas and bad areas. Painting all of San Francisco with images of the bad areas is disingenuous at best and projecting at its worst, when meant to smear a political party and their policies.


    you're just making excuses, dude.

    Go ahead, tell me when the last time you were in San Francisco was. I'm going into The City tomorrow.


    I'm NEVER going there. I know people who vacationed there and traveled through it. i'd rather go on the other side of the country.
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  • From Mike Powell@618:250/1 to KURT WEISKE on Fri Apr 5 10:13:00 2024
    the social credit system is the real scarey shit.

    Indeed it is.

    It was worthy of an eye-opening Black Mirror episode with Bryce Dallas
    Howard. I'll need to re-watch that one.

    I need to watch Black Mirror period. I have heard some good things about
    it from a Twilight Zone FB group I am a member of.

    Mike


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  • From Jas Hud@618:250/1 to Mike Powell on Fri Apr 5 19:04:17 2024
    To: Mike Powell
    Re: Re: ai sucks
    By: Mike Powell to KURT WEISKE on Fri Apr 05 2024 10:13 am

    From Newsgroup: micronet.chat.general

    the social credit system is the real scarey shit.

    Indeed it is.

    It was worthy of an eye-opening Black Mirror episode with Bryce Dallas
    Howard. I'll need to re-watch that one.

    I need to watch Black Mirror period. I have heard some good things about
    it from a Twilight Zone FB group I am a member of.


    sometimes it's hit or miss.
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  • From Mike Powell@618:250/1 to JAS HUD on Sat Apr 6 09:46:00 2024
    I need to watch Black Mirror period. I have heard some good things about it from a Twilight Zone FB group I am a member of.

    sometimes it's hit or miss.

    Thanks, that is good to know.

    Mike


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  • From Jas Hud@618:250/1 to Mike Powell on Sat Apr 6 12:52:50 2024
    To: Mike Powell
    Re: Re: ai sucks
    By: Mike Powell to JAS HUD on Sat Apr 06 2024 09:46 am

    From Newsgroup: micronet.chat.general

    I need to watch Black Mirror period. I have heard some good things about it from a Twilight Zone FB group I am a member of.

    sometimes it's hit or miss.

    Thanks, that is good to know.

    Mike

    crocodile in season 4 was one an upsetting one for me.
    I think they crossed the line with that episode.

    if you want to know why you can google it. it's also the
    way they pulled it off that got to me.

    whats strange is i watched all of the episodes but i can only remember
    maybe 4 of them out of six seasons.
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