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[–] ConstantPain@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

Slrpnk.net images are not loading for me, even in the browser.

[–] Five@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

The solution to the problem is often logging out, clearing SLRPNK.net cookies, and then logging back in.

[–] ConstantPain@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I'm from another instance and using Boost on Android. But, thanks 👍🏻

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ConstantPain@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

This loaded. Thanks!

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 15 hours ago
[–] vale@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] jve@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

“Their learning curve was actually negative,” Lindell said. “The more time we gave them to complete basic land-based tests, the more pitiful their efforts became, with many of them opting to bask in the sun rather than perform a simple task.”

https://theonion.com/study-dolphins-not-so-intelligent-on-land-1819568299/

[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is a variation of an idiom that goes something like "if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will think it's stupid".

But as someone who used to raise killifish, I actually found out that there is at least one species of fish that can climb trees.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

There is an aquarium supply store near me that has an open-top mudskipper display with a tree in it. Those guys definitely can climb trees.

[–] besselj@lemmy.ca 60 points 1 day ago (5 children)

How journalists sound when they compare an LLM to specialized software that plays chess

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

For a fair comparison, I need to see the chess program give me my grandma's family recipe for napalm.

[–] habs@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would say it's good journalism to take the claim of "general purpose" intelligence by AI companies at face value and see that it doesn't hold up. Making outlandish claims allows for silly comparisons

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I think this depends on how you define "general purpose".

The CPU is a "general purpose" processor but it's not very efficient at graphics or cryptography tasks.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 hours ago

I wouldn't say a normal CPU is inefficient at graphics or cryptography, rather that a specialized GPU is particularly efficient at those tasks.

We only consider a CPU slow at these tasks because of how much faster a GPU is with them, but we never see how much worse a GPU is at general conputation tasks, because of how stupendously bad it is.

As soon as operations need to share info, the GPU speed advantage is gone. Branching paths bog a GPU down with redundant execution. Latency is quite poor too. And exceptions & interrupts are basically impossible at the system level. Trying to run normal programs on the GPU would be a disaster.

[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 36 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Journalists are not the source of the claim that LLMs are the path to AGI.

[–] judgyweevil@feddit.it 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They say en passant was invented to justify an illegal move from LLM

[–] veroxii@aussie.zone 8 points 1 day ago
[–] Genius@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah, that's an unfair comparison because LLMs aren't smart enough to play chess. They're better at Candyland

[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That squid is cosplaying as an octopus.

[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Never mind the fact that keeping a squid in a tank they’ll kill themselves within the day as well. We do not know how to keep adult squid in captivity.

[–] feinstruktur@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Look it up literally all the first results on the web say this.

[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I dunno what you looked up, but my search returns multiple sites with instructions for keeping squid at home?

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago
[–] tino@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Love Wulff & Morgenthaler