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This is the technology worth trillions of dollars huh (media.kbin.earth)
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This is the technology worth trillions of dollars huh

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[–] Yaztromo@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

GitLab Enterprise somewhat recently added support for Amazon Q (based on claude) through an interface they call “GitLab Duo”. I needed to look up something in the GitLab docs, but thought I’d ask Duo/Q instead (the UI has this big button in the top left of every screen to bring up Duo to chat with Q):

(Paraphrasing…)

ME: How do I do X with Amazon Q in GitLab? Q: Open the Amazon Q menu in the GitLab UI and select the appropriate option.

ME: [:looks for the non-existant menu:] ME: Where in the UI do I find this menu?

Q: My last response was incorrect. There is no Amazon Q button in GitLab. In fact, there is no integration between GitLab and Amazon Q at all.

ME: [:facepalm:]

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 17 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think this gets nearly enough visibility: https://www.academ-ai.info/

Papers in peer-reviewed journals with (extremely strong) evidence of AI shenanigans.

[–] beveradb@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks for sharing! I clicked on it with cynicism around how easily we could detect AI usage with confidence vs. risking making false allegations, but every single example on their homepage is super clear and I have no doubts - I'm impressed! (and disappointed)

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Yup. I had exactly the same trepidation, and then it was all like “As an AI model, I don’t have access to the data you requested, however here are some examples of…”

I have more contempt for the peer reviewers who let those slide into major journals, than for the authors. It’s like the Brown M&M test; if you didn’t spot that blatant howler then no fucking way did you properly check the rest of the paper before waving it through. The biggest scandal in all this isn’t that it happened, it’s that the journals involved seem to be almost never retracting them upon being reported.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 46 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

✅ Colorado

✅ Connedicut

✅ Delaware

❌ District of Columbia (on a technicality)

✅ Florida

But not

❌ I'aho

❌ Iniana

❌ Marylan

❌ Nevaa

❌ North Akota

❌ Rhoe Islan

❌ South Akota

[–] individual@toast.ooo 25 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Gosh tier comment.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

You just described most of my post history.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 6 points 16 hours ago

Everyone knows it's properly spelled "I, the ho" not Idaho. That’s why it didn’t make the list.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

With enough duct tape and chewed up bubble gum, surely this will lead to artificial general intelligence and the singularity! Any day now.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago

Hurry MacGruber! We're almost out of...BOOM!

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 25 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (3 children)

They took money away from cancer research programs to fund this.

[–] Burninator05@lemmy.world 11 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

After we pump another hundred trillion dollars and half the electricity generated globally into AI you're going to feel pretty foolish for this comment.

[–] veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Just a couple billion more parameters, bro, I swear, it will replace all the workers

  • CEOs
[–] jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

only cancer patients benefit from cancer research, CEOs benefit from AI

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

Tbf cancer patients benefit from AI too tho a completely different type that's not really related to LLM chatbot AI girlfriend technology used in these.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 0 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Well as long as we still have enough money to buy weapons for that one particular filthy genocider country in the middle east, we're fine.

[–] Phantom_Engineer@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

It ripped off this famous poem in the process:

Most States

[–] roserose56@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 hours ago

Stop using Google search, easy as that! I use duckduckgo and I have turned off AI prompts.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

So this is the terminator consciousness so many people are scared will kill us all..

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 points 14 hours ago

Connecdicud.

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I would estimate that Google's AI is helpful and correct about 7% of the time, for actual questions I'd like the answer to.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 12 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (3 children)

Connedicut.

I wondered if this has been fixed. Not only has it not, the AI has added Nebraska.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 13 hours ago

You mean Connecdicud.

[–] MML@sh.itjust.works 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

What about Our Kansas? Cause according to Google Arkansas has one o in it. Refreshing the page changes the answer though.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Just checked, it sure does say that! AI spouting nonsense is nothing new, but it's pretty ironic that a large language model can't even parse what letters are in a word.

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[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

I would assume it uses a different random seed for every query. Probably fixed sometimes, not fixed other times.

[–] elterly147@literature.cafe 4 points 16 hours ago

i rather manually search for info

[–] dude 29 points 1 day ago (13 children)

Well, for anyone who knows a bit about how LLMs work, it’s pretty obvious why LLMs struggle with identifying the letters in the words

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[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 11 points 21 hours ago

Blows my mind people pay money for wrong answers.

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