Deconceptualist

Ha, I had one and it’s what first came to mind too. Pretty useless.

That’s not the whole story. “The dog swam across the ocean.” is a grammatically valid sentence with correct word order. But you probably wouldn’t write it because you have a concept of what a dog actually is and know its physiological limitations make the sentence ridiculous.

The LLMs don’t have those kind of smarts. They just blindly mirror what we do. Since humans generally don’t put those specific words together, the LLMs avoid it too, based solely on probability. If lots of people started making bold claims about oceanfaring canids (e.g. as a joke), then the LLMs would absolutely jump onboard with no critical thinking of their own.

Ok, maybe there’s a possibility someday with that approach. But that doesn’t reflect my understanding or (limited) experience with the major LLMs (ChatGPT, Gemini) out in the wild today. Right now they confidently advise ingesting poison because it’s grammatically sound and they found it on some BS Facebook post.

If ML engineers can design an internal concept of what constitutes valid information (a hard problem for humans, let alone machines) maybe there’s hope.

Yeah I’m sure folks are working on it, but I’m not knowledgeable or qualified on the details.

As others are saying it’s 100% not possible because LLMs are (as Google optimistically describes) “creative writing aids”, or more accurately, predictive word engines. They run on mathematical probability models. They have zero concept of what the words actually mean, what humans are, or even what they themselves are. There’s no “intelligence” present except for filters that have been hand-coded in (which of course is human intelligence, not AI).

“Hallucinations” is a total misnomer because the text generation isn’t tied to reality in the first place, it’s just mathematically “what next word is most likely”.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/07/a-jargon-free-explanation-of-how-ai-large-language-models-work/

Are you Sirius?

^^ Just corroborating this.

You could maybe just share a meme like this one.

Some folks in the comments there share actual LLM results, a few of which are sensible but plenty that aren’t far off from the joke.

Ohhhh… TIL!

I’ve had elderflower liquor (St. Germain is very nice) but not elderberry.

There are some southern or appalachian insults that I’m sure would confuse foreigners, even those who are functional in English.

Comparisons like “He’s twelve ounces short of a pint”, backhanded compliments like “I just love how you don’t care what people think”, idioms like “three sheets to the wind”. And then of course there’s “rode hard and put up wet”.

“Your mother was a hamster!” is pretty self-explanatory though.

But elderberries smell rather nice. Or at least the last elderberry jam I had was quite lovely. So that certainly makes for a confusing insult.

is there actually any rule against using gatorade for a baptism?

It’s better, cuz it’s got electrolytes.

Does it even have to be liquid water?

So like, ice X at 60 gigapascals and -120 °C?

Some day…

If a Catholic AI won’t be allowed to officiate my wedding, at least Taco Bell will host it. So we’re still not far from Idiocracy!

Infinite environmental destruction glitch

FTFY

It’s intentionally an odd number so votes don’t end in ties. And it’s a small number because nominations and appointments can take a long time due to political BS.

Sort of? I’m sure Congress could change it. They likely won’t because their members are almost entirely from the two major parties. But IIRC there was brief talk of changes when Republicans blocked the nomination of Gigi Sohn.

This is the FCC = Federal Communications Commission. I don’t know the origins but as long as I’ve been aware they’ve been a 5-member panel; 3 commissioners from the president’s party and 2 from the opposing party. They’re supported by hundreds of staff members.

FTC = Federal Trade Commission, a completely separate body. They recently made headlines for banning non-compete agreements.

I don’t have any difficulty doing that with a mixed salad 🤷‍♂️

I feel like turkey, cornish hen, and maybe quail are more common as food than pheasant and goose. At least in the US. If you’re European maybe you put live blackbirds inside pies or something, I dunno, but I guess that’s technically a dino meal too.