I don’t know and in my opinion letting children use LLMs unsupervised is a bad idea regardless of which provider is used. But as long as teachers don’t understand the basics of how LLMs works and treat “AI” as a magical answer box there is not much hope left anyway. Sorry if I’m bitter here. Teachers are expected to know about the materials and technology they are using to teach children. The blatant lack of knowledge and ignorance of the teachers are what makes school AI usage dangerous for children.

Well, even if there are budget constraints, and they’ll end up using Gemini because of these: They should have looked at alternatives at least, just to know what else exists, because knowledge is the basis for education… Alternatively, they could have been stated the true reason. I’m merely criticizing the poor wording.

said Gemini was chosen because it was the only tool the board evaluated

We chose Gemini because we couldn’t be bothered with doing actual research. Educators of the year award.

Interesting analogy. So if you were to skip the high level os functions you could connect with your inner workings. But that’s probably as difficult as consciously controlling your heartbeat

I don’t have an internal monologue, it works more like a blackbox releasing thoughts when they are finished, the reasoning stays hidden more or less. I can reject the thought or send it back for further refinement, but it does not at all resemble a monologue or train of thought thing. Fun story, I was at a Buddhist meditation session once, and while sitting there I discovered that I can turn my thoughts off almost completely. Which includes the processing of sensory information, like leg going numb or the guy next to me farting. These continued to exist but lost any meaning or relevance to react upon. It was a very weird experience, turning my mind completely inwards, experiencing an intense but pleasant void of complete nothingness while being conscious. It took about an hour for me to get back to normal afterwards. I asked the Buddhist guys later if that is an expected experience with this type of meditation, and they had never heard of such a thing.

Odd how different people’s brains can be wired internally. And yet, I am able to communicate with all those fancy “internal monologue” people as if I was one of them.

“Microsoft changed course” (about shoving Slop into every nook and cranny of their products)

I very much doubt that. When I have to open Office365 (Copilot… Sloppity… WhateverItIsCalledThIsWeek) in a browser they manage to hide the actual apps like Word, Excel etc. a little more behind the giant empty chat interface. Last time I checked my pinned Apps were gone and now there is a tiny button containing some of the apps. To make it worse, this button changed the location on screen almost every time I opened this website in the past months (I’m not using it very often).

I would never have guessed that we"d be able to make Idiocracy look like a documentary in my lifetime. What a spectacular decline.

I imagine it makes beeping noises and displays a blip on a radar display like the proximity devices in alien movies. Shudders.

There’s a conflict of interests in there. Nvidia is heavily tied to OpenAI, Anthropic and the US government. The mostly chinese models hosted on huggingface are direct competitors and viewed as enemy tech by the US government.This is going to be a massive shitshow. Probably starts with banning de-censored versions of the models from the platform.

Care to explain? Sounds interesting, my last impression was that SK was a society with massive competitive pressure in education and career. What happened?

My bet is on exactly that being the plan. Stocks go down, tech companies pay to bribe him, next Tuesday a reversal of tariff plans, stocks go up, rich people make more money. Rinse, repeat

Well, like you said that’s basically the corporations fault. They push “AI” everywhere and AI in the media is 100% LLMs and other GenAI. I wouldn’t blame the public for not knowing the difference. Those data centers aren’t built to cure cancer, but to cause it. Figuratively and literally.

LLMs don’t cure cancer. That’s the kind of AI everyone refers to these days. Not ML projects.

Would be an OK salary for most of Europe. Most countries here have relatively solid health care insurance, affordable education and a pension fund included, so that some of the biggest costs of living in the US don’t even make a dent in the salary.

Quite ironic considering how hard Microslop is pushing AI. Now the self inflicted ram shortage kills their bloated bullshit features.

Possible, but they would more likely see more false positives depending on how suspicious they are… like when people suspected images to be photoshopped in the past.

I have no clue about the looksmaxxing scene, so forgive me for asking: Which one is supposed to be before and which one is after?

Edit: Goddamit, it’s a simple question and I honestly don’t see it. Just answer me instead of downvoting if you know better than me. The left one looks more masculine somehow and my first instinct was that this has to be the “after” photo, but usually these comparisons go from left to right. I’m not going to google the person because I have a feeling this isn’t worth my attention.

You wrote “AI has access to a wealth of our personal information from past conversations” - From a technical standpoint, AI has a “context” per session and it can have “memories” which can be added if the system you are using provides such a thing. However: Unless you are reusing the same session over several days, in general AI can’t remember your past conversations. And it’s not advisable to use the same session for an extended period of time: The context becomes diluted and the model is more prone to hallucinate, forget key points or start to misbehave in subtle ways.

On the content of your post… I’d wish you would be clearer and more precise in getting your point across. It was a hard read for me tbh. Also I think that “bypassing the brainstorming process” with AI is simply impossible, because a large language model does not have ideas. It’s output is the statistical mean of its training data, which in essence means that its output is by design mediocre. It’s the statistical middle ground of the options the training data contains. Human ideas on the other hand, as you rightfully point out are the result of a spark of personality and individual experiences. This will never be replaced by AI. Using it as a tool for brainstorming can be detrimental to the result for the same reasons. The AI might convince you that your idea is good while it is in fact just mediocre or worse.

I think you might unknowingly still be a victim of the mystification of LLMs. It’s time to see the technology at face value and to get to know its very real limitations of practical usability. The part about transhumanism… idk. Only people who see these things as more than just sophisticated word generators would entertain such an idea.

Indeed. The average person seems to need instagram, whatsapp and xitter to fill their meaningless little isolated lives with distractions to feel… something. However on a more positive note, once people get suspicious about AI slop they tend to notice the slop patterns more easily, which is a good development. It’s something that can’t be unseen.

Oh wow, not the onion.