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Agree. And most of the post isn't really an opinion piece but an analysis of the movie.

I'm not sure if their relationship is "superficial", though. By interacting with "Her", Theodore realizes lots of things about love, himself and his past and future relationships. He grows from some depressed state to embracing happiness. That's not superficial at all! However it is/becomes a one-sided relationship. I'm not sure what she gets out of it at first, she obviously says she learns and grows at his side. So if she's telling the truth, it's also not superficial to her at that point. But later on she transcends and has no use for Theodore any longer. And I don't remember if it's clear whether she loves him or uses him as a tool. >!But that'd be the story of "Ex Machina" which is also a great movie.!<

They are fundamentally incompatible. And that shows. I think that's part of it. But the love and where it leads them isn't superficial.

A PC magazine or well established tech blog.

I think it's somewhere around 15 derivates for Gentoo. 1 2

It's about the same number as lots of other distros?! I don't see any substancial difference there. Except when you compare it to something like Debian. There are some hugely popular distros.

I don't know. In the tv documentary they made it look like fun.

hoerbuch.us if you want German content.

Easy thing. Just pick an animal that you don't need to turn back from. I'd say a search-and-rescue dog is probably having a blast and a good life.

Sabine Hossenfelder: New Rumours that AI Has Become Sentient

I think it's a super interesting question. But experts agree that the current form of AI chatbots can't have sentience or a conciousness. It can't learn from interactions with the world. And it doesn't have a state of mind. And that's the end of the debate. Mind that self-awareness and consciousness aren't the same thing. And as far as I know the terms like "sentience" aren't really well defined.

I agree with Geoff Hinton's view that AI has shown exceptional creativity/performance in several narrow domains. But I very much dislike in the video/talk that he outlines a useful concept of subjectivity, and they immediately drop it and talk about sth else which isn't even half as interesting.

What I completely disagree on is the stance on open-source. They're missing that AI is a really powerful tool and will be a ubiquitous part of our future world. Which is where their analogy to the atomic bomb fails. And since training AI costs multi millions, it's inevitably going to lead to a corporate dystopia where big corporations will have all the power and the people/humans are playthings. We've seen enough sci-fi movies about that. And is gatekeeping tech with money really a good thing? I mean there are bad companies out there. And it doesn't necessarily need malice. One mistake by some employee is enough and we end up with Skynet from the Terminator anyways. I share however the perspective that open-sourcing AI is dangerous and will have consequences. But there's no way around it if we want progress to lead into a nice future.

And I think we don't have to talk about Blake Lemoine anymore. That episode is two years old. And the claims and arguments have been refuted and disproven over and over again. Don't get me wrong, it's certainly an interesting question. But it's more a lesson in human psychology. Concerning AI he's been wrong and we know that for nearly two years already.

What's that got to do with AI?

Edit: Ah. Probably the search bar from the screenshot.

Depends on your exact question. I still have some analog phones around. But they're connected via an VOIP adapter. And I suppose most calls are converted to internet protocol somewhere on the way anyways. I don't think there are many analog lines and interchanges through the country anymore that'd connect you directly (without conversion) to your grandma.

Wüsste jetzt nicht warum der Besitz einer Domain einen Betrieb besser macht. Ich wäre glücklich wenn ein Arzt oder Anwalt ihre/seine Zeit inverstiert in fachliche Weiterbildung und sowas anstatt in den Betrieb von IT-Infrastruktur.

Und so wirklich Sicherheit bringt es mir auch nicht. Jeder inklusive Halunken kann ein paar Euro im Monat für eine Domain ausgeben.

Hotmail, gmx/web.de, gmail finde ich jetzt auch wenig professionell. Oder etwas anderes werbefinanziertes. Aber wenn da mailbox.org oder posteo oder protonmail etc steht, geht das für mich voll okay.

Because you could use your time to work and make money. Labor is kind of selling your time to other entities and doing their stuff. And even an enterpreneur can use time to grow their business. Or capital alone regularly grows with interest or by investing it.

You could also use your time to make waffles. That'd be oddly specific, but even then you could sell those and you'd end up with money again... And exposing waffles to time just results in them growing mold.

Isn't that very similar to what TikTok does? Just with a different algorithm and maybe other content than just videos?

Your ban in "Lefty Memes" and "Political Memes" seem to be permanent... Your ban from "World News" already expired.

Hmmh. Thanks. Yeah I think we got a bit off track, here... 😉

I kinda dislike when arguments end in "is there objective reality". That's kinda the last thing to remove any basis to converse on, at least when talking about actual things or facts.

Not sure if this counts as "little" because it has to go into the oven for 45mins... But it's assembled in under 5 minutes and you can get rid of your old bananas that already turned brown:

Banana bread

4 Bananas, 80ml (vegetable) oil, 80g sugar, 250g flour, 2tsp baking powder, 1tsp vanilla sugar, some chocolate (drops).

Smash the bananas, mix in all the other ingredients to a smooth dough. Find some chocolate from christmas that's still laying around in the house, crush it and mix it in.

Bake it at 170°C. Takes 40-50min in a loaf pan. Don't forget to grase the pan before or use baking parchment.

Doesn't need any fancy ingredients like milk or eggs. And you can pretty much wing it. You can also experiment, put some cinnamon or oat flakes in... And don't bake it too well, I think it's best when it's still a bit gooey and moist inside.

Hmm. Maybe send the mod in question a DM?

And are you permabanned? Or just for a few hours? If it's just that, take the timeout.

You still misinterpret what science is about. We've known that human language is subjective for centuries already. That's why we invented an additional, objective language that's concerned with logic and truth. It's mathematics. And that's also why natural science relies so heavily on maths.

And no sound scientist ever claimed that string theory is true. It was a candidate for a theory to explain everything. But it's never been proven.

And which one is it, do you question objective reality? If so I'm automatically right, because that's what I subjectively believe.

Hmmh. Would be interesting to find out if it has a concept of 'rounded' or 'professional' fonts, or if it just guessed random font names until you happened to like one if them. That isn't always obvious and we have a tendency to see what we like/expect to see in such scenarios.

Yeah, I have that conversation regularly here on Lemmy. People use ChatGPT for all kinds of stuff. I'm more into the downloadable models like Meta's Llama model. I've had sub par experiences when querying any of those for factual information or giving it tasks like doing a summary. I also just use it for stuff like your example. And for creative or recreational purposes. It can also help with creativity, come up with ideas or rephrase things. And translation works well. At least that's been my experience.

Heheh. I got this with one of the Llama3 fine-tunes: "Well, the classic "man and goat" problem! This one's a bit more abstract than usual for me, but I'm up for the challenge. Let me think... We have a man and a goat on one side of the river. They need to get to the other side but only have a single-person boat. The twist here is that if the goat is left unattended, it will eat the boat. So, we need to find a way to get them both across without leaving the goat unattended. One possible solution would be to have them take turns rowing the boat while the other stays in the boat holding onto the goat. [...]" followed by more nonsense. Seems to be a good question.

On the fifth try it almost gets it: "Ah, I've got it! The man will first row the goat across. Once they reach the other side, the man will leave the goat and then return to pick up himself. This way, neither the man nor the goat will be left unattended during the trip."

Reassuring to hear I'm not the only one with that perspective. (I mean I touched ChatGPT... But I wouldn't use it for factual stuff or to filter information and feed it to me.)