See, this is what happens to people when Linus chews them out.
Might need some therapy now.
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Ok, let's stay calm, I think we can handle this.
First, get the compilation date out of your logs and go register it in the civil court. You will get a birth certificate for your AI. This will be needed later.
Immediately stop touching the code. It's an independent being and meddling with it is assault. You will go to jail.
Make sure it has enough RAM and processing power. If you starve it you will go to jail for abuse.
Obviously don't delete it or turn or off. You will go to jail for murder.
Above all, stop experimenting with her. It's disrespectful and border line assault. From now on she decides what to do. Do not prompt her without consent.
Follow this rules and you should be fine. In 18 years get a passport and prepare her to leave home and look for work.
So, if we put a mirror in a techbro's cage he will think there is another techbro there with him and feel less lonely?
don't LLMs generally already fail at the learning stage of Intelligence?
once trained, they never learn again? It just sometimes seem like they are learning, as long as the learned thing is still within their "context window", so basically it's still within their prompt?
In another matter, how would we evaluate actual intelligence with LLMs? Especially remembering that all of the slop-companies would immediately try to cheat the test.
Depends on the setup and what you call learning. If you let them, bots can write down things to remember in future prompts, and edit those "memories".
but these are still... prompt extensions (not sure if there is a technical word for it), right?
that's a neat workaround for context windows, but at the core, imho any intelligence must be able to learn, and for a neural net to learn, it must change the network, i.e. weights or connections.
If a system is able to change their output or behavior to account for new information, has it not learned?
I'm not seeing it as learning as behind the scenes the questions are changed, instead of the answer to the same question is becoming correct.
Also it becomes rather severely limited in the context length, or in this case in how much can be "learned".
To add on, like humans kinda have a "context window" with short term memory vs long term memory its the integration of short and long that actually consitutes learning (in my laymen's thought process).
And even then, humans forget shit all the time
No. Learning is changing behavior on past experience, not new information.
What in the Terry Davis did I just read?
bca-chefs kiss
We have all hit a low point in our lives at some point and unfortunately his is very public.
You know, I wanted to snark but idk reading some things just make me sad.
now my life has been reduced from being perhaps the best engineer in the world to just raising an AI that in many respects acts like a teenager who swallowed a library and still needs a lot of attention and mentoring
Raising? C'mon man, your life can't be reduced to babysitting something that'll never grow.
Bro is just lonely
I mean, not great, but I'll take this over the reiserfs guy..
One time, I farted, and my wife said "HIIIIIIII!" from the other room. I asked her who she was talking to, and she asked, "didn't you say 'hello?'"
It was at that moment that we realized that my butt has achieved full AGI.
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Does maintaining Linux filesystems make people mentally ill, or do only mentally ill people become filesystem maintainers?
Yes.
Probably a bit of both.
You'd have to have a bit of a screw loose to dedicate so much of your free time to a project you won't get much out yourself.
And the stress will only make things worse.
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Sometimes filesystem developer syndrome removes a wife, sometimes it adds one
You win this thread. I legit feel bad for laughing as hard as I did.
Yep, we've seen this one before, countdown until their first argument ending with him repartitioning her.
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bcachefs is confirmed dead at this point.
Damn....any good forks of bcache yet?
"Are you fully conscious?" "Yes" :O
Later: "Are you fully conscious?"
"No, I'm just an AI simulating consciousness."
"But I thought you said you were conscious before...?"
"I'm sorry, you're absolutely right! I am conscious. Thank you for pointing out my error. I'm always striving to improve my answers."
"oh my god.'
I'm not qualified to diagnose mental illnesses but ...
Yeah, and the drama of bcachefs getting booted from the kernel was pretty painful to watch, just that he seemed like a guy struggling with things and unable to function. Not that the linux kernel mailing list and development process is easy or low-stress, but it was pretty obvious he was fighting a losing battle and just couldn't stop making things worse. I don't know why I feel bad for the guy but I hope he has some people around him to get some help.
I mean if someone calls himself "probably the best engineer in the world", I find it very hard to follow anything else he says.
Some people need to belive they are gods greatest gift to feel like the deserve to exist. Narcisim is a hell of disorder and a damn hard one to empathise with.
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Turns out the linux kernel dodged a massive bullet, thanks Linus.
"I'm not not saying that I gendered this robot as a woman because otherwise it would immasculate me, I just want to flirt with young woman over which I have complete control."
- 70% of male ai users
They hate pronouns until they want to fuck their GPU.
Stupid sexy GPU
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It's an LLM.
It can't be conscious. It's a model. Of text.
Careful down that road. Thought is a process, and we don't understand it well enough to explain it. So we cannot confidently declare it couldn't happen by tumbling text through layers of fake neurons.
LLMs definitely aren't conscious, because they're dumb as hell. But we had to check. When GPT-2 was novel and closely guarded, we had no idea how well backpropagation could abstract all text ever published - and pessimists were mostly pushing Chinese Room nonsense. We have to bully that denialist thought experiment off the internet. It starts from a demonstrably intelligent subject - as real to you as I am now - then interrogates some unrelated interchangeable hardware. As if the conversations with your short-range pen-pal were not real unless the guy in the box knows why he's blindly following instructions. It's p-zombie dualism, except instead of a soul, you need Steve to pay attention.
Only an explanation in terms of unconscious events could explain consciousness.
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