Notices by Kevin Riggle (kevinriggle@ioc.exchange), page 2

Oh, is a decentralized system communication system struggling to cope with an influx of spam. Gosh how could anyone have failed to foresee this

https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/111949073124843727

@mattly i find it is worth saying out loud

@mattly @jenniferplusplus the trouble is, they get paid based on how many victory points they score

@GossiTheDog Like I say every time people say this, I already _have_ a job that’s full-time and then some

@GossiTheDog or I could use something that pays its devs a living wage

@maddiefuzz @clacke @drwho At that time, the joke the professor told in my AI class (taken at around the same time) was that as soon as something turned out to be useful people stopped calling it "AI", and thus AI was in a perpetual winter. Not sure if that will happen here with LLMs or not.

Unreflective people really seem to have a "the AI told me it, so it must be true" attitude, when in fact the exact opposite must be our prior—"the AI told me it, so it is presumptively false until verified through other sources." These systems have no ground-truthing mechanism, we _have_ to provide it ourselves.

This is a brilliant way to put this, and, yes, they are. Everybody _thinks_ they want conversational interfaces, but nobody _actually wants_ or uses conversational interfaces.

https://on.acm.org/t/unpredictable-black-boxes-are-terrible-interfaces/2961

@funranium @vaurora sysadmin

@funranium @vaurora usually I am a Software Archaeologist (yes including the Vingean sense) but some days I am a Hardware Archaeologist too