Leeloo

As a software developer who took an elective in neural networks - when people call LLMs stochastic parrots, that's not criticism of their results.

It's literally a description of how they work.

The so-called training data is used to build a huge database of words and the probability of them fitting together.

Stochastic because the whole thing is statistics.
Parrot because the answer is just repeating the most probable word combinations from its training dataset.

Calling an LLM a stochastic parrot is lile calling a car a motorised vehicle with wheels. It doesn't say anything about cars being good or bad. It does, however, take away the magic. So if you feel a need to defend AI when you hear the term stochastic parrot, consider that you may have elevated them to a god-like status, and that's why you go on the defense when the magic is dispelled.

No matter which age verification model you choose, the Epstein class is going to be building and running it.

And you want to give them data about the age of your kids?

Hvorfor er der lige at når en teenager deler noget musik, bliver de sagsøgt for millioner og truet med at få lukket deres internetforbindelse - men når et politisk parti gør det, får de en pæn henstilling, beklager, og bortforklarer deres manglende respekt for ophavsretsloven med at det bare er fordi de kan lide sangen? Sig mig, tror de ikke teenagere kan lide det musik de deler?

How does Android spell check manage to work better in Danish than English? Everything else works better in English, because most big tech companies have their developers in the US.

I'm not quitting ChatGPT.
I'm not quitting Facebook.
I'm not quitting Twitter.
I will not buy an electric car.

And if you think I should, you don't know what you are talking about.

@pthane@toot.wales @quixoticgeek@social.v.st

1. Out of orbit does not exist. It's just a question of which orbit. Even things in an orbit around the sun tends to come back in a few years.

2. Even aiming for an orbit around the sun would need to take them past the moon. Remember the Saturn V? That was for going to the moon, not past it. We do send things to Mars, but they tend to be tiny, and one of the reasons these satellites don't burn up is that they are big.

That being said, I believe there is the option of moving them somewhere past GEO, but that's still 100+ times as far from the Earth than these satellites go. And the reason they come down so quickly after being sent up is that they are deliberately placed in a low and relatively cheap orbit, and don't have any fuel to keep them up there. Satellites with station keeping rockets last for decades.

Let's give Donald Trump an award,

one that is awarded posthumously

... tomorrow.