Agree. Not sure if I’d use the word “tool” to describe him… But he’s certainly “special”. Glad I found one of the few discussions where it’s not just his fans praising him for his " visions" despite him not delivering on the last 50 promises he made. Or the latest edgy memelord thing he read somewhere or came up with… Usually I just shut my mouth and don’t comment on that because it’s just so many people following the hype.

No? I left out the detailed info here as I thought it’s of no concern. I provided it with pretty much the same info I’d write to the Linux Kernel Mailing List. With computer bugs that’s usually steps to reproduce the issue, exact versions of everything, exact error messages and my findings from googling and looking at the code…

That was one of the issues I had that only gave me one or two search results and it’s unlikely that someone comes up with a solution since the hardware is outdated and not many people have that specific board lying around and also the expertise to understand the low level hardware coding involved.

I mean it kind of fits the rest of the picture I have from using ChatGPT and similar stuff. It can do easy stuff. And write boilerplate code pretty alright. With the Arduino code I’m tinkering around as a hobby… not so much. I once asked it to do the inverse kinematics for a small robotics project. And the AI can tell me about what I just read on the Wikipedia article about that topic. But that’s it. Not an idea how to apply that info. And that the complicated part is to come up with the specific Jacobian matrix. And not just tell me that using one is one of the few approaches to that problem. That’s obvious from reading the Wikipedia article or reading any textbook. And it did silly things like write code like equation.solve(parameter1, parameter2, parameter3) … Sure. I mean if I already had a framework that did that and was available on an embedded platform, I wouldn’t have had that problem in the first place…

So my attempts at using AI for the issues I have with computers regularly fail. I can see how that’s not the experience everyone has, but still… It doesn’t really help me with specific problems or rare issues.

And I still have a few I can try to question some AI about… An slow Wireguard VPN tunnel inside if another tunnel that I already fixed the MTU and it’s still unbearably slow… A few obscure webframeworks that don’t tie into things… But I’m pretty sure I’ll get the same results.

Have you ever been lucky with AI and issues that didn’t get you any search results because no one ever did it before? I mean I’d be happy to learn how to use AI properly as a tool. It’s just I’ve tried and I don’t think I’m too stupid to prompt it. It’s just that I’ve given up since it doesn’t seem nowhere near intelligent enough to tackle the real issues I have. I’m not opposed to AI. I use it and it helps me get small stuff done easier/faster.

I’ve tried. And usually the questions I ask are too specific. I mean I can answer the basic questions myself and often I get several result when it’s just that. The AI just mumbles general advice and is always wrong if it’s too specific. Like for example: Why does the graphics driver crap out on any OpenGL ES instruction on the old single board computer I have lying around, despite the SoC being supported?

I don’t get it. Where does he say “algorithm”? Does Google Gemini do PAC learning?

AFAIK “AI” means “machine learning” and machines with “intelligent” behaviour, whatever that means. It includes everything from expert systems, statistics, markov chains to LLMs. And people nowadays slap it on every product out there.

“Algorithm” means a (finite) sequence of (rigorous) instructions. At least that’s what Wikipedia says. It’s well defined and doesn’t talk about where the instructions come from or if it includes statistics.

And one of them is Java?

Maybe consider a tool made for the task and not just some random Claude, which isn’t trained on this at all and just makes up some random impression of what an expert could respond in a dramatic story?!

This isn’t a new thing. It’s been a long time ago that the internet shifted from being a level playing field and a means of connecting people, to a place where the big companies make money. And it brought some of the currently biggest companies on earth into existence.

Things changed a bit. Harvesting private data and selling information about the users used to be the dominating business model. It still is, but now it gets mixed with selling their content to train AI. I’d argue that in itself isn’t a dramatic change. It’s still the same concept.

But I also always worry about centralization, enshittification and algorithms shaping our perspective on reality more and more.

Make a request per the GDPR.

I like your joke better 😆 However… If the x-axis was time, you’d have to explain the negative part to me. Or stop at least at -9 months…

It’s not square, though, but cubed. x^2 looks very different. And 2 isn’t an odd number (see title.)

But if the lower diagram was x^2 (and the axis were labelled correctly) I’d say that’s a proper joke 😃

The axis aren’t labeled properly. That’s likely why we can’t make sense of the diagrams.

Everyone elses life oscillates over time between positive and negative… OP’s life’s Y is X cubed. And it somehow contains big blue dots on the whole numbers… They consider that odd. And I’d agree.

I’m somewhat fine with that. But you absolutely have to tell people to keep the discussions to random chatter and the absolute minimum then. (And internal talk maybe, if that’s of no interest to the public. Once it gets important or someone asks for advice that could be beneficial to others, the discussion on Discord needs to be interrupted and switch platforms. Or be copied to a Wiki after the fact.

The most important downside for me is: I’m looking for some information about an issue I’m having or how to install or configure something and I find none. Because all the people talk behind closed doors and googling etc doesn’t help any more. Only solution is to join every Discord and platform before you start using your software and scrolling trough pages of chat messages.

I’d rather google for an error message and then be directed directly to an issue tracker where people discussed that specific problem.

I’m not from the USA so my opinion doesn’t really count and I might not have all the facts. Afaik this is state legislation and not every state has Ron DeSantis at the top. But all I ever read is they’re trying to ban things from the curriculum for political reasons and trying to make access to information difficult by also removing them from school libraries and inventing rules that are so unspecific that it gets staff into legal troubles.

But my perspective and whatever news makes it across the atlantic might not be entirely objective. I personally think once too much politics and religion gets involved in education and the curriculum, the whole thing becomes undemocratic and less free. And just theoretical access to information isn’t enough. You have to actually teach and learn it. And learn about different perspectives and approaches to life. Mainly because you can’t know what you don’t know. At some point somebody has to tell you and you need a solid foundation to then go on and extend your knowledge. Politics is intertwined with every aspect of life. And good education is immensely important. It influences what the next generation thinks and knows, and shapes the future. (That’s why I think biasing the curriculum is even worse than anything else.)

That’s it. But I’d like to mention there is no other extreme. There’s only one side that wants to ban books.

(And while not everyone does this, there are quite some people who apply the same standards to themselves as they do to other people. And it’s more common amongst people who are less conservative.)

True. The right-wing people also like to talk about free-speech, but love to ban books from schools and stop everyone who has a different oppinion from being able to speak. I don’t think they know what ‘unsensored’ or ‘freedom’ means.

And those proper Neo-Nazis alywas seem like they don’t know much about the world and reality at all. But obviously they now figured out how to use chatbots.

Hehe, pretty sure it’s that. With Microsoft’s history of letting loose racist and unhinged chatbots… I’m eager to get to know Clippy v2.

Anyone an idea or a link what kind of AI they want to run on people’s machines? Will it add something for the user or just annoy you and add more targeted advertising?

Thx! I’m going to listen to one of the podcast episodes. Guess they keep it a secret for some reason. I can only say I was impressed by the George Carlin impression. The voice/audio was excellent and the content had some nice bits in there. I mean all in all it was more of a rant than an elaborate script that took months to write, has multiple layers to it etc. But the real George Carlin perfected his art for decades and we can’t expect that. The ending was a bit rough but I guess that is also to be expected. I tried a bit of storywriting with AI and it always struggles to tie things together and find the exact point to do so. Also it didn’t sound like ChatGPT. In my experience GPT has an overbearing urge to mix adjectives very well and always sounds like a know-it-all… Something I don’t really like and I haven’t noticed that in the video. 👍

Anybody have a link about how that was done? I think that would be way more interesting to learn than if his daughter liked it… Was the script entirely crafted by AI? Or AI assisted writing? Or written by the two people? And I know there are several methods to generate the audio, record it by a human and do voice transfer, or do it entirely with AI. Is the audience also AI or edited in manually? And how much editing was needed to get the pacing, pauses etc right? Listening to it, I think there is quite some human work involved to get to a result like that.