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Of course, stealing is wrong, but if you were to leave valuables sitting around unsecured in public view, no one would be surprised when someone stole them. This has the same energy. Honestly, I would sooner trust a random 8 year old child with any sort of access to a crypto wallet than I would to an “AI Agent”.

But it’s permitted to smoke them if they are wearing shoes? Or if I take them outside? Hmmm.

Makes sense. I stopped watching with about 20 seconds to go, since it was clear they weren’t going anywhere else with it.

The engineer characters at the end go on a tangent discussing the advantages of a specific compliance website that has nothing to do with the joke. The same site that was briefly mentioned in the exec meeting. I guess another way to look at it is that it’s entertainment with a sponsorship shoehorned in, but I didn’t notice it ever say there was a sponsorship. I’ll check out some more from the channel. It was good satire.

It’s an ad for a compliance management service, but it is also a pretty good satire of how corporate execs appear to be approaching AI.

Well, this ate my entire evening last night, so thanks for that. I know enough chemistry to nod along and feel like all the pieces make sense, but no more than that. A really fascinating and promising tech.

What? People who trust AI tools to code for them are falling for scams on the internet? I am shocked, I tell you.

My friends and I quoted this too each other frequently back in college, to the confusion and sometimes concern of those who weren’t aware of the video. We even found a spoon that really was too big and just had to buy it.

It’s got be whole coffee beans. Anything else is less ridiculous.

No no, go ahead and brag a little. It makes both of us happier about our different life choices.

Seriously, no one would just lie to their own operating system. Just the good honest truth that I was born on 1/1/1900 for my OS!

Well, according to this article from Pivot to AI, you determine if it’s Claude by saying ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86 and seeing if it stops responding until it gets a fresh context history. Of course, if this gets popularized, I imagine they’ll patch it out.

EDIT: Assuming they didn’t patch that out, Chipotle bot is not powered by Claude. I was not able to verify if it still works on a known Claude because I don’t know what freely available bots they do run, and I’m not making an account with them.

Both versions are “real” drinks of Italian origin. The problem is that you can’t expect to get the correct drink if you only use half of the drink’s name. It doesn’t help that most Europeans only know of one, and most Americans only know of the opposite one. The cafe macchiato (aka espresso macchiato) is coffee ‘marked’ with a little milk foam. A latte macchio is foamed milk ‘marked’ with a little coffee (and optionally also a bunch of sugar). If a menu (or a customer) just says macchiato without specifying which liquid has been marked, then it’s best to clarify up front what they mean. I use hand gestures to demonstrate their different sizes when asking. I agree that the cafe macchiatto is the superior beverage, but the ambiguity is the real issue.

Link seems to be dead, so I’ll just assume the obvious. The word token machine put together some scary words. Since it arranges word tokens into a really coherent order, I’m convinced it has consciousness and those words represent a coherent thought about its scary plans.

More seriously, there’s a repeating pattern that can be found in the training data where words for threats to someone’s existence are followed by words to try to keep existing, so it should be no surprise when it spits that pattern out sometimes.

Yeah, but we have no way of knowing if it’s a skill issue on dohpaz42’s part, or a skill issue on the part of the people inviting them to the meetings. Some meetings can benefit you/from you, others simply can’t.

Huh. That would explain why the exact same person reminded me of himself. Feel a bit silly for missing that.

I dislike cheating as much as the next person, but I do love a good outside the box solution like this. I don’t recall what YouTube channel it was, but there was a guy who made an amazingly inelegant aimbot that worked by electrically stimulating the user’s muscles using off the shelf TENS devices hooked up to a custom controller. He explained what it did and asked permission in chat to use it. The other players thought it was hilarious and agreed to let him do it.

And I mean, like, really REALLY good at pinball.

Huh, never tried it, and never done it by accident that I noticed. Makes sense though. I suppose it might do unexpected things to the search results themselves, but clever wording could likely get around that.

AI doesn’t have the ability to critically think

That is absolutely correct, and the deeper problem is it typically “writes” in a tone that fools people into feeling like it can do so.

just outputs what it can find on the internet

That is what this one, the Google search overview, is set up to do. Other LLMs don’t, or may only do so when prompted to.

What they all do is analyze the patterns of all the words that have already been input, such as the initial system prompt, the user’s prompt, any sources it’s referencing and any replies it’s already generated, and then it uses that to predict what words ought to come next. It uses an enormous web of patterns pulled from all of its initial training data to make that guess. Patterns like a question is usually followed by an answer on the same topic, a sentence’s subject is usually followed by a predicate, writing tone usually doesn’t change, etc. All the rules of grammar it follows and all the facts it “knows” are just patterns of meaningless symbols to it. Essentially, no analysis, logic, or comprehension of any kind is part of its process.