Wait for it… I’m sure they’ll realize any second…

Windows is not. There’s no value added.

It’s been known for a long time that what students learn in schools have a major influence on the tools they advocate for at their future workplaces. So getting students used to and familiar with Linux would help with corporate inroads.

Local LLMs will never be illegal, because that genie is out of the bag

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American

You can’t mix units like that

and the UI/UX was a solid concept

I couldn’t hate anything more than I hated the Windows phone UI. It constantly felt like everything was constantly cut off, or like I was looking at my phone through a keyhole.

I’ve been using LLMs with a project that I simply don’t have enough time for. I’ve built the core of it during most of last year. And in the past 6 months or so I’ve been using LLMs to help me out with some of the more tedious stuff. Half the time it doesn’t quite get it right, and some of that time it’s just flat out wrong. It’s usually when I get the LLM to try to hunt down some bug or something. After a couple tries, I give up on the LLM and figure out the problem myself.

I genuinely don’t believe this “offloading your thoughts to an LLM” idea is universal. For someone still in school and learning? Probably 100% true. But for someone established in a skill, I don’t think it’s true, at least not entirely.

Thinking that any modern CPU vendor would lock out Linux is not naive, it’s the demonstration of pure ignorance and utter lack of knowledge in the world of technology.

am inclined to believe that people who use the word "sapi*"anything

You mean the word “sapient”? Because sentient doesn’t even have the letter “p” in it.

just very very gullible and/or Dunning-Kruger-victims.

A Dunning-Kruger “victim”…

You completely missed the point

Say that again into a mirror and then you’ll actually be making a real and coherent point.

So you’re arguing that we should all continue to support and create open source software, right?

To be clear, that is my position.

People didn’t stop painting when cameras were invented. Ultimate It’s just another tool that can be used.

And LLMs can be used to reverse engineer proprietary software. So there’s that.

And since the (US) courts have ruled that copyright violations are fine for training LLMs, we can extrapolate that using said LLMs to replicate proprietary software is also fine.

so you understood neurons better than neuroscientists

No, but I have no idea what that statement has to do with artificial neurons.

You have missed the part where no scientist worth their name claims to be able to fully explain how consciousness works and whether or not it affects our decision making.

And you have missed the part where I explicitly mentioned that LLMs are NOT “sapient” or “sentient”, which would preclude “consciousness” also.

Okay, I think we’re done here. You clearly have no idea what you are talking about.

Says the person using colloquial definitions and applying them to a field of active research.

The facts don’t care about your opinions. A basic program with hardcoded decision trees is “intelligent”. An LLM can do more at a dynamic (and probabilistic) level. Therefore, LLMs fit the academic definition of intelligence.

Even the general word definition:

the ability to learn or understand things or to deal with new or difficult situations.

I can point an LLM to my code that’s never been seen by an LLM and it can read it, explain to me exactly what it does, point out bugs, and even give suggestions on areas that can be improved.

Is it “smart”? Debatable.

Is it conscious, sapient, sentient, or “alive”? Hard no. And that was never the argument.

Edit: autocorrect speaking mistake

LLMs clap are clap not clap AI clap.

Yes they are.

They’re built on artificial neural networks that share a basis (a basis, not a replica) with biological neurons that produce probabilistic results (not deterministic).

Plagiarism is the core and only mechanism of LLMs that produces anything that people get impressed by.

As opposed to what? Don’t get me wrong, the blatant violation of copyright is a massive issue, and in a logical world would bury each and every LLM company out there. But what other mechanism to “learn” do you think exists?

gullible people believe there is “intelligence” involved.

If you mean “intelligence” in the colloquial sense, then sure. But that’s not the same word that researchers use. Intelligence is simply the ability to make a decision based on input data. And by that definition even an if-else statement is a form of intelligence (which it is). So then the discussion becomes the degree or “amount” intelligence.

LLMs are absolutely intelligent. The issue is that most people conflate “intelligence” with “sentience” and “sapience”, which they are not. They aren’t “clever” or “creative”. They are extremely good at taking large swaths of information and distilling it, finding hidden patterns, of finding specific data points that are otherwise deeply buried. Good examples are finding bugs in code or novel and massively beneficial uses for existing medication (which has already happened multiple times)

I’m not defending the current state of AI. Energy use is a problem. Water use is a problem. The grift is a problem. The copyright violations are a problem.

But this “LLMs are not AI” rhetoric is just pure ignorance.

This has always been my problem with the future of self-driving cars too

It’s not an issue with self-driving cars. It’s an issue with internet connected vehicles, regardless of autonomous driving.

It’s called Metalhead, from Black Mirror

Thanks!

(you could have also just asked, instead of this comment, would have gladly said so)

(That was me asking in an indirect way. You also didn’t have to put that sentence in parenthesis, I still would have read it!)

Well, certain inputs like <up> <down> <left> <right> will map directly to keyboard equivalents. The OK button generally maps to <enter>. And then other inputs like play/pause, volume, skip forward/backward are standard PC inputs that just about every OS supports out of the box. Most keyboards have those buttons on them and they “just work”.

For additional functionality you can use specialized software to manage it.

The IR receiver is just a “translator”. The input the computer sees is just a standard HID peripheral (Human Input Device).

We already saw LG load malware via windows when connected.

This was 100% a Windows driver issue as opposed to a TV issue. And I could see possibly Roku doing this, but not Apple. Apple being Unix based precludes the type of driver loading that Windows is susceptible to.

Same goes for Linux. Just use Linux.

Get a media TV remote and a USB IR receiver.

Edit: I wrote Bluetooth when I meant USB

ad software

I prefer my TVs to have no ads, thank you very much.

No one is going to tell everyone else which show and episode you guys are talking about?

Why do you think he gives a fucking shit of a fuck about that?

Because he’s a diva and WANTS to be liked. And he knows his approval ratings are at their lowest.

I’m not saying this is absolutely what’s happening. It’s just my theory.

And about the lying thing. I don’t think he’s lying most of the time, because I think he genuinely believes the things he says. TO BE CLEAR! I’m not saying he isn’t a liar (he is), just that he truly believes the things he says.

He doesn’t give one shit about the US debt

True., but he is an emotionally delicate diva and I think he realizes that his approval is at the lowest level ever. He wants people to think he’s great. Why else would he constantly post on social media and post cringe videos on Tiktok unironically?