Cory Wong Live in London: "Flamingo"

Cory Wong Live in London: “Flamingo”

BAND:
Cory Wong - guitar
Vincen Garcia - bass
Kevin Gastonguay - keys
Petar Janjic - drums
Alex Bone - alto sax, soprano sax
Kenni Holmen - tenor sax, soprano sax, flute
Dan White - bari sax, bass clarinet
Jay Webb - trumpet, flugelhorn
Michael Nelson - trombone, horn arranger

Mix - Alex Kiel and Cory Wong
Engineer - Miles Hanson
Lighting - Ryan Bress
Videographer - Jacob Butler
Video Editor - Carter Brice

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79 comments

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 25, 2024 • 11:08:45am

Consolidate your Reich! Vote GOP!!!

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 25, 2024 • 11:11:27am

(2:29, one hour ago, WHO-TV, Des Moines)

YouTuber Ryan Hall raises $93,000 for Greenfield

Charles Johnson May 25, 2024 • 11:14:25am

So it’s a typical Trump lie that President Biden wanted the FBI to kill him, but if Trump is arguing that a president must have total immunity, what would be wrong with that?

— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-05-25T18:14:06.000Z

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 25, 2024 • 11:14:43am

In the category of Police abusing authority (4:53, WSMV-TV, Nashville)

1 officer arrests 3 sober drivers for DUI

Eclectic Cyborg May 25, 2024 • 11:19:25am

re: #3 Charles Johnson

Trump doesn’t think Biden is a legitimately elected President, remember?

/ half

teleskiguy May 25, 2024 • 11:20:09am

11/10 no notes, etc.

— ✨ cassie ✨ (@its.cassie.baby) 2024-05-25T17:38:36.351Z

Dangerman May 25, 2024 • 11:21:13am

William Lewis May 25, 2024 • 11:25:05am

From Downstairs (ah, CL, praised be your memory):
re: #212 Nerdy Fish

As I posted here once before, “AI” is a computer science term of art for an algorithm that has the ability to produce different outputs from the same input, based on adjustments to internal factors (usually called “weights”). Non-computer scientists took that and started running with the “intelligence” aspect of it, trying to compare it to human intelligence, and then the techbros got Ideas (tm). And now we are here.

It’s how they use it now. It was used differently in the 80’s prior to the first AI winter. After the next one that’s coming soon it will change again, I am sure, for the same reason - that the companies will need to milk the Vulture Capitalists again. But that will be a decade or two down the road again just as it has been since the previous AI winter killed Symbolics and Lisp Machines, Inc as well as the Lisp Machine divisions at TI & Xerox.

I will honestly be surprised if as much survives of OpenAI in 20 years as does of, say the Xerox Dandy-lion as does at The Medley Interlisp Project a retrofuturistic software system now that it _finally_ got open sourced.

Nerdy Fish May 25, 2024 • 11:27:19am

re: #8 William Lewis

Ah, Lisp. An elegant weapon, for a more civilized age.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 25, 2024 • 11:29:45am

Not just Tennessee abusing authority … moving on to Georgia …

At least this cop was fired. (5:18, WAGA-TV, Atlanta)

I-Team: Officer fired for multiple false DUI arrests

austin_blue May 25, 2024 • 11:31:33am

re: #209 Eclectic Cyborg

Then maybe take that shit offline for now?

You can’t! AI is the School Shooting of business models.

jaunte May 25, 2024 • 11:39:56am

Conservative domestic terror bandwagon.

“…A former DuPage County prosecutor has been charged with threatening two state lawmakers and several gun control groups, and suggesting a bomb could go off at a downstate LGBTQ festival.

In a post on the social media platform X, then-assistant state’s attorney Samuel Cundari wrote, “Our patience grows short with you. The day we put your kids feet first into a woodchipper so we can enjoy their last few screams is coming,” according to a complaint filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois.

The post on March 17 tagged the two lawmakers, the gun control groups, a volunteer with one of the groups and the Illinois attorney general’s office. It was made on an encrypted social media account with the user handle @bigjohnskinner, according to the complaint, which charges Cundari, 30, with transmitting in interstate commerce a threat to injure another person.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2024/05/24/dupage-county-threats-state-lawmakers-gun-control-groups-social-media

jaunte May 25, 2024 • 11:40:22am

Yes, he’s a Republican.

The EIU College Republicans are looking to rebuild themselves since disbanding in 2014.

Low participation was one of the main reasons for the club’s end. Since then, students have decided to come together on their own to get it started again.

“We’ve been more unofficial,” said Samuel Cundari, president of the EIU College Republicans. “We just informally meet. We hang out and discuss different topics.”
https://www.dailyeasternnews.com/2017/12/05/eiu-college-republicans-looking-to-rebuild-after-disbandment/

jaunte May 25, 2024 • 11:41:01am

Another victimized minority.

“…I often find myself in the minority in class as a right-leaning Republican, but that’s okay with me. Hearing from people with other ideas allows me to bounce my thoughts off of them. Otherwise, it becomes an echo-chamber.”
https://www.facebook.com/eiupolisci/photos/a.236800510062332/338202513255464/?type=3

William Lewis May 25, 2024 • 11:42:19am

re: #9 Nerdy Fish

Ah, Lisp. An elegant weapon, for a more civilized age.

Lisp was merely what was the hammer and nails of that time. They’ll say the same in 30 years about whatever the script kiddies are writing OpenAI in now.

The real point is that AI is, as is was in the 80’s, 90, 00’s & 10’s not really anything special, just a bunch of heuristic algorithms at best with a bit of sales critter moldy baloney on top. It will melt down again, the process has already begun (see the comments by Google) and it’s only a matter of how fast not if. Then the burned will go off an whimper for a couple of years whining “why me?” until they decide on the new sales critter language and the grift starts over again.

The real advances in Computer Science happen by accident: Unix (they wanted to play Space War), BSD (ATT didn’t understand Unix), Apple I (Woz wanted _his_ idea of a computer and only Steve cared if it sold), Linux (Linus got tired of the limits of Minix), and so on. When they try to be grandiose - it goes to hell in a hand-basket. See Multics or AI or Twitter 😉

Nerdy Fish May 25, 2024 • 11:44:16am

re: #15 William Lewis

It’s as true in computer science as it is in any other scientific field: Major advances are less, “Eureka!”, and more, “Huh, that’s interesting.”

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 25, 2024 • 11:50:18am

Don’t buy cars from private sellers you don’t know, #34,287

A Virginia woman bought her dream car. Then the repo truck came — for someone else | NBC4 Washington

goddamnedfrank May 25, 2024 • 12:02:43pm

WOW.

“The soldier replied, “It’s an order-this is a Jews-only road.”

“It is his responsibility to know it, and besides, what do you want us to do, put up a sign here and let some anti-Semitic reporter or journalist take a photo so that he can show the world that apartheid exists here?”

— Saeed Jones (@theferocity.bsky.social) 2024-05-25T18:53:48.564Z

William Lewis May 25, 2024 • 12:04:36pm

Oooookay. Never really realized how big a thing cats and laser pointers really are.

Except I have a laser boresighter for my AK. That little red dot on the far wall for me to adjust the scope to 25 meters onto just gets her all worked like a kitten instead of a 20 year old cat 🤣😎

Charles Johnson May 25, 2024 • 12:11:49pm

CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information

(So why are they still foisting this bullshit on users?)

— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-05-25T19:11:05.000Z

danarchy May 25, 2024 • 12:13:39pm

re: #7 Dangerman

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Bad example, if you let your average housecat out they will do just fine on their own. Certainly better than your average libertarian without a government.

JC1 May 25, 2024 • 12:14:51pm

re: #20 Charles Johnson

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Google is scrambling. For years they’ve let their search go to shit, polluted with BS results and ads.

LLMs are the first legit threat to that business in years.

Google’s efforts thus far have been amazingly laughable.

Nerdy Fish May 25, 2024 • 12:18:35pm

re: #22 JC1

Google is scrambling. For years they’ve let their search go to shit, polluted with BS results and ads.

LLMs are the first legit threat to that business in years.

Google’s efforts thus far have been amazingly laughable.

I was with you, up until this point. LLMs are not a threat to any kind of search business. They don’t search anything. They’re a glorified text to speech engine. If Google is feeling threatened by OpenAI/ChatGPT, they are not reading the market space correctly.

Eventual Carrion May 25, 2024 • 12:18:51pm

Damn, the heavy rain and wind didn’t clear most of the helicopter seeds off my back patio.

Charmingly Persistent May 25, 2024 • 12:21:15pm

Y’all are bringing it back. I took an AI class in grad school mumble years ago, and I did have to learn LISP. Kinda breaks your brain as I recall.

We did something we called AI at work (not with LISP thankfully) - we fed in a bunch of examples and pulled out parameters to try to tell two things apart. My daughter did a project at school to recognize something, and it is still a very similar process - just way more data and computing power. But recognition is a great use of AI. It became better than humans a few years ago, and medicine and manufacturing are already benefiting.

Generative AI I am increasingly convinced is a blind alley. It isn’t very useful and is hideously expensive (free or subsidized now but that’s because it is in the demo phase). And I don’t think either of these will get better fast enough to make it work.

Nerdy Fish May 25, 2024 • 12:23:53pm

re: #25 Charmingly Persistent

Generative AI has its use cases. The original use case for ChatGPT is actually pretty sound: Create an interface that can string English words together well enough to be comprehensible. Not necessarily Turing test-level, but at least valid syntactic English that could be used to translate machine-readable information into something that could be sent to end users without requiring a real human.

sizzzzlerz May 25, 2024 • 12:26:20pm

re: #9 Nerdy Fish

Ah, Lisp. An elegant weapon, for a more civilized age.

((((((((huh?))))))))

Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines May 25, 2024 • 12:26:32pm

re: #1 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Consolidate your Reich! Vote GOP!!!

Who knew? I was certainly surprised to learn that Otto von Bismark is as well known among Republicans as Ronald Reagan.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 25, 2024 • 12:26:52pm

(8:10)

A statue of disgraced evangelist Billy Graham was unveiled in the U.S. Capitol (Livestream)

William Lewis May 25, 2024 • 12:27:03pm

re: #23 Nerdy Fish

I was with you, up until this point. LLMs are not a threat to any kind of search business. They don’t search anything. They’re a glorified text to speech engine. If Google is feeling threatened by OpenAI/ChatGPT, they are not reading the market space correctly.

This.

Randall Gross May 25, 2024 • 12:32:31pm

re: #24 Eventual Carrion

Damn, the heavy rain and wind didn’t clear most of the helicopter seeds off my back patio.

Those are the worse… they are just a pain to clean up, blowers don’t work well, rakes don’t work well, the best thing I’ve come up with for them is the shop vac.

7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course) May 25, 2024 • 12:36:07pm

re: #30 William Lewis

This.

I’ve had some very interesting writing responsibilities over the years and whatever these apps ought to be called they do a great job of taking my brief input and producing a very well done first draft of a lot of those kinds of things.

Here’s an example fresh from the oven: I am being inducted to my sport’s world hall of fame this year. So I just a little while ago asked for a three paragraph statement from me in reaction to when this year’s inductees are publicly announced in a couple of weeks.

Super first draft and structure and final statement was done and ready in fifteen minutes from Go! And I also asked it for and now have a good draft to work on for the longer induction speech later in the year.

TedStriker May 25, 2024 • 12:39:28pm

re: #8 William Lewis

From Downstairs (ah, CL, praised be your memory):

It’s how they use it now. It was used differently in the 80’s prior to the first AI winter. After the next one that’s coming soon it will change again, I am sure, for the same reason - that the companies will need to milk the Vulture Capitalists again. But that will be a decade or two down the road again just as it has been since the previous AI winter killed Symbolics and Lisp Machines, Inc as well as the Lisp Machine divisions at TI & Xerox.

I will honestly be surprised if as much survives of OpenAI in 20 years as does of, say the Xerox Dandy-lion as does at The Medley Interlisp Project a retrofuturistic software system now that it _finally_ got open sourced.

re: #9 Nerdy Fish

Ah, Lisp. An elegant weapon, for a more civilized age.

re: #27 sizzzzlerz

((((((((huh?))))))))

It was a riff on this:

Youtube Video

GlutenFreeJesus May 25, 2024 • 12:41:26pm

re: #33 TedStriker

star wars cerveza cristal 1

TedStriker May 25, 2024 • 12:49:00pm

re: #34 GlutenFreeJesus

I didn’t play that clip I put in all the way, so I didn’t see it was part of a ad for BlasTech blasters ;-P

Fixed now with the proper clip…

Randall Gross May 25, 2024 • 12:56:20pm

Rolling Stone covers
The Deep Pocketed Zealot group behind the conservative lawuit flood.
rollingstone.com

Randall Gross May 25, 2024 • 12:57:45pm

Brynn Nelson at Scientific American explains why disinformation usually starts with Denialism.
We Must Face Down the Expanding Anti-Reality Industry
Exposing the antiscience playbook reveals the antiregulatory motives of its deep-pocketed bankrollers
www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-m…

— Randall Gross (@randallgross.bsky.social) 2024-05-25T19:49:26.162Z

steve_davis May 25, 2024 • 1:01:40pm

Here’s how AI currently works, courtesy of one of my current jobs. I’m a reviewer, which means I’m a step above a writer. The writers look at a prompt that has been set up by an engineer. Sometimes the prompt is one that has actually been asked by someone on a chatbot that someone is working on. Sometimes it’s a prompt that Chat GPT or an equivalent generative AI system has gotten from a user. Sometimes it’s something that was just created by someone on the engineering side to test something particular about where the LLM currently stands.

So what I see on my end is two responses to a prompt, one of which is generated by AI, and one of which is the writer’s response, and the writer hasn’t seen the AI’s response so they’re working just on their own. The goal is to create responses that are better than the AI’s attempt. I have to check all the facts from both responses. Is the AI hallucinating? Is the person hallucinating? There’s a style guide. Did the human follow it? There’s formatting. Is it pleasing? Does the response stay inside the “persona” of the AI?

Certain prompts can’t be addressed. If you ask the AI to create a story about underaged sex, it will punt. If you ask it for instructions on creating crystal meth in the bathtub, it will punt.

I have to determine if everything is safe, if the language is unbiased, if the facts are accurate, if the format is correct and uses our style guide. I have to compare the two responses and determine if they’re equal or if one is better. If the computer’s response is better I have to provide feedback as to how the human response could be improved.

Ultimately, all of this boils down to trying to make what is a sociopathic entity sound like it knows what it’s talking about, and know how to speak with Received British Pronunciation while it’s doing it, so that it sounds posh. But it remains an idiot. A very confident idiot, but an idiot nonetheless. (Briefly editing here to point out this last bit about RBP is not actually true. It’s American English for a firm that ultimately is controlled in England, but it’s what would be considered broadcast American English in tone and style).

danarchy May 25, 2024 • 1:11:26pm

re: #26 Nerdy Fish

Generative AI has its use cases. The original use case for ChatGPT is actually pretty sound: Create an interface that can string English words together well enough to be comprehensible. Not necessarily Turing test-level, but at least valid syntactic English that could be used to translate machine-readable information into something that could be sent to end users without requiring a real human.

The Turing test is not really a good measure of AI. Chatbots beat the Turing test years ago. ChatGPT can beat the Turing test as well, but scores in about the bottom third of real humans.

DodgerFan1988 May 25, 2024 • 1:12:38pm

Here we are, four years later, and MAGAs are still saying George Floyd OD’d and wasn’t murdered by Derek Chauvin. Why? Because they’re racist. Tell you what, MAGA. Have a grown man kneel on your neck for eight 1/2 minutes on a hot city street and see how that works out for you. pic.twitter.com/90awE1xSzK

— 😱 Scary Larry 😱 🇺🇦✊🏻🇺🇸🗽 (@aintscarylarry) May 25, 2024

Joe Bacon ✅ May 25, 2024 • 1:13:18pm

re: #29 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

They ought to stick that Billy Graham Cracker statue between two Jews flipping the bird at that bigot.

Belafon May 25, 2024 • 1:14:06pm

re: #15 William Lewis

Lisp was merely what was the hammer and nails of that time. They’ll say the same in 30 years about whatever the script kiddies are writing OpenAI in now.

The real point is that AI is, as is was in the 80’s, 90, 00’s & 10’s not really anything special, just a bunch of heuristic algorithms at best with a bit of sales critter moldy baloney on top. It will melt down again, the process has already begun (see the comments by Google) and it’s only a matter of how fast not if. Then the burned will go off an whimper for a couple of years whining “why me?” until they decide on the new sales critter language and the grift starts over again.

The real advances in Computer Science happen by accident: Unix (they wanted to play Space War), BSD (ATT didn’t understand Unix), Apple I (Woz wanted _his_ idea of a computer and only Steve cared if it sold), Linux (Linus got tired of the limits of Minix), and so on. When they try to be grandiose - it goes to hell in a hand-basket. See Multics or AI or Twitter 😉

You left mail filtering out of that list. Any list of advances that doesn’t list mail filtering is incomplete.

danarchy May 25, 2024 • 1:29:13pm

The problem is the only thing anyone thinks about when they think of AI are the flashy front end LLMs. Meanwhile generative AI is quietly being used to drastically reduce R&D times in biology, chemistry, materials science etc.

There are also efforts to combine LLMs with other expert systems that are starting to produce some impressive results. ChatGPT was released into the wild a couple years ago and the rate at which it is iterrating is impressive. An LLM on it’s own will never be the AGI holy grail, however they can be very useful if used appropriately.

Randall Gross May 25, 2024 • 1:31:13pm

www.history.com/this-day-in-…

— Four Years Ago Today (@fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social) 2024-05-25T19:21:48.338Z

GlutenFreeJesus May 25, 2024 • 1:32:13pm

The Home Alone house is for sale for $5.2m. Included is a small theater and a full indoor basketball court.

instagram.com

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 25, 2024 • 1:35:34pm

Conservatism is expensive, part eleventy thousand forty-six:

A Sheriff’s Conspiratorial ‘Election Fraud’ Investigation Is Dividing Kansas’ Largest County (Huffington Post, May 20, 2024)

“[Sheriff] Calvin Hayden “didn’t know anything about elections.” Then, Johnson County voted for Joe Biden.”

Johnson County went for the Republican candidate for President for one hundred years.

The county is one of the fastest growing in population in the country, in which Sheriff Hayden (a member of the ~~Constitutional~~ Fascist Peace Officers Association) says, “A lot of people are coming to move here. We get about 10,000 a year moving to Johnson County, but they’re bringing some of their politics from the crummy places they live to my county,” he said. “And it’s not fun.”

sagehen May 25, 2024 • 1:37:49pm

re: #24 Eventual Carrion

Damn, the heavy rain and wind didn’t clear most of the helicopter seeds off my back patio.

Helicopter seeds?

If you plant them and water them and spread fertilizer, do they grow into helicopters? Are there entire helicopters farms?

Nerdy Fish May 25, 2024 • 1:39:24pm

re: #47 sagehen

Helicopter seeds?

If you plant them and water them and spread fertilizer, do they grow into helicopters? Are there entire helicopters farms?

They’re maple seeds. They act like little helicopters when they fall from the trees.

Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines May 25, 2024 • 1:41:28pm

This is disgusting. These people really do believe that their superstition supercedes the “secular law.” They are very dangerous

Mississippi man accused of destroying statue of pagan idol at Iowa state Capitol takes plea deal

“I saw this blasphemous statue and was outraged,” Cassidy told the conservative website The Sentinel in December. “My conscience is held captive to the word of God, not to bureaucratic decree. And so I acted.”

Cassidy raised more than $134,000 for his defense via the Christian fundraising site GiveSendGo, where supporters said he acted with “bravery and conviction. He was not willing to see God reviled, especially in a building where lawmakers are supposed to honor Jesus Christ as King and look to his law for wisdom as they legislate with justice and righteousness.”

Charles Johnson May 25, 2024 • 1:45:35pm

from @paleofuture.bsky.social: New Study: ChatGPT Answers Programming Questions Incorrectly 52% of the Time

“Disturbingly, programmers in the study didn’t always catch the mistakes being produced by the AI chatbot.” 🧐🤪🧪

— Sean (@publichealth.bsky.social) 2024-05-25T20:01:34.197Z

Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines May 25, 2024 • 1:46:51pm

re: #47 sagehen

Helicopter seeds?

If you plant them and water them and spread fertilizer, do they grow into helicopters? Are there entire helicopters farms?

What? I thought everyone had seen the great Bell helicopter plantations near Amarillo and Fort Worth Texas, or at least the smaller Sikorsky orchards at Stamford Connecticut.

Romantic Heretic May 25, 2024 • 1:46:55pm

re: #28 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Wouldn’t they hate Bismarck? After all he created things like unemployment insurance and widely available public education.

goddamnedfrank May 25, 2024 • 1:47:04pm

this sucks on an impressive number of levels

— merritt k (@merrittk.com) 2024-05-25T20:33:23.784Z

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 25, 2024 • 1:47:04pm

re: #41 Joe Bacon ✅

They ought to stick that Billy Graham Cracker statue between two Jews flipping the bird at that bigot.

Mr. Mehta notes North Carolina is not the only state with religious figures in the Statuary Hall. Hawai’i has a Catholic priest (who devoted his life caring for those interred in Hawai’i’s leper colony), and Utah has Brigham Young.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 25, 2024 • 1:49:35pm

re: #4 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

In the category of Police abusing authority (4:53, WSMV-TV, Nashville)

“We took him in and charged him with possession of a large wooden coffee table (That’s all we could find down at the station)”

-from Monty Python

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 25, 2024 • 1:51:06pm

re: #20 Charles Johnson

CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information

They should ask AI for a solution

Lancelot Link Returns! May 25, 2024 • 1:52:27pm

re: #50 Charles Johnson

Wasn’t there someone here who was correcting AI regarding trivia like “Steven Spielberg’s first movie”?

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 25, 2024 • 1:53:15pm

re: #28 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Who knew? I was certainly surprised to learn that Otto von Bismark is as well known among Republicans as Ronald Reagan.

They can come up with all the excuses they want but two wrongs don’t make a Reich.

Bismarck, by the way, gave German workers unemployment insurance, health insurance and state pensions. Is that the sort of fellow the GOP wants to idolize?

JC1 May 25, 2024 • 1:55:05pm

re: #23 Nerdy Fish

I was with you, up until this point. LLMs are not a threat to any kind of search business. They don’t search anything. They’re a glorified text to speech engine. If Google is feeling threatened by OpenAI/ChatGPT, they are not reading the market space correctly.

People keep saying this. I think you’re completely wrong. I work with them full time and know their limitations and also how quickly they’re improving. They’re not useful yet for current events, but oftentimes that’s not the info you need.

Yes, you can look at them as just a next token predictor. You can look at people as just a DNA replication vehicle. You can also look at LLMs as a compressed store of info combined with a conversational query mechanism. A Wikipedia on steroids that you can talk to.

Google has legitimate reasons to be afraid. ChatGPT has become my go-to resource for several different tasks that used to require different websites/services.

JC1 May 25, 2024 • 2:04:10pm

re: #50 Charles Johnson

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They used the free version of ChatGPT which at the time was based on GPT 3.5. I’m surprised it got nearly half the answers correctly. Current models are much better.

Romantic Heretic May 25, 2024 • 2:05:22pm

re: #58 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

All they see is the successful wars he fought with the Austrian Empire and France.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 25, 2024 • 2:05:40pm

Just think, in the near future, school students will get their lessons at home from a chat GPT and then go to school to do their homework, write essays and take exams in an environment with restricted Internet access.

Belafon May 25, 2024 • 2:09:18pm

re: #43 danarchy

The problem is the only thing anyone thinks about when they think of AI are the flashy front end LLMs. Meanwhile generative AI is quietly being used to drastically reduce R&D times in biology, chemistry, materials science etc.

There are also efforts to combine LLMs with other expert systems that are starting to produce some impressive results. ChatGPT was released into the wild a couple years ago and the rate at which it is iterrating is impressive. An LLM on it’s own will never be the AGI holy grail, however they can be very useful if used appropriately.

Like guns, it should not be used without training.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 25, 2024 • 2:10:20pm

re: #56 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They should ask AI for a solution

Glue in the hard drives should keep bad answers from sliding out.

Belafon May 25, 2024 • 2:11:17pm

re: #44 Randall Gross

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The HBO documentary The Day Sports Stopped starts with the shutdown due to Covid, but then goes into George Floyd and that incident where the cop shot the guy the in back who was getting into a minivan. It’s available on Max.

Belafon May 25, 2024 • 2:13:09pm

re: #46 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

“And it’s not fun.”

So?

It’s the same stupid shit I hear from people around here in Rockwall. And when I do I point out that Californian’s are paying lower taxes than here in Texas, well, except for the rich.

JC1 May 25, 2024 • 2:13:25pm

re: #62 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Just think, in the near future, school students will get their lessons at home from a chat GPT and then go to school to do their homework, write essays and take exams in an environment with restricted Internet access.

In the near future you’ll be able to customize an AI tutor to each student’s learning style, interests, and aptitude.

Belafon May 25, 2024 • 2:14:09pm

re: #50 Charles Johnson

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And my company introduced it to us to help with programming.

Decatur Deb May 25, 2024 • 2:15:44pm

re: #67 JC1

In the near future you’ll be able to customize an AI tutor to each student’s learning style, interests, and aptitude.

And the Alabama Code of Acceptable Curricula.

JC1 May 25, 2024 • 2:16:17pm

re: #68 Belafon

And my company introduced it to us to help with programming.

Companies rushing half assed into implementing this stuff without really understanding what they’re doing will lead to both hilarity and sorrow.

Nerdy Fish May 25, 2024 • 2:17:59pm

re: #68 Belafon

And my company introduced it to us to help with programming.

We did the same. Heh.

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus May 25, 2024 • 2:19:34pm

re: #62 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Just think, in the near future, school students will get their lessons at home from a chat GPT and then go to school to do their homework, write essays and take exams in an environment with restricted Internet access.

Public (as well as private) education has been more about socializing and enforcing social norms, than about simply pouring facts into children’s heads, or training them in some skill.

What you wrote, about going to be tested, in order to pass some qualification, harkens back to the old days of universities.

Today colleges act too much like an extended high school, with forcing students to sit in classrooms for many hours a week.

Even back in Einstein’s day all he had to do was sit in lectures enough for him to learn what he wanted, then go pass some exams.

I suppose graduate school is more like that today, where passing qualifying exams are the relevant goal post, and one sits in on lectures (undergrad or grad) as needed to fill in one’s holes in knowledge.

So, back to the socialization thing: I suppose schools could just become social meeting places, where clubs (including sports clubs) are formed. Tests can be given on a regular schedule, and a student signs up for them when they feel ready.

The chat bot at home does all the tutoring, the explanations, the interactive Q&A.

That way everyone can be homeschooled.

I can see it now: chat bots trained on the Bible to give the Bible as the definitive answer to any question.

Belafon May 25, 2024 • 2:20:25pm

re: #70 JC1

Companies rushing half assed into implementing this stuff without really understanding what they’re doing will lead to both hilarity and sorrow.

Luckily the group I’m in won’t copy and paste the code but us any generated for ideas, but most of us are 20+ year coders.

Belafon May 25, 2024 • 2:21:09pm

Seen on NextDoor:

Eclectic Cyborg May 25, 2024 • 2:23:13pm

re: #70 JC1

Companies rushing half assed into implementing this stuff without really understanding what they’re doing will lead to both hilarity and sorrow.

“Move fast and break ~~things~~ everything.”

🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 May 25, 2024 • 2:33:20pm

re: #71 Nerdy Fish

My company hasn’t pushed AI, but I’ve used Google’s Gemini to correctly produce some simple DAX, the front-end language in Microsoft’s Power BI at work. It saved me some typing. I’ll try some more complicated things next week.

Joe Bacon ✅ May 25, 2024 • 2:45:10pm

OOPS!!!!

Wheel of Fortune - “Right in the Butt”

Jay C May 25, 2024 • 3:24:30pm

re: #61 Romantic Heretic

All they see is the successful wars he fought with the Austrian Empire and France.

And Denmark (1864).
Certainly not much of a “fair” fight - but proving Bismarck (and Prussia, in general), the Official German Hardasses.
The “Desert Storm” of 19th-Century Europe…

steve_davis May 25, 2024 • 4:05:50pm

re: #57 Lancelot Link Returns!

Wasn’t there someone here who was correcting AI regarding trivia like “Steven Spielberg’s first movie”?

That was me.

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