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Maggie’s Funny & awesome pics, vids and memes thread (work safe, no nudity)

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You can have the liver. The one food my mom would not make me eat. It's my kryptonite. I'm good with gizzards.
Love me some good liver and onions. I was so dumb and hungry in basic, I thought it was steak once. After I started eating it, I said fuck it. Ate it several more times after that
 
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Love me some good liver and onions. I was so dumb and hungry in basic, I thought it was steak once. After I started eating it, I said fuck it. Ate it several more times after that
Every time someone tells me that they would not eat that or they don't like that or they're not gonna try that I just think to myself well you're not hungry enough................................ yet!
 
It’s not really comparable to conventional programming. Machine learning really does benefit from scale and gets better and faster overall with scale. We do something similar in another field and have over 30 million unique curated items with from ten to twenty orthogonal classifications of each. We deal with billions of images a year. Our models can get us meaningful results on anything new with 99.9% accuracy. There are people who are much more accurate than the model but your average person off the street is not even with training.

I think a better measure of output is either new test cases or new story points, not lines of code.

And there are massive differences between programmers. Your best programmers who actually understand things from top to bottom can individually replace entire teams and come up with concepts to tremendously automate or streamline things.

I started programming in Junior High. By my first real job coding I used a LISP compiler to write c programs to input files, create tables, write plsql, and automated test cases from a given file spec. One months work in a day. Two thousand lines of code In an hour. In another job I automated and instrumented everything having to to with the software development from end to end for a large defense shop which made it clear to leadership only ten percent of the staff did the work. In another I wrote code to upgrade binary report files that solved a ten thousand man hour problem in a day.

I think the Vax VMS system is still the best ever written. DEC even had a viable PC on the market but missed the PC revolution. It’s a shame as we’d likely be much further along and much more secure.
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I had a buddy (@armorpl8chikn can attest) who joked with me about “one day we’ll be sitting around a fire, attempting to explain electricity to the young ones, and they’ll shake their heads in disbelief”.

A time like that, a hard time, is all that could correct the cancerous thinking that has taken over the western world. Pronouns and micro-aggressions don’t hold much sway when you’re struggling every second to eek out existence.
 
I was having a conversation with a buddy the other day and our conclusion is that none of this crap is AI. It’s bigger storage. Faster search algorithms. And big data mimicking intelligence.

Non of this BS is even close. There is no existential threat as long as they just keep piling on more code to try and look intelligent.

When AI comes… if it comes… it will come with very little code. No database links. And probably from biological-based chips. Which were a research branch 20’years ago but largely fizzled when storage got cheap.

Musk is 100 percent right that AI is an existential threat. Fortunately even the work he is doing creating/training it is still just big data.

Sirhr
I have an acquaintance and his son who have literally talked hours with me about this subject. They both are extremely intelligent men, no hyperbole they are genius level and the son to the point of being socially awkward.

@sirhrmechanic you are 100% right here. Real AI is not yet a reality. We cannot even comprehend real AI. A machine that can solve problems so complex as to boggle human minds in mere moments. A machine that cannot be out maneuvered, outpaced or outran. A machine that quite logically in moments would determine that humans are a virus on the planet and more likely than not determine to kill them all. Real AI that is, not advanced machine learning.

After literal sleepless nights from those discussions and prayer I am of the opinion that the Beast (not AC, the Beast) is AI. A central sentient machine which will do the heavy lifting for the AC. The miracles and “peace” brought about by the AC could simply be the machine making the chaotic world Orderly and livable.

Whether my theory is correct or not, Musk is right.