I don't know what Linux Distro to pick to put on a VM and run an AI agent on. I want to give it total control and see what happens.
excerpt of a longer video: Why Can't AI Make Its Own Discoveries? — With Yann LeCun
That LLMs exist; that they are capable of forming coherent sentences in response to prompts; that they are in some genuine sense creative without intentionality, suggests that there is something importantly right about the arguments of structuralist linguistics. Language demonstrably can exist as a system independent of the humans who employ it, and exist generatively, so that it is capable of forming new combinations. [...] much of what we commonly attribute to individual cognition is in fact carried out through the systems of signs that structure our social lives. ... read full post
So apparently there's this online epidemic of "prophets" who are convinced their particular instance of ChatGPT or whatever other LLM they use is actually sentient, sapient, and why not - God. ... read full post

Tony Stark speedrunning model collapse.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31763986 ... read full post
Title, or at least the inverse be encouraged. This has been talked about before, but with how bad things are getting, and how realistic goods ai generated videos are getting, anything feels better than nothing, AI generated watermarks, or metadata can be removed, but thats not the point, the point is deterrence. Immediately all big tech will comply (atleast on the surface for consumer-facing products), and then we will probably see a massive decrease in malicious use of it, people will bypass it, remove watermarks, fix metadata, but the situation should be quite a bit better? I dont see many downsides/ ... read full post
I asked teachers to tell me how AI has changed how they teach. ... read full post

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/30862067 ... read full post
Asking out of curiosity
'Chicago Sun-Times' Slammed After Letting AI Generate Summer Reading List—Full Of Fake Book Titles