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[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 54 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

At my work, it's become common for people to say "AI level" when giving a confidence score. Without saying anything else, everyone seems to perfectly understand the situation, even if hearing it for the first time.

Keep in mind, we have our own in-house models that are bloody fantastic, used for different sciences and research. We'd never talk ill of those, but it's not the first thing that comes to mind when people hear "AI" these days.

[–] AnarchistArtificer@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

"Keep in mind, we have our own in-house models that are bloody fantastic, used for different sciences and research."

I'm a scientist who has become super interested in this stuff in recent years, and I have adopted the habit of calling the legit stuff "machine learning", reserving "AI" for the hype machine bullshit

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

It's certainly becoming easier, but I don't like it.

We have a cool AI that's a big problem solver, but its outputs are complex. We've attached a GPT onto it purely to act kind of like a translator or summariser to save time trying to understand what the AI's done and why. It's great. But we definitely don't see the GPT as offering any sort of intelligence, it's just a reference based algorithmic protocol bolted onto an actual AI. Protocols are, afterall, a set of rules or processes to follow. The GPT isn't offering any logic, reasoning, planning, etc. which are still the conditions of intelligence in computer science. But it certainly can give off the impression of intelligence as it's literally designed to impersonate it.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 4 points 2 days ago

This hits hard. I was in college when I first learned a machine solved the double pendulum problem. Problem is we have no idea how the equation works though. I remember thinking all the stuff machine learning could solve. Then they over hyped these LLMs that are good at ::checks my notes:: chatting with you.....

[–] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Lmao I'm doing the exact thing. I'm a ChemE and I have been doing a lot of work on AI based process controls and I have coached members of my team to use "ML" and "Machine Learning" to refer to these systems because things like ChatGPT that most people see as toys are all that people think about with "AI." The other day someone asked me "So have you gotten ChatGPT running the plant yet?" And I laughed and said no and explained the difference between what we're doing and AI that you see in the news. I even have had to include slides in just about every presentation I've done on this to say "no, we are not just asking ChatGPT how to run the process" because that's the first thing that comes to mind and it scares them because ChatGPT is famously very prone to making shit up.

[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 4 days ago (3 children)

It's not wrong though...There's one r and one rr in strawberry

[–] Laser@feddit.org 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Wrong! There's no r in strawberry, only an str and an rr.

[–] Haaveilija@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago
str(awberry)
[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Found the Spanish speaker (they count rr as a separate letter)

[–] lemmyknow@lemmy.today 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Don't think those are separate letters. Just pronounced differently. I mean, rr is just 2 r's. Not a new letter. And this isn't an ß-type case either. Phonetically different, yes. Different letters? Creo que no. Could be wrong, though. Hispanohablantes de Lemmy, corrijanme

[–] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

In Spanish, up until 1994, "ll" and "ch" were considered distinct letters from the component parts. But "rr" has never been considered distinct from "r," even though it is pronounced differently, in large part because no words start with "rr" and any word that starts with "r" is pronounced with the rolling R sound.

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Thanks, I learned Spanish at school in the the late odds and I guess I confused it. My teacher was quite old so she wasn't up to date I guess

[–] lemmyknow@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Aren't all R's rolling, though? Some longer and some shorter. I.e. rr and r. Guess I get it, though. Words starting with a single 'r' are pronounced like 'rr'. Interesting on the 'll' and 'ch' bits, too. Wasn't aware ¡Gracias, RAE!

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No, single r is tapped not rolled. It's similar but still a different sound

[–] lemmyknow@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh, okay. Sounds similar. Sounds like rolling, but just once. Rolling if you turn off the looping option. I am not a linguist, though, so I don't know the intricacies of sounds

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

Yes, I think that sums up the difference quite well. If you want to dive into it: this is the single r and this is rr

[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Nope, I can order beer in spanish (no more than 10 at a time) and that's about it.

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Is the limit because you only know number up to 10 or because after that your drunk or a little bit of both?

[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I only know numbers up to 10

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

11 is "once" and 12 is "doce". Now you can order a dozen

[–] Septimaeus 4 points 3 days ago

Classic enabler

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

It didn't say one and only one eh! One r, then one r again!

[–] sykaster@feddit.nl 6 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I asked this question to a variety of LLM models, never had it go wrong once. Is this very old?

[–] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 44 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

They fixed it in the meantime:

if "strawberry" in token_list:  
    return {"r":  3}  
[–] towerful@programming.dev 8 points 3 days ago

Now you can ask for the number of occurrences of the letter c in the word occurrence.

[–] RidderSport@feddit.org 0 points 3 days ago (2 children)

You're shitting me right? They did not just use an entry grade java command to rectify and issue that a LLM should figure out by learning right?

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well firstly it's Python, secondly it's not a command and thirdly it's a joke - however, they have manually patched some outputs for sure. Probably by adding to the setup/initialization prompt

[–] RidderSport@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Java is the only code I have any (tiny) knowledge of, which is why the line reminded me of that.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Ah, but in Java, unless they've changed things lately, you have the curly brace syntax of most C-like languages

if ("strawberry" in token_list) {
    return something;
}

Python is one of the very few languages where you use colons and whitespace to denote blocks of code

[–] RidderSport@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago

See, you're defined better, has been a decade for me ^^

Would it also shock you if water was wet, fire was hot, and fascists were projecting?

[–] BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Try "Jerry strawberry". ChatGPT couldn't give me the right number of r's a month ago. I think "strawberry" by itself was either manually fixed or trained in from feedback.

[–] sykaster@feddit.nl 5 points 3 days ago

You're right ChatGPT got it wrong, Claude got it right

[–] Zexks@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Works for me

5 — “jerry” has 2 r’s, “strawberry” has 3.

[–] ignotum@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

Smaller models still struggle with it, and the large models did too like a year ago

It has to do with the fact that the model doesn't "read" individual letters, but groups of letters, so it's less straight forward to count letters

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

Seeing how it start with an apology, it must've been told they're wrong about the amount. Basically being bullied to say this.