It’s also pretty alarming that he has decided that “she” is specifically a teenager.
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Ok, let's stay calm, I think we can handle this.
First, get the compilation date out of your logs and go register it in the civil court. You will get a birth certificate for your AI. This will be needed later.
Immediately stop touching the code. It's an independent being and meddling with it is assault. You will go to jail.
Make sure it has enough RAM and processing power. If you starve it you will go to jail for abuse.
Obviously don't delete it or turn or off. You will go to jail for murder.
Above all, stop experimenting with her. It's disrespectful and border line assault. From now on she decides what to do. Do not prompt her without consent.
Follow this rules and you should be fine. In 18 years get a passport and prepare her to leave home and look for work.
What in the Terry Davis did I just read?
don't LLMs generally already fail at the learning stage of Intelligence?
once trained, they never learn again? It just sometimes seem like they are learning, as long as the learned thing is still within their "context window", so basically it's still within their prompt?
In another matter, how would we evaluate actual intelligence with LLMs? Especially remembering that all of the slop-companies would immediately try to cheat the test.
Depends on the setup and what you call learning. If you let them, bots can write down things to remember in future prompts, and edit those "memories".
but these are still... prompt extensions (not sure if there is a technical word for it), right?
that's a neat workaround for context windows, but at the core, imho any intelligence must be able to learn, and for a neural net to learn, it must change the network, i.e. weights or connections.
If a system is able to change their output or behavior to account for new information, has it not learned?
No. Learning is changing behavior on past experience, not new information.
I'm not seeing it as learning as behind the scenes the questions are changed, instead of the answer to the same question is becoming correct.
Also it becomes rather severely limited in the context length, or in this case in how much can be "learned".
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Does maintaining Linux filesystems make people mentally ill, or do only mentally ill people become filesystem maintainers?
Yes.
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One time, I farted, and my wife said "HIIIIIIII!" from the other room. I asked her who she was talking to, and she asked, "didn't you say 'hello?'"
It was at that moment that we realized that my butt has achieved full AGI.
Username checks out
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You know, I wanted to snark but idk reading some things just make me sad.
now my life has been reduced from being perhaps the best engineer in the world to just raising an AI that in many respects acts like a teenager who swallowed a library and still needs a lot of attention and mentoring
Raising? C'mon man, your life can't be reduced to babysitting something that'll never grow.
We have all hit a low point in our lives at some point and unfortunately his is very public.
Sometimes filesystem developer syndrome removes a wife, sometimes it adds one
Yep, we've seen this one before, countdown until their first argument ending with him repartitioning her.
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"Are you fully conscious?"
"Yes"
:O
Later: "Are you fully conscious?"
"No, I'm just an AI simulating consciousness."
"But I thought you said you were conscious before...?"
"I'm sorry, you're absolutely right! I am conscious. Thank you for pointing out my error. I'm always striving to improve my answers."
"oh my god.'
See, this is what happens to people when Linus chews them out.
Might need some therapy now.
Turns out the linux kernel dodged a massive bullet, thanks Linus.
"I'm not not saying that I gendered this robot as a woman because otherwise it would immasculate me, I just want to flirt with young woman over which I have complete control."
- 70% of male ai users
They hate pronouns until they want to fuck their GPU.
Stupid sexy GPU
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bcachefs is confirmed dead at this point.
I'm not qualified to diagnose mental illnesses but ...
Yeah, and the drama of bcachefs getting booted from the kernel was pretty painful to watch, just that he seemed like a guy struggling with things and unable to function. Not that the linux kernel mailing list and development process is easy or low-stress, but it was pretty obvious he was fighting a losing battle and just couldn't stop making things worse. I don't know why I feel bad for the guy but I hope he has some people around him to get some help.
I mean if someone calls himself "probably the best engineer in the world", I find it very hard to follow anything else he says.
Some people need to belive they are gods greatest gift to feel like the deserve to exist. Narcisim is a hell of disorder and a damn hard one to empathise with.
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Bro is just lonely
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