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Put that thing in the wild with no other info at disposal except what it has learned thus far and the real world as input (hear, smell, touch, see), let it roam and see if it can draw conclusions and learn from it's mistakes. If it can, next step would be better itself, or at least make a plan on what needs to be removed/added to, let's say, have a more precise hand grip on things, if there need to be code changes, what might they be.

These things are the real AI test, the hell with Touring tests, they don't prove anything (talk is cheap 😂), tell it to think, learn and adapt, that's the real test 👍.

These language models serve one purpose and one purpose only, to fill social networks with them and act like humans. Why? People just love to talk. That will keep them glued to the platform with more ad revenue coming in.

EDIT: I did a joke test with ChatGPT, it can't understand what the punchline is. It thinks it does, but that's not the punchline of the joke.

https://chat.openai.com/share/965a7b71-b1ad-434c-94ef-12ed1ff65028

My mom is afraid of computers, but she understands email just fine.

Really? Then please come over here and try to explain the same to my mom. Cuz I've tried it a million times, she doesn't understand the concept and she doesn't like to understand at this point, all she knows is, it works, like a phone number, it just works. She doesn't understand why calling her brother abroad without the country's calling code doesn't work, I had to type the number in her phone with the country's code because she didn't think that was important and just left the code out... cell operators were also a PITA to explain to her, and I don't think she got that either, cuz she still asks me what the first 3 numbers in front of the cell are and sometimes I give her bogus codes just to see if she'll go "don't screw with me", but she writes them down and never asks me why is this code different from all of the rest that are in use here... not ever.

So please, don't tell me everyone understands email, cuz they don't. I'll bet you whatever you want that, if you do a street questionare and ask people to explain the concept of email as plainly as possible, over 70% with either get it completely wrong or just shrug and tell they have no idea how it works.

I assume you're talking about TOR, and not Thor. I consider myself a techie, I'm a patent attorney with a degree in computer science. I've read about how TOR works a few times, and probably once new whatever it is you're getting at, but I couldn't tell you how the fuck TOR works now. And I couldn't care less. And I don't need to understand it to sign up for the fediverse or upload a photo to kbin or upload a photo to imgur.

Yeah, Tor, sorry. Had a nick on a game, Thorazine, everyone called me Thor there, so now it just slips sometimes.

You don't need to understand any of that, apparently you have a logic streak in you since you have degree in computer science. One, not everyone has that gift, two, even if they did, they might not have developed it, and three, you went to uni. Please tell me the world statistic (percentage) of people that actually went and graduated. I haven't seen the statistic either, but I bet it's no more than 15% on a global scale, which about sums my estimate of over 80% of the population not being able to understand simple things (yes, they are simple IMO) like email or federation. It's not that it's complicated, it's the attention span problem. Uni teaches to have long studying session, weeks, months at a time. People that never did that, they just can't force their brain to concentrate on one single thing for more than 5 minutes at a time, especially not if they're not getting paid for it and none of their friends use that thing that you're trying to explain. The very concept of freedom and having the choice to do things your way or how you'd like to be run, escapes them. They just don't care. They use whatever their friends, coworkers, family use. Why? Cuz why not. Everyone else uses it, it's simple, you just type in your phone, reset you password (cuz none of them actually remember it, they're not used to remembering stuff) and off you go to using that app on your new device.

You don't need to be a software engineer with experience in every field of technology to click a link, sign up for an account, and leave a comment. My mom could do it (if she wanted to, although she's probably get angry at me if I suggested it and talked to her about it for more than 20 seconds).

You proved my point with the last sentence in brackets. People usually don't care about techie stuff. Techies do, they love it, but regular people... no. Why would I bother explaining something like the fediverse or email to anyone that doesn't even wanna hear about that. Has anyone ever asked you (out of the blue) "hey man, you know how that mastodon thing works?". No... and no one ever will... not unless you start explaining first. No one cares dude, because they're perfectly OK not knowing about that and just living their lives with coproeate social media. It's a means to and end for them, they don't actually care about freedom, they don't even understand why this is free and the other one isn't, lol 😂, they're both free to them, except this one is a hell of a lot more complicated for signing up. "Now I gotta chech my email for a confirmation link, great 😒... shit, can't remember my password 🤦... aaah, fuck this shit." See how easy it is for normies to give up. Make the sign up process with a phone number and sign ups will skyrocket, I guarantee you that. But... wait, that's info that I would rather not share with a social network. Yes, for people like you and me, yes, for normies, it's just easier 🤷.

You're just being an elitist misanthrope here. This has nothing to do with the issues facing the fediverse.

I'm just real... at least that's how I see myself.

Good, same as me, thanks 👍.

Oh, that makes sense... it's a bug 🤦.

It's really not that hard to explain. Just tell them it's like email, they'll get it.

You're talking about people that open up FB accounts with a phone number... they don't understand the concept of email.

They don't even understand the concept of phone numbers, they just know they dial and get the other person on the other end, that's it.

I swear, most techies think that non-techies are another species. It's not that hard to explain things, and not everybody is as incompetent as our mothers. Young people understand technology better than old people, not worse, not sure how that part has you confuse.

You sure about that? Cuz I've had talks with young people that are considered techies amongst their friends, they know a lot less than what techies used to know at that age, which was dissapointing for me. For example, they know that Thor hides their real IP, they don't know how though. They think it's somehow magical and that it doesn't need an IP.

Though I have to admit that I have also met great ones amongst them. The trouble is, they are precious little to be found. And they're usually the weird kids, not even techies, just pure genious, future coders in most cases. So, no one actually notices them. You'll hear about them as the guy/gal that invented this or that algo that navigates this or that.

Also, a quick question if I may. How many replies do you see in this post?

https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/558897

My counter says 9, I can only see 3 (4 including my own). ~_{I can see all of them from other instances, but not from sh.itjust.works 🤷.}~ Scratch that, I can only see 4 from my other accounts as well. Don't know why the counter is messed up like that.

It's not actially AI, none of the so called AI are. They're just really good at predicting what you would like to hear.

Yep, I also mod a comm here and I've been having problems viewing comments or posts on other instances and vice versa. It's like it's stuck with federation, it's 3, 4 days behind on some instances.

Oh man, this is priceless 🤣🤣🤣.

That was true 13+ years ago, when most normies didn't even have a FB account, let alone a reddit account. Back then reddit was mostly full of geeks, they know how to upload images on pix hosts, that was never a problem for them, and it isn't now, that's why we use Lemmy, dispite of it lacking a lot of things that a social media platform in 2023 is most definitely supposed to have. But, we don't care. Normies care. The don't like having to switch 10 different apps to upload an image, to have to copy/paste comm URLs in search because your instance still doesn't federate with the instance with the comm that you'd like to join, they don't like not being able to follow users (Lemmy still doesn't support that), they don't like having 50 different apps that basically do the same thing (which, of course, it's the whole point of joining an open source network, choice). They want consitency, which is the only thing that the fediverse will never have, and the whole point of even having a fediverse (you don't like a policy on an instance? fine, move, no one's stopping you 🤷). When you take away consitency from them, they feel overwhelmed and this thing is just too complicated, end of story.

See, normies were never a part of forums, IRC, BBSes. They're late internet adopters. They have no idea how things were, that different servers might have different rules, some require SSL, some don't, others might wan't you to register the uname with an email, etc. They will never get the defederated aspect of the fediverse. It's like speaking some alien language to them, it simply does not compute. Corporate centealized media is all they know.

Exactly how young am I, o great omniscient lord on high?

You're in your 20's, I can tell that much. Get to your late 30's, then we'll talk.

SIX YEARS.

You started using Mastodon when nobody was actually using it. Things will happen in year or two from now. People are finally getting fed up with the nonsence and ads on mainstream social media. That coupled with bad decisions management wise will reduce the actual users on those platforms (bots don't count). The time of growth is now, not 6 years ago.

Well, I know you're an idiot, since you seem to struggle with math. If your definition of "complete idiot" includes people in the 75th percentile of overall knowledge, and you don't see how that makes your definition meaningless and makes you a piece of shit, I can't imagine why you think anybody would want to chat with you.

You're young. I used to think exactly like you. You'll start seing things more from my point of view as you get older.

I'm here for conversations. There's no way for me to convince people to come to a social network to not have conversations. Nobody wants that. A very small number of people want to try to build this social network. Those people need to build it, topic by topic, rather than circle-jerking about nothing.

OK, make content then. Show them there is content, just no one to talk to.

You want things to happen instantly, they don't happen like that.

The fediverse is uniquely lacking in content. It doesn't need to be corporate for people to come here and make it something.

You ever been on forums? You know what it's like to not have upload privileges as a user and have to upload everything manually on some pix host?

The fediverse is like that and will most probably stay like that. Why? Cuz space costs money, and people host their own instances.

This fact (having to upload your content on external hosts, rather than just hitting the image upload button and the thing gets uploaded on the instance) coupled with how different the fediverse is and how harder it currently is to find communities you might like, is a no go for most normies. Deal with it 🤷.

Alright, putting aside your elitist bullshit and your complaints about content you're not seeing because you chose not to see it...

Once you realize that over 80% of the wolrd's population are complete idiots, you'll start seing things differently as well. Why do you think Reddit was at the bottom of the social medias when it came to the number of users? Because it didn't attract those 80% of the population, that's why.

Do you see the difference between Reddit and Lemmy? Reddit has tens of millions of users having intellectual conversations about fashion, clothing, style, etc. across dozens of different subreddits. Some of those conversations are quite pleasant. I'm not going to suggest that you follow them, you're not into fashion, that's okay. I'm suggesting that the people who like those things go and talk about those things instead of dwelling on the metaconversations about the fediverse itself.

OK, then try and convince them to come over here and open up shop. Don't know what else to tell ya, I'm not forcing anyone to do or not do anything, if someone asks me on which social media I spend most of my time now, I'm not gonna lie, but if they don't ask what Lemmy or the fediverse is, I'm not gonna start talking about it either. Apparently, they have no interest in knowing more about it, and that's cool, I respect that. If I wanted to see more of this or that that Lemmy or the fediverse doesn't have, I'll just join a social media platform that does, end of story.

I personally want people from all walks of life to set up shop in the fediverse (as long as they're not jerks).

But they won't. Which is fine, I like it that way. They can have their mainstream social media where they share family photos, boob jobs, ass jobs, nose rings, whatever, I get to have this, the fediverse. People that mostly want to talk about those things, they can have mainstream social media.

I don't know what you mean by "the right audience," but this is not an audience I or anybody else wants to spend time around, and it's not an audience that can build real collective knowledge or anything like that.

OK, then don't spend your time here 🤷. I like it. If I don't like it, I'll leave. It's as simple as that 🤷.

By the right audience i don't mean your everyday Joe, I mean intelectuals, or just people that in general think that there's nore to life than just sharing family photos on social media, sharing their new boob job or whatever. That is exactly why I don't like mainstream social media and why I joined Reddit, people made memes there with those kinds or posts/stories... and I was like, finally, my kind of crowd... not just people showing me "oh loooook, doesn't her nose earing look cute ☺️", and me silently going "Jenny, I don't give a f*ck about her nose earing, why in the world would you think I care about that. If I wanted to see it, I would ask.", but really outloud saying "oh, yeah, so cute ☺️". Why? Because Jenny just had to share that with me, cuz she knows I have FB/Insta. Now, I don't have to hear that. Why? Cuz I don't have neither and she just jumps me when she shares that with everyone. Finally, piece 🙏.

See, people like Jenny and her friend with the nose rings, that for some reason, just felt that she had to share that for the whole world to see, is exactly what I'm trying to get away from here.

My menswear friends aren't coming anywhere near the fediverse. Not because they're "the wrong audience" and the fediverse only appeals to cool people, but because there's nobody talking about menswear and the fediverse doesn't appeal to people.

Keep your mainstream social media accounts to talk to your friends, use the fediverse for everything else you might think could be a good topic to discuss here. That is what I would do. I actually deleted everything on mainstream social media, except for Reddit and Lemmy. Everything else was just noise to me.

Why do you follow it if you don't want to see it?

Who said I follow cooking or fashion. I know because my wife does, lol 😂. That's like every second post on FB and Insta now.

You mean people with hobbies? You exclusively want people here without hobbies?

I never said that, but most of the people on mainstream media are like/karma whores or they make money from sharing stupid short clips. I am against them coming here. Sure, they can come and open up shop or whatever, with link to their mainstream social media, hey, it's OK, but most of them will give up after a short time cuz, well, no one here actually watches those stupid short clips that just show you how to make something very simple, but done in an extremelu complicated way, so you'd go "woooow, so cool 😯", which mostly works on a brainless audience, which is what most of Meta's plaforms are filled with, but it won't work here.

And we do have some thriving hobby communities here, look at c/woodworking, it's doing great.

Not 100%, memes here and there, NSFW as well, but influencer wannabe types and people sharing family photos and stuff like that, no, thanks, that is not what I signed up for.

The exact reason why I joined Reddit in the first place (and now Lemmy) is to get away from that from places like Insta and FB.

Nobody goes to Instagram to talk about Instagram, nobody goes to Tiktok to talk about Tiktok, nobody goes to Facebook (at all).

That's because the companies take care of the techie stuff, while in the fediverse, we have to do that. So, it's natural, I guess 🤷.

The fediverse will never appeal to the masses if we don't embrace a wide variety of hobbies and interests.

I don't think most of us actually want that. Then, it'll become just like FB or Insta... the crowd I mean. The point is to attract the right audience, not just any audience.

We need people here talking about cooking. We need people here talking about fashion.

See, that is exactly what I want to get away from... you have that on TikTok and FB/Insta. That is exactly what I don't want to see here. Of course, anyone can open a comm like that, I probably wouldn't block it, but short clips of someone roasting hotdogs with cheese and calling that a super easy and healthy meal... nah, that is not for me.

Fashion as well. Those topics are for influencer wannabe types. That's not what we're trying to build here, are we?

Yes, if you go to /m/fashion right now, it's... barely there.

Apparently, people around here are not interested in that topic 🤷. I'm sure a comm like that would be very popular on Insta.

This is the "content" people are craving.

Once again, the kind of people we're not trying to attract anyway.

The boobs are nice though 👍.

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Can we please remember to talk about things on the fediverse besides the fediverse itself?

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Can we please remember to talk about things on the fediverse besides the fediverse itself?

shitjustdontwork. Three days have elapsed without updates to or from our community.

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Can we please remember to talk about things on the fediverse besides the fediverse itself?

Can we please remember to talk about things on the fediverse besides the fediverse itself?

Can we please remember to talk about things on the fediverse besides the fediverse itself?

Can we please remember to talk about things on the fediverse besides the fediverse itself?

Can we please remember to talk about things on the fediverse besides the fediverse itself?

Can we please remember to talk about things on the fediverse besides the fediverse itself?

Can we please remember to talk about things on the fediverse besides the fediverse itself?

Can we please remember to talk about things on the fediverse besides the fediverse itself?

Can we please remember to talk about things on the fediverse besides the fediverse itself?

I started pirating movies again after a decade

How can i cable manage my body?