I am live.
Calling an llm a Wikipedia regurgitator is factually and objectively incorrect.
Is there anything that you can say to refute the facts that I presented in my above comment?
(I rolled my eye so hard at your comment that I pulled my back out)
No. You’re not just wrong, you’re aggressively uninformed.
By you repeating the same tired “AI is just regurgitating data” line makes it clear you don’t understand what you’re criticizing. Calling large language models “AI” the way you are doing it just exposes that you do not know what you are talking about. It is like a creationist smugly saying “orangutang” instead of “orangutan” and thinking they sound informed. You are not demonstrating insight. You are advertising ignorance.
What you’re describing, reading a paragraph off Wikipedia, is literal retrieval. That is not how modern language models operate. They are not databases with a search bar attached. They are probabilistic systems trained to model patterns, structure, and relationships across massive datasets. When they generate a response, they are not pulling a stored paragraph. They are constructing output token by token based on learned representations.
If it were just regurgitation, you would constantly see verbatim copies of training data. You do not. What you see instead is synthesis. Concepts are recombined, abstracted, and adapted to context. The system can explain the same idea multiple ways, shift tone, handle novel prompts, and connect ideas that were never explicitly paired in the source material. That is fundamentally different from reading something out loud.
Your analogy fails because it assumes nothing is being transformed. In reality, transformation is the entire mechanism. Information is compressed into weights and then expanded into new outputs.
Is it human intelligence. No. Is it perfect. No. But reducing it to “just reading Wikipedia out loud” is not skepticism. It is a basic failure to understand how the technology works.
If you are going to criticize something, at least learn what it is first.
It really isn’t. But you do you boo.
I know lemmy’s very anti-ai but this is really fascinating stuff.
HP is one of those companies whose products you can easily avoid. I don’t understand their dominance in the printer market, or why people continue to buy their products when many of them are objectively poor. I also don’t recall a time when HP had a particularly strong reputation to begin with.
At this point, most competitors offer better alternatives than HP.
I will never ever never ever use one drive. I’ll raise my kids never to use it.
I WILL NEVER USE ONE DRIVE!
There are essentially only three major cable providers in the United States. They have blocked Google Fiber at nearly every turn. I have been unable to get Google Fiber at any address I’ve lived at since it launched.
It is oddly entertaining to watch monopolies that the federal government failed to break up, largely due to their own lobbying, fight each other in an attempt to prevent the others from becoming even more monopolized.
No, they’re not.
The reason vinyl is vinyl is because the format requires very careful mastering of the source audio. The medium is physically sensitive to dynamic range, frequency response, and groove spacing. That is why people argue that vinyl can sound better than a compressed digital file like an MP3 or a mass-produced CD.
Nothing about a DVD inherently requires special mastering of the video. If anything, DVDs are simply inexpensive to buy on the secondhand market, whether from local sellers or platforms like eBay.
Given the current state of digital licensing and streaming volatility, I understand why people want physical media like discs in order to truly own their movies. That could explain a modest resurgence in DVD sales. But DVDs are not the next vinyl. Vinyl never went away; it remained in production.
And no one is putting HD video on DVD discs.
Is anyone else getting aeon flux vibs?
Huh… Sounds like the National Socialist German Workers’ Party Right before the Nuremberg trials.
Definitely uninstalling discord. I hardly use it anyway.
Okay, so that’s not what the article says. It says that 90% of respondents don’t want AI search.
Moreover, the article goes into detail about how DuckDuckGo is still going to implement AI anyway.
Seriously, titles in subs like this need better moderation.
The title was clearly engineered to generate clicks and drive engagement. That is not how journalism should function.
Indeed, I don’t use AI for anything complex. It can’t physically fix an appliance, aside from providing technical data. It can tell me the ohm range for a thermistor or the microfarad rating a capacitor should have. Surprisingly, it does this far more reliably than Google or other search engines. Ironically, AI is better at delivering accurate data in this domain precisely because traditional searches are increasingly cluttered with low-quality AI-generated content.
I use it primarily as a text editor for grammar checking and for analyzing confusing or poorly structured text. I also use it as a search engine quite frequently. I can ask direct questions and receive the information I want, presented in a way that suits my needs. I have used it to help construct responses to inquiries from several companies I work with. It is particularly effective at generating corporate-style responses that appeal to middle management, which has been genuinely useful over the past couple of years. I no longer have to sit and overanalyze how to phrase emails. What used to take a significant amount of time and mental effort is now handled efficiently. In that regard, it has been extremely helpful.
I also use OCR on my phone every single day. It’s really great for copying and pasting model and serial numbers and doing very quick basic searches. Although I find this to be more of a convenience than anything else.
Where AI features have failed specifically on my phone is the text-to-speech and the autocorrect for typing, especially on the Google keyboard it oftentimes tries to guess what the best words would be and it fails miserably most of the time.
At the end of the day it’s just a tool and a tool is only as good as its user. I work in the repair industry and I utilize very expensive high quality tools and I also have some very very cheap ones because they have some unique use cases only they are suited for.
On a personal level, I like AI. I use it regularly as a tool to handle mundane tasks. I also have friends who use it successfully as an artistic tool. I’m aware that this platform tends to dislike that kind of usage, and that’s fine.
Bandwagon behavior is a serious issue on platforms like Reddit and Lemmy, and that comes with the territory.
However, the claim that this negativity has meaningfully harmed AI adoption is nonsensical. If this person genuinely believes that AI has been hurt, even slightly, by negative online discourse, then he is clearly out of touch with reality. All available data points indicate the opposite.
Is it? Is it really? Is there some kind of lizard person level conspiracy out there that our entire ruling elite are just populated by pedophiles?
Is it some kind of pathology when somebody reaches a certain level of financial Freedom and power that they immediately find themselves attracted to the children?
What is happening to this world!
I’ve been playing space Marine 2 on my steam deck.
It’s… Not great but playable.
But having the convenience to sit with my son on the couch while he watches endless hours of Vlad and Nickie on YouTube is nice.
I oppose CSAM and child abuse.
-Tim Sweeny.
HOW FUCKING HARD IS IT TO SAY THAT!
Christ on a stick! Weren’t pedo’s like the worse of the worse?! When did they start getting a voice in daily regular discourse!
Son of a bitch!
I haven’t used any of that for decades. None of it is necessary ever.
The reason he should learn about it is because he’s talking about it as though he’s informed and he is not.
I don’t have to be a LLM programmer working at openai to have a working knowledge of how these machines function. It’s literally just a Google search.
He made an unreasonable ignorant comment and I called him out. He should feel ashamed and I have absolutely no reason to pad down what I’m saying under the guise of being nice.