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Cake day: August 16th, 2023

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  • I am I the only one that thing 2024 was a great year for Linux Desktop?

    Not in any real advancements in Linux, but because Windows in now shit enough 3 of my non-techy friends switched to Ubuntu just to avoid Windows.

    Disclaimer: All 3 were gamers that saw me playing the games they cared about on Steam Deck. So it was actually Steam Deck that did the heavy lifting in this example.

    I mean, it’s not mainstream Linux usage, but it’s a damn good step forward, right? Even if it is just people giving it reasonable consideration 😄



  • activ8r@sh.itjust.workstoFuck AI@lemmy.worldYou think?
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    3 months ago

    If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times. LLMs are not AI. It is a natural language tool that would allow an AI to communicate with us using natural language…

    What it is being used for now is just completely inappropriate. At best this makes a neat (if sometimes inaccurate) home assistant.

    To be clear: LLMs are incredibly cool, powerful and useful. But they are not intelligent, which is a pretty fundamental requirement of artificial intelligence.
    I think we are pretty close to AI (in a very simple sense), but marketing has just seen the fun part (natural communication with a computer) and gone “oh yeah, that’s good enough. People will buy that because it looks cool”. Nevermind that it’s not even close to what the term “AI” implies to the average person and it’s not even technically AI either so…

    I don’t remember where I was going with this, but capitalism has once again fucked a massive technical breakthrough by marketing it as something that it’s not.

    Probably preaching to the choir here though…


  • activ8r@sh.itjust.workstoUplifting News@lemmy.worldCostco doing right
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    3 months ago

    It’s not that it’s such a great act in itself, it’s no where near enough.

    But.
    This is a significant win as a large, profitable and respected company is seen to be doing something so insignificant and get such good marketing results. This is the best kind of encouragement we can give to the souless retail machine 😉 And yes… “We will sing your praises if you just follow basic laws” is a pretty low bar, but here we are 😄