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[โ€“] 65 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

It's not local? It's not private. Period. "End-to-End Encrypted" LOL except they're the other "end". That's just HTTPS.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    On the other hand, Unlimited is 10โ‚ฌ a month, which is OK-ish for the suite if you need most of them.

    Mail+password manager+unlimited aliases (simile login) is already 10 when picking other reputable private services (without the limitations of the free tiers). So VPN and drive are "free".

    I'm moving away to another service though. I don't care they are in continental Europe, those Trump praises were concerning.

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  • [โ€“] 28 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I like how they're doing shit like this and the bitcoin wallet (that last I checked didn't even support lightning) instead of, you know, improving stuff people actually care about.

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    [โ€“] 13 points 1 year ago (17 children)

    Why do all of them fail this question?

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  • [โ€“] 14 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    Because LLMs see tokens, not letters or words. It's like showing a human a strawberry and asking them how many atoms it contains.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Sounds like a genuine shortcoming of the technology as it's being presented to forced on the public

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    An LLM also can't bake a cake, decorate a Christmas tree, or bench-press 100kg.

    Just understand what LLMs are good at, use them for that, and don't throw your hands up and declare it useless because it can't magically do something it was never designed to do in the first place.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    but it's being sold as if it IS capable of that.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I've never seen anyone advertising an LLM as being good at spelling bees. The only time I ever see this spelling thing come up is when people are making fun of it.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    theyโ€™re presented as general knowledge chatbots at the very least, and i know iโ€™d consider spelling pretty general knowledge.

    the way i see it you can either acknowledge the โ€œstrawberry questionโ€ as a genuine failing of most every publicly accessible LLM, or you can acknowledge that LLMs are only ever actually correct by pure chance. sometimes itโ€™s a REALLY GOOD chance, but at the end of the day itโ€™s still always a variable that you canโ€™t actually control.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    You see a false dichotomy.

    I see someone pounding away at a ball of yarn with a hammer and complaining that it's not as good a knitting implement as they imagined.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago

    You have someone complaining about what people selling AI say it can do, when it can't do that. You see people complaining that AI can't do things, when it can do other things.

    You need to try and digest what people are saying better rather than just being contrarian.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [โ€“] 4 points 1 year ago

    It will generate a new answer in every new chat, it has no knowledge of itself. You can also easily manipulate what it answers by framing your question, if you ask 'where is the i in strawberry' or 'why do you spell strawberry with a single i' it will spit out something much more wrong than when you ask it 'is there an i in strawberry'. This is increasingly true for complicated questions like 'i am about to get fired because i don't spell strawberry right, what can i do to perform better at driving a taxi for my employer who is an accountant tied up in a scandal', but because there usually aren't contradictions in a question the AI isn't seen as dumb and unintelligent but as wise and all knowing. But again, it doesn't know anything it just puts words that statistically fit well together next to each other - which can be really useful if you understand its limits.

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