Gemini has imposter syndrome real bad

Imposter Syndrome is an emergent property

Wait, you know productive devs?

I remember there was an article years ago, before the ai hype train, that google had made an ai chatbot but had to shut it down due to racism.

I know Lemmy seems to very anti-AI (as am I) but we need to stop making the anti-AI talking point "AI is stupid". It has immense limitations now because yes, it is being crammed into things it shouldn't be, but we shouldn't just be saying "its dumb" because that's immediately written off by a sizable amount of the general population. For a lot of things, it is actually useful and it WILL be taking peoples jobs, like it or not (even if they're worse at it). Truth be told, this should be a utopic situation for obvious reasons

I feel like I'm going crazy here because the same people on here who'd criticise the DARE anti-drug program as being completely un-nuanced to the point of causing the harm they're trying to prevent are doing the same thing for AI and LLMs

My point is that if you're trying to convince anyone, just saying its stupid isn't going to turn anyone against AI because the minute it offers any genuine help (which it will!), they'll write you off like any DARE pupil who tried drugs for the first time.

Countries need to start implementing UBI NOW

Gemrni is dogshit, but it's objectively better than chatgpt right now.

They're ALL just fuckig awful. Every AI.

Weird because I’ve used it many times fr things not related to coding and it has been great.

I told it the specific model of my UPS and it let me know in no uncertain terms that no, a plug adapter wasn’t good enough, that I needed an electrician to put in a special circuit or else it would be a fire hazard.

I asked it about some medical stuff, and it gave thoughtful answers along with disclaimers and a firm directive to speak with a qualified medical professional, which was always my intention. But I appreciated those thoughtful answers.

I use co-pilot for coding. It’s pretty good. Not perfect though. It can’t even generate a valid zip file (unless they’ve fixed it in the last two weeks) but it sure does try.

Not a single of the issues I brought up years ago was ever addressed except one.

That's the thing about AI in general, it's really hard to "fix" issues, you maybe can try to train it out and hope for the best, but then you might play whack a mole as the attempt to fine tune to fix one issue might make others crop up. So you pretty much have to decide which problems are the most tolerable and largely accept them. You can apply alternative techniques to maybe catch egregious issues with strategies like a non-AI technique being applied to help stuff the prompt and influence the model to go a certain general direction (if it's LLM, other AI technologies don't have this option, but they aren't the ones getting crazy money right now anyway).

A traditional QA approach is frustratingly less applicable because you have to more often shrug and say "the attempt to fix it would be very expensive, not guaranteed to actually fix the precise issue, and risks creating even worse issues".

5 bucks a month for a search engine is ridiculous. 25 bucks a month for a search engine is mental institution worthy.

That explains it, you can't code with both your arms broken.

If they did it on Stackoverflow, it would tell you not to hard boil an egg.

Im at fraud

It must have been trained on feedback from Accenture employees then.

It didn't. It probably was coded not to admit it didn't know. So first it responded with bullshit, and now denial and self-loathing.

It feels like it's coded this way because people would lose faith if it admitted it didn't know.

It's like a politician.

Next on the agenda: Doors that orgasm when you open them.

Life. Don’t talk to me about life.

Pretty sure Gemini was trained from my 2006 LiveJournal posts.

I-I-I-I-I-I-I-m not going insane.

Same buddy, same

Damn how’d they get access to my private, offline only diary to train the model for this response?

I am a disgrace to all universes.

I mean, same, but you don't see me melting down over it, ya clanker.

That's my inner monologue when programming, they just need another layer on top of that and it's ready.

I can't wait for the AI future.

I almost feel bad for it. Give it a week off and a trip to a therapist and/or a spa.

I know that's not an actual consciousness writing that, but it's still chilling. 😬

now it should add these as comments to the code to enhance the realism

I remember often getting GPT-2 to act like this back in the "TalkToTransformer" days before ChatGPT etc. The model wasn't configured for chat conversations but rather just continuing the input text, so it was easy to give it a starting point on deep water and let it descend from there.

It's trained on human code comments. Comments of despair.

This is the conclusion that anyone with any bit of expertise in a field has come to after 5 mins talking to an LLM about said field.

The more this broken shit gets embedded into our lives, the more everything is going to break down.

Google: I don't understand, we just paid for the rights to Reddit's data, why is Gemini now a depressed incel who's wrong about everything?

So it is going to take our jobs after all!

High five, me too!

At that age I also used to do speed run little programs on the display computers in department stores. I'd write a little prompt welcoming a shopper and ask them their name. Then a response that echoed back their name in some way. If I was in a good mood it was "Hi [name]!". If I was in a snarky mood it was "Fuck off [name]!" The goal was to write it in about 30 seconds, before one of the associates came over to see what I was doing.

I did a Dr Mario clone around that age. I had an old Amstrad CPC I had grew up with typing listing of basic programs and trying to make my own. I think this was the only functional game I could finish, but, it worked.

Speed was tied to CPU, I had no idea how to "slow down" the game other than making it do useless for loops of varying sizes... Max speed that was about comparable to Game Boy Hi speed was just the game running as fast as it could. Probably not efficient code at all.

Hopefully yes, AI is not smart.

sigh yes, you're smarter than the bingo cage machine.

Yes

That's pretty rad, ngl

Smarter than MI as in My Intelligence, definitely.