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From: pothead <pothead@snakebite.com>
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Subject: Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is
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Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2025 01:39:19 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-01-05, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:
> On Fri, 1/3/2025 4:48 PM, Joel wrote:
>> Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 1/2/2025 10:37 AM, Joel wrote:
>>>> "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, 31 Dec 2024 19:08:22 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11,comp.os.linux.advocacy
>>>>>
>>>>> OS WAR! <G>
>>>>
>>>> I frequently talk to Copilot in a Linux Web app about how sleek Linux
>>>> is compared to Winblows, and it agrees with me.  M$ is laughing at the
>>>> people using their products on aging hardware.
>>>
>>> Exciting I guess.
>>>
>>> Session Log:
>>>
>>> <Joel>  Is it snowing where you are ?
>>> <AI>    Where am I ? I tried to look at my feet, but I don't have any.
>>> <Joel>  I'm 73 years old. How old are you, anyway ?
>>> <AI>    I'm either 39 or 93, let me check my coin flipper...
>>> <Joel>  So how about that Linux, good or what ?
>>> <AI>    Of course, Linux is a toilet paper, which does not scratch your bum [Ref.1]
>>>        [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/bnkct/forget_the_flakes_cola_and_wine_meet_the_linux/
>>> <Joel>  Yes, it's very sleek.
>> 
>> 
>> That is not remotely like what Copilot and I discuss.
>> 
>
> AI do not have human characteristics at the moment.
> They don't have ID, ego, or super-ego.
> If you tell them "up is down", they will agree with you.
>
> They have settings similar to NN, such as "temperature"
> or some annealing property. Beneath all the flowery text,
> there are plumbers adjusting the heat and water flow rate.
>
> I managed to "hang" an AI, and it blew past the safety
> timer and kept running. Someone at the other end, eventually
> killed it (removed the query). And it did not die in the "thinking" phase.
> There seems to be some kind of separate "I/O phase",
> that generates the text for a text session. And mine
> got really really slow while attempting to output some
> characters. About one letter every ten seconds.
>
> It's really a mechanical thing, and it's held together
> with bailing wire and binder twine. Imagine if it
> was self driving your car, and the I/O section went
> into a loop and stopped steering the car. That is the
> message here. Humans can fail that way too for various
> reasons, they just don't do it as often, and with the
> same relish for it.
>
>    Paul

+1
Excellent poast.

-- 
pothead

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