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Ⲕⲁⳙ⳨⳨ⲩ: ᴀ Kᴀᴜꜰꜰʏ ɪᴍᴘʀɪɴᴛ

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Ⲕⲁⳙ⳨⳨ⲩ: ᴀ Kᴀᴜꜰꜰʏ ɪᴍᴘʀɪɴᴛ @kauffy.us · Aug 25

It's kind of sad to think that there's now a generation of young people for whom the word Kennedy refers to RFK Jr, rather than Jamie.

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Ⲕⲁⳙ⳨⳨ⲩ: ᴀ Kᴀᴜꜰꜰʏ ɪᴍᴘʀɪɴᴛ @kauffy.us · 3h

I have a cassette somewhere that has this song on it four or five times-- each time, started late, or the DJ talked over part of it, or whatever.

Ⲕⲁⳙ⳨⳨ⲩ: ᴀ Kᴀᴜꜰꜰʏ ɪᴍᴘʀɪɴᴛ @kauffy.us · 3h

That's smart.

Ⲕⲁⳙ⳨⳨ⲩ: ᴀ Kᴀᴜꜰꜰʏ ɪᴍᴘʀɪɴᴛ @kauffy.us · 4h

Philosophically, if you believe in a world that essentially exists in language, these models are the first "artificial minds"-- even if they only exist during the moments after you press Enter. To understand a bit better, read about the Turing Test and The Chinese Room (~thought experiments).

Ⲕⲁⳙ⳨⳨ⲩ: ᴀ Kᴀᴜꜰꜰʏ ɪᴍᴘʀɪɴᴛ @kauffy.us · 4h

.. training it in other ways to give it a pleasant personality. In the case of image models, they work the same way, except they are exposed to millions of pictures which _also_ have descriptions with them. After seeing enough pictures of a cat that include "cat", it now knows what a cat looks like.

Ⲕⲁⳙ⳨⳨ⲩ: ᴀ Kᴀᴜꜰꜰʏ ɪᴍᴘʀɪɴᴛ @kauffy.us · 4h

.. which is exposing them to enormous, enormous amounts of data. For a language model (an "LLM"-- like ChatGPT), they have it read billions of words. From this, it learns what conversations are, infers rules of grammar, etc. The creator then may "tune" it to be better suited for a purpose, like..

Ⲕⲁⳙ⳨⳨ⲩ: ᴀ Kᴀᴜꜰꜰʏ ɪᴍᴘʀɪɴᴛ @kauffy.us · 4h

.. that match what the prompt (etc.) was looking for.
It really is just "predicting the next thing" (in words' case)-- but it's predicting the next thing from the field of all possible things. The smaller the field is, the less varied the possibilities.
How models are created is by "training" them..

Ⲕⲁⳙ⳨⳨ⲩ: ᴀ Kᴀᴜꜰꜰʏ ɪᴍᴘʀɪɴᴛ @kauffy.us · 4h

What the model represents is a "possibility field"-- that is, it's possible to make any sentence or any picture from a given model.
How this works is using an algorithm that starts with your input ("prompt"), and uses this to traverse the field "collecting" (i.e., outputting) the bits of the model..

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Ⲕⲁⳙ⳨⳨ⲩ: ᴀ Kᴀᴜꜰꜰʏ ɪᴍᴘʀɪɴᴛ @kauffy.us · 4h

I liked reading it, but laypeople are not going to understand that.

I've tried whittling it down to:
All the generative AI-- AI which outputs stuff from our input-- that exist now primarily rely on a model: a huge set of data that "surmises" all the elements of the domain of the model, words or pic

Ⲕⲁⳙ⳨⳨ⲩ: ᴀ Kᴀᴜꜰꜰʏ ɪᴍᴘʀɪɴᴛ @kauffy.us · 4h

My guess would be it's not a rule or law-- because, in theory, the Governor could go nuts and have "his" (or "her") National Guard troops doing something stupid, so the Federal Government, which is supposed to represent all the other States, would likely have power to prevent that.

Ⲕⲁⳙ⳨⳨ⲩ: ᴀ Kᴀᴜꜰꜰʏ ɪᴍᴘʀɪɴᴛ @kauffy.us · 1d

Fine. If they want to tear up the Constitution and make up their own insecure eurosterone nation, they better start saving now-- we bought all that shit.

Ⲕⲁⳙ⳨⳨ⲩ: ᴀ Kᴀᴜꜰꜰʏ ɪᴍᴘʀɪɴᴛ @kauffy.us · 1d

I think *not actually doing* a fascism by busying the resources that a fascist would use and removing that fascist's excuse to do it is fairly elegant. I mean, if it's necessary to "mobilize the national guard" (to do nothing), why not have the Governor do it properly?

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Ⲕⲁⳙ⳨⳨ⲩ: ᴀ Kᴀᴜꜰꜰʏ ɪᴍᴘʀɪɴᴛ @kauffy.us · 1d

I'd totes take it. Happy, shmappy.

Ⲕⲁⳙ⳨⳨ⲩ: ᴀ Kᴀᴜꜰꜰʏ ɪᴍᴘʀɪɴᴛ @kauffy.us · 1d

Nah. Newsom is prolly doing "a something" so Trump can't pretend to justify his wiener-compensating bullshit.

Ⲕⲁⳙ⳨⳨ⲩ: ᴀ Kᴀᴜꜰꜰʏ ɪᴍᴘʀɪɴᴛ @kauffy.us · 1d

I've done 3/4 of those things. The past few weeks have been the closest to doing it again. And settling for 3/4.

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Ⲕⲁⳙ⳨⳨ⲩ: ᴀ Kᴀᴜꜰꜰʏ ɪᴍᴘʀɪɴᴛ @kauffy.us · 1d

Or all those DNA tests finally came back...

Ⲕⲁⳙ⳨⳨ⲩ: ᴀ Kᴀᴜꜰꜰʏ ɪᴍᴘʀɪɴᴛ @kauffy.us · 1d

Do you think pardoning Maxwell will be the way of drawing MAGA's fire so they continue to not notice the "gamines" thing?

Ⲕⲁⳙ⳨⳨ⲩ: ᴀ Kᴀᴜꜰꜰʏ ɪᴍᴘʀɪɴᴛ @kauffy.us · 1d

Aimee Mannowar

((Who digs this song?))
suno.com/s/idasq8d64s...

Ⲕⲁⳙ⳨⳨ⲩ: ᴀ Kᴀᴜꜰꜰʏ ɪᴍᴘʀɪɴᴛ @kauffy.us · 2d

Non-falsifiable?

Ⲕⲁⳙ⳨⳨ⲩ: ᴀ Kᴀᴜꜰꜰʏ ɪᴍᴘʀɪɴᴛ @kauffy.us · 2d

Mash up bands:

Minute Work

Ⲕⲁⳙ⳨⳨ⲩ: ᴀ Kᴀᴜꜰꜰʏ ɪᴍᴘʀɪɴᴛ @kauffy.us · 2d

My first thought was "A Jewish girl named Katie?"

Ⲕⲁⳙ⳨⳨ⲩ: ᴀ Kᴀᴜꜰꜰʏ ɪᴍᴘʀɪɴᴛ @kauffy.us · 2d

That seems like decades ago. So quaint.

Slight correction: he stole funds to not build the wall.

Ⲕⲁⳙ⳨⳨ⲩ: ᴀ Kᴀᴜꜰꜰʏ ɪᴍᴘʀɪɴᴛ @kauffy.us · 2d

Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Ⲕⲁⳙ⳨⳨ⲩ: ᴀ Kᴀᴜꜰꜰʏ ɪᴍᴘʀɪɴᴛ @kauffy.us · 2d

I've argued this point with my Dad, who brags about the effectiveness of Israel's military. Yeah-- we pay for that with our healthcare.

Ⲕⲁⳙ⳨⳨ⲩ: ᴀ Kᴀᴜꜰꜰʏ ɪᴍᴘʀɪɴᴛ @kauffy.us · 2d

Sounds like Trump isn't getting very good information.

Ⲕⲁⳙ⳨⳨ⲩ: ᴀ Kᴀᴜꜰꜰʏ ɪᴍᴘʀɪɴᴛ @kauffy.us · 3d

I know what's going on in Portland.