leaving out how that’s so overly reductive that it completely obfuscates the point, the big difference is that a brain is self-actuating. an llm is an explicitly one-way process; you take a bunch of numbers, you pass it through a series of matrix multiplications, you get a different bunch of numbers. nowhere in that model is any backtracking or looping or conditionals.

depends on which brit we’re talking

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yeah there’s a reason there was no moonlandings during the time anyone has actually been alive except for 2001.

did he run afoul of the witch?

i didn’t use the terms autonomous or malicious. a matrix fundamentally can not have agency.

it’s simplified for a comment on lemmy made to be funny. i didn’t want the get into the mentality of the human-tool gestalt here. read doctorows explanation instead.

nah, the model can’t do anything on its own. the harness is doing most of the work, like actually doing the network calls, writing files to disk, and most importantly feeding the model output back into itself. the model behaves just like it does when a human chats with it, just that the harness takes the text it generates and tries to refine, transform, run, or loop it back. what i’m saying is, it’s a normal-ass program. if a model “breaks out” of a sandbox it’s because the sandbox is badly configured, since any application with the same permissions as the harness could do the same. the people in charge of these things are just bad at their jobs.

power corrupts. as he amasses more power in the criminal underworld he believes himself to be better than the people around him, that he can change the corrupt system from the inside. it’s not until hank dies that he actually realises what he’s been doing, but at that point it’s already too late.

…and then the season 6 finale ruined the point.

it was sabotage by microsoft to force them out of the market. they bought the lumia trademark after nokia gave up.

you do the manual labour while the computer makes the decisions.

of course

centaur: brain of a man, speed of a horse. reverse centaur: brain of a horse, speed of a man.

but the horse is the computer.

war is fun, and it’s cool when the enemy is scared of you

these two buttons are in like different countries

why would you even

idk if i could fit a whole one tbh

is this a self-report, ricky? are you noodling on main?

ho boy

are we talking 80s dorky al or today’s “can pull off serious” al?

if it’s the former, death wish 3.

if it’s the latter, mandy.