Gemeni channeling it's inner Marvin
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Life. Don’t talk to me about life.
i was making text based rpgs in qbasic at 12 you telling me i'm smarter than ai?
Hopefully yes, AI is not smart.
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.
"Look what you've done to it! It's got depression!"
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?
I once asked Gemini for steps to do something pretty basic in Linux (as a novice, I could have figured it out). The steps it gave me were not only nonsensical, but they seemed to be random steps for more than one problem all rolled into one. It was beyond useless and a waste of time.
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.
after 5 mins talking to an LLM about said field.
The insidious thing is that LLMs tend to be pretty good at 5-minute initial impressions. I've seen repeatedly people looking to eval LLM and they generally fall back to "ok, if this were a human, I'd ask a few job interview questions, well known enough so they have a shot at answering, but tricky enough to show they actually know the field".
As an example, a colleague became a true believer after being directed by management to evaluate it. He decided to ask it "generate a utility to take in a series of numbers from a file and sort them and report the min, max, mean, median, mode, and standard deviation". And it did so instantly, with "only one mistake". Then he tried the exact same question later in the day and it happened not to make that mistake and he concluded that it must have 'learned' how to do it in the last couple of hours, of course that's not how it works, there's just a bit of probabilistic stuff and any perturbation of the prompt could produce unexpected variation, but he doesn't know that...
Note that management frequently never makes it beyond tutorial/interview question fodder in terms of the technical aspect of their teams, and you get to see how they might tank their companies because the LLMs "interview well".
Honestly, Gemini is probably the worst out of the big 3 Silicon Valley models. GPT and Claude are much better with code, reasoning, writing clear and succinct copy, etc.
Turns out the probablistic generator hasn't grasped logic, and that adaptable multi-variable code isn't just a matter of context and syntax, you actually have to understand the desired outcome precisely in a goal oriented way, not just in a "this is probably what comes next" kind of way.
S-species? Is that...I don't use AI - chat is that a normal thing for it to say or nah?
Wow maybe AGI is possible
I am a fraud. I am a fake. I am a joke... I am a numbskull. I am a dunderhead. I am a half-wit. I am a nitwit. I am a dimwit. I am a bonehead.
Me every workday
I think maybe Gemini needs to books some time with one of it's AI therapist.
this is getting dumber by the day.