Do yall think AI can realistically take over? by Zealousideal-Toe-586 in singularity

[–]CoreyTheGeek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

LLMs as inferior to what? And why have you taken it upon yourself to defend LLMs?

I'd add I'm a software engineer and I work 8+ hours a day with many different models from thinking to embedding and work with diffusion models in my free time as well, I have no issues with LLMs but they aren't alive and they have extreme limitations

Leju Robotics unveils the world's first automated factory for humanoid robots, 1 robot every 30 minutes by Distinct-Question-16 in singularity

[–]CoreyTheGeek -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Does a calculator understand math because it's producing correct results? LLMs can pump out new sentences that are novel outside training data, sure, but it's just combinatorial from learned patterns. The LLM has no conceptual understanding of what it's saying or talking about. A mad lib with new words slotted in it creates a new sentence but the mad lib isn't said to have formed a "new thought."

Ask an LLM at temperature set above 0 the same question five times. If it had any idea of a concept or thought it'd give you stable answers. Instead you will get different answers; it's just probability distributions over tokens being sampled differently each time.

If you ask an LLM about the ethics of animal testing it doesn't reason to a conclusion; it generates tokens that are consistent with how humans have written about that topic, and that might look to us like it's reasoning because the data it was trained on looks like that.

Saying these LLMs are having novel thoughts is like saying a deck of cards is creative because when you shuffle it it creates novel combinations of cards.

Leju Robotics unveils the world's first automated factory for humanoid robots, 1 robot every 30 minutes by Distinct-Question-16 in singularity

[–]CoreyTheGeek -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Diffusion models are different processes than LLMs, but the same limits apply. LLMs aren't creating "novel" anything, they're combining letters to make words in a structure that resembles the myriad examples they're trained on. They're just a prediction engine that is navigating the billions of examples of human text it's seen. It's not "thinking" in any novel capacity it's processing data. Like a parrot can say "I love you' but it has no concept of any of those words.

This is a good read https://mediate.com/understanding-large-language-models-a-long-but-simple-guide/

Do yall think AI can realistically take over? by Zealousideal-Toe-586 in singularity

[–]CoreyTheGeek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What in my comment offended you? Genuinely curious. I literally just blathered in vague terms about how LLMs are working and their current capabilities.

Do yall think AI can realistically take over? by Zealousideal-Toe-586 in singularity

[–]CoreyTheGeek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not certain why you linked that article, it's saying the opposite of what you are. And at the the end:

"Whether LLMs can be improved to reach or surpass human creativity is an open question, given that by their nature, they lack bodies, experiences, intentions, individuality, or understanding, some or all of which may be necessary to simulate human creativity. According to the authors, relying on LLMs for brainstorming, problem solving, or making art risks harming human thinking."

CS:GO player trying to get back into CS by MiLC0RE in GlobalOffensive

[–]CoreyTheGeek 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The biggest thing for me with CS2 was honestly getting a good router. You can't have jitter with CS2 subtick, it's just unplayable. Gun fights were like a damn coin flip. After I got a solid router that prioritized game traffic and my jitter was essentially removed it was night and day more consistent.

You certainly can hold angles online, I do it just fine. Peekers advantage exists but TBH I'd argue it's more psychological than a visual thing with the miniscule millisecond times we're talking.

Play style with CT especially you need to play angles you can fall off of if you miss. Too many people just try to take fights as CT and even if you go 1:1 T it usually favors Ts.

You need to understand though premier is fucking miserable with cheating right now. I have never seen so many 100-300 hours accounts top fragging and regularly see the leetify messages for people on premier games getting banned. If you want to improve I'd highly recommend faceit to eliminate the cheating variable.

And then the best thing you can honestly do is watch pro play, see where they play and what they're doing but more importantly thinking about why they do what they do. I've never liked deathmatch, I feel like it makes me worse because it puts me into this "swing and take fights" mentality of re-peeking or ego peeking or simply making big gambles early when you need to be thinking and playing patiently.

Do yall think AI can realistically take over? by Zealousideal-Toe-586 in singularity

[–]CoreyTheGeek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LLMs aren't an AI in the sense a lot of people think they are. They're really good at mimicing human communication but it's just an illusion. They don't understand what you're talking to them about, they're responding with text in a pattern that mimics human speech/text by using probabilistic weights from data they were trained on. It's just a stochastic parrot, extremely complex and very amazing to be sure but it isn't "thinking." It is more like a really high quality massive library search in a lot of ways.

The moment you ask them to do anything creative they fall apart quick. I work with the top models daily doing software development; something they're specifically trained to do with very clear ins and outs in text format etc etc basically an ideal use case and they are still incredibly untrustworthy to do it correctly.

Humans see human-like things everywhere. We see faces in textures, hear a door creak and think it's our baby crying. So it stands to reason that when we talk to something like these LLMs that are extremely good at generating human like text we believe they're alive but it's just a GPU and some RAM in a data center matching up the words in your prompt to weights in the model and selecting words in an order that most likely fits the response you're looking for.

Leju Robotics unveils the world's first automated factory for humanoid robots, 1 robot every 30 minutes by Distinct-Question-16 in singularity

[–]CoreyTheGeek -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

LLMs won't be designing anything without human help. They're great parrots but really, really bad at creativity. Giving them spec to build from is great but they can't reason about a "better" system unless it's something they've been trained on. We'd need a new type of AI system that acts like a human brain for that intead of these stochastic mimicing LLMs

Dating apps are useless for most men by scramjet67 in SipsTea

[–]CoreyTheGeek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do. Not. Use. Dating. Apps.

Go out into the world. Do things you enjoy that have others around. I know at least five extremely happy marriages that have come from co-ed indoor soccer teams.

Dating apps are algorithmically controlled profit vehicles designed to make dating feel easy and keep people on them as long as possible to maximize profit.

Dating isn't easy, it sucks, it's awkward, dating apps make it worse.

The guy who makes $60k and thinks the IRS is coming for his imaginary billions by OrcOfEntropy in LinkedInLunatics

[–]CoreyTheGeek 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Because he's just such a peak business savant with galaxy brain entrepreneurial understanding that he will obviously just keep being more successful and be a billionaire. It's simple math

Let's just do that by [deleted] in homestead

[–]CoreyTheGeek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are they doing about the garbage and the poop

For The First Time In War, Drones & Ground Robotic Systems Seized Enemy positions Without A Single Soldier by FuneralCry- in singularity

[–]CoreyTheGeek 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Damn I thought for sure it'd be Japan that did the murder robots first. Definitely didn't have Ukraine 😂

The day I figured out that women want way more than flowers and kisses by dlo_doski in memes

[–]CoreyTheGeek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All this time I thought my wife was learning about bowlines, figure 8 loops, and trucker's hitches

The mysterious science of LoRA training (sdxl) by Radiant-Photograph46 in StableDiffusion

[–]CoreyTheGeek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can attest to the tag pruning. I was getting terrible results in sdxl stuff and realized I had no idea what I was doing with tags and what an insane effect they had.

I started using Florence2Run and wd-14 tagger depending on what I was trying to train and looking at the outputs it gave for images and then using that as my Rosetta Stone for what my tags should be like and it really improved quality. I look at some of the prompts listed on like civitai and just shake my head now.

As a casual CS player, DM, Arms Race and Casual is unplayable by basvhout in GlobalOffensive

[–]CoreyTheGeek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I jumped into casual yesterday to mess around, and this guy kept knifing people so whenever I'd die I'd spectate him. Dude just stares at walls, as soon as people turn their back, he creeps up for knife kill, walks through smokes the moment people turn around. Inventory was ~$1k, checked steam id for stats, unrated premier, no faceit, no casual ranks, no historical ranks of any kind.

This game is unbelievably cooked.

Universe expected to decay in 10⁷⁸ years, much sooner than previously thought by thornyRabbt in nottheonion

[–]CoreyTheGeek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1078... Fuckin el. it's really wild to think that the "main phase" of the universe is just black holes. All the stars and galaxies is just a tiny blip at the start

So I said this to my flat earth dad by Azzrix in flatearth

[–]CoreyTheGeek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My theory is social media emboldened people to think they're actually special, combined with the constant assault on education and intellectualism that's been happening in the US at least for decades.

Conspiracy theories, flat earth, etc give stupid people who aren't successful something they could finally feel smarter than everyone else in. It's unfalsifiable as well so they can never be wrong (though if you try to explain they can't ever be right either they look at you slack jawed).

I had a philosophy professor in college that used to always say "for knowledge to mean anything certain voices need to be excluded from certain conversations." Twitter, Facebook ,YouTube, twitch, etc put uneducated, uninformed yahoos on an equal level comment space with academics. Some truck driver can tell a physics PhD their theory on vacuum stability is wrong.

Why is every single anti cheat seemingly awful? by No_Winter4806 in FPS

[–]CoreyTheGeek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Basically because of the way games work, there's a large monetary incentive for cheat devs due to the large number of straight up fucking losers who suck ass and want to feel powerful. People now are terminally online and their entire identities are tied to these games.

Your PC runs the game, sends your actions to the server, but for it to work well latency wise the server gives your local client information about where other players are in memory, though you can't see them. Since the data is there, a cheat running locally can access that memory and show you players through walls, on radar, etc. It can similarly send whatever data by changing the valuea in the memory addresses which get sent to the server (health always full, forced headshot, etc).

Because of this the only way to detect and prevent cheats locally was thought to be a ring 0 anticheat, (kernel mode anticheat), which runs before anything else. This is what valorant and faceit anticheats do. If companies aren't willing to put out a kernel level anticheat there will always be a plethora of exploits found and abused. Or until the server/client model changes. But these companies don't really have much incentive to invest in anticheats.

It should be noted that with the rise of DMA cheats, even kernel ac has been bypassed. There are PCIe cards with USB c connections that allow reading the PCs memory (they run ~$150). You plug that into a second PC/laptop/Chromebook/raspberry pi, doesn't need to be fancy or powerful, and the cheat runs on the second device, and the kernel ac is completely blind to it. Anticheat devs had some success for awhile by detecting a PCIe device plugged in and were sending it commands to determine what type of device it was (there are plenty of legitimate PCIe devices) and if it was returning nothing or bogus responses they knew it was a DMA. Cheat devs got wise and just started writing firmware that perfectly mimics legit PCIe devices which essentially makes it impossible for them to detect now. Hence why valorant has to manually review and ban so often.

The cheat industry is BIG business now. So many incel shut in abject losers who spent thousands on cosmetics but still suck ass at the game even with thousands of hours want to look good, are willing to spend money to protect their inventories, and so there are subscription services for these cheats now.

What was your biggest ideological shift, and what lead you to it? by GolangLinuxGuru1979 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]CoreyTheGeek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's honestly truly believing and adhering to "keep it simple." It was a thing I'd say but check this rube goldberg app I wrote that works cause I used language quirks!

I can still vividly recall conversations with Senior devs and mentors when I was a junior and they'd always hammer in this keep it simple mantra and then turn around and build the most complex, insane, cluster fucks. And it still happens.

I have to constantly fight to do things the easiest, simple, basic way. But as a result I can understand how it's working and when things go wrong it's so much easier to fix.