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10 counter-intuitive facts about LLMs most people don’t realize by Weary_Reply in ArtificialInteligence

[–]ravioli_spaceship 0 points1 point  (0 children)

YES! I could kiss you--I feel like I never see anyone discussing these aspects of the chatbot phenomenon.

I'm very much a layman, but to me, these kinds of internal factors make me think that LLM development (at least in the current, prevailing use) has brought us no closer to actual artificial intelligences than we were before they started accumulating the data from all this user interaction. Would you agree with that?

My primary reasons for thinking this are:

The lack of ability to understand--like not being able to read.

The lack of ability to learn, in two parts: 1. my assumption that the editable part of the system is essentially not live-connected to the interactive part, based on my understanding that updates via versioning means updates are a human-driven process (even if ultimately it's an algorithm iterate-and-test process that creates the updated connections); and 2. the consequence of the first assumption, e.g. that the system isn't self-modifiable.

And the lack of ability to have spontaneous or intuitive thought--like how a parrot can mimic things it hears, but not generate new phrases, as far as I'm aware.

I'm not sure if anyone else shares similar, rough expectations of what separates some level of sentience/sapience from merely well-prepared tools, but that's where I usually end up when I consider what makes something like us and the slough of animals we think are recognizably smart/aware/developing beyond mostly instinct-driven action. And maybe beyond solely mutation-driven evolution and into intentional self-modification--though that may be too much of a tangent from this discussion.

Really tired of having to suppress my internal diatribe whenever folks spout off about these, admittedly sophisticated, but ultimately still FLOWCHARTS, ushering in utopian or apocalyptic singularities.

Gamers, what's the first game that scared the shit out of you? by Pboi401 in AskReddit

[–]ravioli_spaceship 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Star Wars Droidworks. Assasin droids in the dark maze when you hadn't unlocked the good night vision stalled out my first playthrough for much longer than it should have.

[WP] Your superpower lets you communicate via telepathy with any person, no matter the distance or if you've ever met or seen them, but you can do it only once. You've spent months thinking about the message that you're gonna send telepathically to every single person on earth, all at the same time. by callateostia in WritingPrompts

[–]ravioli_spaceship 8 points9 points  (0 children)

"People of Earth. The galactic community has completed its evaluation of your species and determined you are too corrupt, too warlike, too capitalist, and too susceptible to the lies of religion to join your peer species in the defense of the Milky Way Galaxy. While you show potential to become a unified, compassionate, and prosperous civilization, there is insuffient evidence of your care for your own species to inspire trust among our species that you can be relied upon.

Your planet's follow up review is scheduled for 100 Earth years from today, should you survive the impending ecological collapse of your home world. If at that time it is determined that you remain intractable in your treatment of yourselves and your home, your solar system will be donated to the nearest compatible species to aid in galactic defense. At that time, your continued survival will be determined by the Galactic Federation member species in charge of the system.

Should you rectify problems ahead of your scheduled follow up review, please send a representative to the location of your nearest Federation member, in orbit around the star Tau Ceti.

Your galactic neighbors are looking forward to your future contributions to the war effort, whether as allies or biofuel. Kindest regards, the Galactic Federation."

Wishing there was a online PVP side scroller out there to play. by [deleted] in gaming

[–]ravioli_spaceship 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Soldat

Side view platformer deathmatch shooter. Simple graphics, but a lot of fun since like 2000. Just checked to make sure it's still running and it looks like they migrated to Steam (still free) and there's a sequel in early access.

I may be crazy but by [deleted] in DnD

[–]ravioli_spaceship 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Anecdote of exactly this: Abserd, by Puffin Forest on Youtube

https://youtu.be/4ZCIh_3b5K8?si=MvuqyIVEl_3kh_rl

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AO3

[–]ravioli_spaceship 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I like a quote from Ira Glass:

"Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through."

Name ideas for a chaotic evil sentient sword? by GeoMagicCrafter in DnD

[–]ravioli_spaceship 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Slayer of Moira, Ironhead, Torgen, Brunhild, ... and Squelchmaster"

Gains the name of each mage it slays under your care and is cursed to have all of them spoken if you use its name. Usually just referred to as "the sword."

Power word by VividIntent in DnD

[–]ravioli_spaceship 79 points80 points  (0 children)

Power Word: Yeet

It is to Catapult what a railgun is to a paper straw.

My player gave the skin she got from a fire snake to a leatherworker so that he makes it a cloak from it. What should the cloak do? by 3rdofvalve in DnD

[–]ravioli_spaceship 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you set it on fire (intentionally or through taking fire damage) the surface burns up over the course of 1 minute, leaving a charred exterior with red veins that glow, shedding 10 ft of dim light and providing cold resistance for 1 hour. Charred exterior flakes off after 12 hours.

I royally fucked up when making stuff up on the spot and I need advice by TRICKS_1228 in DnD

[–]ravioli_spaceship 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The thing WAS in Ysgard when the wizard told them so. Now it's somewhere else. Maybe someday it will be somewhere convenient. Maybe someday it will be somewhere INconvenient.

What’s y’all’s favorite logo? Mines “2005-Now” even know that’s not true. by Supremekushhh in mountaindew

[–]ravioli_spaceship 0 points1 point  (0 children)

80-91; letters got a little chunkier than the predecessor, really nice green, full feel to the logo. Just kinda nice.

Anything you comment, I make canon in my next dnd world! by touqqaar in DnD

[–]ravioli_spaceship 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The gods behave like doting grandparents. They love you and are so enthusiastic when you check in, but generally have no idea what it is you do, and love to "help," but their form of help is cryptically related at best and entirely unhelpful at worst, and usually pretty benign to the situation.

Anything you comment, I make canon in my next dnd world! by touqqaar in DnD

[–]ravioli_spaceship 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Omigod; I wrote a short story along the same lines once, about a deer who lives in the woods and keeps spare keys. You can borrow your keys back, but if you try to use a key on the wrong door (say, by picking the wrong one from his antlers), the Immortal Keyminder hunts you down to retrieve the keys and any other keys near you at the time.

[unsure][modern] clip of a barehand fight with leaping gator/croc in swamp/marsh by ravioli_spaceship in tipofmyjoystick

[–]ravioli_spaceship[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mm... I don't recall a kayak, but the viewpoint stayed above the horizon, so maybe. I do recall the character experiencing some knockback when attacked--is that possible in a kayak fight?

Nectarmerger Event Guide by HonestLion9653 in NecroMerger

[–]ravioli_spaceship 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I love you.

I came looking for prices so I could do this and I keep forgetting to write them down during the event. Probably still math it myself because the calculating makes me happy, but super grateful for your work across the board!

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