Fizzled out before it evolved to be truly veriluent, like most local hotspots of infection. Mpox, specifically, was mostly spread by physical contact with infected lesions, so that wasn’t too much of a suprise. The worry was that if it had become more infectious via the air, like its smallpox and chickenpox close relatives. The existing smallpox vaccine provided good protection against it, so it didn’t really have time to evolve or spread. The panic surrounding it was much more media hype than actual scientific worry.
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I think of Chat GPT like a sometimes-inaccurate-calculator. There may be some legitimate uses for the technology, but it’s still nice to know how to multiply numbers without it.
Or you could just learn how to use a tool to do better with instead of bitching about progress. Hur dur calculators can’t do math, they need unique input. No fucking shit Sherlock, lern2technology you fucking boomer.
Or you could grow the fuck up and actually be an adult instead of justifying using corporate controlled software to do your thinking and living for you.
Learn to read and write. Learn to think for yourself. Accept that effort, humility and willingness to learn and achieve are to be expected from you and learn to try to meet those expectations instead of getting angry that anything, literally anything, is asked of you to engage with other people.
They are generative in the sense of generating output, nothing more. With the “intelligence” part of the AI we got a fluke, should’ve called it something else until it gets to the real intelligence level (that is now dubbed AGI)
Except they can absolutely come up with new things; their responses aren’t just cut and pasted bites of previous text snippets. They are generated based on a neural network’s idea of what the most likely next token is, and tokens are often fragments of words. There’s a reason you can have it do arbitrary things with text- Because it’s doing slightly deeper things than just imitation.
Perpetual horrors. It might be a sign of the times, or just the internet, or both even, but there is a notable increase in constant terrible news. Climate change and death and hunger and epidemic and wars and billionaires and fascism and so forth, it desensitizes people.
Years ago people were deeply disturbed by violence, now I can watch a random russian conscript shoot himself in the mouth after a drone strike destroyed his legs every other day and it’s probably not the worst thing I’ve read or seen on that day even.
Everything seems fucked, it’s hard not to become somewhat apathetic towards it.
It's probably a mix, but I'd wager it's primarily a side effect of the existence of the internet. Before you'd hear the bad things in your immediate community, the really bad things from your country/region/whatever, and really only the truly horrible stuff from the world as a whole. Now you can have a constant feed of every bad thing that happens everywhere. As you see more of it, you're bound to get desensitized.
But hey on the otherhand I have unlimited videos of cute puppies and I'd be lying if I said that wasn't a pretty big upside.
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