snek

snek, 8 months ago

As someone who works with LLMs, they shouldn’t…

You still need your chatbot to stick to business rules and act like a real customer service rep, and that’s incredibly hard to accomplish with generative models where you cannot be there to evaluate the generated answers and where the chatbot can go on a tangent and suddenly start to give you free therapy when you originally went in to order pizza.

Don’t get me wrong, they’re great for many applications within the manual loop. They can help customer service reps (as one example) function better, provide more help to users, and dedicate more time to those who still need a human to solve their issues.

Companies are already replacing some workforce with LLMs.

My opinion right now is that companies want you to believe they are 100% capable of replacing humans, but that’s because people in upper management never listen to the damn developers down in the basement (aka me), so they have an unrealistic expectation of AI coupled with an unending desire for money and success.

They are replacing them because they are greedy cunts, not because they are replaceable.

snek, 8 months ago

If they had ever cared about quality, they would have treated their employees with dignity and paid them enough 😬

snek, 8 months ago (edited 4 days ago)

Do you mean the embeddings? platform.openai.com/docs/…/what-are-embeddings

If so:

The word embeddings and embedding layers are there to represent data in ways that allow the model to make use of them to generate text. It’s not the same as the model acting as a human. It may sound like a human in text or even speech, but its reasoning skills are questionable at best. You can try to make it stick to your company policy but it will never (at this level) be able to operate under logic unless you hardcode that logic into it. This is not really possible with these models in that sense of the word, after all they just predict the best next word to say. You’d have to wrap them around with a shit ton of code and safety nets.

GPT models require massive amounts of data, so they were only that good at languages for which we have massive texts or Wikipedias. If your language doesn’t have good content on the internet or freely available digitalized content on which to train, a machine can still not replace translators (yet, no idea how long this will take until transfer learning is so good we can use it to translate low-resource languages to match the quality of English - French, for example).

snek, 8 months ago

And has this “economics” business worked for companies today? Has it worked for us?

snek, 8 months ago (edited 9 days ago)

man is a command in linux to bring up the manuals/docs

geeksforgeeks.org/man-command-in-linux-with-examp…

If you’re on a linux distro, you could type:

man ls which would fetch you the manual for ls, which lists files and dirs for you. However, I think it’s more common for users to use ls --help instead, which would show the same manual information.

(sorry if you already knew this, but it looked almost like you were asking what this means and then a bunch of linux users just joked around without explaining anything XD)

snek, 8 months ago (edited 9 days ago)

I couldn’t hear half the shit Piers said or any of the other people because he keeps talking over them like a gigantic baby. What a total loser.

snek, 8 months ago (edited 7 days ago)

When your trousers rip during a work day but you have to keep going.

snek, 8 months ago

“poor fella” like you even give a single fuck… Posting this for karma whoring or what?

snek, 8 months ago

The top result is the resume of the Unabomber for President political action committee UNAPACK

snek, 8 months ago

I removed it on purpose. Trying my best to rely on any search engine other than Google, Brave, DuckDuckGo, and Bing.

snek, 8 months ago

Yep that is the one, but I customized which engines I get results from and decided that almost all major ones have sucked so I took them all out (the four horsemen, Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and Brace)

snek, 8 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

The word “resume” + being an old and solid link + me using a search engine with settings that allow you to customize which places to search, and I’m not returning results from all major search engines and only keeping alternative ones.

This works fine for work or when coding. It searches Stack Overflow and forums, immensely useful when trying to research things or solve problems.

snek, 8 months ago

I used to use it but honestly grew tired of getting the same search results. The same Medium article, the same video, the same news report at the top. I often feel like I only see the tip of the iceberg, and often never find what I need.

snek, 8 months ago

Looks interesting, I’m considering it

snek, 9 months ago

It mattered while it lasted

snek, 9 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

There’s a lot of evidence that modern CBT therapy just doesn’t really connect with men very well. Mainly because we don’t really tend to solve problems by “considering more gratitude” or “trying yoga at sunrise maybe?” (Was a legit suggestion when I had a therapist lol)

Source?

I’m asking because this sounds nothing like CBT that I did. I’m a woman, but it was gut-wrenching and scary to do exposure therapy. Nothing at all about yoga or gratitude… sounds more like traditional talk therapy to me.

I would give CBT a chance, honestly… I feel like you have some kind of misinformed opinion or maybe had a crappy therapist.

Edit: just for clarity, CBT is a type of talk therapy, but the stuff this person I’m replying to describes sounds more like traditional armchair therapist self-help-book Freudian therapy.

snek, 9 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

No, I’m confident about what I said. Exposure therapy is one part of CBT.

I did CBT for PTSD and death anxiety, the latter involving large bits of exposure therapy.

www.psychologytools.com/professional/…/exposure/

Do you have any evidence about men having issues with this sort of therapy or is that a personal observation?

Edit: honestly it sounds like you had a bad therapist experinece and that therapist has no idea what CBT is (and sorry to say, but neither do you particularly)

Edit: had to add the passive aggressive smiley :)

snek, 9 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

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snek, 9 months ago

Situational depression is a real fucker. I understand what you mean. I grew up in the Middle East and everything was fucked right and left, people around me were depressed because of society, because of the economy, and because their lives never get better.

I had to move our of there and start healing myself, my brain, my ability to deal with whatever life throws me.

snek, 9 months ago

I didn’t read the rest but that study looks st CT vs Exposure, which both fall within CBT.

This is from another paper

Most notably, exposure therapy (“exposure” or “exposure and response prevention”) is the key intervention strategy through which CBT improves outcomes for people with anxiety.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9161762/

I think that study echos who you have been saying, since it mentions that many CBT practioners may avoid exposure therapy and use less effective methods.

snek, 9 months ago

http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/27100000/The-Internet-the-it-crowd-27191791-500-230.gif

snek, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

Well, in my defence, a lot of what you are saying IS bullshit.

snek, 9 months ago

It’s funny because in the post they said that anti Israeli content bothers them, but they claim it doesn’t. I think it bothers them a lot. But what should bother them more is apartheid in Israel and genocide in the name of the Jewish people.

snek, 9 months ago

“Claim to be”? You sound like a sad sack of shit.

snek, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

##tl;dr Because Israel is breaking international law.