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[–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

The new excuse: "It's not a bug it's AI"

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    And here you thought automatic date conversion was a problem.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I hate Microsoft and Excel but that date thing is exactly the kind of stuff that AI would be great at.

    Just not the kind of AI Microsoft probably plans to put in Excel 🤷

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago*

    Not necessarily. It would do better than current excel, but that's a low bar... but it would also introduce less reliability / more randomness in date conversions, which is not what any business wants.

    Most of excels quirks have not been fixed because a ton of business processes have been built upon those quirks. AI can't fix that.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    i sort of don't care when the LLM is wrong about things it's not designed for. the functional problem they have is that they're shit at what they are designed to do.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    A big part the problem is also how they are marketed... Everyone is pushing AI as though it has the entire wealth of human knowledge inside it, it knows the right answer, and can explain it to you in seconds.

    Not, you know, we fed this machine a bunch of words and trained it to spit back out words that look like they fit together.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Not the point of this article but

    Meta is shaking up and downsizing its artificial intelligence division

    Wasn't it just a month or two ago that Zuc was poaching AI engineers with multi-million dollar sign on bonuses? These boom and bust cycles are happening at breakneck speed. Most efficient system btw

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    100%. Meta did the same thing with VR back in like 2021 iirc. they'll hire everyone in sight so competitors can't hire them. and then those workers will just sit on their hands playing candy crush all day doing zero work.

    random link i found about it https://nypost.com/2023/04/07/workers-at-meta-salesforce-say-they-got-paid-to-do-nothing/

    Former employees of tech giants including Meta and Salesforce say they were hired to sit around and essentially do nothing as companies embark on a course-correction and lay off extraneous workers during the current economic downturn.

    Levy added: “It kind of seemed that Meta was hiring people so that other companies couldn’t have us.”

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Tech stocks tanked Tuesday,

    lol... k... still up 0.5% over 1 month, 18% over the past year, and 87% over 5 years.

    when it goes down 15-40% lmk.

    i think it's fair to say that though when this random normie author (likely an AI bot) is writing about an AI bubble it means it is real and here though.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I thought Intel already managed that with the GPU issues.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Finally, you say?

    To emphasize that bugs in implementations of floating point arithmetic are far from rare, we mention that the Calculator application in Microsoft Windows 3.1 evaluates fl(2.01 - 2.00) = 0.0.

    http://ftp.demec.ufpr.br/CFD/bibliografia/Higham_2002_Accuracy%20and%20Stability%20of%20Numerical%20Algorithms.pdf

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes

    I've leaked the source code

    function wrong_calculator(actual_answer) {
        return actual_answer + Math.floor(Math.random() + 0.5);
    }
    
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